L is for Lemonade and a Book Review

This is my 9-year-old granddaughter's recipe for Lemonade that is the perfect amount of sweet and tart.

L is for Lemonade......

\We are working our way through the alphabet this year, one letter every other Wednesday, making a recipe that either starts with the letter or contains a main ingredient that begins with the letter.

This week's letter is L.  Let's see what everyone is sharing......

• Sneha’s Recipe: Lemon Rice/Chitranna 
• Food Lust People Love: Easy Lamb and Fresh Tomato Curry
• Culinary Cam: Lingcod Over Legumes 
• Jolene’s Recipe Journal: Lemon Vinaigrette 
• A Day in the Life on the Farm: Melody’s Homemade Lemonade 
• Mayuri’s Jikoni: Mediterranean Lentil Salad 
• Karen’s Kitchen Stories: Barbecue Pork Lo Mein 
• Blogghetti Lemon Pepper Tilapia Sheet Pan Dinner 
• Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice: Fresh Dill Deviled Eggs with a Hint of Lemon 
• Palatable Pastime: Liver and Onions 
• A Messy Kitchen: Lemon Balm Jelly

My Angel Face has been making homemade lemonade during the summers since she was about 6.  She always lets me know when she has a stand out front and I drive 40 minutes to get a glass and pay her an exorbitant amount of money for the privilege.  

And I'm not the only one, her Aunt Amy makes the trek too and she is usually much more generous than I.  Of course, all her neighbors come out and are very generous too.  A lot of it is in the marketing, of course, but the lemonade is the best I have ever enjoyed.

I was reading the 4th book of the Gamache series by Louise Penny and in the very beginning of the book, Gamache and his wife, return to the Inn where they spent their honeymoon.  This is an annual event for them, returning each year on their anniversary.

Gamache is enjoying a glass of lemonade that he anticipates for an entire year.  This made me think of the Angel Face and her lemonade so the next time she came over I asked her to make it for me.

"Ok, the first thing, this is the most important, you have to wash your hands really good".

"Then you squeeze in the lemons, probably 4 or 5 of them"

"Next you add in the sugar. Start with a little, you can always add more.  Then add the water and taste.  If it is not sweet enough you can add more sugar.  If it is not tart enough you can add more lemon.  You just want to make sure it is the perfect amount of sweet and sour."

"When it is perfect, then you mix it some more to make sure all the sugar is dissolved and then you can add the ice.  It is ready to drink now."

So I am much luckier than Gamache as I got to enjoy the best lemonade ever without having to travel from home or get stuck solving a murder.  

I enjoyed this 4th book of the series that, while not set in Three Pines, it did include some of the characters that I have come to know and love.   

Gamache is surprised when his friends Peter and Clara arrive at the Inn for Peter's annual family reunion.  When Peter's sister is killed, Gamache finds himself in a position of considering his friend a suspect in the murder.

I find that I am enjoying this series more with each book that I read.  If you like murder mysteries you might want to give them a try.

Drinks, Lemons, Lemonade

Drinks

American

Yield: 1 pitcher

Author: Wendy Klik

Homemade Lemonade

This is my 9-year-old granddaughter's recipe for Lemonade that is the perfect amount of sweet and tart.

Prep time: 10 MinTotal time: 10 Min

Ingredients

• 4-5 lemons
• 1/3-2/3 c. sugar
• 5 c. cold water
• Ice

Instructions

1. Squeeze the juice from the lemons into a large pitcher. Stir in 1/3 c. sugar until dissolved.
2. Add the water to the lemon mixture and taste. Add more sugar/lemon juice as needed for your taste, stirring well to dissolve any sugar granules.
3. Fill the pitcher with ice and stir again.

Notes

Recipe courtesy of Melody.

Nutrition Facts

Calories

397.61

Fat (grams)

1.67 g

Sat. Fat (grams)

0.19 g

Carbs (grams)

111.7 g

Fiber (grams)

13.61 g

Net carbs

98.09 g

Sugar (grams)

78.68 g

Protein (grams)

5.35 g

Sodium (milligrams)

72.34 mg

Cholesterol (grams)

0 mg

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