Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Cherry Cocktail

A wonderful healthy and tasty summer drink for adults and children. For 6 servings: 
400 gr. Strawberry 
3 bananas 
1 cup sugar 
1 liter of milk 
200 ml cream 

Beat in a blender with a banana cream to the state puree, then add the strawberries with the sugar and stir again, pouring the milk and stir again. Cocktail get thick, so it's best to file it in the big beautiful glass with a thick straw.

Cosmopolitan

Who watched "Sex and the City" knows exactly what the Cosmopolitan, where he often mentioned. But not everyone knows, this is not just a cocktail, and even a very useful tool to combat cancer. The fact is that American scientists have scientifically proven that cranberry successfully fights with metastasis, and alcohol acts a catalyst. That such respektny drink!

For 1 serving:
60 ml of cranberry
40 ml vodka
20 ml Cointreau
1 lime

Mix the first vodka with Cointreau, then push the back half or 3 / 4 lime, add the juice of cranberries.

Glasses need to take a conical shape, cool them in the freezer (then there will be such efektnaya smoke), pour a cocktail, put ice cubes, garnish with lime.

Serve immediately, very cool!

Ginger Tea

A wonderful taste and a lot of vitamins will give you ginger iced tea "lomi-lomi", which also can be drunk and hot. 
Cook faster, so if you are expecting guests, and the refrigerator has a root ginger - Diversify your coffee-tea, so drink. 
2 limes (you can just lemons) 
1 root ginger 7-10 cm 
3 tbsp honey 
1.5 liters of water 

Clean the ginger and slice it across the grain, squeeze lime juice, zest save. Boil water, put all the ingredients and stir well, let it brew for 20 minutes and strain. First drink will be slightly cloudy, give it a little left standing. Drink to your health!

Birch drink


I suggest you try the recipe for another grandmother drink: a birch drink - a simple and reliable way to preserve vitamins and prepare for winter. Prepared quickly and easily if birch juice prepared beforehand. 

Give it a boil and add the following ingredients: 

1. mandarin wedges 

2. slices of lemon (remove any peel) 

3. sugar 

4. citric acid (1 / 2 teaspoon per 10 liters of juice) 

5. hips 

6. raisins 


We can add candy "barberry" or "duchess" - they add flavor. And my grandmother puts a sprig of balm - an unforgettable aroma. All this should boil and immediately poured into the banks and rolling. Good health to all!

Kvas home

I want to share with you the recipe of the home kvass birch sap. My grandfather and grandmother always cooked it in the spring (AKURAT at this time). Santa no longer exists, and my grandmother still treats us to this insanely delicious drink. That's just from the village, with the heat, with heat; hot on the trail you post the recipe, nothing has forgotten... 


First, make collect birch sap, and then poured into a large bowl, bucket, jug, concrete ... add dry - apples, rosehips, roasted barley grain, dried balm - for the smell. All this is advocated in a cool place for several days. Taste and smell an unusual, good thirst quencher, and, mind you, kvass very useful for the intestine and alimentary tract. Drink to your health!

Sunday, April 25, 2010

What to drink beer?

Beer is brewed and drunk in many countries around the world have for millennia. This is a very ancient beverage, known in ancient Egypt, Babylon, China, Shang dynasty era II millennium BC. 
Beer brewed from wheat, oats, rye, millet, barley and emmer. The first mention of the use of hops refers to the monastic chronicles in VIII. In Germany, it began to add some in the XII century. In the Netherlands - in the beginning of XIV, and England hops came in the early XV century. 

In the middle Ages, beer was considered a drink of the poor, which is absolutely impossible to say about our time when a bottle of beer its price could surpass some of the wine. This is an imported beer. 

The question of the taste of beer rather subjective, as well as the question of good music. Not for money and not country of manufacture of beer give beer taste. 

So, what to drink beer? 

Everyone knows that beer is light and dark. Well, since it is probably most readers of this article are drinking beer; the dark is to stay only briefly. 

I. Dark beer. This beer is not comparable with a light beer taste. If you're completely unfamiliar with this type of beer, not to ruin once and for all life impression of the drink, start it with the use of more famous brands. Quite tasty for a beginner it may seem beer Guinness. In the beginning it is to drink in small sips, not trying to get drunk, and trying to understand and appreciate its taste ... We should not begin his career connoisseur of dark beer with Efes Dark. This beer is also very popular, but has a less sweet taste than Guinness, and should already know the taste of this beverage to be, so to speak, ready. 

II. Lager beer. All beers are available in stores, can be reduced, foreign, but produced at plants to license imported (made in other countries and those brought to us). 

1) Lager Beer (available in most) - is, for example, "Baltika 0/3/5/7/9, Klinskoye," Golden Barrel "," Stary Melnik "," Neva "and, of Of course, "Zhigulevskoye. All of these names are often heard at any inhabitant of our country, which has not slept in 22 hours on television and listens to all the advertising of beer a heap. In general, they are all a little alike, but each has its own peculiarity. 

For example, "Baltika 0" - non-alcoholic. It is believed that manufacturers of beer specially add a small amount of spices such as "Oak grated" or "bark ground", because of what appears woody taste. 

