Salty Dogs on the Roof

At our first braai of the season, held, as always, on our rooftop, we served the usual: hot dogs, burgers, roasted vegetable kebabs, chicken kebabs, roasted corn, barbecued chicken, lemon and herb potato salad, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, lemonade and Cape Town Collins. My favorite new recipe was for Salty Dogs, a tart refreshing vodka cocktail. (Technically, it's a Greyhound with vodka instead of gin and a salty rim.)

Ingredients:

• 2 oz vodka
  
• 4 oz grapefruit juice
• coarse kosher salt
  
• lemon for garnish
  

Preparation:

1. Rim the glass with salt and lemon juice
   
2. Pour the ingredients into an ice cube filled collins glass
3. Stir
   
4. Garnish with a lemon wedge

It's my favorite new drink of the summer. Enjoy!

PS We were also going to serve homemade ice cream at our braai, but, as it turns out, our icecream maker--which is the old fashioned bucket kind that screetches and makes a mess rather than the dainty William Sonoma model--is a lemon. Guess this warrents another trip to our favorite dry goods store in Pennsylvania!