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#DrinkUpLinkUp — Key Lime Pie Shot

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I was at a loss about what to write about this week, so I am blatantly copying this link up’s hostess and sharing a drink recipe.

Lime

This has become my signature shot at the bar, and I’m giving away the recipe. It was in our “cheat box” behind the bar, and I slowly have perfected it. Its now the shot that even my fellow bartenders go, “You make it!”

And I love that. I love this shot!

Now here’s the secret. JUST A SPLASH of sweet & sour. The rest of the ingredients you can just eyeball and add to or take away from to find your personal preference. But too much sweet & sour? And you might as well pour it out and start over. You’re never going to get it back.

I speak from experience.

One night as I was making this shot (when I was still trying to learn it) and I put way too  much S&S. I ended up having to ask a fellow bartender ideas on how to salvage the shot. I ended up adding a TON of lemon-lime soda to try to smooth out the flavor… and even then it didn’t taste quite right. It was definitely lesson learned.

So. Go! Go buy some whipped cream vodka and have some key lime goodness!

 

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Bluebonnets

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Lupinus texensis. Texas Bluebonnets. The state flower of Texas.

Bluebonnets

You always know its Spring when the sides of Texas highways are lined in a beautiful blue, with specs of orange, white and blue. Wildflowers are as much a part of spring as tornadoes, warm weather, allergies and spring football practice in Texas.

In 5th grade, we had to do a flower collection. You had to display the flowers you’d gathered with their name, their “Binomial nomenclature” and where you picked the flower. I think I MIGHT have made a low “B” on the project. I pretty much gave up naming the flowers half-way through, though I did successfully find 50.

So every year, when I see the spring wildflowers blooming along Texas highways — especially bluebonnets — I think back to that project, and sometimes I try to remember the many names. I find myself smiling as I see families stop to take pictures in the beautiful colors. This, too, practically a state tradition.

On Easter, after rain had passed through my hometown and my husband, parents and I left my brother’s house, we went and found a patch of bluebonnets… and Dad snapped a shot of my husband and me in the pretty blue colors.

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I’m planning to get the photo printed in a large size to hang in our home in Nashville.

Bluebonnets. It’s a Texas thing… one of my favorite things.

When the bluebonnets bloom
I’ll think of you…
-Cross Canadian Ragweed, “Bluebonnets“