Feeling the Heat ?

Feeling the Heat ?

More tips for things you can buy locally to make cold treats.

Sick of bottled mineral water and soft drinks and iced teas?

Okay go to the supermarket. Get a bottle of fruit juice plain mineral and Bunderim Ginger concentrate plus some black or green teabags.

Mix the mineral water plain or sparkling with the fruit juice cheaper and a bit healthier than Fanta or freeze it into a granita.

What's a granita. Just a fancy name of  ice mixed with other stuff.

You cna use it half frozne as a slurpee or scrap off the top of the ice and put that into drinks.

Or take the fruit juice mix in a dash of ginger and make a granita or a cold drink.

Just a dash of ginger mind you!

Iced tea.

Worried about the sorbitol in some soft drinks and bottled teas and all the drinks without  sorbitol have sold out?

Have you got an empty bottle with a lid you were about to put into the recycling bin?

Wash it out. Take a jug and fill it with warm water a dash of spice or ginger or both and a bit of lime juice if you have any and soak a teabag in this and let the tea mixture cool then pour it into the bottle to cool in the fridge. It will keep for several days and you can top it up with more tea or sugar or fruit juice or if you've made the iced tea too strong add it to hot tea to cool the tea down?

Much as I love a good Gelato or Oliver Brown's Iced Chocolate Mojito on 40 plus degree days one has to have the fridge at home stocked with cold stuff.

Hope you enjoy experimenting to feel the mixture thats right for you!

Beating the Heat?

Beating the Heat!

Here's a Tip for a cheap treat!

Go over to the Ton Yon or one of our other Asian grocery stores in or near the mall and see if they have any packets of Vietnamese frozen coconut flesh and juice combined. These are small and compact and willnt take up too much room in the fridge and cost even less than icecream. Take them up to defrost and when they're reacehd the mushy stage cut the packet out along the top and pout the white soft cocnut flesh and the juice into a glass or bowl. Enjoy the chilled juice by itself or add something to it to make it even tastier .

Try it soon!