Super Refreshing Homemade Lemonade Recipes... with Lemons, Limes and/or Strawberries...

Hi Lil'Guys!

This is one of our favorite drink, our delicious and refreshing lemonade , a cypriot recipe that we got from Mr Z. (Maltilda's godfather who is from Cyprus). 

Under a hot weather, this drink is divine, perfect for picnic, great for summer parties...

We store our lemon concentrate in a glass bottles that I close with a cute piece of fabric and an elastic, then Matilda got the habit to customize them with her beautiful drawing. 

Those makes beautiful gifts for mother's or father's days, or to sale at a school fundraising events...

Here is the recipe:

You will need:
-2 kilos of Lemons
-A pack of caster Sugar
-A clean Cloth
-2 Bowls
-A Wooden Spoon
-A Bottle

To serve:
-A jar
-Ice Cubes
-Water
-Mint (optional)

Squeeze the juice of all the lemons.



Pass the juice trough the cloth to have a juice, free of pulp, clear as possible.

Then you will need to mesure how many cups of juice you get, and it will be the amount of cups of sugar you will add to your lemon juice - Usually I end up with 2 cups and an half of lemon juice, so I will add 2 cups and an half of sugar.

Mix until the sugar is completely dissolved with a wooden spoon.

Your concentrate is ready to bottle...

To serve it:

Pour some of your concentrate in a jar, lots of ice cubes, some fresh mint leaves, and fill up the jar with the water. 

Add more concentrate to sweeten your lemonade. Add more water if your lemonade is too sweet.

You can add also some fresh slices of cucumber or a couple of raspberries or piece of melon... It looks amazing and very fancy on a party table!

a jar of our delicious homemade lemonade!

But now we love to vary the pleasures, sometimes instead of using all lemons, we would use half amount of lemons and the other half, limes. Woww! this mix hit another level of deliciousness!!!!



An other one we tried was 1 kilo of lemons, 1 kilo of limes and 1 kilo of strawberries ( we would pass the strawberries in a juicer, to get all the juice et non of the seeds) This one is just insanely good!!

Give them a try, you won't be disappointed!!!

See you!!!
Drey

Home-making Play dough today with Baby Stella

Hi guys!

I have heard how easy play dough was to make yourself but never gave a try before Baby Stella came along, huge consumer of this modelling paste and colours, I had no choice to get it on with it! After sampling a few, I made my own recipe and will have enough for at least 16 shades, a dream!!!

the ingredients

Here is the recipe:

2.5 cups water

1 1/4 c. salt

1 1/2 tbsp. cream of tartar 

6 tbsp. vegetable oil

2.5 cups flour

Food colouring

Mix everything except the food colouring together in a large pan until somewhat smooth. It will be lumpy.

Do not worry, the dough will get smoother as it cooks. Cook the dough over a low heat. Keep mixing.

The water will slowly cook out of the mixture and you’ll notice it starts to take on a sticky dough appearance. Keep mixing until the edges of the dough along the side and bottom of the pan appear dry. Pinch a piece of dough. If it’s not gooey, the dough is ready.

Place the dough on a counter top or cutting board that can withstand a little food colouring. Knead the warm dough until it’s smooth and then divide it into the number of colours that you’d like to make. 

I divided mine into 16 pieces, flattened each of them, added a little bit of food colouring, and then kneaded it in. 

Store the dough in a large Ziplock bag or sealed container. Unused, it’ll keep for months.

I lost Baby Stella to hours of hard playing with our new home made Play dough!!!

Me & Baby Stella

Bye guys, have fun!