Since literally 0 of us want to think about meal prepping right now (gag), let's see what kind of liquid inspiration we can get from each other! Who cares if it's 5:00 anywhere...it isn't booze, but probably the next best thing. Share your tastiest mocktail ideas here! (I know there were a bunch in a few other threads, but haven't figured out the best way to transport them over here short of copy-pasting, so if you've contributed elsewhere, feel free to throw those combos here too.)
Re: Mocktail Monday
ETA: pregnancy brain strikes. That’s definitely a fake Moscow mule. But with the lime and mint I guess it’s all pretty close!
Married Sept. 2013
DS1: Nov 11, 2016
MMC: 11/16/18 (9w6d)
CP: 2/3/19 (5w3d)
BFP! 8/24/19
DS2: May 10, 2020
@ki1244 there’s a bartender substituting barley tea for whiskey. I’m not even sure what barley tea is or if it’s pregnancy-safe, but here you go: https://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/2014/03/06/4-crazy-convincing-mocktails-that-taste-just-like-real-booze
Married Sept. 2013
DS1: Nov 11, 2016
MMC: 11/16/18 (9w6d)
CP: 2/3/19 (5w3d)
BFP! 8/24/19
DS2: May 10, 2020
Also, if you like sweet drinks, around holiday time welch's makes a sparkling sangria that I drank a lot of when I was pregnant with DS.
@ki1244 Let me know how it tastes! It looks like I could find barley tea down in Chinatown, and this could be good for the winter....
Seltzer + splash of cranberry juice, splash of orange juice, splash of ginger ale, fresh cranberries, and orange slice to garnish
Sparkling NA apple cider with caramel syrup (like you’d find at a coffee shop), chopped apple and pears like sangria, cinnamon sugar rim on your glass
NA pear cider or juice with ginger ale or seltzer and fresh ginger, muddled raspberries
Married Sept. 2013
DS1: Nov 11, 2016
MMC: 11/16/18 (9w6d)
CP: 2/3/19 (5w3d)
BFP! 8/24/19
DS2: May 10, 2020
Married Sept. 2013
DS1: Nov 11, 2016
MMC: 11/16/18 (9w6d)
CP: 2/3/19 (5w3d)
BFP! 8/24/19
DS2: May 10, 2020
Since I live in a pretty small city and the Asian grocery store here gets closed down all the time for health violations, I'm waiting on Amazon to send me some barley tea. Will report back when it gets here. In the meantime I've got some ginger ale going flat in a Mason jar in my fridge... figured it'll be easier to shake it into a drink of some sort if it isn't super fizzy.
Married Sept. 2013
DS1: Nov 11, 2016
MMC: 11/16/18 (9w6d)
CP: 2/3/19 (5w3d)
BFP! 8/24/19
DS2: May 10, 2020
I called my favorite liquor store last night and they confirmed they had a couple brands of NA wine. Fre is one of them, but they had another one too (and Trader Joe's had an NA sparkling chardonnay, which I'm very curious about). The store across town so I'll probably make that trek later in the week to see what it is, and maybe give it a try. I found nitrate-free salami and sopressa, and some good pasteurized cheeses, so DH and I can have a fancy charcuterie night for dinner like the old days...and some wine that doesn't need to be mixed with juice to make it palatable would be IDEAL to go with that.
ETA: words are hard
Now I'm thinking of a nice glass of pinot... Or zin... 🙁
Made myself my old fruit smash, swapping vanilla for bourbon and orange juice for triple sec. It would be better without the vanilla (whatever site I saw recommending alcohol-free vanilla extract for bourbon has apparently never actually tasted bourbon), but otherwise isn't bad.
- three parts ginger ale
- one part orange juice
- one part cranberry juice, or whatever type of juice you have on hand that will go with your jam
- spoonful of jam (I had a "Christmas jam" from a farmers market open, I think its cranberry, strawberry, and some other type of berry) - whatever is open that will go with your juice. I also really like orange marmalade or strawberry jam with cranberry juice.
Shake together with ice until jam dissolves. It's sweet, but the orange cuts it a little, and the jam gives it thicker mouthfeel that feels more like a boozy cocktail. Man I miss the real thing.
Married Sept. 2013
DS1: Nov 11, 2016
MMC: 11/16/18 (9w6d)
CP: 2/3/19 (5w3d)
BFP! 8/24/19
DS2: May 10, 2020
- Pioneer Woman has a virgin mango margarita that is basically just a mango smoothie but apparently is good
- The Today Show at one point featured a virgin coconut margarita that sounds interesting
- Martha Stewart has a virgin pink grapefruit margarita that I kind of want to try now (among a whole list of virgin drinks)
- Good Housekeeping also has a classic recipe that's two parts lemonade, two parts orange juice, and one part lime juice...no idea if that just makes it "random juices" or taste like a margarita.
- Williams Sonoma also has a catalog of virgin drinks that has some interesting ideas...none are margaritas but some still sound pretty amazing.
- Southern Living does too.
Dang, gonna have to break out my cocktail shaker tonight!