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Explosive Shrub Punch

Explosive Shrub Punch
Ingredients
  • Fruit, juices, and spices of your choice.
    • Holiday flavors and colors:
      • cranberries and orange juice
      • apples
      • pomegranate juice
      • citrus peel
      • ginger
    • Deep flavors:
      • frozen blueberries
      • green grapes
  • Sugar
  • Vinegar
  • Seltzer or bubbly water
  • Granish (optional)
Directions
  1. Prepare the fruit.
    • Macerating Method
      1. Macerate the fruit with sugar (or the sweetener of your choice).
      2. Let it sit to help the natural sugars thicken.
    • Simmering Method
      1. Put your fruit, juice and other ingredients into a saucepan, combined with half as much sugar.
      2. Simmer until thickened, and then pour through a fine strainer, pressing the solids to squeeze out all the syrup.
  2. Measure—by cup or by eye—how much syrup you have. Add that same amount vinegar.
  3. Mix equal parts shrub and seltzer or bubbly water in a big beautiful bowl. Add lemon slices and other garnishes. Serve.

Green Tea Kombucha with Apple

Green Tea Kombucha with Apple
Prep Time
15 minutes prep time + up to 5 weeks ferment time
Number of Servings
1 quart (Serves 4)
Ingredients
  • 1 quart Basic Kombucha
  • 1 apple, chopped, or [q:1/2] cup apple juice
Directions
  1. Follow recipe instructions for Basic Kombucha.
  2. Add apple or apple juice to bottle and tightly seal lid.
  3. Leave bottle on counter to build carbonation. This could take anywhere from 2 to 14 days, depending on temperature. “Burp” kombucha daily to release some pressure by opening lid slightly and then tightening it again.
  4. When kombucha is as fizzy and sour as you like (this could range from a small fritz to a ferocious fizz), store it in fridge to slow fermentation process. Enjoy cold. Keeps for 3 months.
Nutrition Info
47 Calories, 11 g Carbohydrates, 14 mg Sodium, [nutrition:3] Vitamin B1 (thiamine), Vitamin B2 (riboflavin), Vitamin B3 (niacin), Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12

Basic Kombucha

Basic Kombucha
Prep Time
15 minutes prep time + up to 5 weeks ferment time
Number of Servings
1 quart (serves 4)
Ingredients
  • 1 qt filtered water or spring water
  • 4 green tea bags or 1 Tbsp plus 2 tsp loose-leaf green tea
  • [q:1/4] cup raw or white sugar
  • [q:1/4] cup kombucha starter culture liquid
  • 1 kombucha Mother, a little smaller than size of your palm
Directions

  • Primary Fermentation

    1. Bring 2 cups of filtered water to a simmer. Pour into a teapot or heatproof bowl, add tea bags or tea leaves, and leave to steep for 3 to 5 minutes.
    2. Strain tea into a heatproof 6-cup wide-mouth glass jar and discard tea bags or tea leaves. Add sugar to jar and stir to dissolve. Pour in remaining filtered water.
    3. When liquid has cooled to room temperature, add kombucha starter culture liquid and kombucha Mother.
    4. Cover jar with a piece of cheesecloth and secure with a rubber band.
    5. Place jar out of direct sunlight in a cool spot where it won’t be disturbed. Leave liquid to ferment for around 4 days in hot weather and 14 to 20 days in cooler weather.

  • Bottling

    1. Gently remove kombucha Mother and reuse it immediately or discard.
    2. Retain [q:1/4] cup of kombucha liquid as starter culture liquid for your next brew. Mix in any sediment that has settled at bottom of jar, or leave as is.
    3. Put a funnel in opening of a 1-quart glass bottle with a tight-fitting lid and put a strainer on top of funnel. Pour kombucha into bottle through strainer and discard any solids.
    4. For additional flavor, continue with the Green Tea Kombucha with Apple recipe.
Nutrition Info
50 Calories, 0 g Protein, 0 mg Cholesterol, 13 g Carbohydrates, 13 g Total sugars (13 g Added sugars), 0 g Fiber, 0 g Total fat (0 g sat), 10 mg Sodium

Coconut-Pineapple Smoothie

Coconut-Pineapple Smoothie
Prep Time
5 minutes
Number of Servings
Serves 4
Ingredients
  • 2 cups vanilla-flavored coconut milk yogurt
  • 1 cup frozen pineapple chunks
  • [q:1/2] cup water
  • 3 Tbsp gluten-free protein powder such as whey or hemp seed
  • 1 Tbsp honey or coconut nectar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions
  1. Combine yogurt, pineapple, water, protein powder, honey, and vanilla in a blender.
  2. Purée until smooth.
  3. Divide among 4 glasses. Serve cold.
Nutrition Info
155 Calories, 11 g Protein, 13 g Carbohydrates, 1 g Fiber, 7 g Total fat (5 g saturated)

Spiced Cranberry-Apple Cider

Spiced Cranberry-Apple Cider
Prep Time
40 minutes
Number of Servings
6
Ingredients
  • 1 quart apple cider
  • 1 cup unsweetened cranberry juice
  • 2 cinnamon sticks
  • 1-inch piece of peeled ginger, sliced thinly
  • 1 tsp whole cloves or 1 pod star anise
  • 2 Tbsp honey
  • 1 organic orange, thinly sliced with peel, (optional)
Directions
  1. Bring all ingredients, except orange slices, to a boil in a medium pan.
  2. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes.
  3. Using a fine-mesh strainer, strain cider into mugs. Discard spices.
  4. Garnish mugs with orange slices, if using, and serve.
Nutrition Info
129 Calories, 1 g Protein, 33 g Carbohydrates, 1 g Fiber, 9 mg Sodium, [nutrition:2] Vitamin C

Barley Water with Mint

Barley Water with Mint
Prep Time
40 minutes
Number of Servings
makes 1 quart
Ingredients
  • 1 bunch fresh mint
  • 1 cup hulled barley
  • 8 cup water
  • Honey
Directions
  1. Put the leaves from the bunch of mint in a bowl.
  2. In a medium saucepan, bring the barley and water to a boil, and then turn the stove down to let the mixture simmer. Leave half covered and simmering for 30 minutes, or until barley is cooked.
  3. Strain barley water into large bowl, and place it to the side. Mash mint leaves with a wooden spoon to bring out the mint oil. Place bruised leaves in barley water, allowing them to steep for 5 minutes. Taste, and steep more as needed.
  4. Strain barley water into a pitcher, add honey to taste, and stir until it dissolves completely. Chill in the refrigerator for several hours until cold. Serve over ice with a sprig of mint to garnish.

Coconut Cooler

Coconut Cooler
Prep Time
5 minutes prep time
Number of Servings
Serves 1
Ingredients
  • [q:1/4] cup coconut milk (homemade or from can, aseptic box, or refrigerated carton)
  • [q:1/4] cup lime juice
  • 1 or 2 coconut water ice cubes or regular ice cubes
  • [q:1/2] cup sparkling water
Directions
  1.  In a cocktail shaker, Mason jar, or other type of container with a lid, shake coconut milk and lime juice until well combined.
  2.  Place ice cubes in a glass and pour in coconut milk–lime juice mixture.
  3.  Top off glass with sparkling water.
Nutrition Info
169 Calories, 2 g Protein, 11 g Carbohydrates, 2 g Fiber, 15 g Total fat (13 g sat, 1 g mono), 97 mg Sodium, [nutrition:3] Vitamin B2 (riboflavin), B12, Manganese, [nutrition:2] Vitamin C, Copper, [nutrition:1] Magnesium, Phosphorus

Rosemary-Grapefruit Fizz

Rosemary-Grapefruit Fizz
Prep Time
5 minutes
Number of Servings
1 drink
Ingredients
  • [q:2/3] cup fresh red or pink grapefruit juice, chilled
  • [q:1/3] cup sparking water, chilled
  • 1 rosemary sprig
  • 1 thin slice lemon
Directions
  1. Fill 1 tall glass with ice.
  2. Pour grapefruit juice over ice. Add sparkling water and stir well.
  3. Garnish with rosemary sprig and lemon slice.
Nutrition Info
75 Calories, 1 g Protein, 17 g Carbohydrates, 1 g Fiber, 2 mg Sodium

Strawberry Limeade

Strawberry Limeade
Prep Time
10 minutes
Number of Servings
2
Ingredients
  • [q:1 1/2] cups sliced and hulled fresh strawberries
  • [q:1/4] cup freshly squeezed lime juice
  • 1 Tbsp honey
  • 1 cup chilled coconut water
  • [q:1/2] cup crushed ice
Directions
  1. In a high-speed blender, combine strawberries, lime juice, honey, coconut water, and ice.
  2. Blend until combined. Serve immediately.
Nutrition Info
103 calories, 2 g Protein, 25 g Carbohydrates, 4 g Fiber, 1 g Total fat, 131 mg Sodium, [nutrition:4] Vitamin C, [nutrition:3] manganese, [nutrition:1] Copper, Potassium
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