Drinking from the Garden?
Drinking from the Garden?
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Drinking from the Garden?
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Post #1 - August 14th, 2008, 12:25 pmI've posted other threads on the gardening section of the site about my earthbox garden on my roof and also eating from the garden but what about "drinking" from the garden?
Does anyone have any recommended drink recipes that would incorporate tomato water or tomato juice? I have a ton of fresh and always ripening tomatoes and would love to create both a rustic bloody mary type of drink as well as a refined tomato water based drink.
I'm also growing basil, parsley, thyme, and rosemary (have a ton of the stuff), some strawberries (probably not enough for anything significant), and some other stuff that most likely wouldn't make a good drink (onions, eggplant, 3 varieties of peppers, beans, lettuce, spinach).
Any ideas? Thanks...
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Post #2 - August 14th, 2008, 12:40 pmtyrus wrote:I've posted other threads on the gardening section of the site about my earthbox garden on my roof and also eating from the garden but what about "drinking" from the garden?
Does anyone have any recommended drink recipes that would incorporate tomato water or tomato juice? I have a ton of fresh and always ripening tomatoes and would love to create both a rustic bloody mary type of drink as well as a refined tomato water based drink.
I'm also growing basil, parsley, thyme, and rosemary (have a ton of the stuff), some strawberries (probably not enough for anything significant), and some other stuff that most likely wouldn't make a good drink (onions, eggplant, 3 varieties of peppers, beans, lettuce, spinach).
Any ideas? Thanks...
Not that you won't get great responses here -- because you will -- but you should also check out Time Out Chicago because Peter Vestinos (mixologist at Sepia) has a regular column in it this summer called Mixed Greens. Each week he creates a libation (or a few) using ingreidents sourced at local farmers' markets. It's pretty inspiring.
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Post #3 - August 14th, 2008, 7:10 pmWhat about a michelada? Beer, tomato juice, ice, lime, salt and hot sauce.Man : I can't understand how a poet like you can eat that stuff.
T. S. Eliot: Ah, but you're not a poet.
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Post #4 - August 15th, 2008, 9:41 amA couple of cups of basil, some sugar or honey, some ice and a blender make a basil smoothy that is surprisingly refreshing. And no, it doesn't taste like one of those grass drinks.
I luckily have some chocolate mint taking over the garden which is great in the basil smoothy or ice tea.
Last year I had a decent enough grape harvest for some juice, (too lazy to make wine out of it) but this year I won't get squat.
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Post #5 - August 17th, 2008, 8:32 amSipping tomato based drinks through a lovage stem imparts a bit of celery-like flavor to the drink."The only thing I have to eat is Yoo-hoo and Cocoa puffs so if you want anything else, you have to bring it with you."
