Beer Chelada

I'm in shock that it took me so long to hear about this! I was at a Mexican restaurant, saw a beer chelada on the menu and I decided to give it a try...Yum!  How could I have been missing out for all these years? 

Ingredients:
• light beer
• lime juice
• fresh lime
• margarita salt/coarse salt

Take a damp paper towel and wet the rim of the glass.  Dip the top tip of the glass in salt.

Carefully pour in a little lime juice. (I'd suggest tasting and adding more if you like your drink more sour.  I think I used about a tablespoon.)

Fill the rest of the glass with beer and top with a fresh lime for garnish.

The perfect summer drink!

Thanks & Thirst-quenching Summer Sweet Tea

Before I get into the post, I wanted to say a big "THANK YOU!" to all the people that read this blog. I hit 100 followers yesterday! How amazing is that? I started this blog about a year ago just thinking it sounded fun and it turned into a huge part of my life. Thank you so much for your support, sweet comments, and smiles. : )

Living in the Chicago burbs my whole life, I never had sweet tea. Just recently in the past few years, I've tried it a few times in central Indiana where it's more common. It's so hard to find good sweet tea around here besides McDonald's, so we wanted to try to make some of our own. I was a little nervous that it would be bad, but it was surprisingly good! I definitely recommend this recipe if you want a summery drink. Thanks to Sweet Southern Prep for the recipe : )

Ingredients:
• 4 family-size tea bags
• 1.5 cups sugar
• 1 gallon water

Pour water in a large pot and bring to a boil.

Add sugar and tea bags and stir.

Remove the pot from the stove and let stand for 20 minutes to cool off.

Pour into a gallon container and fill the rest with tap water.

SO good! Perfect for summer!

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The "I'm sick" virgin daquiri smoothie

It finally happened.

I caught the cold that's been going around. Yuck!

But at least this sore throat and runny nose means I can make this fun daquiri smoothie idea I've been thinking about. I HATE tea and I know that's good when you're sick, but this is SO much better! (This is also great for a healthy snack)

1 can frozen Bacardi strawberry daquiri mix
water
handful of blueberries or other fruit
1 yoplait vanilla yogurt cup (6 oz.)
handful of ice
sugar

Put frozen daquiri mix in the blender.
Fill the daquiri mix container with water and pour into the blender.
Add blueberries or other fruit, ice, and yogurt to the blender.
Blend until ice is crushed.
Wet the top of your glass using a wet paper towel.
Pour some sugar on a plate and then dip your wet glass rim in the sugar.


Pour blended drink into glass and enjoy!