Featured recipes from Marilu’s table * THM Beverages
Today we’re sharing some of our favorite “adult” beverages for the holiday season. Alcohol is permitted on Marilu’s Total Health Makeover®, with some guidelines. Remember that alcohol clouds your judgment, and gives you empty calories. As always, if you shouldn’t drink (for health reasons or for alcoholism), then don’t.
- Make sure you’re eating (healthy foods!) while you’re drinking. No drinking on an empty stomach.
- Drink one glass of water for every alcoholic beverage, and alternate them.
- No more than two drinks in any given night; no more than five drinks during a week.
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Cosmopolitan
2-1/2 ounces organic fruit-juice sweetened lemonade (try Santa Cruz or R.W. Knudsen’s)
1-1/2 ounces vodka (optional)
1 teaspoon unsweetened natural cranberry juice
1 orange wedge (1/4 orange) or 1 Tablespoon orange juice
Combine lemonade, vodka if using, and cranberry juice. Squeeze in the orange juice. Shake with ice, strain into a martini glass, and serve.
Pear Bellini
2 ounces pear juice or nectar (try Ceres)
4 ounces champagne OR 2 ounces sparkling mineral water and 2 ounces sparkling cider (try Martinelli’s)
Pour the pear juice into a wine or champagne glass. Slowly add the champagne (or sparkling water and sparkling cider).
Hot Toddy
2 ounces R.W. Knudsen’s unsweetened Cider and Spice (or similar all-natural product)
1-1/2 ounces whiskey or rum (optional)
4 ounces boiling water
cinnamon stick
Pour the Cider and Spice and the whiskey, if using, into a coffee mug. Add the boiling water, and garnish with the cinnamon stick, if desired.
White Russian
2 ounces vodka
1 ounce Kahlua or other coffee liqueur
1-2 ounces soy milk or soy creamer
Pour the vodka and Kahlua into a glass of ice and stir. Float the soy milk or soy creamer on top. Serve with a stir stick.
