It's that time of the month again. Time for The Secret Recipe Club reveal. SRC is a group of bloggers who make recipes from each other's blog on the sly than once a month each sub-group reveals their pick for the month. We get assigned a blog by our fearless leaders, then we go in stealth mode and scope out which recipe we want to make from our assigned blog.
We make the recipe, take some picks and then Mission Impossible style all reveal at the same time on a set day. It's a cool group. And I'm not going to lie, this is as close to a spy as I'll ever get so I'm having some fun with it. I may even dress up in black with a ski mask on the day I scope out my blog. It's adds an extra air of mystery to the whole experience. Some days I pretend they've found me out and I have to hit the floor and camouflage myself. My family walks by the blog room and I'm incognito wearing dark clothes, sunglasses with a hood mysteriously pulled down over my eyes. It creeps them out but I'm not going to stop doing it. There's nothing like being a spy AND scaring the living heck out of your family at the same time. Now that my friends is how we roll up here at the stealthy Bee household.
This month I was assigned The Cookaholic Wife. I was thrilled with my assignment and set myself on stealth mode. I was already familiar with Nichole's blog so I knew I was going to have a gazillion options to choose from. She makes some seriously good recipes. I had a hard time trying to narrow down the choices. I got caught up reading some posts I'd missed previously. Nichole has a great writing style so it's easy to get drawn in while visiting and hang awhile. Which is not very stealthy of me, breaks the "get in, get out" code. I had about 3 recipes I was dying to try, but I'm going to be honest with you, it's about a bazillion degrees here in Ontario right now so cooking and baking are not appealing to me right now. I headed over to her frozen section, put my back against the glass while I perused her choices. Then it was like that ah ha moment. I swear I heard music playing like in commercials when you see the thing you've been longing for. Okay so it was the music from Wayne's World when Garth sees his true love, but still. Music is music. I zeroed in on the lemon ice with my sniper vision and knew I had made my mark. Successful mission indeed.
Okay so let me just say I did tweak it a teeny, tiny, itty, bitty bit. Not because I needed to cuz the recipe was spot on. But because by now you know I love all things pink. So of course I was going to make it pink lemon ice. I had to put my thinking cap on and lucky for me all the days in spy mode had me inspired. I had made a Pink Lemonade Ice Cream before so I knew if I used some pink lemonade concentrate it would work. I just happened to have some in my freezer. First rule of spy school, always be prepared. Okay so that's the boy scouts but it still applies. Now it was time to get my pink on. It's okay, some spies wear pink. Known fact. Look it up.
Pink Lemonade Ice
Ingredients
- 3 cups water
- 1 cup vanilla brown sugar you can use regular white sugar, I just thought it would enhance the pink colour and the lemon taste to use vanilla
- 4 lemons
- 2 cans of pink lemonade concentrate- 295 ml you can cut down to 1 if you don’t like too much pucker, I personally like a good pucker
Instructions
- In a saucepan combine your water and sugar. Cook over medium to low heat until the sugar dissolves. Simmer for a couple of minutes more.
- Add the lemons by cutting in half and squeezing over top. Cook for one more minute.
- Remove from heat and add your pink lemonade concentrate. Mix until it melts. This will also help the sugar mixture cool so you can freeze it immediately.
- Pour throw a sieve to remove seeds.
- Put in shallow dishes, I used 2 glass casserole dishes. The big 9 x 13 ones to ensure it froze quickly by having a shallow layer.
- Every hour or two give it a scrape with a fork.
- Once you are ready to serve it, go over it again with a fork to scrape it into granita/ice.
- Serve with a big old puckery smile!
Notes
This was so incredible. I was so overjoyed I may have jumped up and down on the couch while watching Oprah. Or maybe not.
So get your ice on folks. Make it more fun by doing it incognito. Then send me photos of you making it and eating in disguise. I'd love to see that. If you get video of someone eating this and you doing Ellen's dance dare behind them in your spy gear I will personally ensure you get on tv. Cuz that would be awesome and tv worthy. Have at it.
I'd like to thank Nichole for such great inspiration. Your blog is awesome and I had a blast with this month's challenge.
Make sure you stop by the other SRC members blogs and see what they whipped up this month. Tell them super stealthy spy sent you.
