Beat the Heat - Drink cocktails!

These are some drink recipes that are perfect for any party or get-together: Cheap, and tasty.

Home-made Sangria:

What you'll need is a bottle, or two, of white whine. I tend to lean towards the Drostyhof white, it's cheap and not dry like most white wines. But you can also use red wine, that's the more accepted version.
Some cut up fruit, I usually do 2-3 granny smith apples, 2 nectarines, a pear and some pineapple. Chuck some cherries in also!
Leave the fruit to soak in the wine for about an hour or two, and then add half a bottle of lemonade or Sprite.

Ta dah! Home-made Sangria.

Mojito:

You'll need some clear rum, mint, sugar, lime, soda water.

• 2-3 oz Light Rum
• Juice of 1 Lime (1 oz)                  <-- Approximately what you'll need for one drink, so do the math.
• 2 tsp Sugar
• 2-4 Mint Sprigs
• Soda Water 

 Lightly muddle the mint and sugar with a splash of soda water in a mixing glass until the sugar dissolve and you smell the mint
Squeeze the lime into the glass, add rum and shake with ice.
Strain over cracked ice in a highball glass.
Top with soda water, garnish with mint sprig and serve!

 Mai Tai: 


You'll need: light rum, lime juice, orange curacao, orgeat syrup, dark rum and a glazed cherry for garnish.
This one'll be a bit more costly than the others to buy the ingredients but worth it. Oh yes it is!

Pour all the ingredients except the dark rum into a shaker with ice cubes.
Shake well.
Strain into anold fashioned glass half filled with ice.
Top with the dark rum.
Garnish with the cherry.

 
So I hope that some of these will be at the next braai or night out with the ladies/lads.
A tip:

Vodka and whiskey have the least calories in a drink but reduce fitness.
Beer will add carbs but not make you loose fitnesss. Good for the boys!