We interrupt this episode of Intentional Happiness for a few moments of Weekly Suckage:
Suckage!~pouring rain+thunder+lightning+hail=no 4th of July fireworks. Also=crying, howling, limb-flailing children.
Suckage!~the first batch of Hoochsicles. I love mojitos, and love caipirinhas, so why wouldn’t I love a mint caipirinha ice pop? Particularly one endorsed by the July 2009 issue of Gourmet magazine? Because it tasted like freaking Pine Sol, that’s why. Assholery! Plus, look at that alarming color…Grass-sicle, anyone? I’m not even going to bother with the recipe, this was so gnarly.
Luckily, there were a few !!! moments in the week, which eased my intense bitterness about my failed Hoochsicles.
!!!~arriving home from the grocery store to discover some impromptu holiday decorating
!!!~Miss D.’s spy operation has expanded into a full-blown Detective Agency, thanks to the awesome spy kit (!!!) given to her by Phoo-d.
!!!~this adorable apron (and yeah it’s wrinkled but it just came out of the box, so gimme a break)
!!!~an afternoon in the sprinklers with Princess Big Eyes
!!!~a tall glass of this on a warm afternoon (excuse the *okay* photo…there was drinking to be done, people!)
Watermelon Margaritas
from Cooking Light
serves 6
2 teaspoons sugar
1 lime wedge
3 1/2 cups cubed seeded watermelon
1/2 cup tequila
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon triple sec (I used Cointreau)
Lime wedges or melon balls for garnish
Place 2 teaspoons sugar in a saucer. Rub the rims of 6 glasses with the lime wedge; spin rim of each glass in sugar to coat. Set aside.
Combine watermelon and next 4 ingredients (through triple sec) in a blender, process until smooth.* Fill each prepared glass with 1/2 cup ice. Add 1/2 cup margarita to each glass.** Garnish as desired.
* At this point, I put the mixture through a fine-mesh sieve, just to ensure that there weren’t any chunky or stringy bits in my mixture. I don’t like strings in my teeth during cocktail hour.
** If you’re anything like me, you’ll only get 4 drinks out of this recipe. Just sayin’.
~Worry not, readers! I have not given up on Hoochsicles. I’ll be back with a killer recipe…soon!
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Oh my God. Watermelon margaritas? I think I’m in love with you. (And may I be the first–hopefully the last–to say that your hoochsicles look like…um… you know. But maybe that’s all popsicles, anyway.)
Holy CRAP. I think I just might have ALL THE INGREDIENTS for a watermelon margarita right NOW. Excuse me, mama’s got some work to do in the kitchen.
That apron is so cute!!!!! I love it :) Where’d you find it??? I’ve been looking for a cute apron, and I swear I won’t copy you but point me in the direction of some others :)
Corinne – Anthropologie has adorable aprons! And matching little ones for your little people too!
Corinne–you can get a cherry apron and I will think it’s awesome and toast you with some aqua fresca. It’s from Anthropoligie.
Well look at that! I hadn’t even read your reply to Corinne and I guessed the right store!
I gotta tell you, those popcicles look a little scary to me…a little to phallic-zombi-esque.
The watermelon margarita absolves you of creating that Frankenstein-like frozen item though!
And your !!! for this week rocks friend!
Wish me luck. Bought a Thai cook book ’cause frankly, I am a little tired of paying through the nose for the goods! Will be experimenting this weekend!
Maria beat me to the phallic comment. As I was reading I was hoping that it tasted good. But phallic pine sol on a stick. I don’t know. I’ll take the apron with the watermelon margarita though!
That hoochsicle is one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen.
Um, you’ve scared me a bit.
I was just sitting here contemplating a blog redesign, having not seen yours. I also own the same design of apron in full length, and have a watermelon chilling in my refrigerator to make cocktails tomorrow night.
Are we bloody fabulous or what?
Really looking forward to the Hoochsicles, but that just looked freaky. I will settle for the watermelon Margarita for now ;~)
Hmmm…I guess I’m not the only one who found the hoochsicle disturbing
But I bet after a yummy watermelon margarita a hoochsicle might be a tad more provocative
Soooo glad I saved my herky for the ice dildo! A-W-E-S-O-M-E! *herky*
Four drinks.. HA! One looooooonnnnnnnnggggggggggg drink for me!
Ooo I would LOVE a drink like that. I usually have boring old water.
I love the shape of that hoochsicle. It just adds to it, doesn’t it?
You get major points for attempting fancy-shmancy popsicles anyway, lovely TKW! Now go have another ‘rita.
Yikes! That hoochsicle is freaky-deaky. Love the adorable apron and am glad that Miss D is enjoying her spy kit! The watermelon margarita looks divine…sigh.
You made watermelon margaritas? What time is happy hour?
Yea, that bomb pop is kinda gnarly looking. The two-tone color evoked a mental image that Freud would love to analyze.
Um, that is the most disturbing popsicle I’ve ever seen. Seriously disturbing.
But otherwise, I wish you were my neighbor so I could eat every delicious thing you make (er, except that popsicle) and have seconds of every drink:)
Pooh! I was looking forward to hoochsickles! I’m having a bunch of tough ranchers over tomorrow for my husband’s birthday and thought it would be really funny to give them popsickles to lick. Please, please, please solve this one before the summer’s over and I’ll give you a funny report of the tough cowboys .
