Homemade Lemonade Recipe

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Homemade Lemonade Recipe

Follow this perfect & easy homemade lemonade recipe to refresh and cool yourself after a hot day out!

A glass of lemonade is balanced with acidity and sweetness. It’s also the first drink in mind we’ve got when the sunny days come, and I make sure this fresh end special recipe will get you ready for a long summer ahead.

Ingredients:

8 lemons, plus more for garnishing if desired

1½ – 2 cups sugar

6 cups water, divided

Author: Divas Can Cook

Wash lemons, then roll them around on a hard surface to make a lot easier to juice.

Zest a couple of lemons, set aside.

In a sauce over medium heat, add 2 cups of water, sugar and lemon zest. Simmer till sugar dissolves and mixture has a light yellow color (about 5 minutes), then remove from the heat.

Juice lemons, strain them into a serving pitcher.

Continue train the sugar zest mixture into the lemon juice, add in about 4 cups of water. Taste to make sure it’s ok for you.

Put them in a glass filled with ice and enjoy (or you can store them in the refrigerator)! Garnish some sliced lemons for each glass.

Notes: You can make a sparkling lemonade by replacing the water with sparkling water club soda. It’s pretty good like that!

How To Make Lemonade

Perfect Ceviche Recipe

Scallop Ceviche Recipe

Find simplest and perfect ceviche recipe for a delicious meal! To have a best quality, you should make it with the freshest ingredients you can find.

Ingredients

– Original recipe makes 4 to 6 servings

– 1 pound bay scallops

– 8 limes, juiced

– 2 tomatoes, diced

– 5 green onions, minced

– 2 stalks celery, sliced

– 1/2 green bell pepper, minced

– 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley

– 1 freshly ground black pepper

– 1/2 tablespoons olive oil

– 1/8 cup chopped fresh cilantro

PREP: 20 mins

READY IN: 8 hrs 20 mins

Directions

1. Rinse scallops under cold running water, dry and place them in a medium bowl. Squeeze the juice of limes over the scallops. The scallops should be completely immersed in the lime juice. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill the lime juice and scallops all day or overnight until scallops are opaque.

2. Bring about 1/2 of the lime juice from the bowl of scallops. Add tomatoes, green onions, green bell pepper, celery, parsley, black pepper, olive oil, and cilantro to the scallop mixture to taste. Stir the scallop mixture gently. Serve this dish in fancy glasses. For effect, hang a slice of lime over the rim on each glass.

Almond Crusted Salmon Recipe

Almond Crusted Salmon dish with broccoli rabe, orzo pasta, and pinot noir. This is a quick and easy recipe, with rich salmon, coated in almond meal, acquires a toasted flavor reminiscent of browned butter.

Prepare time: 15 min

Cook time: 15 min

Servings: 4

Ingredients: 10

– 1/4 cup almond meal

– 1/4 cup panko

– 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander

– 1/8 teaspoon ground cumin

– 4 (6-ounce) salmon fillets, about 1-inch thick

– 2 teaspoons lemon juice

– 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

– 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

– Cooking spray

– 4 lemon wedges

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 500°.

2. Combine first 4 ingredients in a shallow dish; set aside.

3. Brush tops and sides of fish with juice: sprinkle with salt and pepper. Working with 1 fillet at a time, dredge top and sides in almond mixture; place skin side down on broiler pan coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle any remaining crumb mixture evenly over fish; press gently to adhere. Bake at 500° for 15 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork or until desired degree of doneness. Serve with lemon wedges.

How To Make Almond Crusted Salmon

Mojito Recipe

The Real Mojito

The mojito is one of the most famous rum-based highballs. There are several versions of the mojito. Traditionally, a mojito is a cocktail that consists of five ingredients: white rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime juice, sparkling water, and mint.

This is an authentic and simple recipe for mojito. It’s a very refreshing drink for hot summer days. Be careful when drinking it, however. If you make a pitcher you might be tempted to drink the whole thing yourself, and you just might find yourself talking Spanish in no time!

Prepare time: 10 mins

Inactive cook time: 10 mins

Servings: 1 cocktail

Ingredients: 6

10 fresh mint leaves

1/2 lime, cut into 4 wedges

2 tablespoons white sugar, or to taste

1 cup ice cubes

1 1/2 fluid ounces white rum

1/2 cup club soda

Steps: 6

Place mint leaves and 1 lime wedge into a sturdy glass.

Use a muddler to crush the mint and lime to release the mint oils and lime juice.

Add 2 more lime wedges and the sugar, and muddle again to release the lime juice. Do not strain the mixture.

Fill the glass almost to the top with ice. Pour the rum over the ice, and fill the glass with carbonated water.

Stir, taste, and add more sugar if desired.

Garnish with the remaining lime wedge.

Sangria Recipe

Classic Spanish Sangria

Sangria is a typical beverage from Spain and Portugal. It normally consists of wine, chopped fruit, a sweetener, and a small amount of added brandy.

This Classic Spanish Sangria is an authentic version of the popular wine drink. You can add any fruit that you want, but apples and pears best absorb all the rum.

Prepare time: 20 min

Cook time: 2 hours 10 min

Servings: 6

Ingredients: 7

1 lemon

1 lime

1 orange

1 1/2 cups rum

1/2 cup white sugar

1 (750 milliliter) bottle dry red wine

1 cup orange juice

Steps: 2

Have the fruit, rum, wine, and orange juice well chilled. Slice the lemon, lime and orange into thin rounds and place in a large glass pitcher. Pour in the rum and sugar. Chill in refrigerator for 2 hours to develop the flavors.

When ready to serve, crush the fruit lightly with a wooden spoon and stir in the wine and orange juice. Adjust sweetness to taste.

CAMPARI FREEZE RECIPE

Recipe for 2 DRINKS
Campari is a bitter Italian liqueur. Bartenders say that mixing it with orange juice is the best way to try it for the first time. This frozen version of Campari and OJ is guaranteed to hook someone at your next party.
1 ½ cups ice
1 cup orange sherbet
¼ cup orange juice
3 ounces Campari
1 ounce triple sec
Combine all the ingredients in a blender. Cover and pulse and off until the mixture starts to swirl evenly. Blend on high for 20 seconds, or until the drink is completely smooth.

Variations

ORANGE NEGRONI FREEZE Omit the triple sec. Add 1 ounce gin before
blending.
CAMPARI CITRUS FREEZE Omit the orange juice. Add ¼ cup grapefruit
juice before blending.