Friday Top Five: Favourite drinks!

 Lemonade (with or without vodka!)

1(ish) cups sugar
4-5 cups water, divided
 6-7 lemons
1 lime

*In a small saucepan, bring 1 cup water and sugar to a slow boil until syrupy
*Juice lemons and lime into a pitcher
*Add remaining water and cooled syrup mixture

This is especially good with lime flavoured vodka

Hot Chocolate

1 cup water
2-3 tbsp cocoa, sifted
2-3 tbsp sugar
3 cups milk
1 tsp vanilla
freshly whipped cream

*In a saucepan, whisk together water, cocoa and sugar until disolved
*Add milk and vanilla and bring to a slow boil
*Serve immediately topped with freshly whipped cream

The Pink Fizzy (from Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook)

Handful of pomegranate seeds
1/2 cup pomegranate juice
2/3 cup pink grapefruit juice
1 cup sparkling wine

*Divide the pomegranate seeds among 4 champagne flutes
*Mix together juices and divide among flutes
*Top each glass with 2 oz of sparkling wine

Berry Avocado Smoothie (also posted here)

1 cup frozen berries
2 tbsp ground flax
1 scoop protein powder
1 very ripe avocado
1 cup yogurt
1/2 cup raspberry juice

*Combine all ingredients to a blender and process well

Lime and Blueberry Margarita

I think I originally got this recipe froma n Eatinig Well magazine

2 cups ice

1/2 cup blueberry nectar

1 1/2 cup frozen blueberries

1/3 cup 7-up

2 tbsp frozen limeade

3 oz of tequila (or not)

*Combine all ingredietns in a blender and process until smooth

Breakfast for Supper!

What could be more fun than breakfast for supper?  This is always a huge hit in our house and the kids are always asking for it.  Saturdays are usually a pretty lazy day here, particularly now that skating is done and swimming hasn't started yet ;)  Tonight we had VeganDad's breakfast sausages, pancakes, hashbrowns, and a smoothie!  I tried making extra pancakes to freeze for quick breakfasts during the week but the kids would have none of that.  I think my oldest daughter had 6 pancakes (not even a record) and my son ate the last 5.  I have major worries about my future grocery bills!

Vegan Dad's Breakfast Sausages

1 cup white kidney beans

1 3/4 cups vegetable broth

2 tbsp olive oil

2 tbsp braggs

1/4 cup maple syrup

2 1/2 cups vital wheat gluten

1/2 cup nutritional yeast

1 minced clove garlic

1 1/2 tsp paprika

1 1/2 tsp sage

1 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp cayenne

pepper

*Pulse beans in food processor several times

*Pour beans into large bowl and add remaining ingredients.  Mix well.

*Prepare 25ish pieces of tin foil.  Divide mixture into 25 small balls and wrap individually like a tootsie roll.

*Steam in bamboo steamer for 30 minutes

*Fry in small amount of olive oil if you like your sausages crispy.

Berry Smoothie

 1 cup frozen berries

2 tbsp ground flax

1 scoop protein powder

1 very ripe avocado

1 cup yogurt

1/2 cup raspberry juice