Italian Soda. June 30, 2011 | Sweet Recipes | Comments Growing up, these Italian sodas were my favorite!!
My mom and I would always stop by a little coffee shack on our road trips to Oregon. I remember ordering the blueberry Italian soda in the summer instead of ice cream because they were so refreshing. I hadn’t had one of these since I was a kid, so I wanted to recreate the easy recipe. I even made my own blueberry and strawberry syrup instead of using Torani. Photo Credit: Sugar and Charm. Watermelon Mojito Pops. May 31, 2011 | Sweet Recipes | Comments Can you believe that tomorrow will be June 1st!?
I’m pretty darn excited and wanted to start it off right… with some watermelon mojito popsicles!! Yesterday we went to a BBQ/first birthday party and Zan brought some ingredients to make watermelon mojitos. They were enjoyed by many and as I was sipping mine, I thought of a great idea! A mojito popsicle! Mojito PopsiclesIngredients (makes about 10 medium size popsicles) 3 1/2 cups cubed watermelon Handful fresh mint leaves 3 Tablespoons Agave (or you can sweeten them with regular sugar) 1/2 lime 2 oz. light rum 1/2 cup club soda Directions In a large mixing bowl, muddle the watermelon and mint together until the watermelon is a juice consistency with some small chunks.
Frozen White Chocolate Hot Chocolate. It is no secret that I love sweets.
In fact, when Lent rolls around each year and I see people giving up sweets, I hide… I don’t want those kind of crazy thoughts to invade my brain. I can tell you straight up, me without sweets, would not be a pretty sight. When the folks over at The Motherhood asked me if I would like to be a co-host for a virtual Cooking Connections class surrounding all things sweet, I jumped at the chance. An hour devoted to nothing other than desserts? I’m in! You can join in the virtual chat based class as well, this Wednesday 1pm EST on The Motherhood. Kid Friendly Desserts & Desserts on the GoYour Favorite Desserts, Lightened UpDesserts Worth Indulging & Special Occasion Desserts In the meantime, I am doing my best to diligently research sweet treats prior to the Cooking Connections class.
Iced Mocha. That’s me.
Yep yep yep it is. Love mocha cake. Tiramisu is my BFF. Give me coffee ice cream and a spoon. Chocolate coffee cookies? Hot coffee? But I want to like it soooooo bad. The truth is, after a few sips of coffee I feel like I’m hyped up on Speed or something. And just because I really need to tell someone, I’m super annoyed right now because it seems there is maple syrup on my laptop. Anyway. I don’t feel that I have a sufficient number of sugary sweet recipes on this blog and that needs to be remedied. Before you go unsubscribing from the feed, let me just tell you… it really helps if you use something like this. Buuuut… it tastes nothing like fudge brownie. Until you add lots of stuff to it so it tastes like a big ole’ glass of fun and Ben and Jerry’s Buzz just had a baby. What’s that you say? Unless you save most of the mocha sugared rim for last.
Homemade Iced Mocha serves 1. Watermelon Lemonade. - Merrill Last weekend, my sister and some friends threw me a lovely bridal shower.
The food was delicious. Happy guests devoured crudités, curried chicken salad, mini grilled cheese sandwiches with bacon, sausage rolls, and homemade currant and ginger scones with clotted cream and raspberry jam. To drink, there was a crisp rosé and a refreshing concoction of fresh watermelon, lemon, sugar and water known as "watermelonade. " Apparently, it's one of the caterer's specialties, and everyone raved about the juicy, pink drink. Watermelonade Adapted from Go Catering Serves 10 ½ cup sugar4 cups cubed watermelon 3½ cups water ½ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice 1. 2. Lime-Mint Spritzer. First of all, we get to announce the winner of our FINAL Feta Friday giveaway!
The winner is The Stace who likes them on her fish tacos (and I can’t disagree with her there!) Congrats! Please email us asap at general (at) ourbestbites (dot) com so we can get your prize mailed out. So after all my whining in Monday’s post, I decided I needed to suck it up and find a way to enjoy what’s left of my summer. When we bought our house last winter, one of our very, very favorite things about it is that it has a big, long, shaded porch that goes all the way across the front of the house. Sara and I aren’t drinkers, but I have long admired the mojito from afar, kind of like Nestor Carbonell, only in a glass–Cuban, classic, un-aging, and just as, if not more appealing now than 10 years ago. I mean, how could I not love the idea of a mojito–it involves three of my favorite things: fancy drinks, lime, and mint.
These were super easy and pretty darn inexpensive. Lime-Mint Spritzers Ingredients: