Friday, 03 July 2009

• And in light of the holiday, here's a repeat of the watermelon vodka cooler recipe:
  

  ½ cup berries of your choice
  1 cup watermelon
  1½ ounces Lemon Vodka
  ½ ounce sugar syrup
  ½ cup ice

  1. Add the berries, watermelon, vodka and ice to a blender and process.
  2. Taste and depending on the fruit you may need to add the sugar syrup.
  3. Pour into tumblers and serve.

  Serves 2.

  Simple syrup (BusyCooks):
  
  

  Bring 2 cups of plain cold tap water to a boil. Stir in 2 cups of plain granulated sugar. Turn the heat to low and stir constantly until the sugar dissolves completely.
  
  You can also flavor the syrup by adding about a tablespoon of any liquid extract. You can also stir in 1 tablespoon corn syrup to help ensure the syrup stays smooth.
  
  Let the syrup cool to room temperature, then pour into a clean glass jar and store in the refrigerator.
  
  

  Truthfully, with the berries and the watermelon, I think the syrup is overkill, but I'm not really into sweet, sweet drinks, so maybe that's just me.
  

  
  

  
  I made turkey burgers.  New recipe.  If it turns out at all well, I'll post it later.
  
  And in case you're trying to stay in beach weather shape (although clearly you're not anywhere near me since we've been having more monsoon-like weather than beach weather), here's a little excerpt from WebMD about low calorie cocktails:
  

  • Pina Colada (6 oz): 378 calories - I guess avoid this?
    
  • Mojito (8 oz): 214 calories - Same I guess, but I love these, plus I'm not convinced you couldn't make it low cal.
    
  • Cosmopolitan (4 oz): 200 calories
  • Chocolate martini: (2 oz each vodka, chocolate liqueur, cream, 1/2 oz creme de cacao, chocolate syrup): 438 - Wouch.
    
  • Mai Tai (6 oz) (1.5 oz rum, 1/2 oz cream de along, 1/2 oz triple sec, sour mix, pineapple juice): 350
  • Vodka and tonic (8 oz): 200
  • Gin and tonic (7 oz): 200
  • Margarita (8 oz): 280
  • Green apple martini (1 oz each vodka, sour apple, apple juice): 148
  • Martini (2.5 oz): 160
  • Bloody Mary (5 oz): 118
  • Red wine (5 oz):120
  • White wine (5 oz): 120
  • Alcohol-free wine (5 oz): 20-30  
    
  • Beer (12 oz): 150-198
  • Light beer (12 oz): 95-136
  • Ultra-light beer (12 oz): 64-95
  • Champagne (5oz): 106-120
  • Wine spritzer (5 oz): 100
  • Screwdriver (8 oz): 190
  • Mimosa (4 oz): 75
  • Rum and Coke (8 oz): 185
  • Rum and Diet Coke (8 oz): 100

  
  I'm not sure why you'd bother with a non-alcoholic wine.  Wouldn't you just have juice?  And I didn't even know there was such a thing as ultra-light beer, but I guess that's an option.  I don't know.  I kind of think that if you really want most of these, just go ahead (but don't drive for a while afterwards).  Or if you're making it yourself, I'm pretty sure you could probably low cal it someway. 
  
  
  

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