Our Version of a Texas Twister

It's Fair Week where we live, and every year, I get my mouth watering for a Texas Twister Drink.

 Well, I got the great idea that I would try and re-create this drink at home.  I think we came pretty dang close....  Yummy Stuff!!!



 Ingredients:
4 oranges
4 lemons
4 limes
1 bottle Maraschino Cherries (juice also)
1 can Hawaii's Own Passion Punch Frozen concentrate
2 liter Diet 7-Up

Directions:
Juice 3 oranges, 3 lemons, and 3 limes.
Rinse last orange, lemon, and lime....cut in to slices...add to pitcher with juices.
Dump in cherries...juice and all.
Add Hawaii's Own frozen concentrate.
Add 7-up and stir to combine.
Serve over a glass of crushed ice.

Rate It!
Jen: 9.5
Kile: 9.5
Kiley: 8
Madee: 7
Destrie: 10  I loved it!! 

Strawberry Julius

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups fresh strawberries, tops removed
3/4 cup water
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups ice

Combine all of the ingredients in a blender and blend on high speed 45-60 seconds, until mixture is very smooth and frothy. Use slightly less ice for a thinner consistency; use slightly more for a thicker shake-like consistency.
Serves 4

Rate It!
Jen: 7
Kile: not home
Kiley: 6
Madee: 6.5
Destrie: good

Layered Drinks

Idea from:  Sisters Cafe

Directions:
Choose 2-3 drinks with different sugar contents for the layers (for example: 30 g sugar, 15 g sugar, 0 g sugar).  Now fill your cup with ice all the way to the top.  Pour the drink with the highest sugar content into the cup, filling it approximately one third full.  For the second layer, pour the second drink with the lower sugar content slowly through the ice to fill approximately the second third of the glass full.  Finally, pour the sugar-free or lowest sugar drink slowly through the ice until you’ve reached the top of the glass.  Enjoy!

I used these drinks.

*For a 4th of July Layered Drink use: Sobe Pina Colada, Gatorade Fruit Punch, G2 Blueberry-Pomegranate.

*No rating needed-these were so fun and loved by everybody!

Berry Smoothies

I had some Activia yogurt to use up, so we created this smoothie.

Ingredients:
2 light blueberry Activia yogurts
2 light strawberry Activia yogurts
1 cup frozen mixed berries
3/4 cup skim milk
5 scoops vanilla ice cream

Rate It!
Jen: 7
Kiley: 7
Destrie: good
*Kile and Madee were not home.

Frog Nog

Green Smoothie Recipe

Recipe from Sisters Cafe

2-4 cups spinach

1-2 cups of water (depending how thick you like it)

1-2 bananas (I use 2)

1 heaping cup frozen pineapple chunks

1 cup frozen  peaches

1 Tbsp honey

First  fill blender  with spinach--lots of it! Then add 1-2 cups of  water filling in around the spinach. Pulse to blend into a bright green water.

Next add your bananas, frozen peaches and honey.
Blend together.

Rate It!
Jen:7-for something so healthy, it's not bad.
Kile: did not like
Kiley:7
Madee: 5
Destrie: not good

Butter Beer

Ingredients

* 1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
* 1/4 cup butterscotch topping
* 2 tablespoons whipped butter, room temperature
* 1 1/2 cups vanilla cream soda

Directions

Combine condensed milk, butterscotch topping, and butter in a glass heatproof measuring cup. Heat in microwave for 1 minute. Remove and stir until butter has melted and incorporated into mixture. Meanwhile heat cream soda in another heatproof measuring cup for 1 minute 30 seconds.

Divide butterscotch mixture between 2 (10 to 12-ounce) mugs. Fill mugs with heated cream soda and stir thoroughly.


Madee saw this recipe on a Sandra Lee cooking show on food network last year and has been dying to try it. I guess they drink butter beer in the Harry Potter books, which added to the excitement of this drink for the kids.

**On a side note, I don't ever "drink" calories unless it's a glass of milk. I did have a sip though so I could rate this recipe.

Rate It!
Jen: 3 too sweet!
Kile: 4
Kiley: 5
Madee: 5.5
Destrie: good