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   This recipe is another excellent lemonade recipe from www.realkitchenmom.com .   Like I saide before I looooovvvveee lemonade.  So here's one with another favorite fruit of mine, strawberries. Enjoy!    Today’s lemonade recipe uses simple ingredients – lemons, strawberries, sugar, and water. Just what homemade lemonade should include. The process to make the lemonade is what makes it full of flavor . You use the whole lemon when making this. It does take time but is well worth the effort. The most time consuming parts are chilling and straining the mixture. Ingredients 2 large lemons 3/4 cups of sugar 2 cups of water 1 cup frozen slice strawberries in juice, thawed plus additional water Instructions Place lemons in the microwave and cook on high for 20 seconds. This helps relieve the juice. Add the sugar and water to a blender. Cut the lemons into 4ths and remove any seeds. Squeeze juice from lemon pieces into the b...

      The Fiesta de Santa Marta de Ribarteme , also known as the festival of near death experiences, is a slightly odd festival to say the least. Held in a small Spanish village, that borders Portugal – Las Nieves, Pontevedra, in Galicia and taking place on the 29 th of July.     The Festival of near death experiences, as its name suggests, is a celebration for those people who have had a near death experience and lived to tell the tale. Saint Marta de Ribarteme is the patron Saint of resurrection.    The lucky ‘survivors’ attend the festival in a coffin.    It is a good place to go if you want to catch up on tales of different near death experiences.     Even though centered around a fairly morbid theme, the festival itself is a celebration with firework displays and the usually partying that carries on well into the following day.     Thousands of people line the streets of this t...

August is the hottest month in the U.S., that means some really hot and happening food holidays too. National Sandwich Month We all love them so now lets learn about them. The term sandwich is occasionally used (informally) in reference to open-faced sandwiches; these normally consist of a single slice of bread topped with meat, salad vegetables, and various condiments. These differ from a normal sandwich in that they have a single slice of bread instead of two, with toppings instead of a filling. The open-faced sandwich also has a ..... National Peach Month Are you ready to add some peaches to your menu this month? A medium peach (75 grams), has about 30 calories, seven grams of carbohydrates (six grams of sugar and one gram of fibre), one gram of protein, 140 miligrams of potassium, and 8% of the Dietary Reference Intake for vitamin C. National Catfish Month Catfish is eaten in a variety of ways; in Europe it is often cooked in simila...

This month has some funny, exciting, and wacky holidays to celebrate all month long. In fact, there is at least one holiday to observe each day during the month of August (with the exception of the 2 nd ). Here are some suggestions for celebrating each day in August. August 1: World Wide Web Day - Celebrate this holiday by spending your day exploring the World Wide Web. August 2: Make Your Own Holiday - This one's obvious... August 3: Watermelon Day - Try different recipes using watermelon. Eat watermelon at every meal. Don't just eat it - drink it! August 4: National Chocolate Chip Day - You can't go wrong with chocolate chips. If you don't have time to bake cookies, they aren't bad alone! August 5: International Beer Day - This should be a fun day for some of you. August 6: National Fresh Breath (Halitosis) Day - Offer everyone you meet a stick of gum. August 7: Lighthouse Day - I'm not really sure how one can celebrate Light...