Theres a program called ‘Something for the weekend’ on the BBC on Sundays, and I sometimes have a glance thru it. Yesterday they were on about the virtues of healthy cocktails full of anti oxidants, making cocktails with carrot and apple juice topped up with vodka etc. Have a look in any magazine this month and celebs are already doing it, Madonna likes hers with camomile and apple, Scarlett Johansson opts for passion fruit and honey, and Kate Middleton prefers her cocktails with elderflower and cucumber. Now an article in the daily mail says vitamin packed cocktails are the HOTTEST trend at the moment. So take note girls and boys. Mojitos and Cosmos are OUT and freshly blended organic fruit purees, fresh organic vegetables and herbs, and things such as vitamins, or even wheatgrass are in. Of course they're topped up with assorted vodka's, orange liquers , triple sec and tequilas, (not to forget the specially oxygenated water) They say (THEY being a group of trendy mixologists) that these new wave cocktails will detox you from the night before and get you right back up there again! What d'ya think? Would you swap your spritzers for a wheatgrass and vodka beetroot juice with flaxseed oil? As much as I'm all for any excuse or justification for a drink, surely it's all a load of rubbish? If you're choosing something for health benefits alone then you’d be better of without the alcohol i’m sorry to say, although there is something to be said for the fact that drinking an antioxidant filled healthy cocktail will give you less of a hangover than drinking wine. Why does wine hurt so much when it's just grapes?
Monday, August 13, 2007
Guilt Free Cocktails
Theres a program called ‘Something for the weekend’ on the BBC on Sundays, and I sometimes have a glance thru it. Yesterday they were on about the virtues of healthy cocktails full of anti oxidants, making cocktails with carrot and apple juice topped up with vodka etc. Have a look in any magazine this month and celebs are already doing it, Madonna likes hers with camomile and apple, Scarlett Johansson opts for passion fruit and honey, and Kate Middleton prefers her cocktails with elderflower and cucumber. Now an article in the daily mail says vitamin packed cocktails are the HOTTEST trend at the moment. So take note girls and boys. Mojitos and Cosmos are OUT and freshly blended organic fruit purees, fresh organic vegetables and herbs, and things such as vitamins, or even wheatgrass are in. Of course they're topped up with assorted vodka's, orange liquers , triple sec and tequilas, (not to forget the specially oxygenated water) They say (THEY being a group of trendy mixologists) that these new wave cocktails will detox you from the night before and get you right back up there again! What d'ya think? Would you swap your spritzers for a wheatgrass and vodka beetroot juice with flaxseed oil? As much as I'm all for any excuse or justification for a drink, surely it's all a load of rubbish? If you're choosing something for health benefits alone then you’d be better of without the alcohol i’m sorry to say, although there is something to be said for the fact that drinking an antioxidant filled healthy cocktail will give you less of a hangover than drinking wine. Why does wine hurt so much when it's just grapes?
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