Mocktail Monday

Welcome back everyone! Where did the weekend go? How did we get to Monday so quickly? When the sun is shining and you've got fun things planned, time just flies.

As promised, today I have my second recipe for Mocktail Mondays in June. If you missed last week's post, every Monday in June I will post a tasty drink recipe that you can enjoy over these hot summer months.

Today's recipe is the cherry limeaide. I LOVE cherry limeaides. For those of you who may have never had one, it is a little bit of sweet heaven in a glass. It combines fizzy and tart and sweet all in one. The fast food chain Sonic sells them, but I've had cherry limeaides long before they even came to our area. It is a really simple recipe. To make a single serving you will need a can of Sprite, a bottle of grenadine syrup, maraschino cherries, and limeaide. You can purchase limeaide in cans in the frozen food section near the frozen oj, or you can buy limeaide already made. Last week Wal Mart had Simply Limeaide on sale. This is the company that sells Simply Best Orange Juice. Their limeaide tastes good and is a suggestion if you don't feel like making the frozen.

All you do is get a glass, I'd suggest bigger than 12 ounces and pour in the can of Sprite. Next, you'll want to add in some of the limeaide. If you see the post I made last week, when I use that glass I end up having approximately a 1/4 of a cup left to add limeaide in order to fill up the cup. Next, you can add about a teaspoon of grenadine syrup in the glass. Add maraschino cherries and stir. Ta da, you have yourself a cherry limeaide! I'm not a big ice person, but you can add ice in the glass as well. I never measure out the ingredients, I just eyeball it and once you've made this a few times you'll be able to make it that way as well.

So grab yourself a glass and make yourself a nice tall glass of cherry limeaide. You won't regret it. Bottom's up!

Mocktail Monday

Happy Monday everyone. We've had a busy, but fun filled weekend. We took Sawyer to our local strawberry farm on Saturday and picked strawberries. He had a blast and it was such fun seeing him interact with the farm animals and help us pick strawberries. I had to very careful chuck some of them out when he wasn't looking. We haven't learned the fine art of picking strawberries yet. LOL

It is hard to believe it is June 1st, but June is finally here and summer is starting to get in full swing. Summer is my favorite time of the year. I thought it would be fun for the month of June to have posts every Monday that I'm calling Mocktail Mondays. Each Monday I'm going to feature a fun drink recipe that doesn't require any alcohol. Since I'm still nursing my little one, some fun drink recipes without alcohol will hit the spot this summer. And I'm sure that if you require alcohol you'll be able to figure out something to add to these. There are many days with these two little ones driving me crazy that I feel I require alcohol, so it is probably a good thing I'm still nursing.

The recipe I'm featuring today uses Simply Best Orange Juice I mentioned a few weeks ago in one of my Fabulous Favorite Friday posts. I used their Orange/Pineapple blend juice to make this. As you can see, I have a pretty large glass. What I did was pour a can on 7Up in the glass. Then I just filled up the rest of the glass with the Orange/Pineapple juice. I would guess that it was no more than 1/2 a cup. After that I added about a teaspoon (I'm guessing, I just eyeball it) of grenadine syrup. That is what gives it that pretty red color at the bottom. Add your straw and you are in business. It would also be good to add maraschino cherries to this drink, but I didn't have any. How do you like my fancy umbrella tucked in my straw? I'm may not be sitting on the beach in Maui having Mai Tais, but I can still enjoy something fun at home. So, I suggest you get yourself some cute straws and little umbrellas for your drinks. In the past I've seen unique things like that at Pier One. I see a Pier One trip in my future soon.


Don't you just love my fun glass? I got a set of those a few years back at Stein Mart. I just love using them in the summer. If you are looking for something cute like that I'd of course check Stein Mart, but if you don't have that in your area then I'd check Kohl's. They have cute glasses for the summer too. And of course who could forget checking out the Target.


So, I'll raise my glass in Cheers to you this first Mocktail Monday of the month. Hope you are having a great day. Be sure to stop by tomorrow for Two Tip Tuesday.