Warm Mulled Wine/Apple Cider

Hey, guys! What do you do with all the left-over red wine & apple cider  yesterday? Let’s find the other ingredients in your cupboard. Check out the ingredients below. . INGREDIENTS: 2 cups red wine 2 cups Mayer Bros. fresh crisp apple cider 1 orange a slice of fresh lime 6 cloves 2 star anise…

Watermelon Aloe Vera Smoothie

Aloe vera grows wildly in typical climates around the world, cultivated and harvested due to its agricultural and medicinal purposes. Most people don’t know the proper way to skin them, thus itching is always a problem. In Florida, they mix it with sugarcane juice but I use watermelon. I drink the smoothie once in a…

Life’s Little Pleasures

Last night my friend Paulia baked me a black rum cake, which I shared with my co-workers; Paulia also got me this amazing Teavana tea strainer, complete with a White Chocolate Peppermint tea blend. As soon as I got home, I immediately brewed a half tablespoon of this tea blend in eight ounces of boiled…

Black Mango Tea

  I found a special kind of tea like no other; brew 2 teaspoons of Black Mango Tea leaf in 8 oz. of pure spring water or filtered water at 185º F for 4 minutes then strain and sip. Ahhhh! Heavenly! This is pure bliss after slaving in the kitchen! Sweet taste with satiny smoothness….

Orange, Lemon-Lime Infused Filtered Drink

It was 40 degrees when I came back from 8am mass, and our home was nice and toasty. I was feeling very warm, but thirsty and dying to grab an iced cold soda or any sweet drink but I remembered that I have frozen iced cubes from Mackenzie’s Raspberry Moroccan Iced Tea. So… I started…

Raspberry Moroccan Rose Iced Tea

    Got the original recipe from pineandcravebymackenzie.com. I didn’t have dried hibiscus, but I used some Moroccan organic dried rose petals that were featured in the Washington Apple Cake post.   INGREDIENTS: 4 cups of Organic Frozen Berries (raspberry, strawberries, and blueberries) 3/4 cups raw honey or 3 tbsp. Organic Blue Agave Nectar plus…

Turmeric / Ginger Tea

This tea has some turmeric, which is said to be great for combating  Alzheimer’s disease. Not only that, but this kind of tea should be very good for the upcoming flu season. Mindbodygreen.com has a similar preparation.   INGREDIENTS: 1 cup water 1/4 tsp. ground turmeric 1/4 tsp. ground ginger Splash of soy or almond…

Cocktail Punch

This is originally called Lourie’s Coctail Punch from Sylvia Reynoso – Gala’s Culinary Arts Studio in 1992. I made some revisions for alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinkers, and sorry, we almost finished the drink before I could post it! That’s how good it is!   INGREDIENTS: 1 tall can pineapple juice (8 cups) 3/4 cup freshly…

Blueberry Mint Lemonade

Hi guys,this is the summer lemonade that I find on line,So easy to do,I pls feel free to comment about it hope you’ll enjoy & find it refreshing as I do.   1st prepare the simple syrup by combining a cup each of water & brown or wine sugar & boil it in a saucepan…