I have
been playing around with making lemonade since I was a kid. We had a lemon tree
in our back yard. It ALWAYS came out too tart because I always underestimated how
much sugar was in lemonade. Seriously it would take me a month or so of
making lemonade every weekend that no one would try until I got it right.
I should have written it down but I never did so I would just start
from scratch every year! It was worth it though because once I got it the fresh
lemonade was soooooo good! Seriously if we lived in a tropical climate we would
be growing a lemon tree in our backyard right this second because I
looooooooove lemonade!!!!!
Last year
when we got our Vitamix I started experimenting with lemonade again. Last
summer I had a pretty good recipe down but since I just "wrote it
down" in my noggin, of course I forgot it. When will I learn?? So
when I bought lemons the other day ready to make up some sweet, delicious
lemonade, I couldn't remember what I did last year!!!!
Since I
was back to square one anyway I decided to use up some of the frozen
blackberries I had in the freezer and wonderfulness happened!!! It turned out
PERFECT on my first try! {Seriously that NEVER happens!!!} Even the girls drank it right down. Mmmmmm!!!!
So here
you are! I hope you all enjoy it!
Fresh Blackberry Lemonade
Ingredients
2 c water
3 lemons
1 lime
1 c
blackberries
half of
one tomato
2/3 c
sugar (or artificial sweetener if you choose but you'll have to do your
conversion for that depending on what you use)
Ice
I like to
leave the white on, on the lemons. There is actually a lot of nutrients in the
white so why not help yourself out a little bit when you can right? In a
regular blender though the white tends to stay a little chunky so I only
recommend you leave it on if you have a high performance blender like a Vitamix
or a BlendTec or something similar.
Add your
ingredients into the blender in the order listed. I only half or cube my
ingredients, if your blender can't handle that make sure that you cut your
fruit up smaller than I did.
Serve and
you are done! Look at that lovely pink color the tomato brings out! Isn't it
great?? I love it!!!! I haven't tried it yet, but I really think that this same
recipe would work with just about any other flavor of fruit that you wanted to
try. I will definitely be trying strawberries, raspberries
and peach before the summer is over. What do you want to try? Leave a
comment and tell me.
I hope
you enjoy your lemonade and that it is sunny wherever you are!
Be happy!
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