Nostalgia Trip

This is one of the very few photos of my kitchen you will ever see here, and this is why. This is the counter to the right of my kitchen sink, partway through the process of trying Smitten Kitchen’s recipe for watermelon lemonade. The stuff on the cutting board is spilled watermelon puree. In the background is an empty olive oil container, a rice cooker, infinite amounts of tea, and a bottle of elderberry wine given to us by a neighbor as a “thank you” for shoveling his walk. (I have expanded considerable thought on the question and cannot tell whether he wants us to shovel his walk again. On the one hand, it was a gift. On the other hand, it is elderberry wine. You kill aspidistras with it.) You can’t tell from this picture, but the countertop laminate is separating from the countertop. They were never happy together, and they are bitterly working out the terms of a divorce.

Check out the recipe link - it’s gorgeous. Notice how tidy the whole process appears, with the clean granite counters, the total lack of anything extraneous to the process of making watermelon lemonade. Deb over at Smitten Kitchen does not appear to have been reminded, on this project, of what happens when you overfill the bowl of a food processor with an ingredient which you then convert into a liquid. Even the juiced lemons look appealing.

I have no idea how anyone ever does this. I have no end of respect for it. I have never been able to do it myself. Maybe once.

It was pretty good lemonade. The single batch is ridiculously small - multiply by eight.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 at 8:21 pm and is filed under cooking, messes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.