Lemonade: Day 1 - Making Lemonade

We're making Community Lemonade in Long Beach, CA.  Come and make lemonade with us!

!  I'm on a 100 day odyssey for community and creativity in Long Beach, CA.  We've got such an amazing city, and I'm a huge fan!  I want to share it with you!  I'm seeking out the creatives and the facilitators of creativity.  The art and the locations that inspire art.  Bringing them to you, here in this blog, and to others, on the streets of Long Beach.

I call it .

Today was Day 1 of Making Lemonade.  We made lemonade.

I called out to some friends who responded to my appeal for community, for friendship, for help, for lemons and sugar.  There was so much more!  Raspberry puree with agave, strawberries, mint, organic sugar and cane.

Lots and lots of lemons!  There was originally just one juicer, but someone ran out to get a couple more. Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze... squeeze, squeeze, squeeze and there was a nice pitcher of lemon juice.

The ladies and gentlemen present set to work making their very own flavors of Lemonade.  Raspberry lemonade with different concentrations of raspberry, strawberry lemonade with and without mint and yes, even plain old Lemonade!

We did a taste test, but the results were... undecipherable.  Suffice to say that ALL the flavors got votes and they ALL were great!  A little funny thing was that Sunny Yellow Lemonade just might have been the one with the most thumbs up!  WHO'D-A-THUNK-IT?

Here are the recipes.  Try them and see which ones you like.  Hold a taste test of your own.  Make your own recipe! 

If you have your own favorite recipe, add it in the comments.  I do realize that there is one unexplained ingredient here.  We'll have to get Steph to give us the secret to the Raspberry puree!

Sam & Henry's Light-on-the-Raspberry Lemonade

Ingredients:

1 c. freshly squeezed lemon juice

3 c. water

2 tbsps Steph's Raspberry puree with agave

3/4 c. organic sugar

Instructions:

Pour lemon juice into an empty jug.  Add water.  Add Raspberry puree with agave.  Add sugar.  Stir, stir, stir.  Pour into jug FULL of ice!  Voila!

Sam & Henry's I-Love-Raspberry Lemonade

In this recipe the boys decided to try a higher concentration of raspberry in the lemonade.

Ingredients:

1 c. freshly squeezed lemon juice

3 c. water

3 tbsps Steph's Raspberry puree with agave

3/4 c. organic sugar

Instructions:

Pour lemon juice into an empty jug.  Add water.  Add Raspberry puree with agave.  Add sugar.  Stir, stir, stir.  Pour into jug FULL of ice!  Voila!

Chloe & Peyton's Sour Strawberry Lemonade & Sour Strawberry with Mint Lemonade

Ingredients:

1 1/2 c. freshly squeezed lemon juice

3 c. water

3/4 c hand-smashed strawberries

1 c. cane sugar

2 tbsps mint

Instructions:

Pour lemon juice into an empty jug.  Add water.  Add mashed strawberries.  Add sugar.  Stir, stir, stir. 

Pour off 1/2 into jug FULL of ice.

Add 2 tbsps mint to the other 1/2 and stir, stir, stir.  Pour into jug FULL of ice!

Handmade Penguin's Sunny Yellow Lemonade

1 c. freshly squeezed lemon juice.

2 c. water

1 c. cane sugar

Instructions:

Pour lemon juice into an empty jug.  Add water.  Add sugar.  Stir, stir, stir.  Pour into jug FULL of ice!  Voila!

Thanks to the Daily Grind on 7th for having provided LOTS of ice for us to use today!

And TOMORROW!!!!

Day 2: Making a Making Lemonade Banner

I will be at Apostrophe Books from 11:00 AM, making a Making Lemonade banner. Do you want to make a banner for your business or family?  Come on over, bring some fabric if you have some, or just come yourself.  If we have fabric to share, we will!

Note: There will be a 1 hour break from 3:45 to 4:45.

Items Needed (just bring them by)

Large fabric scraps, especially yellow, brown, green.  But ANY colors will do, because we'll be using LOTS of fabric in these 100 days!

Bernina Artista 180 needles - available at Sew-Vac on Clark and Atherton (I'm running low, and according to the rules of , I can't buy anything).

Need to contact me?  info@handmadepenguin.com

Trish Tsoiasue writes as herself about creative and maker topics for the Belmont Shore Patch and as Handmade Penguin for the Handmade Penguin Blog.