Saturday, March 31, 2012

The BEST Fruit Juice Drink- Light and Refreshing

I started with a half gallon of Guava Mango juice, a half gallon of lemonade (Tropicana now makes a line called Trop50 which contains 50% less sugar), and some fresh fruit. I used 1 grapefruit, 3 oranges, and 3 lemons, but you could use whatever you like and have on-hand! 


Pour the store bought juices into a pitcher. (I dilute the juice with a little water at the end, so I end up with more than a gallon. Therefore, I divide the juice evenly into 2 containers.)  Next, squeeze the juice from the fresh fruit into the pitcher. If you have a small strainer, you may want to use that to get out any seeds or large pieces of pulp that found their way into the juice.


Finally, add water to dilute to desired to taste and agave syrup (or sugar), if needed, to desired taste. I add about 1/3 of a pitcher of water to each gallon of fruit juice. I find straight fruit juice from the store to be too heavy and concentrated. This drink is much more light and refreshing!!  And although I wouldn't call this a completely healthy drink, it's definitely a healthier alternative to drinking straight sugar-filled fruit juice from the store!




Laptop (or Tablet) Kitchen Stand

One of my newest favorite things to do is try out new delicious recipes for Pinterest. I usually just pull up the post on my laptop and then get to work. The problem I run into is where to put my laptop so that it is convenient to see the recipe, but not in the way or in danger of me spilling liquid all over it!

My husband and I had discussed making some sort of simple fold out stand using a piece of wood and some hinges, but there just didn't seem like there was any good spot for that in our kitchen.  Last night, I finally thought of it--- using one of the kitchen drawers!!  It worked out perfectly. 

Now I can have my recipe on my laptop close by, but enough out of the way that I still have room to prepare the food on the counter top.




I used a drawer off to the side of the kitchen that just has oven mitts, potholders, and towels in it.