Sup’s! gettin’ his girl on today! You heard me. I’m in search of that inner-feminine that makes all men real men. Afterall I just spent a weekend with about 75 lovely ladies at CampBlogaway! I almost felt handsome...

So in honor of these powerful women bloggers I am going to slip into something pink and pretty and a little ticklish. If I had a pink boa, I’d wear it for inspiration.

That’s ‘cuz the girls at LoveFeast Table invited me to invent a cocktail to help get them through the Long Hot Summer (does it get hot in Minnesota??)

Now I know these girls. They have regular posts called Fancy Fridays. These include nothing but photos of pretty, flouncy, girly things. So I am going girly with this cocktail. Extremely girly.

Once I had my assignment I began to search out some illumination for my libation. Perhaps some pretty pink inspiration. But the truth is there is not much pink in my house. I have an old polo shirt that’s pink… but girly it ain’t.

It's been a while since I have done a cocktail. I am here to remedy that.

Today's remedy comes in the form of a Tequila Sunrise. It's a classic cocktail, second only to the margarita in popularity when it comes to enjoying tequila. It is thought to have been introduced in Alcapulco in the 1950s as a "welcome to paradise"  cocktail for guests checking-in to the swanky resorts of that era.

However, I have also heard it told that the drink was "invented" when a bartender walked in on his boss quaffing tequila behind the bar in the wee-small-hours of the morning. The supposed retort from the shame-faced imbiber was that he was trying to create a cocktail that reminded him of the sunrise and needed to be "in the moment" to get proper inspiration.

Whatever its origins, to me this is a lazy day sort of cocktail. It should be taken in slowly, out of a tall glass. It's one of the few cocktails I say absolutely needs to be sipped through a straw. It helps blend the orange juice, tequila and grenadine.