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Blueberry-Rosemary Lemonade

Erika — Tue, 31 May 2022 13:55:00 +0000

Wow friends and neighbors at sidewalk sales, brunches, or picnics with this deliciously modern take on the warm-weather classic. Add vodka and sub bubbly water for the 2 cups water in this lemonade recipe and you’ve got the perfect happy hour thirst-quencher.

Blueberry-Rosemary Lemonade Gluten-Free Recipe

MAKES ABOUT 4 CUPS

Ingredients

1 cup fresh blueberries
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 (2-inch) sprig rosemary
1-1/4 cups freshly squeezed lemon juice (from about 15 lemons), strained
Ice

Instructions

In a small saucepan, combine the blueberries, sugar, rosemary, and 1/4 cup water over medium-low heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the blueberries are soft and broken down, about 10 minutes. Let cool.
Strain the blueberry syrup through a fine-mesh sieve into a pitcher, gently pressing down on the solids to extract the juice. Stir the lemon juice and 2 cups water into the pitcher. Add ice and serve.

Photography Erin Ng

Celery Gin Spritz Gluten-Free Recipe

Erika — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:27:57 +0000

Good thing this recipe makes extra Celery Simple Syrup because that stuff is so good, you’ll want seconds. For easy entertaining, you can make up these cocktails with gin up to a week in advance and store it in the fridge.

Celery Gin Spritz Gluten-Free Recipe

MAKES 8 DRINKS Also, though it doesn’t taste like it, this cocktail is martini strength; for a lighter version, use less gin and more soda or skip the booze to make fabulous virgin cocktails.

Author Olivia Mack McCool

Ingredients

For the Celery Simple Syrup:

2 cups sugar
2 cups chopped celery stalks and leaves
1 teaspoon celery seeds (optional)
Ice

For serving:

4 limes, 2 cut into thin wheels and 2 quartered
16 ounces gin
1 (1-liter) bottle club soda or seltzer water
8 celery stalks, for garnish (optional)

Instructions

Make the simple syrup: In a small saucepan, stir together the sugar, 2 cups water, the celery, and celery seeds and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat, mash the celery a bit with a wooden spoon, and let steep until cool. Strain into a jar or container with a lid and refrigerate until use.
To serve, fill each glass with ice, a couple of lime wheels, 2 ounces gin, 1 ounce celery syrup, and a squeeze of lime juice. Stir, top with club soda and a celery stalk, and serve.

Photography Chelsea McNamara

Gluten-Free Ginger Punch Recipe

Erika — Tue, 07 May 2019 14:02:18 +0000

Gluten free ginger punch is a reviving spa-like treat worth serving at parties or every day.

Ginger Punch

You’ll need a juicer to make fresh ginger juice (so worth it—you can also mix it with hot water and honey for a reviving spa-like treat!). At the stunning Siam luxury hotel in Bangkok, they serve this beverage over ice cubes made of apple and ginger juices. If you’re game, we recommend you do the same.

Servings people

Ingredients

1⁄2 cup apple juice
2 tablespoons freshly pressed ginger juice
1 tablespoon pomegranate syrup available at well-stocked liquor stores
2 cups soda water
2 basil sprigs for garnish (optional)

Instructions

Mix together the apple and ginger juices in a small bowl. Slowly pour half of the pomegranate syrup around the inside edge of each of two highball glasses. Fill each glass with ice cubes, add the mixed juices, top with soda water, and garnish with a basil sprig.

Blueberry Mango Smoothie

Erika — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:10:46 +0000

Ripe berries get a kiss of tropical flavor in this beautiful blueberry mango smoothie recipe. Make this blueberry mango smoothie for breakfast, as a snack, or into popsicles by pouring it into ice-pop molds. Regardless, it’s all good.

Blueberry Mango Smoothie

Servings

Author Beth Manos Brickey

Ingredients

1/2 banana
1 cup frozen blueberries
1 cup frozen mango chunks
1/2 cup yogurt
1 tablespoon honey
1-1/2 teaspoons lime juice

Instructions

Combine all of the ingredients plus 1/2 cup water in a blender and process until smooth and creamy. Enjoy immediately.

Photography Beth Manos Brickey

Gluten-Free Manzanita Swizzle Cocktail Recipe

Erika — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:46:20 +0000

Feisty, smoky, earthy, and tropically tempting with Latin flair.

Servings

Ingredients

1 tablespoon thinly sliced baby bell pepper optional
1 1⁄2 ounces white tequila such as Espolón Tequila Blanco
1 tablespoon mescal
1 ounce pineapple juice
1⁄2 ounce fresh lime juice
1⁄2 ounce Habanero Simple Syrup (below)
Pinch of red pepper flakes sea salt, and sugar, mixed together, for garnish (optional)
Pineapple leaf for garnish (optional)

Instructions

Place the bell pepper at the bottom of a highball glass, fill the glass with crushed ice, add the tequila, mescal, juices, and simple syrup, and stir to combine. Add a mound of crushed ice, sprinkle with the spice mix, garnish with the pineapple leaf, and serve with a swizzle stick.

Habanero Simple Syrup

Instructions

Add a spicy kick to any cocktail with this sweet concoction: In a medium pot over medium heat, combine 3 cups of sugar and 1 1⁄2 cups of water and stir until dissolved. Remove from the heat, add 1⁄2 of a seeded and thinly sliced habanero chile, cool, and strain, discarding the solids. Keep syrup refrigerated, covered, for up to 3 weeks.

Photo: Maren Caruso