Save money (and skip the heels!) by spritzing into summer with these light and refreshing cocktail recipes you can make at home using organic ingredients. Who needs a bar when you can make delicious treats like this for enjoyment in your own backyard?

Blackberry Prosecco

1 pint organic blackberries

1 tablespoon organic sugar

Chilled Prosecco

Puree blackberries and sugar together in the blender and strain through a fine mesh sieve to remove the seeds.  Pour about 2 tablespoons of the blackberry puree into each champagne glass and top with chilled prosecco.  Drop in a couple whole blackberries, then Chin chin!

 

Cucumber Mint Sake Spritzer

6 organic Cucumber slices

10 Mint leaves (check your farmer's market for this!)

1 lime wedge

1 teaspoon organic sugar

2 oz organic sake

Ginger soda

Ice

In the bottom of a highball glass, vigorously muddle the cucumber, mint, lime, and sugar with a wooden spoon.  Fill glass with ice, pour in sake, and top off with your favorite ginger soda.  Garnish with a cucumber slice and mint sprig.  Cheers!

Citrus Sake Spritzer

1 organic orange slice

1 organic lemon slice

1 organic lime slice

1 teaspoon organic sugar

2 oz organic sake

Lemon-Lime soda (try Blue Sky Organics, which got a two-leaf rating from Greenopia)

Ice

In the bottom of a highball glass, vigorously muddle the orange, lemon, lime and sugar with a wooden spoon.  Fill glass with ice, pour in sake, and top off with your favorite lemon-lime soda.  Garnish with an orange slice.  Enjoy!  

 

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