Tag: beverage

  • Mango Cherry Lassi

    I may have had a small stroke this week.  I was reaaaallly excited for the Mango Guava Lassi I’d planned.  But then I ate the vanilla soy yogurt I bought for it and forgot to buy the guava juice in the first place!    Good going, Leslie.   I just wasn’t in the mood for…

  • Root Veg Juice

      Juice & Smoothie Week Post #3: What?  Root vegetable juice?  Yes.   This is the weirdest one I’ve tried.  After having my juicer for almost a year now, I’m finally starting to branch out from the very typical all-fruit or fruit-and-greens juices.  It does take some working up to, cause some vegetables can be…

  • Doughy Morning Coffee Smoothie

    Juice & Smoothie Week Post #2!  Here’s the definition of a portable breakfast: your morning coffee and your morning oatmeal in one glass.  Drinkable.    Sounds weird, right?    Well, it doesn’t taste weird!  It tastes like a rich, doughy, blended coffee-flavored milkshake.  So good.

  • Secret-Ingredient Orange Julius Smoothie

    Welcome to my first (maybe annual) Juice & Smoothie Week!  This week, nothing but fresh juices and delicious smoothie concoctions.   Why are we celebrating such a festive occasion?  Well, for several reasons.  First, I have an excess of fruit in my freezer 🙂  Second, I have sooo many ideas for juices and smoothies and…

  • Watermelon Superfood Slushie

    Remember ICEEs???  They were one of my all-time favorite childhood summer treats.   Alright . . . I shouldn’t speak of them in the past-tense.  I definitely have at least one every summer still.

  • Prosecco & Pear Granita Float

    Fresly pressed pear juice and prosecco granita. Melting away in a glass of more bubbly prosecco. Lovely light summer dessert.   Granitas are a perfect summer dessert.  The process is simple: take some kind of liquid (juice, alcohol, coffee/tea, flavored simple syrups, or any combination of those things), and freeze it.  But while it’s freezing,…

  • Iskiate

    What the heck is “iskiate?”  This is a super-simple chia seed drink that I read about and had to test. I am reading this book called Born to Run, in which the author seeks out a Mexican tribe called the Tarahumara who are amazing world-renown runners (we’re talking major endurance runs and inhuman speed here),…

  • Coconut Almond Chai Smoothie

    This is the breakfast to eat when you really want dessert for breakfast.  And when you don’t have the time to make something like oatmeal cookie pancakes.  It tastes like a milkshake, but is way more nutritious than any milkshake I’ve ever had!   I absolutely love the flavor of chai – all those delicious…

  • Tipsy Blackberry Sage Lemonade

      It’s about to be summer.  And it already feels like it.  Sacramento summer.  Meaning I need no end of cooling refreshing beverages to detract from the summer heat, and I’m getting a head start on preparing those!    Fortunately, I love making such delicious drinks!  I especially love this one because, aside from the…

  • Ginger-Lime Papineapple Agua Fresca

    Reunited with my juicer at last!   Oh juicer, how I have missed you.  Such a welcoming beacon in a groggy dark morning.  We must celebrate with something extra-special!     So special I made up a word for it.  Papineapple?  Yeah.  Ginger-Lime Papaya Pineapple Agua Fresca was an excessively long title (so I made it…