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 :)