LIME-onades

Hello!
How much are y'all enjoying Summer so far? Feeling a little perched?
I have two neat drink recipes for you to quench your thirst.
Super easy, as usual, sugar free and tasty. Made with 100% fresh ingredients!

First off, I have a Strawberry, Mint LIME-onade.
Why Lime-onade? Well because it's made with limes and not lemons!
When life hands you limes...

Here is what you will need (for one glass)

• the juice of 1 lime (about 1/4 -1/3 cup)
• 6-7 mediums size ripe strawberries, rinsed (the dark red ones)
• 5-6 leaves of fresh mint
• 1 1/2 tablespoon of agave nectar (you can also use about 1 to 2 tablespoons of splenda, honey, stevia)
• ice cubes

1. Using a blender or Mortar and pestle, grind the strawberries to get the juices out. It should give you about 1/3 cup of juice. Whether you use the mortar or the blender, filter the juice from the flesh using a strainer.
2. In a tall glass, drop in the mint leaves. Using the pestle or the end of a wooden spoon, grind the mint directly in the glass, just as you would for a mojito.
3. Add the lime juice, the strawberry juice, the agave nectar and mix well. You can add the sweetener little by little and taste along the way. That way you can sweeten it to your liking.
4. Fill the glass with cold water, leaving about an inch at the top. Put in 2-3 ice cubes and garnish with a strawberry and fresh mint leaves. Voila!



Next up, it's a blueberry LIME-onade.

The ingredient go as such:

• the juice of 1 lime (about 1/4 -1/3 cup)
• 10-15 blueberries
• 1 1/2 tablespoon of agave nectar (you can also use about 1 to 2 tablespoons of splenda, honey, stevia)
• ice cubes

The steps are the same, minus the mint crushing. Pop in a few blueberries to make it pretty and you are done!
So delicious and so easy!

Cool snack

So, this weekend I was out and about trying to get every last item needed to finally pack my suitcase (I'm leaving in 4 days! YAY!) when I came across these really cute Popsicle molds (see bellow)

I instantly craved for ice cream. Being that they were only 5.99, I bought the cuties and brought them home.
Now, I had to figure something nice and refreshing to make and I came up with this:

Coconut "ice cream cones"
Super easy. Sugar free. Dairy-free and deeeelicious.

Here are the ingredients (according to the size and number of molds)

• 1 cup of coconut cream, unsweetened (you can use coconut milk, but the cream is silkier and thicker)
• 4-5 black berries
• 1 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
• 2 tablespoons of splenda or 1 tablespoon of stevia.  You could also add real sugar, syrup or honey.
• 3 tablespoons of hot chocolate mix (yep, you read right)

1. Separate the coconut cream in half, into two bowls.
2. In one bowl, add half the vanilla, all the berries and half the sweetener.
3. Mix well, making sure to mash the berries.
4. Fill two of the molds.

1. Using the rest of the coconut cream, sweetener and vanilla, add the hot chocolate mix. Mix well and fill the other molds.



1. Freeze for 2-3 hours or until the mixture is hard and cold.

That's it! All that's left to do is to enjoy them whenever you feel like!

you can also try it plain vanilla, cherry, choco-mint (using fresh mint), coconut-pineapple. The possibilities are endless!