“Bro! I brought you some grapefruit straight off the
tree!”-Mitch Evens
It was the Friday after our highly successful
afternoon urban foraging, and that evening as the sun set low in the sky and it
began to cool off, my wife said with a smile “We should use some of those
grapefruit for a couple Palomas!” The Paloma is apparently Mexico’s most
popular tequila drink, according to a recent Sunset magazine article. If you
can believe it, it's supposedly even more popular than the margarita. The drink requires 2oz of
grapefruit juice, 2oz of club soda, half a lime or lemon squeezed in, and 2oz
of tequila. It is one part tasty and three parts delicious!
Chelsea used a foraged lemon, and foraged grapefruit for the base, and I lined the rim of our dollar store glasses with homemade and freshly foraged sea salt. She shook the concoction over ice and added a few lemon wedges for garnish before we stepped outside to enjoy this smooth citrus drink.
Freshly Foraged and Homemade Sea Salt
Mixing Things Up a Bit
Palomas
Of course, we had a few minutes so we killed some
cans with the slingshot. Well, Chelsea killed them, I am pretty sure I just
winged them.
Shooter
Chelsea Shot the F out of This Can!
Abalone Loves to Shoot
We found that dried beans work great for slingshot
ammo in the city. Even if they ricochet, they are so light, they will not crack
a window!
So there you have it, got a grapefruit tree near
by…give it a shot!
Keep the old ways alive! –Words- Kevin Smith,
Photos-Chelsea and Kevin Smith
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