One major side benefit to me not tutoring anymore is that I’m actually inspired to cook sometimes now.\u00a0 I’ve made mustard-crusted chicken (yummy!), chicken fajitas, salads that have stuff in them besides lettuce, and a beef and corn casserole (which Jim loved and I only sort of liked).\u00a0 Next time Jim has band practice, I plan on making Fettucine with Bitter Greens (I can guarantee that Jim won’t be a fan of that recipe).<\/p>\n
Today’s project was homemade lemonade.<\/p>\n
I guess I never thought much about lemonade before; it’s so easy to buy a pre-made bottle and be done with it.\u00a0 But Idylwilde Farm had a special on lemons yesterday, so I bought five and thought, “What the heck.\u00a0 I’ll make lemonade.”\u00a0 I used the recipe in Joy of Cooking<\/em>, got my sugar water all boiled last night and cooled for today, and then went at it.\u00a0 And the lemonade was actually pretty good, though I’d prefer that it was a little less sweet, a little more lemony, and that it didn’t use salt.\u00a0 Looking in my Fannie Farmer Cookbook<\/em>, I see that recipe uses a different approach to the sugar and water, and has no salt and more lemon juice.\u00a0 I’ll try that\u00a0one next, but…here’s my question to all of you:\u00a0 do you have a favorite lemonade recipe?\u00a0 And are you willing to share it?\u00a0 Add your recipes to the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One major side benefit to me not tutoring anymore is that I’m actually inspired to cook sometimes now.\u00a0 I’ve made mustard-crusted chicken (yummy!), chicken fajitas, salads that have stuff in them besides lettuce, and a beef and corn casserole (which Jim loved and I only sort of liked).\u00a0 Next time Jim has band practice, I … Continue reading Lemonade<\/span>