Vegan MoFo, Day 29: Tasty Drinks--Week Five!!!

Welcome to the last several days of Vegan MoFo 2012 (don't stop me...I'm NOT gonna cry...). Today, I have several yummy drinks to share with you lot.


Fruit Punch
adapted from Meatless Meals, pages 42-43
serves 6--supplies mineral salts

1 lemon, supremed and sliced
1 orange, peeled and sliced
2 cups grape juice
2 1/2 cups cold water
1 1/2 Tbsp lemon juice
1/8 tsp salt
Small handful fresh mint, torn
Sprinkle of nutmeg
1/3 cup orange juice
2 cups ginger ale

In a pitcher, mix the lemon and orange slices, grape juice, water, lemon and orange juices, salt, mint, and nutmeg. Cover pitcher and refrigerate for about an hour. Pour mixture into glasses filled with ice--half punch and half ginger ale. Garnish with mint leaves.

{lots of ingredients combine to make a yummy concoction}

{this drink will shine a bright light on your day}

Grape Juice with Ginger Ale
adapted from Meatless Meals, page 44
serves 2--supplies mineral salts

1/2 cup grape juice
1 1/2 cups ginger ale
1 Tbsp ginger syrup

Mix together chilled grape juice and ginger ale. Serve over ice.

{fizzy and grapey}

{check it out!! it looks like it's floating!!}

Jelly Water (I'm not thrilled about her recipe name, but it is what it is...)
adapted from Meatless Meals, page 47
serves 1--supplies mineral salts

2 Tbsp boiling water
2 Tbsp fruit jelly (I used grape)
1 cup ice water

Mix together hot water and jelly and stir until dissolved. Fill a glass and ice water (about half of glass). Pour in jelly mixture and stir. You could also drink this hot, but it weirds me out.

{my least favorite...also, DON'T use jam, otherwise you'll have floaters}

{autumn reflection}

Cheers!!!

Jes

VMF 2011 Day 29: Rent Week Dinner!

VMF 2010 Day 29: NONE

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

VMF Day 2 2011: Spaghettaaaaah.
VMF Day 2 2010: Green Soup, Part Deux