Beverage: When Life Hands you Prickly Pears,

Make Prickly Pear Margaritas:

• ½ cup ice
• 1 ounce fresh lime juice - about one largish lime
• 1 ounce limeade concentrate
• 2 ounces Tequila, reposado if you've got it
• 1 ounce Grand Marnier
• 1½ ounces prickly pear juice - the juice of one medium small tuna/prickly pear
• 1 tablespoon agave syrup

Combine in a blender and blend until the ice just melts.  Serve straight, rocks, or over crushed ice.  You can garnish, if you want, with a lime twist or slice, or peel another prickly pear and cut into spears.  Prickly pears, or tuna, are cactus fruit.  They have little spiny dots; they are prickly.  Be wary. I saved some of the prickly pear juice and served a taste before serving the drink, to orient the palate.  The juice is delightful.  Make extra to serve plain, with other juices, with sparkling water and a little lime, or more Margaritas.  Makes two 6 ounceish drinks.