Last week… which I guess is really more than a week ago at this point but oh well… I tried making my own soda from home. I got inspired by this recipe on veganmania.com, an awesome site with wonderful recipes, among them directions to make the perfect pie crust, and it really is always perfect.
Mangos went on sale everywhere so I picked up a few thinking it would be neat to try making mango soda. I think I got a little too ambitious. I altered the recipe by cutting up the mangos into small pieces and combining them with agave nectar, some sugar, and water in pot and heating it all up for a while until it got kind of syrupy. And I should mention that I just found out, right after making this soda of course, that agave nectar is not all it’s cracked up to be.
I thought the mango chunks would get a bit smaller once heated up, really I was just lazy and should have used my juicer first. I ended up blending it all together once it heated through and added a few heaping spoonfuls into a cup along with some mineral water. I can’t say that I hated it, but it definitely could have been better. I’m planning to try this all again but next time I will definitely juice whatever fruit I’m using first and probably just use sugar and water to make the syrup.
This is me heating up the syrup on my amazingly tiny stove/oven. My sweetheart and I still have not found baking sheets that are small enough to fit inside. We pretty much bake everything in our toaster oven now. Sad, but true.
Look out for the next post coming soon: coleslaw!
hmmm… I’m seeing a southern theme arising.
