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When life gives you lemons, make frosty lemonade!

What could possibly be a better summer beverage staple than the always classic lemonade? How about a slushed-up version? This recipe from Cheeky Kitchen literally has us drooling and waiting for mother nature to kick the temperature up a notch.

You’ll need:

• 7 whole lemons, with rinds cut off
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 3 cups ice
• 1 cup water
• Blender

Method:

Place the lemons, sugar, ice, and water into your blender. Begin blending on medium setting. Quickly increase the speed then turn the blender to high. Blend until smooth. Serve immediately and enjoy. You can easily kick this recipe into adult mode by adding chilled vodka, tequila or other similar potent potables.

For another twist on this delicious summer staple, we have reached into our archives and dug out a refreshingly tasty Lavender Lemonade Recipe, along with some lemonade news and products. Cause you can never really have too much lemonade.  Read more...

Kids’ lemonade stands are facing the wrath of health inspectors, we say do them anyway

Remember how important you felt running your own lemonade stand – nay, lemonade business – as a youngster? That old folding table in the garage became your very own “store” where you peddled your wares: fresh-squeezed lemonade, or maybe just some grape Kool-Aid.

Sadly, times have changed, and running a lemonade stand is no longer the innocent money-making endeavour it once was. No, pouring your friends cold drinks out of a plastic pitcher for 50 cents a cup is illegal. At least according to bylaw officials in Port Coquitlam, Vancouver. As this National Post article reports, 12-year-olds Mackenzie and Alex were selling lemonade, popcorn and homemade dog treats to raise funds for Mackenzie’s soccer team until some presumably bitter lady with nothing better to do reported them to city officials. The poor little dudes had to dismantle their stand because (and remember, we are not making this up) they were running it without a business licence. Ridic.  Read more...