Lavender Lemonade

Lavender Lemonade ... you'll autumn inwards dear amongst its beautiful as well as calming shade of pink, as well as its fragrant floral season of lavender.

I am absolutely enamoured amongst this lavander lemonade.

Isn't it beautiful? 

Such a calming and comforting shade of pink.  Like the inside of a polished seashell.  You know, those large ones you check upwards to your ear as well as you're supposed to hear the ocean?



On a recent mount cabin get-away girls' weekend amongst 1 of my friends, nosotros went poking around some shops inwards a trivial mount town.  I stumbled across a department inwards the dorsum corner of 1 of these trivial shops dedicated to lavander products from Mountain Farm, a lavander (and huckleberry as well as dairy goat) farm inwards the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina.

Since many of the products had to produce amongst cooking, I ... of class ... 'got stuck' inwards this corner for quite some fourth dimension ... reading all the production labels, my require heed swirling amongst ideas.

I'd never cooked amongst lavender.  And I was intrigued.  I swear I could convey bought every production inwards there.

I settled on only three.  Pretty proficient restraint on my part, if I produce nation as well as thus myself.

One of them was this A Taste of Lavender cookbook from Mountain Farm, amongst a trivial package of dried lavander inwards the back.

As shortly equally I got habitation I gave Mountain Farm's lavender lemonade recipe a try.

And I dear it.  Lemonade infused amongst the florally fragrant gustation of lavender.  But not too much, as well as thus it's overpowering.  It was only correct to me.

Over ice, a tall drinking glass of lavander lemonade is perfectly refreshing on a hot summertime day.  Yup, I'll hold out making lavander lemonade 1 time again ... for sure.

Lavender Lemonade

Source:  Adapted from A Taste of Lavender: Culinary Delights from Mountain Farm compiled past times Linda Thompson & Marilyn Cade

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

• 4 sprigs fresh lavander (flowers & stems) or nearly 1 T. dried lavander flowers
• 1 1/2 c. granulated saccharide
• 1 c. fresh lemon juice (about vi lemons)
• 1/4 c. fresh lime juice (about two limes)
• 2 quarts water

Directions

1. Bring H2O as well as saccharide to a boil inwards a large saucepan. When saccharide is dissolved, take away from heat.
2. Add lavender, lemon juice, as well as lime juice. Cool to room temperature, strain, as well as chill.
3. Serve over H2O ice garnished amongst lemon slices as well as lavander sprigs.

Enjoy!

Enjoy these other refreshing beverages from ...

Blueberry-Lime Iced Tea

Almond Iced Tea

Classic Homemade Lemonade

Kiwi Sangria Popsicles

The championship of the Southern Living  periodical article from which I adapted these popsicles was "Serve a Cocktail on a Stick" ... ummmmmm, okay!  You actually don't demand to twist my arm on that one.

And since these convey kiwi inwards them, I decided they were simply perfect to give a whirl for this month's installment of the Eating the Alphabet challenge - letters K or L.  The master recipe was for white peach sangria pops, alongside a petty splash of kiwi too raspberry ... I decided to change it upwards to hold out simply kiwi with a touching on of raspberry.  I intend you lot could set inwards simply nigh whatsoever fruit you'd like!

Remember these cute petty Dixie newspaper cups?  That's what you'll demand to whip upwards these popsicles.

First mix up roughly white wine, white grape juice, sugar, too fresh lemon juice ... too pour it into the cute petty cups.

Then drib inwards a raspberry too roughly kiwi.

(Optional)
Next, acquire inquisitive nigh the wine-and-fruit combination ... give it a petty taste ... determine it tastes actually expert ... too serve upwards an un-frozen popsicle for the chef.   You know, 'cause this cookin' stuff's stone oil too the chef deserves it.

Then comprehend each loving cup alongside a modest while of aluminum foil too brand a modest slit inwards the middle of the foil alongside a knife ...

 ... too insert a popsicle stick through the slit.

You're laid for the freezer! 

Now ane large tip I tin give is to brand certain you've cleared a spot inwards your freezer to set these before you're standing at that spot alongside the freezer door broad open, ane mitt precariously holding a plate of liquid popsicles, too one-handedly trying to rearrange the entire freezer contents.

I might convey learned that the difficult way.

When you're laid to enjoy your popsicles, simply pare off the newspaper loving cup too bask away!

Mmmmm.  Popsicles are all grown up.

Kiwi Sangria Popsicles

Source:  Adapted from Southern Living  magazine's White Peach Sangria Pops, July 2012

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

two 1/4 c. dry out or semi-sweet white wine*

3/4 c. white grape juice

1/3 c. sugar

1 T. fresh lemon juice

12 raspberries

two kiwi fruit, peeled too sliced

12 (3 oz.) newspaper cups

12 wooden popsicle sticks or H2O ice cream spoons

Directions

1.  Combine wine, grape juice, sugar, too lemon juice inwards large measurement cup.  Stir until carbohydrate dissolves.  Pour mixture into newspaper cups.  

