Great Everyday Meals Magazine | By Momma Cuisine Spring/Summer 2017 | Page 18

Spiked Strawberry Aqua Fresca with Blood Orange Soda Ingredients: 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup water 6 mint leaves 1 pint strawberries 2 cups vodka 2 bottles of blood orange soda water 18 | GEM Food Mag - April-June 2017 In small saucepan, combine the sugar and water over medium high heat until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and add the mint. Cool and refrigerate for up to one week. In a blender, add strawberries and simple syrup and blend well. Add into a pitcher with the vodka and blood orange soda and serve over ice with a mint garnish.