Okie Pokie Drink

Ingredients:
1 liter of orange juice
1 liter of pomelo juice
3 tbsps lime juice
1/3 cup grenadine syrup

Procedure:
Combine all ingredients in a pitcher. Stir until well-blended. Chill.

Chai Tea Latte

Here's how:
Half-fill a glass of hot water. Dip your preferred tea bag for 5-8 minutes. Add steamed milk and vanilla powder. Stir until well-blended. Serve with "Chipotle Roast Chicken".

Green Tea Malt Milky Shake

Here's how:
Put together 3 scoops of green tea ice cream, a cup of fresh milk and 1/2 tsp. of malt powder in a blender and mix until smooth and creamy. Transfer to a tall glass and top with whipped cream.

Hot Cocoa Blends

CHOCO-MOCHA
In a bowl, combine 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, 1/2 cup powdered milk, 1 cup confectioners' sugar and 5 tablespoons coffee powder. Blend well.

CHOCO-VANILLA
In a bowl, combine 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, 3/4 cup powdered milk, 1-1/4 cup confectioners' sugar and 1/2 cup vanilla powder. Blend well.

CHOCO-CINNAMON
In a bowl, combine 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, 1/2 cup powdered milk, 1 cup confectioners' sugar and 2 tablespoons cinnamon. Blend well.

For every cup of hot water or milk, add 5 tablespoons of cocoa mix. Serve with flavored stirrers like a peppermint stick, cinnamon stick or a rock sugar stick or top with mini marshmallows or grated chocolate.

Every recipe makes about 2 cups of cocoa mix.

Lemonitos

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsps lemon vodka
• a handful of mint leaves
• 1/2 cup crushed ice
• 1/2 cold water
• honey

Procedure:

1. Combine lemon vodka, mint leaves, crushed ice and cold water in a glass. Stir to blend.
2. Sweeten with honey, if desired.
3. Serve at once.

Lemon Vodka

Here's how:
Squeeze the juice from 10 pieces lemon. Add 1-1/4 cup confectioners' sugar and whisk until sugar is completely dissolved. Strain the mixture into a pitcher or bottle then add a cup of vodka. Shake and stir. Cover and chill for 2 weeks so the vodka gets infused with citrus. Serve straight on ice. You can add a dash of honey, if you wish. You can also use it as a cocktail base in place of plain vodka.

Superb Sundae

Ingredients:

• graham crackers
• peanut butter
• hazelnut spread
• choco wafers
• candy sprinkles
• cherries
• vanilla ice cream

Procedure:

1. Divide graham crackers into three. Spread peanut butter. Cover with another graham cracker. Spread with hazelnut spread. Top with graham. Set aside.
2. In an individual bowl, scoop vanilla ice cream until almost full. Garnish with the hazelnut-peanut butter cracker, choco wafer, candy sprinkles and cherry.
3. Serve at once

Milky Avocado Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 medium pcs avocado
• 3 tbsps white sugar
• 2/3 cup evaporated milk

Procedure:

1. Vertically open the avocado, going around the seed. Remove the seed. Scoop out the avocado meat using a spoon. Remove fibers if there is any.
2. Mash it lightly, I like mine with some chunks of avocado. Add in the sugar and evaporated milk. Mix gently until well-incorporated.
3. Chill for a few hours before serving.

Party Punch

Ingredients:

• 6 cups pineapple juice
• 3 cups orange juice
• 1 cup lemon juice
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup sugar
• 24 whole cloves
• 4 pcs 3" stick cinnamon
• 3 bottles ginger ale, chilled
• 1/2 cup white rhum, chilled

Procedure:

1. Combine the juices.
2. Boil the water, sugar and spices together for 5 minutes. Cool and strain out the spices.
3. Add spiced syrup to juices. Chill thoroughly.
4. At serving time, pour in the ginger and rhum. Garnish with orange slices and cherries.

