Showing posts with label drinks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drinks. Show all posts

Monday, June 6, 2011

Strawberry and Blackberry smoothie



It has been so hot here as appears as most of the country is suffering from a heat wave. We have cooled off with a smoothie and have put the rest up in the freezer to pull out and cool of at a later date.
In fact this is a real good way to get ones portion of fruit a day. We used strawberries and another one with strawberries and a banana and the last with blackberries next we are trying blueberries.
And of course they are good for you.
1 cup yogurt (we use Greek)
5-6 ice cubes (we used a little more to ice it up)
sugar or honey to taste (we used about 3 tablespoons honey)
8-10 strawberries
or
1 cup blackberries or what ever fruit you like.
pour into tall glass or small glass
also can put in container or ice cub tray and freeze

Friday, April 22, 2011

Mint Tea


The other day we mentioned that we forgot to make mint tea to go with our meal of Chicken Shwarma. This was our take on how to make it. We used Lipton 6 bags cold brew and made as usual. 1 to 3/4 cups sugar fill picture almost to top with water with bags in container. While this is steeping we took two bags Plantation mint (spearmint) that we steeped for 2-5 minutes in cup of boiling water. Then add to picture squeezing the bags and stir to blend.
I'm sure we will find other recipes but this is what we had on hand and it turned out pretty good.
Our mint plant is just showing and we will be using that when it gets a little bigger.