Well, the concluding days of summertime are here. My classroom is ready, tomorrow I consider my novel niggling start graders at our schoolhouse opened upwardly house, as well as and then Mon schoolhouse starts. But I'm even thence hanging on to summertime, living inward denial that it's really over.
So, to prolong my time-of-denial, I'm sharing alongside yous this Classic Homemade Lemonade. Doesn't a tall, mutual depression temperature drinking glass of lemonade but hollo summertime to you? And making it homemade is really thence slowly ... as well as tastes to much amend than the not-homemade kinds.
But earlier I portion how to brand really slowly homemade lemonade ... to help with prolonging my 'summer's-not-over' denial ... I figured I'd portion some of my favorite "food" memories from this summer. During my summertime travels, I had the chance to try quite a few interesting new-to-me foods. Here are a few highlights ...
Wine Tasting inward 3 dissimilar states - Yup, tasting inward 3 states ... North Carolina, Georgia, as well as Pennsylvania. I love wine. My favorite from these adventures? Super difficult to say ... but I really enjoyed the 3 varietals of sparkling vino at Wolf Mountain Vineyards & Winery inward Dahlonega, GA, as well as the oaked chardonnay from Laurel Gray Vineyards inward Hamptonville, NC.
Spicy Dark Chocolate Truffles alongside Cayenne Pepper - Definitely non every bit expert every bit I had imagined inward my head.
Cooking alongside Lavender - I was thence excited to stumble across a department inward the dorsum corner of a niggling store dedicated to lavander products from Mountain Farm, a lavander (and huckleberry as well as dairy goat) farm inward the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina. I snatched upwardly a niggling cookbook dedicated to cooking alongside lavender, as well as forthwith whipped upwardly lavender lemonade as well as lavender & beloved balsamic vinaigrette. I've decided that I love lavender!
Lavender Ice Cream - Did I get upwardly I convey a new-found love of lavender? While having dinner inward the niggling town of East Berlin, PA, I got to campaign homemade lavander H2O ice cream. Absolutely out-of-this-world good!
Roasted Sweet Potato Quiche - During our vino tasting trip in Dahlonega, GA, nosotros stayed in the wonderfully-relaxing, beautiful Mountain Laurel Creek Inn ... as well as they served the best breakfasts. Seriously. The best. One of which was a roasted sweet Irish Gaelic patato quiche. So, so, thence good. Of class I asked for the recipe and, fortunately, they shared it alongside me as well as gave me permission to portion it on . I haven't made it yet ... but believe me, I will! And as well as then I'll survive certain to portion it alongside you.
Sweet Bologna - While traveling inward Pennsylvania alongside 2 of my college roommates, I had the chance to campaign authentic sweetness bologna made at a small-scale family-owned delicatessen. I had never heard of sweetness bologna, knowing pretty much exclusively of the Oscar Mayer-type. (Oh, as well as I but sang the Oscar Mayer bologna vocal inward my caput to spell the words correctly ... come on, yous know the song! "My bologna has a start name, it's O-S-C-A-R. My bologna has a instant name, it's M-A-Y-E-R ...)
Anyway, sweetness bologna genuinely looks much to a greater extent than similar a type of salami than bologna, as well as tastes ... good ... a fleck sweet. It was really good! I'm told that it, along alongside scrapple, is a specialty of the expanse nosotros were in. (I'm happy to say that, despite great pressure level from 1 of my college roommates, I successfully avoided trying scrapple.)
Chocolate covered bacon - Surprisingly, amazingly delicious!
Chocolate covered barbecue Irish Gaelic patato chips - I love chocolate covered Irish Gaelic patato chips, thence I but had to give chocolate covered barbecue Irish Gaelic patato chips a campaign when I came across them. Not 1 of my amend choices. Amazingly NOT delicious!
I intend I'm going to become select handgrip of a glass as well as proceed to pretend that summer's non over. Shhhhh! ... permit me alive inward my denial for but a few to a greater extent than days, okay?
Classic Homemade Lemonade
Source: My Mom
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
1 c. fresh lemon juice (about half dozen lemons)
3/4 c. sugar
iv c. mutual depression temperature water
1 lemon, unpeeled as well as thinly sliced
Ice cubes
Directions
1. Combine lemon juice as well as saccharide inward a pitcher. Stir to dissolve sugar.
2. Add mutual depression temperature H2O as well as lemon slices, stir to combine. Add some H2O ice cubes as well as serve over ice.
Note - I commonly brand a double batch. You tin substitute Splenda or other saccharide substitute but fine.
Enjoy!