I can’t do the watermellon thing…I’ve got big drinkers here. Can you think of another funny girly beverage to make everyone laugh?
That popsicle looks pretty darn frightening! But the apron in adorable! love it. Someone one else made these watermelon margs and I think they just look wonderful. Gotta give em a try.
LOL..of course I am not the only one who thought the grassicle looked like a penis pop. HAHAHA
Shame about the popsicle! Happy 4th of July by the way! And at least the watermelon margaritas sound like a winning recipe!!! xxx
ah- I love ugly green phallic shaped things- just for the laugh I got from it.
I love the word suckage, I should use it more often
I love it that the blogs I read are all pro-cocktail hour
and I love that I will be getting my 5 serving of veggies via said cocktail hour.
PS- I broke my leg because I was walking whilst drinking regular margaritas- so I have been warned off those (though they do prevent scurvy)- but I have not been warned off your version! cocktail hour is on!
Excuse my potty mouth, but the hoochsicle looks like a dicksicle! So sorry for all of the suckage. But I don’t mean dicksicle suckage. Oh, jeepers, this is really devolving.
But herkies for the booze drink!
Clearly I wasn’t the only one who thought the popsicle looked like a penis. Great minds think alike.
OMG. Not only does that popsicle look ghastly, it reminds me of something your girls wouldn’t have thought of. A particularly unhealthy one too.
Oh well, happiness and !!! is a watermelon margarita!
That drink looks awesome.
So glad to know that I wasn’t the only one who thought the hoochsicles looked at little…shall we say, odd?
The cocksicle may have put me off frozen confectionary for awhile. . . eww.
Why not just freeze up your beautiful watermelon hooch concoction? I’ll be having mine with rum. Eventually.
Oh man this margarita looks sooooo good. So summery! And to answer your question about walnut oil, I honestly have no idea myself. But I will try anything once! =)
MMMMMMmmm…. green penis pops! What’s not to love?
Oh but your daughter is GORGEOUS. Those eyes… must melt you!
I think that is more !!! than suckage. Too bad about the hoochsicles, though. Especially in rocket shape ;) Looks like you’ve got some other drinks going to keep you from overheating this summer, so all’s well that ends well, right?
I got my !!! and plan to pick some intentional happiness in my life pretty soon. Thanks!
It’s a bad thing when good magazines publish bad recipes. I heard Gourmet was coming back via the Ipad BTW.
That is one scary looking popsicle! But oh that drink looks divine. And your daughter is so beautiful!
Mm, watermelon margaritas sound like the perfect thing for this weekend’s festivities. A huge Italian wedding in a church with no air conditioning followed by watermelon margaritas? Count me in!
watermelon margaritas!! OMG, I so wish it was summer and not winter right about now, I hear you in regards to the rain…that is all is has done in Sydney for the past 4 days. I hope your days are better and you pop on that cute little apron :0)
We too had rain, thunder the whole works last weekend but our three year old didn’t know what she was missing. Love the decorations and the photo of your daughter is just beautiful. The watermelon margarita looks just fabulous.
I laughed so hard at Hoochsickles. Great in theory though. But “assholery”? LOVE. I’m going to find a way to use that from now.
With 1.5 hours of sleep (hello daughter, you’re not so cute at 2 in the morning. Or again at 4. And at 5. GO BACK TO SLEEP!) I’m skipping the coffee and going straight for the divine looking watermelon margarita (and hopefully with enough to drench my face with because I’m at work and need to look, um, awake).
Your Princess Big Eyes is beautiful! Must be nice to inherit good genes and enjoy great food :)
Yuck those popsicles look offensive. How dare Gourment steer you astray? But more importantly, that apron is adorable. I had a girls night gathering last night — a make-your-own-pizza party– and that I had plenty of adorable aprons on hand made it that much more fun (this is the benefit of having a recipe/kitchen gadget bridal shower. People give you cute aprons). I think we career women these days must just love channeling our inner suzy homemaker, because every woman who made her own pizza started with “I want to wear a cute apron!!!” Who knew?
Cute apron! I also made watermelon margaritas last week. Except I used frozen watermelon (scoop it out with a melon baller or ice cream scoop and freeze for at least 24 hours), and went for frozen watermelon margaritas.
Too bad, the hoochsicles tasted like pine-sol-they would have been a fabulous idea to serve up (laughter w/tears).
Got to love those watermelon margaritas. They are refreshing and light on the belly.
Sorry to hear about the bad weather for 4th of July.
I’m a little more thirsty than I was a minute ago! :)
I’m sorry to say, those Hoochsicles look like frozen booger pops. I’ve spent a lot of time with boogers lately, so I can say this with certainty. I feel like I should get out my trusty nasal aspirator and suck them up. =>
And if I drank all four of those margaritas, I might, just might, iron my apron. Okay, probably not.
Frozen booger dildos? Man, when I don’t check blogs for a while *this* is what happens? Honey, it looks like your mojo got all moldy and painful. Yuckers. Thaw those bastards, throw them at the voles, and make yourself a real mfing drink.
Your writing is hilarious, sometimes! I think I’ll have to add “assholery” to my daily vocabulary. ;)
Watermelon margaritas are probably one of my favorite summer drinks. I’m excited to try out this recipe!
I just had me some watermelon margs last Sunday and I loved them! Very refreshing.
(And after reading your lovely commenters remarks, I am SO glad I wasn’t the only disturbed by the penisicle.)
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