July: Cucumber Drink

Sweet Cucumber Drink Recipe

• Taken from: http://mjskitchen.com/2012/06/cucumber-cocktail/
  Makes 2
  Prep time:  10 minutes

  Ingredients

  2 oz. Vodka (4 Tbsp. or ¼ cup)
  3/4 oz. Agave Nectar (1 ½ Tbsp)
  1/2 oz. Lime Juice (1 Tbsp)
  8 Slices of Cucumber  -we used pickling and lemon cucumbers
  4 sprigs of Mint - or more, generally to taste
  Club Soda or sparkling mineral water

  Instructions

  1. Place the vodka, agave nectar, 2 sprigs of mint and 4 slices of cucumber in shaker with ice into a pitcher (put in one serving for each person). Muddle with wooden spoon in large pitcher
  2. Shake and strain Pour into as many glasses as needed into 2 tall highball glasses filled 3/4 with ice and a couple slices of cucumber.
  3. Top off with Club Soda or mineral water. Gently stir to blend in the sparkling water club soda.
  4. Top each glass off with a sprig of mint. a slice of cucumber.
  5. Enjoy!

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July Book club

We met at a neighbor's house.   Snacks included: Trader Joe's gluten free brownies,  Amy's gluten free chocolate cake, and gluten free chocolate chip cookies.   YUM.

For drinks we had: red wine or white wine and a cucumber cooler.   The recipe will be posted soon.

Our book this month was Joyland by Stephen King.

Overall Score -  4/5 stars

I liked this book a lot.  I felt it had good intrigue, good mystery and not too much scary.  It was a quick read and even reading it quickly you get the point of the story.    There are several themes that wind their way through the story.   And, I appreciate when an author doesn't try to wrap everything up into a neat package at the very end.   The strings were all brought together, but I still had questions.  I had to retrace some of my steps to see exactly what happened.  I liked that "it wasn't white".  

Book Club

We, the ladies of this neighborhood, have joined together to create a book club.   The men of the neighborhood do not believe us -- they feel we solely chat, drink good wine, and have a book as a bit of "collateral".   Well, this blog, will prove, that is not the case.