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Beat the heat this summer with cool summer recipes. Don’t you look for a drink or cool shake on a hot summer day? Here are some easy recipes that you can prepare in no time. Try them out and serve your family and friends. These refreshing drinks are sure to leave them asking for more.

Frozen Lemonade:

How about a glass of fresh Frozen Lemonade? Your whole family will simply love it.

Ingredients needed:

• Sliced lemon – 1
• Lemon juice – 1 ¼ cups
• Cold water – 3 cups
• Superfine sugar – 1 2/3 cups
• Ice – 4 cups

You can prepare Frozen Lemonade quite easily and almost in no time. Blend superfine sugar with a thinly sliced lemon in a bowl. Mash the combination with a spoon. Mix cold water and lemon juice in the bowl. Let it stand for 5 minutes. Stir the mixture occasionally. Add ice to the mixture. Pour the juice into glasses.

Passion Potion:

If you want to be healthy and fresh this summer and try out some unique fruit juice recipes Passion Potion is ideal for you.

Ingredients needed:

• cubed pineapple – 1 cup
• cubed peeled ripe mango – 2 cups
• orange juice, chilled – 1 1/2 cups
• passion fruit nectar, chilled – 1/2 cup

Place the mango and pineapple cubes into refrigerator. Freeze them for an hour. Remove the cubes from freezer and let them stand for 10 minutes. Combine mango, orange juice and nectar in a blender. Blend the mixture until smooth. Add pineapple to the mixture with the blender on. Process it until smooth. Serve it immediately.

Strawberry-Buttermilk Sherbet:

Strawberry-Buttermilk Sherbet is ideal for those who love to try out unique recipe this summer. You can serve it as dessert or can have it any time you wish.

Ingredients needed:

• fresh strawberries – 2  cups
• vanilla extract – 1  teaspoon
• buttermilk – 2  cups
• sugar – 1  cup
• fresh mint sprigs

Blend the strawberries in food processor for 30 seconds. Then scrape down the slides. Take a large bowl and pour strawberry puree in it. Press it with back of a spoon. Add buttermilk, vanilla and sugar to the puree. Stir well. Pour the mixture in an ice-cream maker and freeze it. Garnish it with fresh mint springs.

Mixed-Berry Shake:

Have your guest appeared without prior notice? Are you looking for some easy and healthy recipes that you can serve immediately? Well, Mixed-Berry Shake will be ideal for you.

Ingredients needed:

• whole milk – 2 cups
• vanilla ice cream – 1 quart
• unsweetened frozen berries (like strawberries, blueberries and blackberries) – 6 ounces

Blend the berries, milk and half of the ice cream in a blender. Blend the mixture until smooth. Stir the mixture occasionally with a spoon. Mixed-Berry Shake is ready. Pour into glasses.

Triple-Berry Popsicles:

All of us simply love Popsicles. How about preparing a unique Popsicle and surprise your family and friends?

Ingredients needed:

• blueberries – 1 cup
• raspberries – 1 cup
• hulled and sliced strawberries – 1 cup
• fresh lemon juice – 1/4 cup
• syrup – 1/3 cup
• sugar – 2/3 cup

Mix sugar and 1/3 cup water in a saucepan and boil it over high heat. Stir occasionally until sugar dissolves. Combine raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and lemon juice in a blender. Blend until the mixture becomes smooth. Pour 1/3 cup syrup in it. Transfer the mixture to Popsicle molds. Freeze for 4 hours. Finally insert Popsicle sticks and freeze for another 4 – 6 hours.

These cool summer recipes will keep you fresh this summer.

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Irish Dinner:
Top o’ the mornin’ to ya.
Mix cookies first..then start the rest.

Potato Soup

3 tbsp. butter or magarine
1 onion chopped
1 stalk celery chopped
3 cups water
2 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
3 cups of milk

Melt butter in a large pot and add onion and celery. Cook for 10 minutes over med. heat, stir. Stir in one cup of water, cover and simmer about 10 minutes more. Add potatoes and 2 more cups of water, cover and cook 10 minutes . Stir in milk, cover and cook until potatoes are tender, about 10 minutes. Add salt and pepper; sprinkle paprika on top…add a sprig of parsley.

Irish Stew

2 1/2 lb stew meat (round steak)
2tbsp. oil/butter
4 large potatoes
1 large onion
3 or 4 medium carrots
sprig of parsley
2 cups water
salt and pepper

Brown onion in oil or butter, add diced meat, then diced potatoes, sliced carrots. Brown for about 15 minutes. Add water, parsley, salt and pepper. Cover a simmer for about an hour or until meat is tender.

Green Salad

Mix any sort of salad greens you prefer…but
add some parsley.

1 green pepper chopped
1 cucumber sliced

Dressing:

1/4 cup vinegar
1/4 cup oil
1/4 cup sugar or honey
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
1/4 tsp. paprika
1 mashed garlic clove
Mix well and pour over salad Irish Soda Bread

4 cups of flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. of raisins
1 1/2 to 2 cups of buttermilk

Mix flour, baking soda, sugar, salt together, add milk and raisins. On floured surface pat into a round disk. Grease cookie sheet, place soda bread on sheet and cut an “x” into center of surface. Brush with buttermilk and Bake in a preheated oven at 425 degrees until brown… apporx. 30 minutes. …just make dough soft ball

Shamrock Cookies

2 1/2 sticks Unsalted Butter
1 Cup Sugar
1 Egg
1 Tbsp. Milk
1 tsp Lemon Juice
1 Tbsp. Vanilla
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
3 1/4 C Flour
Green sugar

Soften butter, cream sugar into butter once it is soft. Add egg, milk, juice, vannilla. Mix flour, salt, baking powder. Add to wet ingredients. Place in fridge for an hour. Take dough out and roll…cut out shamrock shapes Bake in 375 degree oven. Bake 8-10 minutes. Sprinkle with sugar.