While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.

Looks like it's going to be another tequila sunrise because today is National Margarita Day!

Grab yourself a cold glass of this cocktail, drop in a lime wedge and with a little imagination, you could be on your favorite beach!

A margarita is essentially tequila mixed with orange-flavored liqueur and lime or lemon juice with salt lining the rim of the glass. You can slurp it down shaken with ice, on the rocks, blended with ice into a frozen slushee-esque sipper or straight up.

The International Bartenders Association's standard ratio is 7:4:3, or 50% tequila, 29% Cointreau and 21% fresh lime or lemon juice. Blue margaritas, such as the funky one in our photo, come from using blue curaçao liqueur.

And while we have no hard and fast proof of who invented the margarita, the story goes that it was created in October 1941, at Hussong's Cantina in Ensenada, Mexico. On slow afternoons, bartenders tend to experiment, and Don Carlos Orozco is no exception. But when Margarita Henkel, daughter to a German ambassador, arrived, he offered a new cocktail for her to try. In honor of Margarita being the first to try his concoction, he named the cocktail after her.

Experiment with a pomegranate margarita or slide right into a classic margarita after work today and ease your troubles away. After all, it's 5 o' clock somewhere.

For the "simple, unadulterated margarita" route, here's what you need per Eatocracy's managing editor Kat Kinsman:

1 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1 oz triple sec
2 oz tequila
Kosher salt
Shaker
Ice
Bowl
Glass

And here's how she says you should shake it up:

Roll the lime against the counter with your palm to soften it and release the oils. Slice it in half and use a juicer, or prick the flesh of each half with a fork a few times, then twisting the fork into the flesh over a bowl or glass, release the juice. Work from the center out to the rind. Save one half of the spent rind, and cut that in half.

Pour kosher salt into a bowl with deep sides. Wipe the rind quarter around the rim of the glass, then rotate the rim through the salt, against the side of the bowl until it has an even coating. Set the glass aside.

Measure 1 1/2 ounces of the lime juice into a cocktail shaker, add 1 ounce triple sec or the orange liqueur of your choice, and 2 ounces of tequila. Add ice and shake.

Fill the salt-rimmed glass with ice and strain the margarita over it. Add a garnish of a lime wedge if you care to, but that's just wasting precious drinking time.

The recipe can be doubled, triple or quadrupled, and the ratio of lime and orange liqueur can be adjusted to your tastes.