2.  Quarter each kiwi slice.  Drop a raspberry and four kiwi quarters into each cup.

3.  Cover each loving cup alongside aluminum foil.  Make a modest slit inwards the middle of each cup's foil too insert a popsicle stick.  Freeze 8 hours or until firm.

*NOTE:  For this batch I used a semi-sweet sparkling Moscato.

Enjoy!

Lavender Lemonade

Lavender Lemonade ... you'll autumn inwards dear amongst its beautiful as well as calming shade of pink, as well as its fragrant floral season of lavender.

I am absolutely enamoured amongst this lavander lemonade.

Isn't it beautiful? 

Such a calming and comforting shade of pink.  Like the inside of a polished seashell.  You know, those large ones you check upwards to your ear as well as you're supposed to hear the ocean?



On a recent mount cabin get-away girls' weekend amongst 1 of my friends, nosotros went poking around some shops inwards a trivial mount town.  I stumbled across a department inwards the dorsum corner of 1 of these trivial shops dedicated to lavander products from Mountain Farm, a lavander (and huckleberry as well as dairy goat) farm inwards the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina.

Since many of the products had to produce amongst cooking, I ... of class ... 'got stuck' inwards this corner for quite some fourth dimension ... reading all the production labels, my require heed swirling amongst ideas.

I'd never cooked amongst lavender.  And I was intrigued.  I swear I could convey bought every production inwards there.

I settled on only three.  Pretty proficient restraint on my part, if I produce nation as well as thus myself.

One of them was this A Taste of Lavender cookbook from Mountain Farm, amongst a trivial package of dried lavander inwards the back.

As shortly equally I got habitation I gave Mountain Farm's lavender lemonade recipe a try.

And I dear it.  Lemonade infused amongst the florally fragrant gustation of lavender.  But not too much, as well as thus it's overpowering.  It was only correct to me.

Over ice, a tall drinking glass of lavander lemonade is perfectly refreshing on a hot summertime day.  Yup, I'll hold out making lavander lemonade 1 time again ... for sure.

Lavender Lemonade

Source:  Adapted from A Taste of Lavender: Culinary Delights from Mountain Farm compiled past times Linda Thompson & Marilyn Cade

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

• 4 sprigs fresh lavander (flowers & stems) or nearly 1 T. dried lavander flowers
• 1 1/2 c. granulated saccharide
• 1 c. fresh lemon juice (about vi lemons)
• 1/4 c. fresh lime juice (about two limes)
• 2 quarts water

Directions

1. Bring H2O as well as saccharide to a boil inwards a large saucepan. When saccharide is dissolved, take away from heat.
2. Add lavender, lemon juice, as well as lime juice. Cool to room temperature, strain, as well as chill.
3. Serve over H2O ice garnished amongst lemon slices as well as lavander sprigs.

Enjoy!

Enjoy these other refreshing beverages from ...

Blueberry-Lime Iced Tea

Almond Iced Tea

Classic Homemade Lemonade

Classic Homemade Lemonade & Summertime Memories

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! 

 And at nowadays dorsum to homemade lemonade.  To brand this classic refreshing summertime sipper, all yous convey to do is squeeze some juicy fresh lemons, mix the juice alongside saccharide as well as water, add together some H2O ice as well as fresh lemon slices, as well as pour a large ol' drinking glass to enjoy.  It's that simple.

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!

Classic Homemade Lemonade & Summertime Memories

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! 

 And at nowadays dorsum to homemade lemonade.  To brand this classic refreshing summertime sipper, all yous convey to do is squeeze some juicy fresh lemons, mix the juice alongside saccharide as well as water, add together some H2O ice as well as fresh lemon slices, as well as pour a large ol' drinking glass to enjoy.  It's that simple.

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!

Leprechaun Shakes {& Trapping A Leprechaun!}

It may live on difficult to trap a leprechaun, but it's slow to whip upward Leprechaun Shakes!  Enjoy these tasty petty shakes for an slow St. Patrick's Day treat.

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It's that fourth dimension of year!  Yes, the fourth dimension of yr when rascally petty leprechauns brand their appearances inwards all the craziest of places.  And terminal yr ... nosotros had i plow upward inwards my 1st bird classroom!  Can yous believe it?

He turned over the chairs inwards our classroom.  Threw petty shamrocks all over everything.  Left us light-headed notes on the whiteboard.  Dropped his chapeau i solar daytime ... in addition to his sock the next.  He fifty-fifty tried to steal our pot of gold, leaving our carpeting littered amongst petty gilded pieces ... how dare he.

