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Recipe: Watermelon ice cubes |
docwoods
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Joined: Feb 29, 2004
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From: outside the windy city
|  Posted: 2004-05-23 3:56 pm Permalink
A fun thing to do with the abundance of fresh fruit is to make watermelon ice cubes.Take a watermelon,deseed,cut into chunks and liquify in the blender.Pour into ice cubes trays and freeze.These are great in all sorts of drinks,and look terrific.You also get the benefit of not diluting a drink,just watermelon.Tasty!
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Tikiwahine
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From: Ontario, Canada
| Posted: 2004-05-23 8:56 pm Permalink
Good idea!
I wonder if you could do the same thing with pineapple? I guess you wouldn't want chunks at the bottom of the glass.
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Tonnikan Jinn
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From: La Conchita
| Posted: 2004-05-24 12:42 am Permalink
Who says you wouldn't want pineapple chunks at the bottom of the glass?!
I kind of like the idea. Actually, I freeze lots of things like fresh squeezed lime juice, lemon juice, etc... I even have a hollowed out pineapple and a coconut with the top cut off in the freezer (probably should start fresh on those, they've been in there a while).
Just this week I tried to freeze Coco Lopez in 1/2 oz. cubes.... oops... too much oil I suppose, because they wouldn't freeze. Now I have two ice cube trays with cold gooey Coco Lopez in them.
-T.J.
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OceaOtica
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Posts: 869
From: la, home of Tiki Ti
| Posted: 2004-05-25 09:10 am Permalink
My drink the Pahoehoe Flow utilizes frozen cubes of orange and pineapple juice, which are crushed, to make the drink look like lava. The actual drink is a reddish color. I developed this cocktail for the `Ona Tiki Pohaku aa ipu mug.
Juices generally produce a "softer" ice, so they melt faster, which is great for some complex drinks. They cause the drink to change its flavor and color in transition.
I also have a drink called the Surf Creature, after the Miles Thompson painting of the same name, in which pineapple juice is frozen into the bottom of a cocktail glass. This creates a great separation layer of yellow under the bluish green drink.
About half way through the drink the frozen pineapple juice "bottom" floates up, giving it an almost lava lamp effect with the 3-4 blueberries that are floating in the cocktail.
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freddiefreelance
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From: San Diego, Ca.
| Posted: 2004-05-25 09:26 am Permalink
Could you please post the recipe for the Pahoehoe Flow? My cousins love the ice cream drink called the Lava Flow & I'd love to have an alternative to share with them.
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Kon-Hemsby
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Joined: Sep 17, 2003
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From: Andover, England
| Posted: 2004-05-25 09:37 am Permalink
Post all of your funky recipes. I wanna try 'em all.
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Tikiwahine
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From: Ontario, Canada
| Posted: 2004-05-25 1:53 pm Permalink
I'll have to pull my ice cube tray out of the cupboard, it's hard to experiment with the automatic cube/crush feature on the freezer door!
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