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Mocktail is a drink which is made without any alcohol. It can be made with various ingredients such as Squashes, Syrups, fruit & vegetable Juices, Fruit pulp, Soda water, and Aerated water.

The majority of mocktail beverages are served in places like restaurants with bars, especially those restaurants known for concocting fabulous drinks. It’s always fun to offer something at parties that it is delightful to drink and that to without alcohol. Most of the mocktails are come into existence due to classical and non classical cocktails. The moment we don’t add any alcohol in few classical and non classical cocktail recipes, those are called as Mocktails. When we have parties at home or any other place we do invite our dear and near friends and their families, in that we have some children, teen agers and ladies to whom we cannot offer an alcoholic drink. So we need something to quench their thirst & make them comfortable in that party atmosphere and with the help of that they will be able to enjoy the party in real manner.

So today I am going to share some mouth watery and fabulous mocktail recipes. Those are very easy and very tasty that will quenched your thirst. And we don’t need to spend too much of money on it. Those are pretty reasonable drinks & with the help of that you can make your guests happy.

Fruit Punch

Ingredients

45 ml- chilled orange juice
45ml- chilled mango juice
45ml- chilled pineapple juice
1 scoop Vanilla ice cream
any fruit for garnish

Recipe

Pour all the juice in mixing glass
Then add vanilla ice cream in the mixing glass
Blend all the ingredients till ice cream get mixed with other juices
Garnish with apple, strawberry or any other fruit

Peach Delight

Ingredients

30 ml peach syrup
60 ml sprite
Add soda to top up with a dash of grenadine syrup
Peach slice or lemon slice for garnishing

Recipe

· Pour peach syrup in high ball glass

· Then add sprite in to it & stir well

· Then top up with soda & a dash of grenadine syrup.

· Garnish with lemon slice or peach slice or piece of peach cut in triangular shape.

Guava Spice

Ingredients

120 ml- chilled guava juice
4-5 ice cubes
Lime wedge to rim the glass
Mixture of red chilly powder & salt

Recipe

Pour the juice in mixing glass
Then add ice cubes the mixing glass & pinch of red chilly powder & salt mixture
Stir well till ice melt & juice get diluted because of that the thickness of juice goes out
Move lime wedge on the glass rim and after that put glass rim in the mixture of red chilli powder & salt
Move the glass in round the clock position till glass get properly rimed with that mixture
Give a tap at the end of glass because of that excessive mixture will fall down in plate and we will get proper rim
Then pour the entire mixture of juice and masala into the rimmed glass.

Dark Nyt

Ingredients

15 ml- chilled guava juice
30ml- Black Current Squash
60ml- Sprite
And soda to top up
Chaat masala
Crushed ice

Recipe

Pour the lime juice & black current squash in mixing glass
Then add sprite and pinch of chaat masala
After that add soda and mix all the ingredients properly
Move lime wedge on the glass rim and after that put glass rim in chaat masala
Move the glass in round the clock position till glass get properly rimed with chaat masala
Give a tap at the end of glass, because of that excessive chaat masala will fall down in plate and we will get proper rim
Add crushed ice into the glass
After that pour all the mixture from mixing glass into rimmed glass.

Slancha (thats Cheers in Irish).........

Nowadays people are more interested in fine dining not only in restaurants or hotels but at their homes too. They give more importance to fine dining which gives a clear picture about their standard of living. Thus they have to set up table according to the dinner theme & napkin folding is the essential part of table set up which gives eye appealing looks to the table .

Whether we are preparing a formal feast or a simple lunch, the table sets the scene for the meal and beautifully elegant laid table creates a sense of anticipation among our guests, who can look forward for a special time.

A table is dressed for dinner with crisp white linen & best chinaware, then accessorized with sparkling cut glasses, flickering candles & to complete the setup, we need inventively folded napkins to set mood for special occasion. We do utilize same linen, chinaware & glasses to set the table again for different occasions, but to give different look to the table set up we can use different types of napkin folds which will give variety and new looks to the table setup .

So in this blog we will be able to do different kinds of napkin folds for various functions.