The Thirsty Diva ™

Who doesn’t love coffee? This is perfect for summer or anytime. I’ve used regular coffee, because that’s all I had on hand. You can use coarse ground coffee for this too. You can serve this cold or hot. 1 - 3 oz. ground coffee 4 - 6 c. cold water In the bottom of a clean jar, pour coffee.  Run cold water for a few seconds and put water into jar.  Screw lid on jar and place in refrigerator to steep for 12 - 15 hrs.  When you’re ready to serve, remove jar from fridge, unscrew lid from jar, strain coffee through a tea strainer into coffee cups or into a glass over ice for iced coffee.  Serves 2 - 4.

This is perfect for summer or anytime. 4 - 6 oz. rum 1 T. each: sugar, lime juice 8 mint leaves 4 c. approx ( 1 liter bottle) club soda Ice Place 4 clean glasses in freezer to chill for a few minutes. Rinse and pat dry mint leaves, set aside. For each drink: Remove glasses from freezer. In the bottom of glass, place some of the sugar, lime juice, 1 mint leaf. With the back of clean spoon, muddle mint leaves, lime, sugar together. Add ice, rum and top off drink with club soda. Garnish glasses with remaining mint leaves. Serves 4.