Turn ripe peaches into peach lemonade.
Photo by Gerhard Taatgen Jr. | SXC.

We’re on a lemonade kick. Yesterday we came back from the farmers market with ripe peaches and made a delicious pitcher of Peach Raspberry Lemonade. Per person, you’ll need:

Ingredients

 
Preparation

1. Purée peaches in a blender.

2. Muddle peach purée, raspberries, lemon juice and sweetener in a collins glass or water glass.

3. Fill the glass with ice water. You can use tap water and ice cubes, but the ice dilutes the drink. Plan in advance and freeze plain lemonade in ice cube trays.

4. Stir, garnish with lemon wedge and serve.

To make a whole pitcher of lemonade, multiply the ingredients by the number of people you want to serve, muddle the ingredients in the pitcher, add ice water and optional extra ice cubes. Stir well to blend.

Don’t over-sweeten this drink: Let the fresh peach flavor shine through.

Find more of our favorite drinks plus recipes in our Beverages Section.

Oikos, one of our favorite brands of yogurt (made by Stonyfield), has another winner. Its Pure Pleasure yogurts in Caramel and Chocolate will change your perception of yogurt.

Both are absolutely delicious, 0% fat, certified organic, gluten free, and even OU kosher! The chocolate and caramel flavors ring true. It one could ask for anything more, it would be that others browsing the refrigerator would stop eating it and leave more for us.

The four-ounce cups provide just enough satisfaction for a quick snack or for dessert. Each cup has 10g protein, 17g total carbs, 110 calories and live and active cultures.

Unlike most Greek yogurt, the consistency isn’t super-thick. This enables the caramel and chocolate yogurts to be used as a dessert sauce—on pound cake or angel food cake, for example. It’s also a great dipper for fruit.

You can print out a 50¢ coupon at Stonyfield.com (registration required).

Caramel yogurt and chocolate yogurt are
delicious dessert and snack options. Photo
by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.

• Find more of our favorite yogurts plus recipes in our Gourmet Yogurt Section.
• Learn all the different types of yogurt in our Yogurt Glossary.

Ice cream slides off the scoop. Available at
Amazon.com.

We had five different ice cream scoops acquired over the years. Our challenge was getting the ball of ice cream to release from the scoop.

The ice cream scoops with the triggers and spring actions didn’t work for us. The classic style used in ice cream parlors, favored by Mom, wasn’t effective either (she’s a lot stronger than we are).

Apparently, quite a few other people have the sticking problem. So Norpro created its Nonstick Anti-Freeze Ice Cream Scoop. Plastic instead of metal, it cuts through hard ice cream and just as easily releases the balls into the dish. It costs less than metal scoops—just $6.55 at Amazon.com.

• Find our favorite ice cream brands, ice cream glossary and recipes in our Gourmet Ice Cream Section.

The company makes bottled tea, lemonade and a lemonade-tea mix with an emphasis on all-natural flavors. The sweetener is organic cane sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup.

The 17 New Leaf options include four lemonades: Black Cherry, Homemade (Original), Strawberry and Tiger, a half lemonade/half tea blend (also known as an Arnold Palmer, after the golf great who popularized it).

People who do not enjoy the tartness of traditional lemonade will be pleased by the smooth lemoniness of New Leaf. It’s made to be as gentle as a soft drink, with almost no hint of ascorbic acid—even though the products are made with lemon juice concentrate.

It’s easy to tell which of the New Leaf bottles is lemonade: Look for the stripes on the bottle!

If you’re looking for a bottled tea, New Leaf will oblige with:

• Black Tea in Lime and Mint, Sweet Tea and Unsweetened
• Green Tea in Ginseng and Honey, Mango and Plum
• White Tea in Honeydew and Strawberry

Lemonade turns over a new leaf. Photo
by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.

• Blue Tea (oolong) in Lemon, Peach, Raspberry, Diet Lemon and Diet Peach

Learn more at NewLeafBrands.com.

Find our favorite soft drinks in our Soft Drinks Section.

Find reviews of juices and ades in our Juice Section.

Celebrate National Lemonade Day. Photo
and recipe courtesy Smirnoff.com.

Celebrate National Lemonade Day, August 20th, with adult lemonade. You’ll love this recipe from Smirnoff Vodka; we made it even more blueberry by adding fresh blueberry purée.

In addition to Smirnoff Blueberry Flavored Vodka, you can find Stoli Blueberi, Pinnacle Blueberry and other brands.

BLUEBERRY LEMONADE COCKTAIL

Ingredients For 1 Drink

 
Preparation

1. FILL a tall glass with ice. Add vodka, lemonade and optional blueberry purée. Stir well.

2. Garnish with fresh blueberries.