Vodka Watermelon Basil Shooter

Two of my girlfriends from California were visiting us in Cabo San Lucas. We had planned to drive up the coast to Todos Santos and stay at the cliffside Villas La Mar overlooking the Pacific. For the first dinner, Jeremiah had planned to make pears in red wine upside down tart with basil, still one of the most surprising simple dessert flavor combinations I know.

We sat on the terrace of our villa, the sun starting to set over the huge lagoon at the base of the cliff below us, the frigate birds swooping down onto the pelicans to steal their fish. It was getting late to make the tart, so we put the basil in a cocktail with the watermelon scheduled for breakfast and drank the red wine.