Cucumber Basil Caipirinha

This week's cocktail is the Cucumber Basil Caipirinha. The caipirinha is a traditional drink from Brazil made by grinding limes with sugar. The juice and essential oils from the citrus gives an amazing flavor to the drink, which is substantiated with cachaça (pronounced Ka-Cha-Sah). This week's version is actually made with both lemons and limes, and includes basil, which is really unheard of in Brazil. (This is actually looking a lot like a mojito!) We recommend that it be made with lemon basil rather than Italian basil. I just could not fit all of those minor details in the title. You can of course make this with plain basil and just limes, but lemon basil is so fragrant and beautiful at the markets right now, that I thought that I should insist. It is those small details, like the variety of the herb, or the place where it is grown, that makes food so delicious.

Chin chin!