sip and read

The Food and Pottery Connection is about sipping something sweet from a handmade source while exploring NEW cookbooks.

To Sip in Summer:

Watermelon Berry Sparkler 

recipe from Redbook - makes 16

• 2 cup(s) watermelon, cubed and seeded
• 1 container(s) (6 ounces) red raspberries
• 2 tablespoon(s) superfine sugar, use 3 tablespoons if too tart
•  cold brut champagne or prosecco (dry Italian sparkling wine

1. Puree watermelon and raspberries in a blender. Scrape mixture through a fine sieve into a bowl; discard seeds. Stir sugar into puree (adding more if too tart). Puree can be made up to 1 day ahead and refrigerated.
2. For sparklers, pour 2 tbsp puree into each champagne glass and top with 4 oz cold brut champagne or prosecco. For a nonalcoholic version, use club soda or seltzer instead.

To Sip from:

Pretty dishwasher safe tumblers

dedham square artist guild

To Read (while sipping):

1. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier by Ree Drummond

2. Dinner: A Love Story: It all begins at the family table by Jenny Rosenstrach

3. The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman (due out in October!)

Cool Down

We have been struggling through the heat this summer in New England. Ice tea and lemonade are favorite drinks and I always try to have a nice selection on hand. Using fresh mint from the friendship garden at Powessit, this makes for a nice cool down...

Iced Mint Tea - serves 4

Great Good Food by Julee Rosso

4 tea bags
1 orange, thinly sliced
1 lemon, thinly sliced
1/4 c sugar
1/2 c fresh chopped mint
4 short mint sprigs

1. Seep tea bags in boiling water for 5 minutes.
2. Place orange and lemon in a pitcher. When ready, pour tea into the pitcher. Add sugar and mint. Chill for 1 hour.
3. Serve in tall glasses filled with ice and garnish with mint sprigs.

Tumblers for iced tea or lemonade...