Gin and Tonic

Ingredients:

• an ounce of gin
• quinine water
• slice of a lemon
• cracked ice

Procedure:

1. Place gin in a highball glass half-filled with cracked ice.
2. Squeeze the lemon into it.
3. Fill the glass with quinine water and stir.
4. Serve
   

Strawberry and Banana Smoothie

Ingredients:

• 2/3 cup skim milk
• 1/2 cup strawberry yogurt
• 1/2 cup fresh strawberries
• 1 medium banana
• 1/2 cup multi-grain cereal
• a tsp of honey
• cereals for toppings

Procedure:

1. In a blender, add the first-six ingredients. Process for 5-7 seconds.
2. Pour in glass and top with cereals.

Caramel Latte

Here's how:
In a cup, pour two shots of espresso, 3/4 cup steamed milk and 1-1/2 tablespoon caramel flavored syrup. Stir to combine. Top with whipped cream and garnish with crushed candy canes or candy sprinkles. Enjoy with your favorite sweets!

Fruit Punch

Ingredients:

• 2 cups boiling water
• 4 tsps tea
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup orange juice
• 2 tbsps lemon juice
• 4 bottles ginger ale, chilled
• 1/2 orange, sliced thinly
• halved strawberries
• ice

Procedure:

1. Pour fresh boiling water over tea, steep for 5 minutes. Strain.
2. Add orange and lemon juices. Chill thoroughly.
3. Add ginger ale and pour over ice in punch bowl.
4. Float with orange slices and halved strawberries.

Uber Chocolate Milkshake

Ingredients:

• 250 ml chocolate milk drink, chilled
• 2 scoops of fudge chocolate ice cream

Procedure:

1. Put all the ingredients in a blender. Process for 2 seconds.
2. Pour in a glass. Serve immediately.

Indian Mango Shake

Ingredients:

• a kilo of over ripe indian mangoes
• 12 pcs ice cubes
• 3 tbsps evaporated milk
• 1-1/2 tbsp white sugar

Procedure:

1. Peel the mangoes. Slice mango meat into chunks, disregard the seed. Put it in the blender with rest of the ingredients. Process until smooth.
2. Serve at once.

Choco-Banana Milkshake

Ingredients:

• 24 pcs ice cubes
• 1/3 cup condensed milk
• 3 medium pcs cavendish bananas (lakatan), peeled & sliced
• 1/2 cup full-cream powdered milk
• 1/2 cup instant chocolate powder
• 1/3 cup ice cold water

Procedure:

1. Put all the ingredients accordingly in a blender. Process for a 3-5 seconds. Mix using a spatula until well-blended. Process again until smooth.
2. Serve at once.

Hot Peppermint Choco

Ingredients:

• 4 cups milk
• 2 peppermint tea bags
• 4 tbsps chocolate drink powder
• 4 tsps sugar

Procedure:

1. In a saucepan, heat milk with tea bags for 3-5 minutes.
2. Remove tea bags, then, mix in sugar and chocolate powder
3. Pour into mugs.
4. Serve hot.

Bloody Mary

Ingredients:

• 1 jigger Vodka
• 3 oz. heavy tomato juice
• 1/2 oz. fresh lemon juice
• 4 drops of Worcestershire sauce
• a dash each of salt and pepper
• a couple of cubed ice

Procedure:

1. In a shaker, combine all ingredients. Shake well.
2. Strain. Pour into glass.
   
3. Serve immediately.

Watermelon and Yogurt Smoothie

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of frozen cubed seedless watermelon
• a cup of chilled yogurt
• a sprig of mint leaves
• 2 tbsps honey

Procedure:

1. Blend all ingredients together.
   
2. Serve in glasses.

Almond Berry Smoothie

Combine a cup of fresh strawberries, a cup of sweetened yogurt, 1/8 cup of finely ground almond and 1/8 almond essence. Blend until smooth. Pour into a tall glass and drink up.

Classic Martini

Ingredients:

• an ounce of gin
• ice cubes
  
• 3 dashes of vermouth
• olive

Procedure:

1. In a martini glass, put the vermouth. Swirl around. Set aside.
   
2. In a shaker, put ice and gin. Shake well. Pour and strain into the flavored martini glass.
3. Garnish with an olive.
4. Serve.

Tom Collins

Ingredients:

• ice cubes
• a tsp of sugar
• juice of a lemon
• 1-1/2 jigger of gin
• club soda
• a slice of lemon
• cherry

Procedure:

1. Fill a tall glass of ice. Add the sugar, lemon juice and gin.
2. Fill with club soda. Stir.
3. Decorate with lemon slice and cherry.

