It’s not often that I take to culinary creations, but when it’s this easy, delicious and healthy… why not!?
So over the last few months I noticed this post floating around Facebook about making flavored waters. Recently, I’ve been getting headaches due to dehydration. Over this past weekend while running errands with Ryan the stars aligned and I put two and two together. We had some free time on Sunday night so we purchased fruits and 1/2 gallon mason jars and I set out to make these flavored waters (which I am not officially calling fruit-infused waters) while Ryan played the banjo on the back porch.
They are actually so delicious that I drink a different 1/2 gallon container each day. I am obsessed! I am also much healthier than last week when my drink of choice was soda or nothing. (The only problem: everyone at work keeps asking me what kind of moonshine I’m drinking! haha!)
Give em a try! Here are my recipes:
My personal favorite – “Pineapple Mint”
Approx. 8 cups of chilled water from the tap, run through the Brita
Approx. 10 cubes of pineapple
Approx. 12 fresh mint leaves
Leave in fridge over night and enjoy for the next few days!
“Blackberry Sage”
Approx. 6 cups of chilled water from the tap, run through the Brita
Approx. 10 blackberries slightly mashed with a fork
2 fresh, large sage leaves
Leave in fridge over night and enjoy for the next few days!
“Cucumber Lemonade”
Approx. 6 cups of chilled water from the tap, run through the Brita
Half of a cucumber, peeled and sliced into disks
Half of a lemon, sliced into disks
Leave in fridge over night and drink it the next day OR remove the cucumber and lemon the following day and enjoy for a few days! (In my opinion, if you infuse the water with the lemon for more than a day the water begins to taste like lemon rinds rather than citrus which is very bitter.)
“Watermelon Rosemary”
Approx. 6 cups of chilled water from the tap, run through the Brita
Approx. 6 cubes of watermelon
1 fresh stem of rosemary
Leave in fridge over night and enjoy for the next few days!
Some others I would like to try in the future:
Strawberry and Lime, Raspberry and Mint, Nectarine and Sage, Strawberry and Kiwi.
If you decide to try a few of these fruit infused waters please let me know what you think! I’d love to hear form you!
Also, check out this photographer that I recently discovered at http://taylortakesataste.com if you are into great photography attached to delicious recipes!