Drinks

People keep asking me what I was craving while pregnant and I’m not totally sure but I definitely had an increased appetite for sweets, particularly milkshakes. So when I went to a cafe the other day and they had a gingerbread milkshake on the menu, I was intrigued. Of course I…

Often when I am feeling lazy I just make a quick smoothie for breakfast but it gets rather repetitive after awhile so this week I mixed it up with some Middle Eastern-inspired flavours – rosewater, ginger and cinnamon. And yum! So glad I did. Feel free to use whatever frozen…

I realised after I shot this that it looks a lot like soup! But it isn’t, instead it’s a yummy, warming drink that is also good for you! Turmeric, honey and ginger are all natural healers and you can read more about the benefits of turmeric in a previous post here.…

This homemade coconut milk takes 10 minutes to prepare and is a great dairy-free alternative to cow’s milk. In this pic: Small glass milk bottle and blue striped straw.

After my successes with rosewater ginger beer and turmeric and orange ginger beer I thought I would try a ginger-free soda and see how that went. Happily, it went well! This lemon soda is not as fizzy as the ginger beer, I believe this is because the acid in the lemon…

Did you catch my rosewater ginger beer recipe recently? You must try it! It’s really good. Anyway, while I was making it I got to thinking about how I could make a slightly ‘healthier’ version, seeing as sugar is apparently not so cool these days. So I thought I would…

Yip I am officially shrub-mad! Since making the strawberry and sorrel shrub recently, I have been obsessed. For those of you who missed it, a shrub is basically a sweet and tangy fruit or vegetable syrup which is delicious with fizzy water or in cocktails. This tomato one is a…

I recently reached out to one of my favourite food bloggers Erika Raxworthy to see if she would like to partake in a little blog challenge. And yay! she said yes! I sent her some gorgeous picnic goodies from our shop and our task was to each create a fun…

You heard it here first – shrubs are the new ‘it’ thing. “What is a shrub?” you say. Well it’s a type of syrup made from preserving fruits and vegetables with sugar and vinegar. They are also known as drinking vinegars. Supposedly shrubs date back to the 18th century when…

Yes you read that correctly! In keeping with the booze theme after yesterday’s liqueur, the lovely people from Taylors Wines have offered to give two lucky readers two bottles of wine each – a Taylors Estate 2012 Chardonnay & a Promised Land Moscato. How perfect is that for the silly season? Now I’m a…