I'm very partial to lemonade.

 You may not know this about me... but yeah... I like lemonade.  Helping our many kiddos with that lemonade stand on Friday (previous post) was the perfect kick off to summer and I LOVED your comments of encouragement to all of them!  I have to say, that was probably my favorite giveaway to date. (Winner will be chosen in a couple of days so you still have time to enter if you haven't already done that!)  Anyway, I have a slight obsession with rosemary lemonade.  It's fabulous and a local pizza place sells it.  But it also kind of borders on the too-tart side, constantly disappointing my man.  There's a balance you know... you have to get it right.  Tart and sweet.  Kind of like life.

 I found a ton of recipes all over the place for rosemary lemonade... and in the end I wound back up tweaking the ratios so they were closer to my stand-by recipe.  I wanted to try it out with honey as one of the sweets, because I kept seeing that everywhere.  I definitely liked that! I served it all weekend long to everyone who ventured into my house over the past three days, and have had a ton of requests for the recipe.  (That's how you know something is really good.)

Rosemary Lemonade

In a saucepan, dissolve 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup honey and 3 cups water. Heat until it begins to boil and drop in a few sprigs of fresh rosemary.  Turn off the heat and let it steep until cool.  Juice enough lemons to wind up with 2 cups lemon juice.  Remove rosemary from sugar water mixture and add to lemon juice.  

Add 6-7 cups of cold water and chill before serving.  

 It's heavenly.  Trust me. There's something about the rosemary and lemon that just work.  This is my all time favorite version of lemonade.

 I set up my potting bench table all cute for my girlfriends (and our many collective hoodlums) after our big LEMON:AID stand on Friday.  I added some mint and rosemary sprigs in mason jars because they're pretty and smell good and I have gazillions of both in my garden... Oh... and just in case anyone wanted to add some to their glass.  (The kids were stuck with store bought lemonade because let's face it, when you've squeezed eleventy hundred lemons for a measly 2 cups of juice, you don't really want kids, sucking it down like there's no tomorrow.  The good stuff's for us appreciative sippers... oh yeah.)

 I included some darling little yellow cups (Target) and bright, happy, yellow napkins (also Target) and some gray and white stripey straws (here). I really think Target needs to get on the stick with that one and start stocking stripey straws for us.  (I think we need to start a petition or something.)  The sweet wooden lemonade tag can be found here.   (I'm your LMM, and I hook ya up.)You're welcome.  (grin.)

Ah Summer... it's pretty much bliss, isn't it?

Have you made anything yummy lately?