Mocha Madness

Ingredients:

• 1 tetra pack (250ml) chocolate milk drink
• a tsp of Kahlua
• 1-1/2 oz of espresso coffee
• shaved ice
• a scoop of vanilla ice cream
• for garnish: whipped cream, chocolate shavings, a good pinch each of cinnamon and nutmeg powder, wafer stick and chocolate syrup.

Procedure:

1. Mix the first-four ingredients in a large glass.
2. Put the ice cream on top.
3. Garnish.

Coffee Al'Orange

Ingredients:

• a cup of brewed coffee
• 1/4 cup of hot chocolate
• 1 scoop vanilla ice cream
• 1 jigger Kahlua
• 1 jigger orange liquer
• 2 jiggers of simple syrup
• whipped cream
• orange zest

Procedure:

1. Mix all ingredients except last two in a blender until ice is crushed.
2. Pour in a tall glass. Garnish with whipped cream and orange zest
3. Serve immediately.

Kape ni Maman

Ingredients:

• 1-3/4 tsp white sugar
• 3 tsps creamer
• 2/3 tsp instant coffee powder
• freshly boiled water

Procedure:

1. In a coffee mug put the first-three ingredients. Mix until blended.
2. Pour hot water. Stir.
3. Serve immediately.

Dark Chocolate Mint

Here's how:

• In a pan, melt a cup of cream and 2/3 cup of dark chocolate morsels over low heat. Stir until smooth and creamy. Add a teaspoon of vanilla essence, half a teaspoon peppermint flavoring. and 1/4 tsp of fine salt. Set aside.
• Using an electric mixer, beat 3/4 cup cream until stiff. Add the chocolate mixture and beat until peaks form.
• Spoon into individual cups and garnish with fresh mint leaves.
• Chill until ready to serve.

Snow Cones

Pour a ready-to-drink or sports drink on a bowl of shaved ice. Eat this cold treat with a spoon or sip with a straw.

Fruity Water

Add wedges of fruit in your cold drinking water. Use a medley of citrus fruits like oranges, lemons and dalandan or use a combination of melons and watermelons. The fruits do not only add color, they also infuse the water with vitamins and a healthy sweetness.

No-Fuss Sangria

Ingredients:

• 2 green apples, cored and sliced into bite-size piecs
• 2 oranges, peeled and cut into bite-size pieces
• 1 quart pineapple juice, chilled
• 1 quart orange juice, chilled
• 1 bottle red wine, chilled
• simple syrup (Equal parts of sugar and water. Boiled for a few minutes)

Procedure:

1. Place the fruit slices in a pitcher.
2. Pour in the pineapple juice, orange juice and red wine.
3. Add in the simple syrup to taste. Stir.
4. Pour into glasses, add ice cubes if desired and serve.

Frozen Daiquiri

Ingredients:

• juice of 1/2 lime or lemon
• 1 tsp powdered sugar
• 1 jigger light rum

Procedure:

1. Place 2 cups of shaved ice in a blender.
2. Add all the ingredients and blend until the consistency of snow.
3. Sere immediately in champagne glass with straw.

Pink Lady

Ingredients:

• 1/4 oz. Grenadine syrup
• 3/4 oz. gin
• egg white

Procedure:

1. Shake grenadine syrup and gin with egg white.
2. Strain into cocktail glass.
3. Serve

Gimlet

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 oz gin
• a slice each of lemon and cherry
• 1/2 oz lime juice

Procedure:

1. Stir and serve in a cocktail glass.
2. Decorate with lemon and cherry
3. Add ice, if desired.
4. Serve immediately.

Minty Dalandan Smoothie

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of freshly squeezed dalandan juice.
• 2 cups crushed ice
• 1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• a tbsp of white sugar
• a tbsp of fresh mint leaves

Procedure:

1. Put all ingredients in a blender. Blend well.
2. Serve immediately

Fruity-Juicy Ice Cubes

Ingredients:

• fruit juice, any flavor you like
• pineapple tidbits
• lemon slices

Procedure:

1. Fill an ice cube tray with fruit juice until half-way.
2. Add the fruits.
3. Freeze.

Pineapple-Calamansi Punch

Ingredients:

• 3 cups pineapple juice
• a cup calamansi extract
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 2/3 cup light rum
• 2-3 cups of cubed ice

Procedure:

1. Put all ingredients in a punch bowl. Mix well.
2. Add ice. Garnish with orange slice and cherries.
3. Serve cold.