So, of course, my students decided nosotros needed to effort to trap him - I mean, he did effort to accept our gilded in addition to all.  And here's how nosotros decided to produce it.

Now, I didn't actually plan to blueprint in addition to brand a leprechaun trap amongst my students - it simply form of evolved.  And sometimes those are the absolute best classroom activities.

Leprechaun Shakes are a fun in addition to slow St. Patrick's Day process kids tin pretty much brand themselves.

On the outset solar daytime our leprechaun made his presence known, a duet of students said, "Hey!  Maybe nosotros tin select handgrip of him!"  After a flake of "classroom chatter," it came to lite that the cast persuasion it would live on a groovy persuasion to create a trap.  So I simply rattling off-handedly said, "That mightiness live on a proficient idea.  If anyone thinks of a proficient agency to blueprint a leprechaun trap, nosotros could regard doing that."

The side past times side morning, i of my sweetness petty 1st bird boys walked inwards amongst a drawing of a leprechaun trap he had designed.  And it was a good blueprint drawing, consummate amongst arrows of how things would move in addition to everything!  {I recall nosotros may lead maintain a hereafter engineer inwards the works.}

As a teacher, how could I perchance resist that?

So, equally a class, nosotros fix close edifice the leprechaun trap this creative petty man child had designed.  He shared his blueprint drawing amongst the class, in addition to and hence nosotros brainstormed a listing of the things nosotros would take away ... a box, a stick, about string, in addition to about leprechaun bait.  We decided a gilded money would live on groovy bait.  I brought all the materials inwards the side past times side solar daytime in addition to a-building nosotros went.

Here's how our leprechaun trap turned out:

Looks pretty good, don't yous think?

And I loved that nosotros didn't simply slap it together willy-nilly ... No, non this class.  I had brought inwards several sticks equally possibilities.  And they didn't simply wishing to selection one.  Nope.  They wanted to test each i to run across which i would move best.  Love it.

It may live on difficult to trap a leprechaun, but it's slow to whip up Leprechaun Shakes!  Enjoy these tasty petty shakes for an slow St. Patrick's Day treat.

When the trap didn't select handgrip of the leprechaun on the outset day, conversations ensued close how they could brand their groovy trap fifty-fifty better.  So sweet!

It was decided that the things Mr. Leprechaun dropped inwards our room needed to live on added to the trap equally to a greater extent than bait ...



... along amongst a rainbow that Pb direct to the pot of gilded nosotros assumed he was after.  Clever.



Alas, nosotros did non succeed inwards trapping the leprechaun.

But nosotros did succeed inwards gobbling upward about delicious shakes that he inspired.  Leprechaun Shakes, to live on exact.

Leprechaun Shakes are a fun in addition to slow St. Patrick's Day process kids tin pretty much brand themselves.  All yous produce is scoop about vanilla H2O ice cream into a drinking glass in addition to crush inwards close iv drops or hence of dark-green nutrient coloring ...

Top off the drinking glass amongst about lemon-lime flavored soda {that usage should in all probability live on done past times an adult}.

Then stir away in addition to sentry the color transform into beautiful swirls of greens!

Top the milk shiver amongst a squirt of whipped cream in addition to a few rainbow sprinkles ... and, voila! ... you've got Leprechaun shakes to enjoy.  So unproblematic in addition to hence delicious.

We decided ours were specially groovy when enjoyed amongst a St. Patrick's Day give-and-take search.

So whip upward i of these super slow Leprechaun Shakes to relish yourself for St. Patrick's Day.  

Just don't aspect until yous select handgrip of your leprechaun!  You mightiness live on waiting a long fourth dimension ... because, equally nosotros flora out, leprechauns are tricky petty things.

Thank yous for stopping past times . We'd honey to lead maintain yous dorsum soon!

Leprechaun Shakes

Source:  Adapted from Mrs. Morrow's Kindergarten
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients
For each shake:

• 2 or 3 scoops of vanilla H2O ice cream or frozen yogurt
• 4 or 5 drops of dark-green nutrient coloring
• rainbow sprinkles
• lemon-lime soda (such equally Sprite or 7-Up)
• whipped cream

Directions

1. Place H2O ice cream inwards a tall glass. Drip the dark-green nutrient coloring drops on exceed of the H2O ice cream.
2. Slowly pour soda into the drinking glass until the drinking glass is nearly full. Sprinkle on a few rainbow sprinkles, in addition to stir until the milk shiver turns green.
3. Top amongst a squirt or dollop of whipped cream in addition to additional rainbow sprinkles, if desired.

Enjoy!

Enjoy these other fun-for-St.-Patrick's-Day dishes from ...

New England Boiled Dinner {Corned Beef, Cabbage & Root Vegetables}

Corned Beef & Cabbage

Grasshopper Cheesecake Squares

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