This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of PEOPLE®, Real Simple®, InStyle®, CookingLight® and Sunset®. The opinions and text, as always are all mine.
Enjoy some ‘me time’ this Summer while flipping through your favorite magazine {Cooking Light is my choice!) and sip on this homemade blackberry lemonade!
After I spent a shameful amount of money the Friday morning before our Memorial Day weekend festivities started at my nearest Acme Market, we took on the BBQ’s all weekend long! When you’re shopping, do you always ever get sucked into the magazines on the shopping lines? I know I do. I’m that girl that stands in line waiting, flipping through the magazines and I ultimately decide that I cannot live without it so whatever I’m skimming through gets purchased.
When I was shopping, I was flipping through a Cooking Light magazine and saw some amazing recipes so naturally, I had to buy it. I have a weak spot for cooking mags! Usually when my son is at school in the mornings , that’s when I’ll get some time for me and I can really catch up on some work or dive into my guilty pleasure: clipping recipes out of magazines! It’s really quite relaxing. Ha! I am obsessed with tearing out the recipes and hoarding them in a folder that I keep in the kitchen whenever I feel like making something different. Cooking Light has so many delicious and unique recipes to choose from in all of their magazines.
Today I’m sharing a recipe with you for blackberry lemonade. A super easy and delicious pool-side drink that anyone can enjoy for Summertime!.
This drink is the perfect accompaniment to a good magazine while you have some time for yourself!
Ingredients:
Instructions:
In a medium-size saucepan on medium-low heat, stir blackberries and sugar together and allow the berries to cook down and start releasing their juices, about 5 minutes. Stir frequently. Once blackberries have released lots of liquid, mash them down and cook for another 5 minutes. Mash one last time and then strain syrup into a large measuring cup and set aside to cool down completely. You may speed up this process by placing it into the refrigerator.
Squeeze all of your lemons into a large measuring cup or bowl. You should wind up with about 2 cups of juice. Pour lemon juice and water into a large pitcher along with blackberry syrup and stir.
In a small saucepan, whisk sugar and water together on medium-low heat until all sugar is dissolved. Gradually add the simple syrup to your blueberry lemonade until it is sweetened to your liking. (I tend to use it all.) Add vodka 1/4 cup at a time until it is as strong as you'd like. Serve over ice with additional blackberries and lemon slices for garnish.
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This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of PEOPLE®, Real Simple®, InStyle®, CookingLight® and Sunset®. The opinions and text are all mine.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of PEOPLE®, Real Simple®, InStyle®, CookingLight® and Sunset®. The opinions and text are all mine.
I rarely buy magazines but when I do, it’s usually a cooking magazine! All the pictures make me hungry! I do love lemonade though, and we are constantly experimenting in the summer time. Can’t wait to try this!
Homemade lemonade is the best! So pretty with fresh berries!
Love the blackberry/lemonade combo! This looks so refreshing for summer!
Cooking Light is my choice, too! I’ve been a subscriber pretty much forever! And this would be just the absolute perfect little summer drink to enjoy with my feet up, happily flipping through all those yummy recipes! I can absolutely see this being smash hit for a ladies’ night, too – everyone would love it!
How funny, because I love clipping recipes, too! I have binders full of them, and really need to actually make a lot of them one of these days! What a fun recipe for any day during the hot summer! Cheers!
This looks so refreshing – perfect for summertime! And yes, I’m always flipping through magazines in the checkout line. I can’t resist!