Prompt: Beverages

[runpunkrun]

Beverages! Come at us with your smoothies, cocktails, nogs, non-dairy milks—anything you can drink.

To fill this prompt, you can:

1. Slide into the comments of this post and share a link to a recipe or product and why you like it.
2. Write up a favorite recipe and post it to the comm.
3. Post a review of a related product or cookbook to the comm.
4. Try someone's recipe and reply to their post (or comment) with any changes you made and how it turned out.

This prompt lasts all month, but it's only for inspiration and not a requirement. You can still post to the comm if it isn't related to this topic.

Here's what's going on in the comments:

• Tonic Water Mocktail from j00j
• Dairy-Free Egg Nog from runpunkrun
• Hot Berocca from mific

Comments

[j00j]

My favorite quick mocktail:
- Tonic water (or sparkling water mixed with some juice or something else to add extra sweetness to taste)
- Lime juice
- Frozen berries
- fresh basil or mint if you've got it.

Dairy-free egg nog

[runpunkrun]

I had good luck with this almond milk egg nog recipe. It's thinner than store bought, and the ground nutmeg will settle, but give it a shake before serving and the spice should suspend nicely in the nog.

I used store bought almond milk and instead of following the directions in that recipe--because no way was I vigorously whisking for 15 minutes by hand in a double boiler--I followed the method in How to Make Eggnog and used my stand mixer. I also like that it has you heat the whole mixture at the end and test the temperature to make sure your eggs are cooked enough to be safe.

Hot Berocca

[mific]

This barely qualifies as a recipe - more like an extremely minor beverage hack! I take a Berocca daily (I prefer the mango-flavored ones). A while back I discovered that dissolving it in hot/boiling water makes a nice hot drink in winter, so as half the planet's headed that way, I thought I'd share it. Probably everyone except me has been doing this for years! I looked it up and the vitamins are stable even with boiling water. I use tap water as my kitchen hot tap runs hotter than most.