08 Jun 2014

Beating the Heat: 5 Agua Fresca Recipes

[Roasted Strawberry Agua Fresca]

I spend a great deal of time every day adding to my Pinterest boards and realizing that I never do anything with them. Since I moved to California, I haven’t cooked a real meal out of my kitchen so there’s just no use for recipes. We also discontinued “Take Me There” Fridays. However, I’ve given this a lot of thought lately. For how much time I spend on the website, I should really be putting it to better use. If I can’t do anything with all of this inspiration, I should pass it on.

So when I can or when I feel strongly towards a particular idea or a theme, I’ll be posting 5 pins centered around that.

Several weeks ago, we had the best agua fresca we’ve ever tasted during brunch at Slow Club in San Francisco. I still haven’t forgotten about it. Later that night, we decided to make our own watermelon lime agua fresca. By hand. No mixer. No blender. Just chopping everything up and squeezing it into a strainer. It turned out amazingly and our friends loved it too (or they were just being nice to us.) The past few weeks in the Bay have been scorching hot and the only thing to cool down with is a glass of agua fresca so here are 5 recipes that I would try and make myself…or would purchase if I were out. That last one seems more likely.

[Mango Ginger Agua Fresca]

[Watermelon Lime Agua Fresca]

[Pineapple Agua Fresca]

[Kiwi Cucumber Agua Fresca]

These pins can be found on my [Take A Sip] board along with many other drinks that I could make, but probably won’t get around to for a year or so.