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Make Your Gourmet Lemonade Party

March 5, 2010 by laura Leave a Comment

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MAKE YOUR OWN GOURMET LEMONADE PARTY

In the story of our life, the story I write in my head for the days stretching far out into the expanse of our future, the hubby and I move our children to a neighborhood deep in the south. We live in a freshly painted home the color of a melon with perwinkle gingerbread accents and pure white trim. There is a white fence out front and a porch with a cushioned swing which hums itself back and forth on steamy summer nights.
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Fireflies flit themselves through treelined streets as the children run barefoot, shouting “Olly Olly Oxen Free” to hidden neighbor friends. Parents are perched on porches, leaning on picket fences, fanning themselves with folded sheets of newspaper with one hand while the other hand curls around a cool glass of lemonade. The husbands are in khaki pants and blue, collared shirts. The wives wear ringlet curls and polka-dot dresses.

MAKE YOUR OWN GOURMET LEMONADE PARTY

We sigh at the summer heat. We sip our glasses filled with sweet, lemony nectar. We wave at the sunkissed children playing in the twinkling twilight. We tip our heads toward each other, eyes shining with the light of fireflies and the heat of passion.

MAKE YOUR OWN GOURMET LEMONADE PARTY

Ahhh, life in the South. Won’t that be the loveliest?

MAKE YOUR OWN GOURMET LEMONADE PARTY

And, if you live in the South, don’t you dare tell me this isn’t exactly what your summer’s are like. I’d have a really hard time considering my future without fireflies and lemonade and polka-dot dresses.
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Though, I might be willing to settle for a cold glass of lemonade on a sunny Colorado afternoon while John tends to the lawn and the kids chase the chihuahua. Yep, I could definitely go for that instead.

MAKE YOUR OWN GOURMET LEMONADE PARTY

Gourmet Lemonade Syrup Concentrate

As simple as gourmet comes, yeilding enough concentrate to make glass after glorious glass of this sweet, fresh lemonade with just a titch of added flavor for interest. How lovely is that?!
3 c. fresh-squeezed lemon juice
3 c. sugar
2 whole nutmeg
Dash of ground nutmeg
1/2 vanilla bean (one with the seeds already scraped out)
1/4 tsp. almond flavoring
In a large saucepan, combine 1 1/2 cups of the lemon juice and all of the sugar. Add the whole nutmeg, dash of nutmeg, vanilla bean and almond flavoring. Stir together over medium-high heat, just until the sugar dissolves. Remove and stir in remaining lemon juice. Store in the fridge for up to 1 week.
To make lemonade: add three parts of water to one part of lemonade concentrate.
To host a lemonade party: Serve glasses of lemonade with Pure Fruit Icecubes, allowing guests to mix and match their own flavors. Serve with boba tea straws, if you can find them, giving guests the option of sucking up all the fruit hunks of flavored ice they’ve dropped into their lemonade.

Pure Fruit Icecubes

A glass of lemonade is a true treat. But a glass of lemonade that you get to customize with colored cubes of frozen fruit? Well, that’s just a dream come true for kids and adults alike. Absolutely a dream come true.
2 c. prepared Gourmet Lemonade
Variation of fresh fruits to puree in blender
(try kiwi, berries, mangos, guava, limes, watermelon, cherries)
In a blender, add a single type of fresh fruit (use several tablespoons of prepared lemonade if needed to thin out for complete pureeing). Blend well, pureeing entirely or leaving just a touch of chunkiness if desired. Pour pureed fruit into ice cube trays. Freeze. Drop into glasses of fresh Gourmet Lemonade. Enjoy!

MAKE YOUR OWN GOURMET LEMONADE PARTY

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