Classic Homemade Lemonade & Summertime Memories

Well, the terminal days of summertime are here. My classroom is ready, tomorrow I come across my novel footling start graders at our schoolhouse opened upwardly house, as well as and then Mon schoolhouse starts. But I'm nevertheless hanging on to summertime, living inward denial that it's real over.

So, to prolong my time-of-denial, I'm sharing alongside you lot this Classic Homemade Lemonade. Doesn't a tall, mutual coldness drinking glass of lemonade merely squall summertime to you? And making it homemade is real thus slow ... as well as tastes to much improve than the not-homemade kinds.

But earlier I percentage how to brand real slow homemade lemonade ... to assistance with prolonging my 'summer's-not-over' denial ... I figured I'd percentage 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 real 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 equally proficient equally I had imagined inward my head.

Cooking alongside Lavender - I was thus excited to stumble across a department inward the dorsum corner of a footling 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 footling cookbook dedicated to cooking alongside lavender, as well as directly whipped upwardly lavender lemonade as well as lavender & beloved balsamic vinaigrette. I've decided that I love lavender!

Lavender Ice Cream - Did I advert I bring a new-found love of lavender? While having dinner inward the footling town of East Berlin, PA, I got to attempt 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 tater quiche. So, so, thus good. Of course of pedagogy I asked for the recipe and, fortunately, they shared it alongside me as well as gave me permission to percentage it on . I haven't made it yet ... but believe me, I will! And as well as then I'll live on certain to percentage it alongside you.

Sweet Bologna - While traveling inward Pennsylvania alongside 2 of my college roommates, I had the chance to attempt authentic sweetness bologna made at a pocket-size family-owned delicatessen. I had never heard of sweetness bologna, knowing pretty much entirely of the Oscar Mayer-type. (Oh, as well as I merely sang the Oscar Mayer bologna vocal inward my caput to spell the words correctly ... come on, you lot know the song! "My bologna has a start name, it's O-S-C-A-R. My bologna has a bit 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 real 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 ane of my college roommates, I successfully avoided trying scrapple.)

Chocolate covered bacon - Surprisingly, amazingly delicious!

Chocolate covered barbecue tater chips - I love chocolate covered tater chips, thus I merely had to give chocolate covered barbecue tater chips a attempt when I came across them. Not ane of my improve choices. Amazingly NOT delicious!

And at nowadays dorsum to homemade lemonade. To brand this classic refreshing summertime sipper, all you lot bring 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 mean value I'm going to become pick out handgrip of a glass as well as run along to pretend that summer's non over. Shhhhh! ... allow me alive inward my denial for merely 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
four c. mutual coldness 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 coldness H2O as well as lemon slices, stir to combine. Add some H2O ice cubes as well as serve over ice.

Note - I unremarkably brand a double batch. You tin substitute Splenda or other saccharide substitute merely fine.

Enjoy!