I made a pitcher of this the other day when I was craving something cool and sweet. Yes, we’ve had actual summery weather recently, which has been so much fun. We had a bunch of peaches that were about to go bad and a freezer drawer full of strawberries from our berry-picking earlier in the summer.
Though I’d had them at Mexican restaurants, I’d never made agua frescas before. I don’t know why not. It’s really simple—just some fruit and water blended together, with maybe a little sugar.
There are plenty of recipes floating around the web, but I decided a recipe was really more hassle than I needed. I just let the strawberries (between 1 and 2 cups?) soften a little bit, dumped them in the blender with the sliced and peeled peaches (2 cups?), added a little water (maybe a cup?) and blended. I added a teaspoon or two of sugar for the blenderfull, but you’d want to tweak that according to taste and to how sweet the fruit is.
I love smoothies but I found this more refreshing, more of a thirst-quencher. The kids preferred a bit less water for a thick slushy to eat with a spoon.
Cooked anything good lately? Do share.
Have a great weekend!
If you are like me, you like to make things but aren’t very good at it. I remember trying to teach myself how to draw. I gave it a good shot, I bought a sketch pad and filled it up with really bad sketches and then gave up in disgust.
Then I figured I’d try photography because I figured why draw when you can just point and click, right? This ended up being too expensive (back in the stone ages when we still used film).
That’s why I make stuff with words which are really cheap: unless you like to use “five dollar words” like “parsimonious” and I don’t.
Luckily, I discovered a super special awesome tool that allows me to be creative and make interesting and polished pictures without have to have talent, it’s called PHOTOSHOP!
Photoshop helps me turn this:
Actual Picture: already funny
Into this:
Even Better
It’s kind of like collage or scrapbooking, and if you’re into those things, it can increase your creative choices exponentially (drat, there goes five bucks).
If you’ve been following this blog, you’ve seen it used when I can’t find a suitable image on Google Images. My favorite creation is most definitely Peach with a Katana about to square off with a Dinosaur. We also use it “for realsies” to edit our book images and all the customizable layers.
If you have Photoshop and don’t know how to take advantage of it, I would recommend the video series, “You Suck at Photoshop”. The troubled narrator will firmly insist: “Don’t… don’t ever do that again. We’re going to click on this tool here that you’ve never clicked on because you’ve only been using about 75 dollars worth of Photoshop…” It’s actually a good video even if you don’t have Photoshop, I promise.
Enjoy.
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In 1884 Belva Lockwood was putting the final touches on her campaign for president under the Equal Rights Party. To celebrate her role in paving the way for Hillary Clinton (love her or hate her having a women run for president is pretty cool), we thought we would excerpt Belva’s biography from The Oxford Companion to American Law edited by Kermit L. Hall. We found this excerpt by searching Oxford Reference Online. Keep shooting for the moon ladies!
Lockwood, Belva Ann (born Royalton, N.Y., 24 October 1830; died Washington, D.C., 19 May 1917). She graduated from Genesee College (later Syracuse University) in 1857 and began a career teaching, moving to Washington, D.C. in 1866 where she founded her own school. Two years later she married Ezekiel Lockwood, who took over the school. Belva then turned to the study of law, enrolling at National University Law School in 1871 after being refused admission to the law schools at Columbian College (now George Washington University), Georgetown University, and Howard University. (more…)
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