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.

• Caramel sauce (called Caramel Cream) in salted vanilla or chocolate
• Caramel candies made with salted butter or chocolateThe candies and creams (sauces) are made in California in the traditional French method, slowly cooked in small batches in a copper kettle.

  Our favorite in the line is the Chocolate Caramel Cream. It isn’t easy to find chocolate caramel sauce.

  You can learn more and purchase products at Le-Caramel.com.

• Find more of our favorite dessert sauces.
• Check out the different types of dessert sauce in our Dessert Sauce Glossary.

Chocolate caramel sauce is delicious on
desserts or right from the jar. Photo by
Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.

Our favorite mixing bowls are available
at Amazon.com.

We use these stacked melamine bowls in THE NIBBLE kitchen. Who cares that they have a spout: They add bright color to the table when filled with salad, pasta, soup, sides and especially, chips, popcorn and other snacks.

Stainless steel, glass and ceramic (pottery) mixing bowls also do handsome double duty at the table.

If you need to give a house gift to new homeowners, give them something they’ll really use. Consider a set of good-looking mixing bowls. Check out:

• Cheerful solid color melamine mixing bowls from Trudeau
• Festive melamine confetti-pattern mixing bowls from Zak Designs
• Sleek, shiny stainless-steel mixing bowls from CHEFS
• Simple but elegant glass mixing bowls from Bormioli