Raspberry lemonade

In the last few years, drinking lemonade is hip and popular again. We love it as well, as for it is healthier and more refreshing then coke, sprite and the others. It is raspberry season, so I decided to surprise myself with this flavor. So easy to make and feels so good on a hot day like today.

Ingredients:

• 1,5 hands full of raspberries
• 200 g brown sugar
• 1 lime
  
• 500 ml sparkling water

Directions:

Mix raspberries, sugar, sliced lime with water. Bring to boil while continuously stirring.  Let it cool. Then filter the "syrup" through a fine sieve. Press the lime and raspberry pieces through, the seeds and bigger pieces are going to get stuck in the sieve. 
Mix it with ice cold sparkling water. Serve with ice cubes. 

Enjoy cooling off in the heat and hang on!

Fruit shake

Another try to start a completely healthy life. Fridge is full of vitamin bombs. How to deal with the overdose? Serve a delicious and healthy fruit shake instead of giving a coke to everybody.

Ingredients:

• 1 mango
• 2 bananas
• 1 kiwi
• 2 mandarins
• 1 orange
• 1 small package of yogurt
• 100 ml milk
• honey

Directions:

Wash and peel the fruit. Cut it into small cubes. Combine all the ingredients in a blender and blend on high until just smooth. Let it cool in the refrigerator then divide the mixture between 2 cups and top with fresh mandarin.

Advice: on hot summer day you can combine the shake with ice

Strawberry - banana shake

Before we go on traveling or holiday we always make a plan how to empty the fridge the quickest and best. Today I looked around in the fridge and only found some lonely bananas, a few pieces of strawberries and a couple of mandarins. I didn't have time to bake, so decided to make a shake. Alright. How to make it? No yogurt, no ice home. Let's improvise! I've got milk. So voilá.

Ingredients:

• 3 bananas
• 2 mandarins
• 3-4 pcs. strawberries
• 1 big tsp. honey
• 200 ml milk
• 1 pinch cinnamon

Directions:

Wash and cut the fruit. Combine all the ingredients in a blender and blend on high until just smooth. Divide the mixture between 2 cups and top with fresh banana or strawberry.

Banana- peanut butter shake

I like banana. And I like peanut butter even more. This passion helped me to create this drink by adding extra orange flavor. 

Ingredients:

• 2 bananas cut in pieces
• 4 oranges, washed
• 4 tsp. peanut butter
• 250 ml yogurt
• 2 tsp. milk

Directions:

Cut one banana into slices and put them on a baking paper into the freezer for about an hour. Rasp 2 orange peels and squeeze the juice of 2 oranges. 
Combine all the ingredients in a blender and blend on high until just smooth. Divide the mixture between 2 cups and top with a frozen banana slices or rasped orange peel. 

Make your own lavender tea

Herbal teas, which have grown immensely in popularity, can be made from herbs grown in a backyard, patio, or kitchen herb garden. It is so easy. And lavender is not only a popular aromatherapy herb, but also a flavorful herb for tea.

Ingredients:

• •1 tsp. white or green tea
• 1/2 tsp. dried lavender flower
• •3 dl water
• honey

Directions:

Mix the dried lavender flowers with your chosen tea and put them into a herb ball. Boil water. Place the herbs in the cup first, then pour in the water. Cover the cup and leave for 5 minutes before straining out the herbs and drinking.

Honey caramel milk

Whenever I yearn for a healthy late night "snack", or just wanna drink something but no coffee or tea, I surprise myself with this easy delicious tidbit.

Ingredients (for 1 person):

• 200 ml milk
• 1 Tbsp. honey
• ground cinnamon
• 1 pinch ground nutmeg

Directions:

Caramelize the honey over low heat, stirring the honey constantly with a wooden spatula. As soon as the honey reaches a golden brown color and starts to emit a nutty aroma, remove the saucepan off the heat. Gradually add milk mixed with ground cinnamon and nutmeg. It must be constantly stirred with an eggbeater and cooked until the honey gets melted. (From stirring it gets soft and creamy). Serve hot, decorate with ground cinnamon.

Wild strawberry - strawberry shake

Hi, my name is Andrea and I am a strawberry addict. Normally I can control it by buying just one small box of them in the store... but when May comes and the garden is just full of them, I completely lost my mind. I swear to God that I try to do my best, but sometimes it happens that I eat so much that I can't no longer walk or breathe normal. To save some for my boo and don't act like a strawzilla, I decided to make this refreshing shake with its vibrant colours. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• ca. 10 pcs. of strawberries (washed and stems removed)
• 1-2 hand full of wild strawberries (washed and stems removed)
• 2 tbsp. honey
• 2 dl milk
• 10 pcs. smaller ice cubes

Directions:

Combine the strawberries, wild strawberries, milk, honey and ice in a blender and blend on high until just smooth. Divide the mixture between 2 cups and top with a few pcs. of fresh wild strawberries.