jamaican me crazy!
Refreshing agua frescas, a combination of water and fruit, seeds, flowers, can do a great job in quenching your thirst and not letting into the juice addiction. Ok, maybe we’re the only ones with the juice addiction (we seriously try not to buy any, otherwise its gone within a day!). We recently went on a brief detox, eliminating sugar, dairy, gluten, caffeine which meant, no juice! No juice (to me, Caroline) means BORING water all the time, so I decided to replace my iced coffee/juice addiction with a light, detox-worthy drink, Jamaica (pronounced HA-my-kah), a hibiscus tea. I adapted a recipe from Heidi Swanson’s Super Natural Cooking by using agave nectar rather than sugar and diluting it a bit more.
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Berry, berry refreshing!
Summer has officially arrived here in New York, which means sweltering heat mixed with the unrelenting humidity. Basically we’ll do anything to keep cool (a LOT of Mister Softies, Italian Ices, People’s Pops). So when we spotted some fresh strawberries and a bushel of mint at the Farmer’s Market this weekend we knew Strawberry Mint Lemonade was in our near future. This drink will quench your thirst and cool you down, at least just for a little bit. Enjoy!
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