Tropical Slush

If you are slogging through winter right now and looking to get in a more tropical state of mind, give this a try. This is my wife’s family recipe and it’s pretty delicious.

Ingredients

• 3oz Strawberry Jello
• 1 can frozen concentrated orange juice (defrosted)
• 1 can frozen concentrated lemonade (defrosted)
• 3 Tablespoons ice tea mix
• white rum (about half a bottle)
• Diet Ginger Ale
• 16oz Mason Jars (optional)

Directions

1. In a large bowl or pot, dissolved the strawberry jello into 5 cups of warm tap water.
2. Dissolve the 3 tablespoons of tea mix into 2 cups of cold water.
3. Combine the two together.
4. Add the defrosted OJ and lemonade.
5. Pour in about half of bottle of white rum. You can vary this up or down depending on how tropical you want to feel…
6. Fill the Mason Jars up to the 8oz mark, cap them, and place them in the freezer. Otherwise you can just fill the drink mix into shallow plastic tubs like Glad-ware and freeze them.
7. When you are ready to drink them, take the jar out of the freezer, fill the jar to the top with diet ginger ale or diet 7up, and mix the contents well.

A couple of these will warm you from the inside even on the coldest of winter nights. They sneak up on you, so be sure and grab an Uber if you do have to go out into reality…