This summer, embrace these delicious and hydrating drink ideas to serve at your next brunch, lunch, or dinner party.
Lavender Lemonade
(Makes 6 cups)
- 6 cups water
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup honey
- 3 tablespoons dried lavender
- 2 cups lemon juice
- Lavender springs for garnish
- Purple food coloring (optional)
- Ice to serve
Ingredients
- Over medium heat, combine two cups of water and sugar then bring to a boil until sugar is dissolved.
- Turn off of the heat and stir in honey and lavender.
- Allow mixture to steep for 2 hours.
- Strain the liquid, pressing the lavender
- In a pitcher, combine freshly squeezed lemon juice, lavender mixture and water.
- Add a couple drops of purple food coloring if you want more color than the lavender provides.
- Serve over ice and garnish with lavender sprigs.
Directions
Blood Orange Ginger Soda
(Makes 6 cups)
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup sugar
- 18 fresh mint leaves
- 1 peeled ginger
- 6 blood orange rind strips
- 3 cups blood orange juice
- 3 cups club soda
- 6 blood orange wedges
- 6 mint sprigs
- Ice to serve
Ingredients
- Over medium heat, combine water, sugar and ginger. Bring to a boil and stir until sugar is dissolved.
- Remove from heat and let stand 15 minutes. Then, strain and discard solids.
- In a pitcher combine ginger mixture with orange juice and club soda.
- Add ice, stir well and leave to stand for 10 minutes.
- Serve in a glass and garnish with blood orange wedge and mint sprig.
Directions
Pomegranate Refresher
(Makes 6 cups)
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup sugar
- 3 medium-sized pomegranates
- 2 limes, juiced
- 1 cup club soda
- 6 orange wedges to garnish
- Pomegranate seeds to garnish
- Ice to serve
Ingredients
- Over medium heat, combine water, sugar and ginger. Bring to a boil and stir until sugar is dissolved.
- Remove form heat and let stand.
- Quarter pomegranates and remove white pulp.
- Pour contents into a blender, and pulse for about 30 seconds.
- Combine pomegranate juice, lime with the sugar syrup in shaker and add ice.
- Shake well, and strain contents through sieve.
- In a pitcher add club soda.
- Serve in ice-filled tumblers, and garnish with orange wedge and pomegranate seeds.
Directions
Raspberry Yogurt Smoothie
(Makes 6 cups)
- 2 ½ cups plain Greek plain yogurt
- 3 cups fresh raspberries
- 3 tablespoons natural honey
- 1 cup ice
- Fresh raspberries to garnish
Ingredients
- Cover and blend until smooth and thick.
- Service mixture in mason tumblers.
Directions
In blender mix yogurt, raspberries, honey and ice.
Watermelon Wonder
(Makes 6 cups)
- 1 watermelon, to make juice
- 1 cup fresh lime juice
- 1 cup elderflower cordial
- 12 slices cucumber
- Ice, to serve
Ingredients
- To make watermelon juice, cut watermelon into cubes and mash. Then, using a strainer, drain the juice.
- In a pitcher, mix watermelon juice with elderflower cordial and lime juice.
- Add cucumber slices and stir well, leaving to sit for 15 minutes.
- Serve over ice.
Directions