okay, so if you know me you know that i don't cook. so it's pretty rare for me to have a recipe...

that said! my besty recently had a spare soda stream that fell off the back of a truck, so i now have a soda stream. this has raised long-standing desires to make home-made ginger ale. so, tonight i made a trick down to rainbow and gave it a shot.

the essence is: make syrup, make fizzy water, combine. the soda stream takes care of the fizzy water. here's how you make the soda:

boil the following things in a saucepan:
1. 2 portions ginger coarsely chopped
2. 7 portions water
3. about the same amount of unsweetened pineapple juice
4. juice from 2 limes
5. juice from half a lemon
6. 2 portions sugar (i think next time i'd do 3-- 2 is perfect for the syrup but the fizzy water adds some bitterness that needs more water)

Boil it, tasting with a spoon, until you make the face of awesome tartness.
Then add 1 more portion of sugar & keep boiling it.

Pour it into a vessel, straining out ginger chunks.

Combine with fizzy water, drink, make the face of awesome tartness and raise a glass to me.

xoxo

N