I have been looking at all kinds of blogs and I getting a lot of ideas for this summer. I want to entertain a lot this summer. I have two friends that are expecting...sounds like baby showers...hooray! I have found some really cute ideas the first is this cute little drink for pregnant girls called a preggatini...how cute.
Pictured above and below: a few sample recipes & liquid-eye-candy images from Preggatinis:
1. Sparkling Citrus
Stirrings Tangerini Rimmer
2 oz fresh squeezed pink grapefruit juice
1 oz tangerine juice
2 oz blood orange soda
dash grapefruit bitters (optional)
Rim a champagne flute with rimming sugar. Pour in juices and dash of bitters, then top with blood orange soda.
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2. Pomegranate Cooler
5-7 fresh or frozen blueberries
2 oz pomegranate juice
2 oz white grape juice
3 oz sparkling pomegranate soda
1 lemon slice
Muddle the blueberries in the bottom of a tall glass. Then add ice and pour in the juices. Fill the glass to the top with sparkling pomegranate soda, and place a lemon slice on top of the drink. Sip through a colorful straw.
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3. Ginger Bellini Punch (Preggatinis, pg. 110)
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4. Minty Mango Cooler
2 cups white grape juice
3 cups mango nectar
1 bottle bitter lemon soda
3 trays mango-mint ice cubes*
2 bunches fresh mint
Pour white grape juice, mango nectar, and bitter lemon soda into a large pitchr or punch bowl. Add 1 tray of mango-mint ice cubes. To serve, place 2-3 fresh mango-mint ice cubes into a tall glass. Fill the glass with punch. Garnish each glass with a sprig of mint.
*Mango Mint Ice Cubes:
1-1/2 cups mango juice
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup simple syrup
juice from 1 lime
1 bunch mint leaves
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