Refreshing Cucumber

During my childhood, every once in a while (especially when we have guests coming from out of town or country), my mom would take us to a restaurant nearby our house that serves the traditional food from her hometown, Medan. The restaurant’s name is Medan Baru. At this restaurant, I remember one type of drink that they serve mainly using cucumber. The drink was very refreshing and I personally think good for sore throat. So today, I made one myself, only this time, I added the glass noodle jelly to make it more festive. Great drink for a hot day.

BOS Fresh Homemade Smoothies

When I was back in SF years ago, I always love having smoothies from Jamba Juice every once in a while. I can have it for my lunch and ate nothing else. The one that I always ordered was the Razzmatazz, which is a combine of raspberry juice, banana, orange sherbet, strawberries and ice. I don’t like banana, so I always ordered one without banana.

Yesterday, I made one myself but replacing the orange sherbet with orange juice and since all the ingredients came right out of fridge, I decided not to use any ice. The taste is very much similar. Oh, I recently learned that strawberry contains not only vitamin C but also folic acid. This recipe is very simple and you don’t even have to add sugar to it. A great healthy drink for a hot summer day.

Crowded Dessert

Hi blog readers, it’s been a while since my last post. I haven’t been feeling great since last Thursday (sore muscle, headache, sore throat, etc). Anyway, I am a lot better now and have several postings for you today. Here is one.

I always like to make different kind of jelly drinks for family dessert. Here is one of them. This time I decided to combine fresh milk so that Andrew can get the calcium out of it. And since he doesn’t like white milk, I added a few spoon of chocolate powder. The name of this recipe is Crowded, because that is how this drink is going to look like. Crowded with a lot of stuff in it. Tips: You can always play around with the amount of milk and water, as long as you get the same total of amount.