They are water + fruit and/or vegetable and they are delicious. If you really can't handle a cold drink right now (I'm looking at you, entire Northeastern part of the country) you could always make this with hot water instead. Of course then you may as well just add some bourbon, make it an unofficial Hot Toddy and call it a day. I'm just sayin'.
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This cucumber-mint fresca is courtesy of my latest visit to Crave, which incidentally is the best restaurant in all of El Paso. Not only is the food simple and awesome, but the waitstaff wear the most adorable Chicken + Waffles t-shirts and it's also the only business in town with a functional website. (The food's so good you can almost ignore the fact that the restaurant blasts the kind of torturous techno you'd expect to hear as a prelude to a waterboarding.)
In my
Here's the deal: add ingredients, muddle, add ice, water, drink, thank me later.
Cucumber-Mint Agua Fresca
3 inches of a cucumber, cut into super thin slices
6 mint leaves
1 lime wedge
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon hot water
Lots of ghiaccio-- that's ice cubes!
Ice cold water
1. Place first 5 ingredients into a glass. Use a wooden spoon or muddler to mash up. Mash for about a minute, so everything is well incorporated and aromatic.
2. Fill glass with ice, then with very cold water.
3. Place another glass (or stainless steel mixing glass, if you're fancy) over the one with all the ingredients. Make sure they fit together real snug! Mix that baby up for like, 15 seconds. If you can't do this, just stir everything up real good. But you shouldn't miss out on the mixing-- it's the fun part and you'll totally look like a pro.
4. Pour it all back into the original glass, sit in a lawn chair, drink up. Two more weeks 'til spring.
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