In order to check out the scope of the recipes in Julia’s book, I put some non-meal items on my list to make sure I improve my full skill set. This recipe was definitely light on effort by comparison, but it still was a lot of work for a drink.

This recipe makes a perfect drink for a winter’s day to pretend it’s summer, or a summer’s day to avoid the heat.

GINGER AND HONEY ARNOLD PALMERS

From SMALL VICTORIES by Julia Turshen

Ingredients: Continuing to use up the leftovers from the recent recipes, plus we had the perfect amount of honey in our pantry. Ice maker comes in handy here.

Peel the ginger, then mince it. Not too hard to achieve, just a lot of extra effort. I might instead use big sticks of fresh ginger to make them easy to remove in future.

Boil the water, combine with honey and ginger and brew the tea. Basically, you’re making a really intense hot cup of tea and then cooling it down shortly after.

Once the tea has steeped, add the ice cubes and lemon juice and let them cool everything down. Some of the ice will melt; serve over more ice.

We took the extra step to strain out the ginger, which made for a hilarious spill-sesh over the sink, but it made for beautiful, smooth drinks to sip sans straw.

N: I think it’s not an Arnold Palmer without true lemonade, but it was tasty nonetheless.

Overall review: Lovely summer drink that works all year round.