Refreshing,
Herbal Vodka Cocktail Recipes
By FBWorld Team
Grow
a cocktail garden right outside your door and be prepared
for lots of fun and amazing scents all season long. Part
of growing useful organic gardens is finding creative
ways to use the bounty of the harvest. Herb and edible
flower gardens are an easy way to grow foods that can
enhance a beverage with a lot of flavor without adding
a lot of artificial ingredients. Better for your health
and for your taste buds, growing your own herbal garden
living wall is fairly simple.
Fundamentally,
creating an herbal cocktail is not just for alcoholic
beverage preparation. It's more like a refreshing herb-enhanced
non-alcoholic culinary treat an Herbal Sip. On a hot summer's
day, there's nothing better.
Basil
Grapefruit Martini Cocktail Recipe
Fresh Basil Herbs
Ingredients:
3 oz. Vodka
1/2 oz. Triple Sec
1 cup Grapefruit Juice
Ice
Garnish - sliced lime and a sprig of basil
Procedures:
Muddle basil in a martini shaker. Add all the other herbal
cocktail ingredients except the garnish. Shake. Serve.
Lemon
Thyme Herbal Martini Recipe
Muddled Lemon Thyme - Handful
Ingredients:
2 oz. Citron Vodka
1 tspn. Superfine Sugar
1 oz. Triple Sec
1 oz. Lemon Juice
Ice
Procedures:
Throw all the ingredients in a shaker. Shake well. Strain
ice and thyme out as you pour into a sugar-rimmed martini
glass
Courtesy of Shawna Coronado's book, Grow
a Living Wall: Create Vertical Gardens with Purpose, published
by Cool Springs Press.
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