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Smoothie Ideas, BBQ Books, and a Silly Golf Cake

Smoothies are pretty much the most exotic thing I’ve been making this week. And, the ones that I have been making have been rather frantic affairs. For instance, a recipe for my breakfast smoothing this week might read: 1) Oh God, we need to leave the house in three minutes and everyone is still …click to continue Smoothie Ideas, BBQ Books, and a Silly Golf Cake

Spring Berry Fizzy

Berry Drink Tall

It is particularly galling that some of the best of Spring days are spent looking out the window. My kids get home from school at four and even with no sports, there is still work to be done, which is more difficult with every beautiful day. They are being pulled outside. So even when …click to continue Spring Berry Fizzy

Lori’s “I Wish I Were On the Beach” Smoothie

Or, you could just call it a Pineapple, Coconut, Almond Smoothie…but that isn’t much more efficient word-wise, is it? So why not name it after a person I like?

Let’s just say that this tastes quite like a piña colada, but it is slightly more virtuous. The first time I wrote down the precise …click to continue Lori’s “I Wish I Were On the Beach” Smoothie

Lime & Cucumber Agua Fresca

Agua Fresca Up

Here is a Mexico intermission. Get out your blender and make a nice pitcher of agua fresca so that you will have a refreshment on hand when I post the second half of my Mexico trip. This is a drink I came upon in San Angel and it was so delicious. I’ve had agua …click to continue Lime & Cucumber Agua Fresca

Ginger Lime Soda

Ginger Lime Soda Lead

I owe this one to my husband’s cousin, Hope Yandell. She found a recipe for ginger beer in a cookbook years ago and has been playing with it ever since. When we were in Vermont recently, I must have had gallons of it and it is wonderful. This is called ginger beer, but in …click to continue Ginger Lime Soda