Picture this: you succumb to the irresistible aroma of a perfectly golden rotisserie chicken at the grocery store, only to have your joy dampened by one nagging question – how long does it actually last? In this modern age when food wastage is looked upon as nothing less than criminal, we owe it to ourselves …
Amy Traynor
This coconut shake recipe is simple, delicious, and not too sweet. If you’ve been craving a coconut treat that’s full of flavor but made with (mostly) healthy ingredients, you’re in the right place!
Cooking isn’t a neat and clean process. In fact, your kitchen can often end up dirtier than you’d think after preparing just a few simple recipes. However, keeping your kitchen clean is important to ensure it’s a healthy space for everyone to enjoy.
I know what you’re thinking. Does the world really need another protein smoothie recipe? Yes! Because this is the only one you’ll ever need. Rather than giving you one more list of highly specific ingredients that you’d need to run out to the store for, I’m going to instead give you a template that you …
We all know that we should be focusing on nutrition and making sure that we regularly eat healthy and filling meals. This is often easy to do during the morning and afternoon, but it can be very hard to motivate yourself to spend hours cooking dinner, especially if you’ve had a long, hard day.
There is a lot of money that you could spend on kitchen gadgets. Unfortunately, many of them are overpriced and meant to rope you into buying them even though they are not as useful as you had imagined. Usually, they’re the products you see advertised on late-night TV. There are some kitchen items that are …
Pineapple Surf is a super popular smoothie from Smoothie King, and lucky for us, it’s not hard to recreate at home! This tropical, pineapple-forward smoothie combines strawberries, kiwi, and pineapple with apple juice.
The Island Impact smoothie from Smoothie King is a delightful tropical treat that’s made with pineapple, mango, and papaya. This easy copycat recipe is simple and doesn’t even require any additional sugar or sweeteners!
The Strawberry Hulk Smoothie from Smoothie King is one of their most delicious and indulgent recipes. This super smooth and creamy smoothie is flavored with strawberries, vanilla protein powder, and ice cream.
Smoothie King’s Caribbean Way is a fruity, tropical flavored smoothie that’s made with a blend of strawberries, banana, and papaya.
This raspberry acai smoothie is sweetened with zero calorie allulose syrup and is packed with 34 grams of protein.
This spicy, sweet, and refreshing homemade Hot Honey Grapefruit Soda is made with simple ingredients and takes only a few minutes to assemble. Enjoy this ice cold, bubbly mocktail on a hot summer afternoon, or add a splash of your favorite agave spirit on Friday night for a spicy twist on the Paloma! I love …
This gorgeous Ombré Iced Golden Milk is simple to make and packed with warming spices. This gorgeous Ombré Iced Golden Milk is simple to make and packed with warming spices. For those times when you want a cool, milky drink, rather than a hot one, this easy iced Golden Milk is a great choice that also has some health benefits.
This refreshing winter mocktail is boldly colored, effervescent, and just the right mix of citrus and spice. Take advantage of blood orange season this year and shake up this unusual bubbly drink in just a few minutes!
This turmeric ginger syrup adds sweet and spicy flavor to your favorite tea, soda water, or craft mocktails. The deep earthiness of turmeric root is perfectly complemented by the bright and zesty flavor of fresh ginger.
Rosemary simple syrup is a delicious and easy way to add fresh, herbaceous flavor to drinks and desserts. The fresh, woodsy flavor of rosemary complements many fruits, spices, and other herbs. From rosemary lemonade and iced coffees to fancy cocktails or even fruit salad, there are so many ways to use this forest-flavored syrup.
Fresh raspberry syrup adds sweet, tart, fruity flavor to drinks of all kinds, from cocktails to mocktails to lattes or lemonade. Most raspberry simple syrup recipes call for heating the fruit with sugar and water, but I much prefer the flavor of a syrup made with fresh, uncooked raspberries.
This classic syrup is made by extracting the oils from citrus peels with sugar. Use oleo saccharum to add intense citrus flavor to drinks like punches, lemonade, cocktails, and mocktails.
The tropical taste of fresh, sweet, bananas is a heavenly addition to pancakes, ice cream sundaes, or cocktails. This easy banana syrup recipe takes little effort, few dirty dishes, and minimal patience.
Dragon fruit may be mild, but what it lacks in bold flavor, it really makes up for with vibrant color! This easy dragon fruit simple syrup recipe uses pink-fleshed fruit (rather than white) for a fun and delicious way to sweeten all kinds of drinks.
