Brazilian Limonada

Brazilian Limonada

Difficulty: Easy

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time: No cooking required

Ingredients

6 limes, halved + slices for garnish

3/4-1 can sweetened condensed milk 

5 fresh mint leaves

3-4 cups cold water

ice cubes

Cooking Tools

Ninja blender

Strainer

Pitcher

Directions

Put lime, sweet condensed milk , mint & water in blender and blend on high for 1 minute.  Pour Limonada through a strainer directly into a pitcher.  Pour over a cold glass of ice and garnish with a sliced lime.

Serves 4 

Mexican Hot Chocolate

Mexican Hot Chocolate

Not a simple Hot Chocolate, The Cinnamon Is A Nice Hint Of Warmth! Topped With A Cinnamon Whipped Cream!

Difficulty: Easy

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

Nestle Abuelita Hot Chocolate Tablets

4-5 cups whole milk

2 cups heavy whipping cream

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 tsp cinnamon

4 chocolate & marshmallow stir sticks

Directions

Pour milk in small pot on low heat, place 1 whole tablet into hot milk, stir until melted. Adjust sweetness level by adding 1/4 of the tablet at a time..  While chocolate milk is simmering, Whip heavy cream, sugar and cinnamon until peaks are formed. Pour Hot chocolate into mugs, top with a dollop of whip cream and serve with a chocolate marshmallow stir stick. Enjoy!!

Serves 4

Mango Lassi

Mango Lassi
Summer Is Just Around The Corner! So Refreshing!
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 1 hour
Cooking Time: No cooking required

Ingredients
2 ripe mangoes; peeled & diced
3 tbsp sugar
1 cup plain yogurt
1 cup milk
5 cardamom pods, cracked
1 cinnamon stick
zest of 1 lime + garnish
lime slices
4-5 ice cubes

Cooking Tools

Blender 

Directions
Infused cracked cardamon and cinnamon stick in the milk for at least an hour in the refrigerator. Remove cardamon and cinnamon stick and dispose. Put all ingredients in blender and blend smooth. Garnish with lime zest and lime slice.
Serves 2 

Watermelon Agua Fresca

Watermelon Agua Fresca
Refreshing For Hot Days of Summer!
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: No cooking required

Ingredients
6 cups of  fresh watermelon, cubed
2 cups cold water
1/4 cup super fine sugar
zest of 1 lime + slices
4 mint leaves + garnish

Cooking Tools

Blender

Fine mesh screen

Pitcher 

Directions
Place watermelon, water, sugar, lime zest, mint leaves into the blender and blend until smooth. Place mesh screen over pitcher and pour liquid slowly through mesh. Discard leftover pulp.   Refrigerate until chilled. Garnish with lime wedges and mint leaf.
Serves 2 

Kumquatini

Kumquatini

Kumquat Infused Gin!
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Chill Time: 24 hours
Cooking Time: No cooking required

Kumquatini

Ingredients

4-5 ice cubes

3 shots of Kumquat Gin

1 shot of Vermouth

1 shot symple syrup

2 slices kumquat

Kumquat Gin

Ingredients

15 kumquats, sliced into rings

2 cups Bombay Gin

Cooking Tools

Mason jar

Cocktail shaker

Shot glass 

Directions
In a mixer, add; ice, Kumquat gin, Vermouth and simple syrup. Shake and pour into Martini glass and garnish with sliced Kumquats from the mason jar.
Serves 1

Spicy Bloody Mary

Spicy Bloody Mary
A Cocktail Or A Healthy Adult Beverage?
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: No cooking required

Spicy Bloody Mary

Ingredients

2 cups Veggie Tomato Juice or V8, chilled

2 shots Vodka

2 tsp Tabasco sauce

2 celery stalk with leaves

green olives

baby pickled sweet peppers

lime wedges

seasoned salt mix

Cooking Tools

Wooden skewers

Beverage shaker

Directions

Coat rim of glass with some lime juice and dip into seasoned salt mix.  In a beverage shaker, add; vegetable juice, vodka and Tabasco sauce and shake.  Pour the vegetable juice into prepared glasses. Skewer olive, sweet peppers, and lime wedge. Garnish drinks with celery stalks and skewers.

Serves 2 

 

Oatmeal Horchata

Oatmeal Horchata
A Refreshing Mexican Beverage!
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 2 hours
Chilling Time: 2 hours
Cooking Time: No cooking required

Traditionally, raw rice soaked in water for 24 hours is used.  By using oatmeal, it is time saving, but does not lose any of the same flavors!

Tastes Just Like Cinnamon Rice Pudding!

  

Ingredients
2 cups steel cut oatmeal. uncooked
6 cups cold water
3/4 cup sugar
1 large cinnamon stick, broken up

Cooking Tools
Large bowl
Blender
Pitcher
Strainer/skimmer 

Directions
In a large bowl, add; steel cut oatmeal, water, sugar and cinnamon stick.  Mix ingredients and set aside for 2 hours. Mix and pour ingredients into the blender in 2 batches.  Blend on high for 1 minute.  A small amount of oatmeal will not break down.  Strain into a pitcher, the consistency should be smooth and creamy.  Chill in refrigerator and stir before serving over ice.
Yields 6 cups

Apple Hot Toddy

Apple Hot Toddy
Warm And Soothing On A Cold Evening!
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients
5 cups apple cider
1/4 cup mulling spices
1 cinnamon stick
1 small orange, sliced
3 tbsp sugar
1/2 cup Drambuie (spiced whisky)

Cooking Tools
Medium saucepan
 

Directions
Place the first 5 ingredients in a sauce pan and simmer on low heat for about 20 minutes.  Pour Drambuie in the saucepan, stir and remove from heat.
Serves 4

 

Not Your Father's Root Beer Float

Not Your Father's Root Beer Float
The Perfect Adult Beverage......I Mean Dessert!
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: No cooking required

Ingredients
2 pint of vanilla ice cream
6 bottles Small Town Brewery, Not Your Father's Root Beer (beer)  http://smalltownbrewery.com/our-beers/year-round/
whip cream
maraschino cherries

Cooking Tools
Ice cream scoop
6 tall beer glasses 

Directions
2-3 scoops of ice cream in the glass, add in beer. Garnish with whip cream and cherries.
Serves 6

Moscow Mule

Moscow Mule
Difficulty: Easy

 

Ingredients
Ice cubes 
1/4 cup vodka 
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice 
1/2 cup chilled ginger beer
1 tbsp simple syrup
2  lime wedges
mint leaves

 

Directions
In a cocktail mixer, muddle 1 lime and couple of mint leaves.  Add vodka, lime juice. ginger beer, simple syrup and ice.  Shake and strain into a cocktail glass or a copper mug.  dress with a mint leaf and wedge of lime.