In my garden, there is always something new blooming and there’s always a new fruit in season to bring home from the Farmer’s Market or the Supermarket, or your neighbor’s tree. Right now mangoes abound. You can find them in any market.
Do you need to wake up and smell the coffee? Or slow down and smell the roses?? This lemonade will handle it all.
I swear, you’ll never be the same after you taste this mango lime-lemonade! It is my personal prediction that you may never again buy lemonade, and you’ll probably never order it in a restaurant again.
But I don’t know. Let’s test my theory.
How easy can it be? Pretty easy. A little messy, but easy. So roll up your shirt sleeves and go for it.
MANGO LIME-LEMONADE2 limes, squeezed (seeds removed)2 lemons, squeezed (seeds removed) (OR you can use 4 lemons or 4 limes if that’s what you have…)
1 ripe mango (for great instructions on how to cut a mango, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvLdPjpElyu. Squish the mango pit and get all the goodies from that as well. Nobody tells you that. :–) ). Probably ’cause it’s messy…
4 c. waterA little aguave, honey or sugar. Not much!!! Sweeten to taste. I used just a little more than 1/4 c. of aguave and it was just right, on the tart side, which is how we like it.Ice!
Ok, squeeze the lemons and limes into a cuisinart, blender, or vita mix. Add fresh mango. Puree and mix. Pour into a pitcher. Add water and 1/4 c. aguave. Then mix and see where you stand on the sweet scale. Add a little more sweetener of your choice if necessary. The sweetener required is less than you think, because the mango is naturally sweet, which is the whole idea! Drink natural sugar when possible, and drink fresh, un-messed-with juices.
Drink up! I served it to family and guests and it got thumbs up all around!
Mango Lime-Lemonade
Let me know if you’re joining my “I’ll Never BUY Lemonade Again Club.”
Christie Lenee can play a guitar. She’s the 2017 International Finger Style Guitar Champion of the Year. In September of last year in London, she also won Acoustic Guitarist of the Year.
But lucky for us, she’s not just a champion guitar player. Christie Lenee is also quite the composer.
A friend of hers, Michael Pukac, requested that she write a song, one he described as “the story of love.” She scribbled notes and went to work.
Through Christie’s ability to imagine, his desire became music. Now she plays this song for the world with her love fingers. Lucky you, lucky me, lucky us.
Take very good care of yourself this week. Why not sing a little…
You’re broken down and tired Of living life on a merry go round And you can’t find the fighter But I see it in you so we gonna walk it out And move mountains We gonna walk it out And move mountains
And I’ll rise up I’ll rise like the day I’ll rise up I’ll rise unafraid I’ll rise up And I’ll do it a thousand times again And I’ll rise up High like the waves I’ll rise up In spite of the ache I’ll rise up And I’ll do it a thousand times again
For you For you For you For you
When the silence isn’t quiet And it feels like it’s getting hard to breathe And I know you feel like dying But I promise we’ll take the world to its feet And move mountains Bring it to its feet And move mountains
And I’ll rise up I’ll rise like the day I’ll rise up I’ll rise unafraid I’ll rise up And I’ll do it a thousand times again
For you For you For you For you
All we need, all we need is hope And for that we have each other And for that we have each other And we will rise We will rise We’ll rise, oh, oh We’ll rise
I’ll rise up Rise like the day I’ll rise up In spite of the ache I will rise a thousand times again And we’ll rise up High like the waves We’ll rise up In spite of the ache We’ll rise up And we’ll do it a thousand times again
During this strange time in history, I noticed y’all were tackling all sorts of interesting projects. I decided I needed one, too—something positive to remember the pandemic of 2020 by.
I decided to pay attention to something I had abandoned…
Nope, I’m not cleaning my garage. I am not organizing one single thing. I’m not planting a garden or cleaning up my yard.
Instead, I decided to take care of myself better. This, folks, has made all the difference for me.
With relatively little time and effort on my part, I feel so much better than I did a month ago.
On March 30, I got on the exercise bike and the yoga mat for the first time in a long time, and did 30 minutes each. I liked it so much that I decided to do it every day. But I fell short of that, and changed my commitment to every other day, which felt more manageable, reasonable, and doable.
I also get off the bike after every song, take a couple of sips of water, shake out my legs and arms for a few seconds, and get back on. This makes the bike project a reasonable proposition, too.
Daily walks of any length—by myself, or with my little guy, Jackson—are a fresh air bonus.
My recumbent exercise bike has pulleys to work my upper body while I pedal, which gets my heart rate up fast, and also helps my whole-body strength. It feels good to get up from writing, or doing a consulting session with a client, to do something physically challenging while listening to good music.
After only a month, I feel a sheet of muscles on the front of me I haven’t felt for a very, very long time. Goodness gracious. Who knew they were there. I’ll be posting rippling ab photos soon, I’m sure.
I have no idea what the scales have to say about my bike/yoga project—I don’t care. Paying attention to scales tends to send me sideways, and therefore, I’m ignoring them completely.
But—I LOVE the way I feel! Hang in there, everyone.