Summer drinks: fruit water
A few more days, and it’ll be summer. Summer, of course, means light food and lots of refreshing drinks! It’s the time when we don’t feel like neither cooking nor eating much and when fresh produce becomes our preference.
I can hardly wait to get my hands on some juicy watermelon to prepare this fruit salad! Not to mention, we’ve been more than enjoying this refresco over the past few months already. In fact, I entered this home-made-drink mania the past summer, and I’m still on the search for new beverages, all healthy and simple to make. So, a while ago while browsing through this site, I discovered another drink so pure and modest that I felt an instant feeling of shame – how on Earth I hadn’t thought of making fruit water before!?
OK, actually I have – but using lemon only! (which, by the way, adds a nice citrus kick to water).
So, to make fruit water, you need fresh, cold water, some ice cubes if you wish, and a variety of fresh (or frozen) fruit – your options here are almost infinite. Think apples, citruses, berries, plums, pineapple, (water)melon, mango… or even cucumber! You can be daring and make the most unimaginable combination of fruits, or even vegetables!
Not only you’re getting a refreshing, lovely-colored and aromatic drink – you even get to eat the fruit! I mean, who could possibly think of discarding it…
However, my favorite drink still remains plain water, although I truly don’t mind certain modifications – like this one, for example! Here I used plums, frozen berries (strawberries, black currants, blackberries, raspberries) and lemon. Berries gave the water some of their color -besides the aroma- and the result was splendid. I haven’t thought of adding sugar, not even for a moment.
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this looks deliciously refreshing
It is, indeed!