simple strawberry lemonade – smitten kitchen

I wish to clarify from the outset that I don’t suppose we, this web site, and even the web essentially wants a brand new recipe for lemonade. I’ve lined lemonade that’s picnic pink (with any berry you want), with watermelon, with cucumber, with maple syrup and bourbon, and even lime and mint. However the factor I bumped into when my children left me, as soon as once more, with a basket of overpriced strawberries on their final legs — fruit they’d requested me to purchase however then mysteriously misplaced curiosity in consuming when it was introduced to them at breakfast — and I made a decision to as an alternative flip strawberries into strawberry-ade, so to talk, was that each lemonade recipe I’ve already printed comprises steps I lacked inclination to do.

Like juicing lemons, which entails straining out seeds and pulp. Making easy syrup, which must be heated in a saucepan and cooled for later use. And any recent fruit or greens added must be blended and pushed by way of a strainer too, bringing us to a few separate processes. Are they arduous? No. However they aren’t lazy and that is — lazy in a great way. Lazy like barely-a-recipe lazy.

Every thing goes into the blender. Every thing is blitzed and strained directly. And have by no means in my whole life tasted a extra scrumptious and nuanced strawberry lemonade. It’s vivid and intensely flavorful and it tastes the way in which cotton sweet at a carnival smells, and the strawberry summer cake cooling behind our station wagon does wafting by way of the automotive, and I hope you go instantly into your kitchen and discover out for your self.

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