Blood orange and gin cocktail

One of my best purchases in Copenhagen was this Mikkeller Botanical Gin. It's a very good quality gin made with Simcoe hops and the finest botanicals. I had a sip of it pure, and it tasted just divine. 

As I needed some cooling yesterday afternoon (well weather wasn't so hot, but I had been doing stuff all morning), so I thought I'd make a refreshing cocktail with this gin. Here are no amounts given, as I just threw everything into the cocktail mixer and enjoyed. I made mine quite mild on the gin side, though. You can keep tasting it while you go along to get the right proportions to your own taste.

This is what I used:

Mikkeller Gin

Sicilian blood orange juice

Lime

Ice cubes

Mix the gin and blood orange juice and press the lime juice into it. Add the ice and shake. Serve cold and enjoy!

Even though it's Sunday today, I just might make a couple of sneaky glasses of this drink. I have decided mainly to relax all day.

Your VegHog

Strawberry-lime cider ice lollies

The hot weather continues and I'm still trying to find the best cooling drinks and food. I now started making my own ice lollies as I bought a set of four of these silicone ice lolly moulds, and they are awfully practical for making all kinds of different fruity and boozy refreshing ice lollies.

Rekorderlig strawberry-lime cider is one of my summer favourites to have in a bar when it's really hot, and with some added fresh mint and lime it's even better. That is the reason why I chose these ingredients to make my ice lollies.

I got four ice lollies out of these:

500 ml Rekorderlig strawberry-lime cider (1 bottle) 

A few small mint leaves

½ lime

First I poured the cider into a large jug and let it stand around a while, and stirred so that the carbonation mostly disappeared. During this time you can already add the mint leaves and tiny lime pieces into the cider.

Fill the drink with the greens into the ice lolly moulds and freeze. Enjoy the frozen goods when you need the cooling most.

Your VegHog

Guacamole

Day two of the Mexican week and time to make a classic sauce and a popular dip: Guacamole. There are several variations of this sauce and I made mine with lime and tomato. Guacamole will add a nice flavour and colour to our dish at the end of this week.

Ingredients

2 avocados

1 tomato

1 lime

1 small onion

1 garlic clove

Salt

Peel the avocados and chop them into small cubes. Also chop the tomato, onion and garlic. 

Mix the ingredients together and season with salt a lime juice. 

Depending on your preference you can either leave the avocado pieces chunky or puree the sauce. This time I pureed mine but it is quite nice when you have larger avocado bits as well.

Add sour cream to the sauce selection with the guacamole and yesterday's tomato and grilled pepper salsa.

Your VegHog

Pineapple, coconut and gin cocktail

Fancy a refreshing cocktail? On a hot day make a pitcher of this drink, which basically is a fruity gin & tonic. It's quite exciting to use a fresh coconut as well for a change. Good luck with opening it!

A few ingredients are needed:

Pineapple juice

Juice of one coconut

1 lime

Tonic water

Gin

Ice cubes

Put ice cubes and approximately equal amounts of gin, pineapple juice and tonic water to a pitcher. 

You can make the cocktail stronger or milder on gin after your own taste.

Add coconut juice and press lime to the drink. Use a few lime slices as decoration. 

Mix all well together and prepare to be refreshed.

Enjoy!

Your VegHog