Strawberry lemonade

Ingredients:
1/8 cup fresh lemon juice
8-10 strawberries blend to a smooth paste
2 cups cold water
Sugar as per taste

Mix the ingredients and stir until sugar dissolves.Strain and serve chilled.

Honeydew Melon-Tang

To compensate for the mild summer last year, we are having a mild winter. It has been warm since last Friday and I have started missing the foggy mornings. Yea, I like the slight overcast or the morning fog. Please dont send me hate emails! :-p

Enough rants about the weather, what I have here today is a classic creation in my kitchen. This is what happens on a hot mid-afternoon, any fruit lying on the kitchen counter-top gets into the blender with a dash of creativity. This time we have a honeydew melon marrying the Orange Tang from Costco.

Ingredients:

1 HoneyDew melon's flesh cubed
2 tbls of OrangeTang

Method:

Blend cubed melon and Tang with 1/4 cup of water or Ice. Chill and serve!

Banana-Berry Smoothie

One of my favorite smoothies is right from my kitchen. It takes about 2 minutes to make and I prefer it over any smoothie we get in Robek's, Jamba Juice or any of the myriad smoothie stores. Plus its very easy on your wallet and you get to control the calories. This juice has no added sugar and uses 2% fat milk.

Ingredients:
2 ripe bananas- make sure they are ripe, because ripe bananas are generally sweeter and they give a thicker consistency to the smoothie
8-10 frozen Black Berries (I usually have strawberries, raspberries and blackberries stocked in my freezer just for smoothies, any of these would do)
1/2 cup cold milk
1/4 cup water or some ice

Method:
Blend all the ingredients together until you dont see any chunks of bananas or berries. Serve cold!