The Perfect Mojito

By the time you read this I will hopefully be on the beach in the Bahamas, mojito in hand, watching the waves.  Have you no cabana boy to wait on you hand and foot?  I'm so sorry!  Here's the recipe so you can make your own!  This recipe is from Esquire Magazine.

1/2 oz lime juice

1 teaspoon superfine sugar

3 mint leaves

2 ounces white run

club soda

In a double old-fashioned glass, muddle lime juice with 1/2 to 1 teaspoon sugar, depending upon how sweet you like yours.  Add the few mint leaves, mushing them against the side of the glass.  Fill glass 2/3 with cracked ice and pour in the rum**.  Pitch in the squeezed-out lime shell and top off with club soda or seltzer.

**Bacardi is, of course traditional; for a fuller, slightly rummier taste, try Brugal, from the Dominican Republic or Angostura from Trinidad.

Salud!