The Starbucks Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Brew (or VSCCB for those in the know) is one of the most delicious, perfectly sweet and creamy coffee drinks you can get from a drive thru. The combination of sweet vanilla syrup, cream, and rich, nutty cold brew coffee is heavenly, crave-able, and historically my first choice when …
Vanilla bean simple syrup is one of the most satisfying syrups to DIY, and it’s fairly quick and easy, too! This delicious, sweet syrup is perfect in coffee drinks like a vanilla latte or my Starbucks copycat Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Brew, or even cocktails like this Raspberry Passion Fruit Tequila Sour or a Strawberry …
I first shared this recipe in 2019 on Moody Mixologist along with an accompanying bourbon and blueberry cocktail. This simple, tasty hors d’oeurvre is easy to make and doesn’t take a lot of time. The best part of this food and drink pairing is that you only need to put the work into making one …
Spring is here and there’s no flavor more spring-y than strawberry rhubarb! This easy recipe cooks up in minutes and captures these sweet, tart, fruity flavors in a simple syrup that begs to be mixed into cocktails, mocktails, lemonade, or drizzled over pancakes. Strawberry rhubarb syrup is a versatile sweetener that’s fruity and a little …
This all-natural pineapple ginger syrup is the quickest, easiest recipe you’ll find! With just three ingredients and about five minutes, you’ll have a sweet, tropical syrup that’s great in cocktails, mocktails, iced teas, or lemonade. It’s also an integral ingredient in some fun Starbucks copycat recipes like the Pineapple Matcha Drink or the Guava Passionfruit …
This sparkling fruit punch is all-natural, easy to make, and great for parties. Fassionola is an old fashioned bar syrup made from a blend of fruits including passion fruit, bringing the flavor of the tropics to cocktails, mocktails, and this easy fruity soda. Tropical fassionola syrup This bright red mixer was traditionally used in tiki-style …
This Peach Green Tea Lemonade is the perfect summer afternoon pick me up. It’s made with three ingredients: freshly brewed and cooled green tea, an all-natural fresh peach syrup, and freshly squeezed lemon juice. That’s it! If you’re a fan of the Starbucks Iced Peach Green Tea Lemonade, you will love this all-natural version made …
This easy peach syrup is the perfect way to add fresh, natural peach flavor to your favorite drinks! This syrup requires very little effort, no cooking, and just a bit of patience. Use fresh peach syrup in my Peach Green Tea Lemonade! The oleo saccharum syrup method To make this peach syrup, we’re using a …
Fassionola is a cocktail syrup made from a blend of tropical fruits. It’s a fairly rare syrup to see today, but it was once a common ingredient in the mixed drinks of tiki bars like Don the Beachcomber. The tiki genre is known for tropical rum-based cocktails made with unusual syrups, exotic fruits, and ‘secret …
Hot honey is amazing on pizza, chicken, vegetables, and more, but it’s also delicious in spicy drinks! There are plenty of recipes out there for making your own chili-infused honey, but I was looking for something a little different. Some recipes require too much time (and effort), some produce an overly thick, gloppy honey, and …
Honey syrup is the easy way to add honey to drinks. If you’ve ever added honey to a cold beverage like iced tea, iced coffee, or a mixed drink, only to find a rock hard lump of honey at the bottom of your cup, read on! Is honey syrup the same as honey? Not exactly. …
Grenadine is a commonplace (though often misunderstood) classic bar syrup. Although store-bought versions are usually bright red and artificially flavored, true grenadine is just a simple sweet and sour pomegranate syrup. What is in grenadine? Grenadine gets its name from the French word for pomegranate, grenade. The syrup is traditionally made by mixing pomegranate juice …
This refreshing, bubbly drink is my favorite way to start even the darkest winter days. Bright, freshly squeezed juices and raw honey give this sweet and sour morning elixir a boost of vitamins and antioxidants. It can be harder than usual to drink enough water during the cold winter months. Dressing it up with bubbles …
These beautiful Strawberry Lilac Crostinis are the perfect spring appetizer! Serve them at brunch or with cocktails for a sweet, savory, and gently floral hors d’oeuvres that everyone will enjoy. If you don’t have access to lilacs at the moment (lilac season is so brief!), you can also make this recipe with an easy lavender …
Flower-infused sugars are very easy to make and they add the beautiful flavors of fresh edible flowers to everything from a cup of tea to cupcakes! This recipe is specific to lilacs, which were abundant and super fragrant a week ago, but have since vanished for another year. The trouble with seasonal edible flowers is …
Lilac syrup adds a beautiful floral flavor to lemonades, teas, cocktails, mocktails, and other recipes. Although lilac season is incredibly short, you can keep the gorgeous scent of spring a little longer through this lilac simple syrup. And if you want it to last even longer, try making a lilac liqueur. When are lilacs in …