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There’s nothing like an icy drink on a hot day… except when the drink gets all watered down from the ice. A cool trick you can try is to freeze some fresh fruit to chill your drinks.
The fruit doesn’t melt and water the drink down, it looks fancy-pants for parties, and best of all, the drink takes on a little bit of the fruity taste. The more you refill the drink, the fruitier it becomes.
You also get a bonus healthy snack at the end of the drink. Pick a fruit that blends with whatever you’re drinking, like pineapple for tropical drinks, or berries for iced tea or lemonade. I chose some big, fat strawberries for my pink lemonade.
It will give you the effect of those special “infusion” pitchers that have a tube to hold fruit.
Garnish with a sprig of mint or basil and you might start thinking you’re at a spa — especially if you’re drinking cocktails (with infused vodka!)
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Catherine Clark loiters at her local library, makes art, watches movies en masse, plays video and tabletop games, poorly cooks healthy things, cuddles with her feline fur babies, and blogs at BijouxandBits.com.
We used to do this with champagne and frozen strawberries in a punch bowl on New Year’s Eve. Bonus: it makes the champagne taste better and nobody has to know you bought the cheap stuff.
I love using frozen mango for this. Sangria is one of my favorite things for this very reason. I love eating the boozy fruit at the end.
I do this with frozen blueberries and seltzer water. Also, using a combination of cucumbers, lemons, and strawberries with this in regular water tastes *fantastic*.