Drunken Fruit Salad

I decided to cook myself a festive Rick Bayless inspired meal tonight and so I created this special fruit salad. The great thing about this recipe is that you can use any fruit you have lying around or any fruit that you like the best. I wanted to mix a little fall flavor with Caribbean flavor so I used a combination of watermelon, mango, pear, and apple. This turned out to be a very refreshing side and my new favorite fruit salad.

1 pear chopped
1 apple chopped
1 mango chopped
3 cups watermelon
1 lime juiced
2 tablespoons torn mint
1 tablespoon (more if you like) of tequila

Place all of the ingredients into a bowl, mix, and refrigerate until you're ready to eat it. It's that simple and the combination of the mint, lime juice, and tequila creates a margarita like macerating liquid. The other variation that turns out nice is to create a ginger and mint infused simple syrup

1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons mint
2 tablespoons ginger

Bring all ingredients to a boil, remove from heat, and cool in a container for at least 24 hours to let all the flavors infuse.