Watermelon Cooler

This drink blends frozen watermelon cubes with frozen raspberry lemonade concentrate, lime juice and ice, then adds club soda (and vodka, for a kick!)

Ingredients:
3 cups frozen watermelon cubes
2/3 cup frozen raspberry lemonade concentrate
2 tsp. lime juice
1 cup ice
1 c. sparkling water
3 to 4 T. vodka (optional)

Directions:
Whirl together watermelon, ice, lemonade concentrate and lime juice until smooth. Add club soda and vodka and blend briefly until mixed. Serve immediately with lemon or lime slices as a garnish.

Notes: Start the day before by freezing 1-inch cubes of watermelon on a tray (the sweeter the better!), then transferring them to a freezer bag until ready to use.

Number of servings: 3 large or 6 small

*image courtesy of babasteve
*recipe courtesy of better recipes

Viva la Veev!

Healthy liqueur?  Yes!  Veev is a spirit made from Brazil’s national fruit, Acai (my people know a good thing).  Coupled with prickly pear and acerola cherry, Veev is a health nut’s answer to guilt free drinking. 

Try these delicious concoctions:

Veev Acai-tini
2.0 oz of VeeV
1.5 oz açaí juice
0.5 oz fresh lime juice
2 bar spoons of agave nectar

Combine VeeV, fresh lime juice, agave nectar, açaí juice and ice in a cocktail shaker and shake. Strain and pour into a martini glass and garnish with a lime wedge.

Veev Spa Cooler
2.0 oz of VeeV
3 slices of Fresh Cucumber
Club Soda

Muddle three slices of cucumber in a mixing glass. Add VeeV and ice in a cocktail shaker and shake. Pour into a glass and top with club soda.

 Joie de Veev
2.0 oz VeeV
3 mint sprigs
2 strawberries
2 lime wedges
ginger ale

Muddle 2 slices of lime, 2 strawberries, and 3 mint sprigs in a mixing glass. Add 2.0 oz VeeV and ice in a cocktail shaker and shake. Pour into a glass and top with ginger ale.

If anyone from the Veev company is reading, please contact me, I’m happy to taste test for you!

Healthy But Hammered

1 oz gin
2 oz raspberry vodka
4 oz cranberry juice
4 oz orange juice

Add ingredients into a highball glass, stir and enjoy. Perfect drink with breakfast.

*recipe courtesy of Drinks Mixer
*image courtesy of Gerard Yates