Vegan MoFo, Day 2: Tasty Drinks--Week 1

Day Two! And a theme within a theme! Yay! Jean Prescott Adam's cookbook, Meatless Meals, has a bunch of drink recipes in it (non-alcoholic, though you could certainly tweak them!). So I'm going to have one day of posts a week centered around several drinks from her book.

Up today: two super-simple recipes.

Mint Tea
from Meatless Meals, page 43-44
serves 2--supplies potassium

handful of mint leaves (she calls for 1/4 pint green spearmint leaves)
4 cups boiling water

Boil water. Wash mint leaves. In a bowl, pour boiling water over leaves and bruise leaves with a potato masher (or other such implement). Cover bowl for 10 minutes to allow tea to steep. Strain.

{my mint plant is like 4x the size of when i bought it}

{see??? it's reaching the top of the window!}

{half the plant washed and ready to go}

{hot wataaaa!]

{not shown: me bruising the hell out of the leaves with a potato masher}

{i know it looks like water, which is why the jug of tea is included so you can see the color}

{this is probably one of those medicinal drinks from a long time ago--don't they have this in The Hunger Games??}

{really refreshing served on ice, too!}

This stuff is really delicious and refreshing. You can add lemon juice or sugar; and you can drink it hot or cold, depending on the weather. And it uses up mint, which grows like there's no tomorrow.

Mrs. Adams also included a recipe for making milk more interesting.

Spiced Milk
adapted from Meatless Meals, page 47
serves 2--supplies calcium and protein

2 cups soymilk (or rice milk, hemp milk, almond milk, etc.)
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 Tbsp sugar

Add spices and sugar to the chilled soymilk. Shake up in a lidded jar. Serve on ice.

{pre-shake--best done in a tight-lidded jar}

{refreshing, creamy, foamy, and so frackin' good}

{you could probably top this off with some booze}

{i drank this over the course of sunday}

Check back next week for more cool drink recipes!

Jes

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