Baltika 9 "- one of the most popular spirits brands of beer, if not the most popular. On the taste of this beer can not talk, because the basic meaning of drinking such a beverage - not a desire to sit in a circle and try to find a subtle flavor notes, savoring every mouthful drunk. 

"Zhigulevskoye" - one of the cheapest beers. It is strange that the cost deters many. This beer is brewed in many regions of the country, but almost everywhere you can drink, and if in the heat, so even with pleasure! 

2) Bright foreign beer, cooking in under license. This, for example, Staropramen, Efes Pilsner, Stella Artois, Tuborg, Heineken, Foster's. This beer is brewed on the same factories as the Russian. 

Staropramen, for example, is brewed at a plant in Klin. It, like all the beers, cooking in Klin, has a sour taste - perhaps because of the particular water. 

Or, for example, beer Stella Artois, brewed in St. Petersburg, try to distinguish from the "Nevsky"! 

3) Light imported beer. The most popular varieties of imported beer in Russia: «Corona Extra» - brewed in Mexico, Eku - in Bavaria, Paulaner - in England. 

The majority of imported beers, imported, there is no clearly marked taste. Paulaner, for example, has a very standard, but pleasant, even slightly sweet taste. 

In general, if you want to feel the difference between different varieties of beer, you can do is very simple! Compare dark beer with a light, filtered to unfiltered, and strong to soft! 

But what no beer would be much more important to a company in which it is drunk ... Happy drinking!

How to taste the beer?

"The kind of" beer is estimated by experts on the two main characteristics: the color and foam. It would seem, beer is divided into dark and light - what is there to assess. But virtually every brand of beer has its own nuance. 

In the concept of "color" is important not only characteristic of shade, but also transparency, the presence or absence of color. The most severe are the requirements for light beer. Its color palette should be clean, transparent, and golden. It should not be reddish, brownish or greenish tint. And yet - it should shine. 

But the dark beer may not shine, to be brown and not even be transparent. And for all this to be beer. But to determine the color - whether good - can not no professional. 

In order to evaluate the beer "in appearance, must be well to consider not only its color but its foam. An integral component of good quality beer - abundant, dense, stable foam. How do we determine the degree of abundance, density and resistance? 

Pour beer into a large glass or cup. Excellent beer should have a height of foam at least 4 cm and keep it at least 4 min. If the foam below or disappears without a trace in less time, so it is not quite perfect. If you do not have a ruler handy, try a little blow on the foam. If the foam disappears, it means that beer is bad, if it is "bent", so good. 

Foam should "adhere" to the walls. If the walls of glass left traces of foam, all right - you're drinking beer. If, however, no trace, it is worth considering: what it was for a drink? 

The highest value in the tasting has not, however, sight and smell. 
When we try beer taste, "then see him in the nose, mostly, but not in the language when we inhale and exhale fragrance degustiruemogo drink. The reason is simple: human olfactory system is much more diverse and sensitive than taste. 

If you do want to evaluate the quality of beer by the smell, you should determine whether a harmonious combination of all the smells that you inhale and exhale, sniffing a beer and try it on taste. 

Trying to beer tasting, we use language, cheeks, sky, her lips. However, only the language gives us an idea about the taste - the lips, cheeks, the sky can give us only tactile and thermal picture of the drink. But this is not enough: the temperature, texture, viscosity, roughness, and lubricity - all this, there is oral language in that is not involved. By mouth, we fix the chemical, tactile, thermal and even painful. All this together gives us an idea about the taste of beer. 

A very important characteristic of beer is not only the taste, but also the finish, that is, the flavor that remains in the mouth for some time after the drink was swallowed. 

By the way, fans of "sweet" beer prefer to taste the drink at once - sweet taste is noticed as soon as the beer enters the mouth (which is why children are so fond of sweet things, - the subconscious desire to feel the pleasant taste of instant). But the pleasure of "Bitter" beer begins to realize much later, long after your first sip. Thus, fans of "bitter" beer like prolonging pleasure. 

However, most beers contain different combinations of all four tastes. And the concept of "delicious beer" is made up of an integrated sense of all four, and the sensation is not instantaneous, but spread over time. Consecutive transition from sweet to sour, salty and bitter to give a pleasant sensation, as well as general aftertaste when all four groups of taste buds. The slightest dissonance - and the delight of taste disappear. 

By the way, long lasting feeling of bitterness in the finish marker of poor quality of beer, because it is caused by low quality are used in brewing products or violation of the technology. 

In light beer should prevail subtle hop bitterness - extractives should be almost imperceptible. After drinking a light beer should leave the language bystroischezayuschy taste of hop bitterness. Aftertaste is a good light beer has virtually no. 

Dark beer, on the contrary, should be sweet and not leave the hop bitterness - its taste is more complete, resulting in beer seems to be more "dense". After drinking a dark beer should leave only a taste of malt, with no bitter aftertaste. Between these two main types are all the other types and varieties of beer. 

The variety of beers for various reasons: the different plants used different stamps yeast fermentation and the fermentation is carried out in different ways, the quality of raw materials (malt and hops) is very different from the place of its production. The value is even part of the water used in brewing. 

Tasters use of the 4 main term for the organoleptic evaluation of the taste of beer. For high-quality light beer is a "clean", "full", "harmonious", "and pronounced". Taste good dark beer described as "mild", "empty", "malt", "sweet".