morir sonando, originally uploaded by c(h)ristine.
I picked up Saveur Magazine’s “100″ issue–the issue that lists their 100 favorite foods, restaurants, drinks, people, places, and things. While reading through it (this is a yearly tradition in my life), I dogeared all the pages with especially attractive items, for example: (9) Breakfast in the Raw (”tamago kake gohan,” a favorite of mine throughout the years–raw egg stirred with soy sauce and hot rice)….(50) a recipe for pecan pralines….and (86) morir sonando, a Dominican beverage of fresh-squeezed orange juice, milk, sugar, and a dash of vanilla extract shaken with ice.
The morir sonando sounds a bit like a creamsicle or florida freeze (or most probably the other way around), and it’s just what I felt like whipping up today while convalescing at home. I shook the concoction in two glasses until it was a fizzy, creamy, orange-scented blissful mix.
And then? I guzzled it down. It was what I needed today–a cheerful, uplifting drink of orange and milk, with the right amount of sweetness and vanilla complexity.
My recipe was simple:
equal parts of orange juice and milk. A dash of sugar (a handful?). And a splash of vanilla extract.
Here are some other recipes for morir sonando, which means “to die in a dream”–most of the recipes call for a mixture of orange juice and milk. One recipe in particular calls for lime/lemon juice and milk. I’ll have to try that next.
Recipes follow after the jump…
