Two States: Sea Green And Sea Freeze

• 2 inch or so chunk of soft ripe fleshy melon, like hami
• tiny pinch of sea salt
• pinch of fresh milled pink peppercorns, optional
• lemon verbena or lemon grass leaves
• 2 ounces Hpnotiq ( or 1.5 oz. vodka/grey goose with .5 oz. of blue Curacao)
• .75 ounces Midori
• 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice, Meyer preferred
• 1/2 ounce fresh lime juice, sweet lime preferred
• 1/2 cup crushed ice
• more ice, optional
• sea salt or turbinado sugar with additions for rim, optional
• tiny pinch of arame, optional garnish

1. Chill a cocktail glass well. Before serving if you want a lightly sugared or salted rim, run both a lime and a lemon around the rim of the glass. Add the sugar or sea salt to a saucer. To simulate an exotic sand effect (and for a great flavor combination) consider adding ground almonds with some milled pepper as additions into which ever direction you go. Run the rim in the sugar or salt with or without the additions. See photos for my rather sloppy first efforts. You will do a neater job, I bet.
2. Add the salt and optional pink peppercorns to the melon chunk. Then add the melon and half of the herbal leaves, bruised, to a cocktail shaker. Pour in the citrus juices, Hypnotiq (or vodka with curacao), and Midori. Muddle well.
3. Add the crushed ice. Cover and shake well.
4. If you want this drink on the rocks, add additional cracked or crushed ice to the chilled glass. Otherwise strain and pour the drink into your glass. Garnish with fresh herb. Either lemon verbena or lemon grass add a refreshing twist to this drink. Or if you want a more sea-like garnish, consider floating a little arame on the top. If you do and you let your drink sit a long while, the arame will sink down as real seaweed. I like the salty flavor this imparts.
5. For the Sea Freeze take the drink, pour it in a freezer container. After 4-5 hours process in a blender as snow. Garnish with arame or herb. Enjoy!

melon, salt, pink, lemon verbena, hpnotiq, midori, lemon juice, lime juice, crushed ice, more ice, salt, arame

Taken from food52.com/recipes/13262-two-states-sea-green-and-sea-freeze (may not work)