Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label thirst quencher

Chocolate dipped strawberries

Paneer Soda

Have you ever heard or come across the word "Paneer Soda"?! If you are from Tamil Nadu, then definitely you would not say NO. "Rose milk", "Sweet Lassi", "Paneer Soda" are the words etched in my taste buds as well as in my mind whenever i think about chennai or my childhood days. Paneer soda is one such drink i used to have or anyone in chennai for that matter. It not only quenches your thirst on a real summer day but also leaves  behind an amazing flavor in your tongue. Wow! those days are just wow. During my summer holidays i always make sure i go for a stay trip to my aunt's place which is about 80 kms from chennai city. It's a beautiful place and you would not find any shops other than this tea kadai (shop) or potti kadai (petty shop). All thru the day, we roam here and there in the sun (no matter what my yells at us to stay indoors, we jump and play in the sun and finally take our aunt to the petty shop to drink paneer soda. Jus...

Blackberry Orange Punch

Berries contain good digestive enzymes that are really helpful for our digestive system to expel the waste from our body with a breeze. Not that you need to know the exquisite recipes of berries punch, just you can make your simple berry drinks right at your home with all the basic ingredients at your home.     Today, we gonna see how to make this blackberry orange punch.The colors of blackberry and orange is just so contrasting that not only blends with their hues but also in their taste too! You can limit the addition of sugar to this drink as orange juice we add to this recipe has some good amount of sugar in it. In case, if your tongue's sweet buds cannot be satisfied with the "just enough" sweetness of oranges, you can add white sugar or brown sugar or honey. Ingredients: 10 + 3 cup of blackberries 2 oranges 1 tsp sugar or honey 3 cups of club soda 5-6 orange slices, for decorating 7-8 ice cubes How to make blackberry orange punch: 1. Take a...

Banana Walnut Milkshake

Banana and walnut is a match made in heaven. You try to bake a cake with these duo, it turns out to be wonderful. You try adding to a milkshake, it tastes yummy. You can even bake cookies with banana and walnut. Needless to say there are other options like muffin, cupcakes, oatmeal cookies, pancakes made using banana and walnuts. Bananas are rich in fibre and helps in easy digestion while walnuts are rich in omega 3 fatty acids. While the list of nutrietns in this duo goes on and on, i'm just highlighting the most obvious nature of these duo. Let's look at the simple steps of making banana walnut milkshake. Ingredients: 2 ripe bananas 5-6 pitted dates or deseeded dates 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts 2 cups of milk, for vegan you can use soy milk or almond milk 2-3 almonds or pistachios, chopped lengthwise How to make banana walnut milkshake: 1. If the dates being used for this recipe are very dried and hard in texture and you feel it might not very well blend whe...

Raspberry lemonade

Raspberries are a good source of fibre, vitamin C,E & K. They are also rich in omega 3 fatty acids! With all these nutrient information given, would you refuse to drink a raspberry lemonade after heavy meals or just as a thirst quencher during summer days ?!!?? I could hear a big YEAH from you :) Well, then we shall move to see how to prepare this really cool drink at our home with just raspberries, half lemon, sugar or honey and sparkling water. These are the basic list of ingredients on which you can just play around by adding few more ingredients.  To cool down our body a bit and to increase the effect of our digestive system, i just have topped the raspberry lemonade with soaked chia seeds. They just look awesome on the drink and also tastes so damn good. Ingredients 10-12 raspberries 1 tsp lemon juice 4-5 ice cubes 1 tsp sugar or honey 1 tbsp chia seeds, soaked overnight in enough water 1 cup of sparkling water or club soda or plain water How to prepare r...