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Easy Jamaican Carrot Juice (Carrot Punch)
Here’s yet another version of Carrot Punch, also known as Carrot Juice in Jamaica, which we enjoy in the Caribbean.
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Drinks | Featured | Fusion | Vegan | Vegetarian
Summertime Pineapple Strawberry Juice
A refreshing Caribbean drink blending pineapple, strawberries, citrus, and island flavor, perfect chilled or spiked.
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Traditional Caribbean Pineapple Juice
Learn to make the best pineapple juice the Caribbean way. This sweet and refreshing drink calls for boiling pineapple skin with ginger and some added sugar. Perfect for a hot summer day.
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Classic Caribbean Sorrel Punch
If there’s one drink in the Caribbean that screams “Christmas” it would definitely have to be sorrel. Islanders all appreciate a cold glass of sorrel on those hot Caribbean days.
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Refreshing Passionfruit Sorrel Drink.
While Sorrel (the dried sepals [the outer parts] of the genus Hibiscus [Roselle] flower which create a versatile and colorful red liquid when infused with hot water) is predominantly made around Christmas-time in the Caribbean (that’s when the flowers are ready for harvest), there’s no reason why this refreshing passionfruit and citrus infused version cannot…
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Rosemary Infused Ginger Lemonade.
With the summer being as scorching as it was, I had been meaning to share this recipe ever since early July. However I never got around to doing so, until now. We’re into the 2nd week of September and the temperature outside is still searing and for many of us, keeping cool is challenging. You’ll…
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Refreshing Portugal (citrus) Prosecco Sorbet.
With summer in full swing, I thought it was time to roll out this unique sorbet recipe for you to have some fun with. While I’ve never seen Portugals (say pooteegal if you’re old school) readily available outside Trinidad and Tobago (no it’s not Jamaican ugly fruit), you can use clementines or mandarins and if…
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Refreshing Sorrel Lemonade.
I’m not the biggest fan of lemonade, but toss is a Caribbean twist and BOOM.. one of the most refreshing summertime drinks you can serve/enjoy. Additionally, you can get your adult on and toss in some rum, vodka or tequila.. thank Uncle Chris later! You’ll Need… 8 cups water (divided) 15 sorrel buds (dried) 1…
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Traditional Caribbean Pineapple Juice.
The only thing I looked forward to more… than the amazing food on a Sunday in the Caribbean, is the variety of fruit juices you’d normally be served to wash it all down. Usually the fruit in ‘season’ would be used, so you’d get sour sop, citrus, passion fruit, mango, mauby and a host of others. But freshly made pineapple juice served with ice was always my favorite. And if there was any juice left back, we would pour it into ice trays to be enjoyed as frozen treats (do you remember ice-blocks?).
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The Ultimate Mango Mojito (virgin).
While I did share the video demo for this refreshing virgin Mango Mojito a few months back (during the hot summer), there’s been a lot of requests for the printable version of the recipe. Though this version is ‘virgin’ (safe for kids and those who don’t mess with the rum), you can always add a cup (or more) or your favorite rum and enjoy this as a big-people beverage. If you cannot source a ripe mango, try the frozen section of your grocery store for frozen mango pieces.
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How To Make Passion Fruit Juice.
As a kid growing up on the islands my dad had a passion fruit vine growing on a tall Poui tree at the back of our house and most of the fruit were normally out of reach. Since we all went to school far from home, I remember it was always “who could get up first to go check to see if any passion fruit fell to the ground” with me and my brother, on the weekends when we were home. As kids in North America would go on their Easter Egg hunt, for us the hunt were usually Mangoes, Passion Fruit, Sapodilla, Avocado or any of the other fruits which would normally fall off the trees when ripe.
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Natural Caribbean Orange Pineapple Juice.
As we continue with the refreshing summer drinks series, I thought I’d share a drink my mom would make for us on those hot weekend days when we were home from school. She would boil the skin of the pineapple (after it was washed) in water, then strain and use that liquid as the base of the drink. In those days the oranges and pineapple came from our backyard and the honey was from wild honey my dad would harvest in old Immortelle tress scattered though the cocoa and coffee estates in my village.
