Blueberry Mojito

I'm am so sorry everyone that I haven't been posting!  I have just been so busy lately!  Anyway today I made a delicious blueberry mojito drink!  Now I know most mojitos have alcohol in them but I took it out for me to drink.  I got this recipe from my new subscription to the Food Network Magazine!  This recipe is super easy and quick.  It literally takes 5 minutes!

Blueberry Mojito!

This mojito isn't mine, they were gone  before I could get a picture!

Ingredients: 

Around 16 blueberries, I used a little more.  (MAKE SURE THEIR BIG!)

20 mint leaves

4 lemon wedges

4 lime wedges

Crushed ice

1 ounce fresh lime juice

2 ounces fresh lemon juice

8 ounces of your favorite run, aged, (Remember this is optional)

4 ounces club soda

1/4 cup + 2 teaspoons of sugar

What to do??

Smash the blueberries.  Then mix blueberries with mint leaves, lemon and lime wedges and shake all in a cocktail shaker.  Add the crushed ice, lemon and lime juice, rum, water, and sugar.  Put mojitos in glasses and garnish with a lemon or lime wedge and a mint sprig.  Enjoy! :)

Thanks

-Alyssa :)

Coconut Lime Drink

I've been making a lot of coconut things lately and I have again today!  Tonight I made a coconut, lime drink that was actually poured into a real coconut.  This drink was delicious!  I got this recipe from a food magazine called Bon Appetite.  The recipe calls for 1/4 cup gold rum and a 1/4 cup light rum, but since I'm a kid I can't have that.  So I totally omitted the rum.  And it was delicious without!  Here's the recipe!


Ingredients:
1/4 cup sugar
2 fresh young coconuts (green skin cut away)
1/4 cup canned unsweetened coconut milk
1/4 cup light rum (optional)
1/4 cup gold rum (optional)
2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons pineapple juice
ice cubes
1 lime slice (for garnish)
1 maraschino cherry (for garnish)

Directions:

  Bring the sugar and 1/4 cup water to a boil in a small saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves.  Cool the simple syrup.  Cut off 2 inches of the top of the coconut.  Reserve the coconut water!  Mix 1/4 cup simple syrup, coconut milk, light rum, gold rum, lime juice, pineapple juice and 1/2 cup reserved coconut water in a large cocktail shaker.  (We don't have a cocktail shaker so we just shook it up into a large smoothie container.)  Pour the contents of the shaker into the coconuts, dividing equally.  Do not strain!  Garnish each with a lime slice and a maraschino cherry.  Serve with a straw and a spoon if you want to scrape out the fresh coconut from inside the shell.  Enjoy! :)

Thanks

Alyssa :) 

Vanilla Iced Coffee

I got this amazing vanilla iced coffee drink from a cookbook called Jackson Hole Cooks. This recipe is super quick and really good! Here's the recipe!

Ingredients:
I cup fresh brewed coffee
1 cup 2% skim milk (I didn't actually use skim milk)
3/4 tsp vanilla extract (I used 1 whole teaspoon)
1 tbsp. granulated sugar
ice cubes
ground cinnamon


Directions:
Mix the coffee, milk, vanilla and sugar together in a pitcher.  Stir well to combine.


Place the ice cubes into two ice tea or other tall, 12-oz. glasses.  Pour the coffee mixture into the glasses.  If desired, lightly sprinkle with ground cinnamon.  Enjoy! :)


P.S. At the bottom of my blog, I have 3 boxes that you can check off.  One of the boxes say Amazing, the other one says OK and then the last one says Not good.  So if you try these recipes please mark off the boxes so I know which ones you enjoy or are not a big fan of.  Thank you!


Thanks
Alyssa :)