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November 8, 2016 by Sydney Leave a Comment

Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate

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This hot chocolate is the perfect mix of creamy hot chocolate and pumpkin spice.

Well it is finally starting to cool down and warm drinks actually sound appealing now. I’ve been in full blown pumpkin everything mode since September so the other day when I made hot chocolate I decided to add a little pumpkin spice to my recipe. Oh my goodness I’m so glad I did!

This hot chocolate still has the delicious creamy taste of hot chocolate but it also has a hint of pumpkin spice as well. You can use as much (or as little) pumpkin spice as you’d like in yours. I usually add a dash or two more in mine than my boys, because let’s be h0nest, this mama can never have enough pumpkin spice. I’m over at Pretty Providence today sharing the full recipe.

June 29, 2016 by Sydney 1 Comment

Fresh Cherry Limeade

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Make sweet limeade with fresh tart cherries and limes.

Have I mentioned before how much I love fresh fruits and veggies?! I love them even more when I get to pick them straight off the vine, tree, bush, wherever. When we went out to my dad’s house for Father’s Day he had a little surprise for us. His cherry trees were in full bloom and ripe for the picking! The boys and I had so much fun picking (and eating a few) cherries we probably spent an hour just on the one tree. After we filled up two buckets I thought we had gotten most of them off the tree. I was wrong; we probably only got a third of what was on there! We split the cherries with him and took home a whopping 15 pounds of cherries!!

What was I going to do with 15 pounds of cherries?! Of course we ate a few, shared with friends, made a few pies and tarts but we still had more left and I didn’t want them to go bad. That’s when I remembered how much I love cherry limeade. Every recipe I had ever seen or tasted always used grenadine for the cherry flavor, never real cherries. Who needs grenadine when you’ve got a bowl full of fresh cherries?!

That afternoon I got to work pitting the cherries. A cherry pitter definitely comes in handy when you’re pitting that many cherries; it’s so easy to use I let my boys do most of the work. I let them help a good majority of the limeade making process and they had just as much fun making this as they did picking the cherries.

I love the way this limeade turned out! It’s not as sweet as when you grenadine; well I shouldn’t say it’s not as sweet. It’s still sweet it’s just a different kind of sweet. The first taste is just like biting into a sweet cherry and then you get the tart hint of lime. It’s the perfect combination for a cool drink!

Fresh Cherry Limeade

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Prep Time

4 hr 15 min

Cook Time

5 min

Total Time

4 hr 20 min

Prep Time

4 hr 15 min

Cook Time

5 min

Total Time

4 hr 20 min

Ingredients

4 cups water
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups tart cherries, pitted
1 cup fresh lime juice (juice from 5-6 limes)

Instructions

Bring water and sugar to boil in a large saucepan over high heat.
Reduce heat to medium low, add cherries and let simmer for 5 minutes.
Pour cherry mix into a blender, remove the center cap on lid, place a clean towel on top and blend on low until smooth (about 30 seconds)
Pour through a fine sieve and save liquid.
Whisk liquid together with lime juice and let chill in fridge for at least 4 hours; overnight is best.

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So if you’re at the farmer’s market or grocery store and you see pie cherries (or tart cherries) buy a few and make some fresh cherry limeade. It’s the perfect way to cool down on a hot summer day!

October 13, 2015 by Sydney 9 Comments

Copy Cat Starbucks Apple Cider

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Warm up this fall with this tasty Starbucks Copy Cat Recipe.

We interrupt your scheduled 13 Frightfully Fun Days of Halloween to share my new favorite drink. I’m usually a hot cocoa drinker in the fall and winter but at a play date a few weeks ago my friend made the most delicious apple cider I had ever tasted. I shared the recipe with my family and after a few tweeks we made it even better.

It was based on the Caramel Apple Cider from Starbucks. You may have seen the recipe on Pinterest recently. It’s a similar idea but we used mulling spices instead of apple juice. I’m over at Pretty Providence today sharing all the details.

July 15, 2015 by Sydney 9 Comments

Strawberry Kiwi Agua Fresca

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Stay cool and hydrated with this alternative to water.

I hope you are having a great summer! We are having so much fun soaking up the sun, swimming and having an all around good time. This is the first year in 4 years that I haven’t had a baby during the summer so we’re enjoying the warm weather every chance we get. One of the things I am trying to teach my boys is that we have to drink a lot of water and stay hydrated when we are out in the sun all day.

The only problem is that water is so…boring. It’s good for you and the best way to stay hydrated but sometimes you just need something with a little more flavor. Enter agua frescas. I love that they are still mostly water but are healthy too since all I used to sweeten the water was fruit. I’m over at Pretty Providence sharing the recipe.

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