Toodles and smoochies! xx
melissa@IWasBornToCook
I think this is going to have to go on my to-do list!
Kim Bee
It is really good. I could eat this all day every day.
Cookaholic Wife
Thanks so much for all the kind words! I'm also a bit of a pink addict so I'm loving your changes.
Kim Bee
Thanks. I had to do it. I probably wouldn't have if I'd have had meyers. They are hard to find here. Usually when I see them I grab hordes of them. I am so happy to have gotten your blog. You have so many fabulous recipes to choose from. It was a total pleasure.
Jen @ Juanita's Cocina
It's pink and it's frozen. Both of these make Jen happy.
Kim Bee
Me too Jen. Pink rules.
Lesa @Edesia's Notebook
So pretty! I love that you made it pink. I did a pink lemonade theme for my daughter's birthday party last month; this would have been perfect for it.
Kim Bee
Thanks so much. Awe, I wish I had posted it earlier. I did an ice cream one previously too. Love pink lemonade. Oddly my dad loved the stuff. Lol!
Jersey Girl Cooks
The perfect frozen treat! I need as many ideas as I can get with the heat we have been having.
Kate | Food Babbles
This sounds do refreshing! Love it 🙂
Kim Bee
Thanks so much. It is so good.
Lynne @ 365 Days of Baking
Kim, this looks fantastic and I've just recently had a craving for some lemonade ice! How cool is this!! Thanks for sharing and great pick for the SRC!
Kim Bee
Thanks so much. It was so good. Love lemon ice.
Kay
Sounds wonderfully refreshing and the colour is just too cute!
Kim Bee
Thanks so much. I love anything pink.
Tania @ A Perfect Pantry
I love this pink ice... perfect for tea parties, especially when the weather is on the 'hot' side;)
Kim Bee
Thanks so much. Pink ice is always fun and helps cool me down.
Shelby
LOL, oh man, THIS POST is just an excellent example of why I love reading your blog. You are so totally awesome and funny not to mention very talented, you super sleuth spy you! ;-.
Kim Bee
Awe, thanks so much. You are far too kind. Will you move in with me???
Kayle (The Cooking Actress)
Sooo my boyfriend wants me to make this for him. ASAP. It looks amazing and super refreshing!
Kim Bee
I love it. Can you please take a photo of him eating the pink ice and send it to me. I would LOVE that.
Jennie @themessybakerblog
Yeah, about this pink lemonade ice. I'm gonna need some! I don't blame you for tweaking it to make it pink. It really is the best color out of all the colors.
Kim Bee
You must try it. It's cute and pink and puckery.
Suzanne Perazzini
There sure are a lot of spies in your club. I wonder how many dress up to go blog recipe stealing.
I'm afraid your pink ice did make me shiver a little here in my cold office in mid-winter but I'll keep it in mind for next summer when you guys will be suffering just the same as I am now.
Kim Bee
I love spies. Spies are awesome. I have mission impossible dreams, cia dreams, fbi dreams. It's how I roll.
I eat ice cream and ices all year long. I can't help myself.
Jen at The Three Little Piglets
My son and I just made it through a Mission Impossible marathon so all the MI jokes are running rampant through our house too!
Kim Bee
I love MI, although Mr Cruise is starting to show his age a bit. Still a hottie but a hottie with some small love handles. It's MI with handlebars.
Veronica
What a yummy summer treat, and in my favorite color to boot!
Kim Bee
Thanks so much. I am a total pink girl.
Dara
This recipe is super duper adorable! I also think everything should be pink. Well done.
Kim Bee
It's like we're one person.
Hester @ Alchemy in the Kitchen
I'm all for a good pucker and this pink lemonade ice looks just the job!
Kim Bee
Pucker lovers unite!
Kate
Looks awesome! Very cool group, indeed. One of these days I'll have more time to be a more social blogger. You guys always sound like you're having a blast!
Kim Bee
Thanks. I love when you stop by. You're more social than you think. We could be pals. Sistahs from another mistah or something. I'll drag you over to the dark side if you let me.
Maureen @ Orgasmic Chef
There's only one word for this.. brilliant. It's so pretty in that bowl!
Kim Bee
Thanks so much Maureen. I love pink food. It makes me happy.
Margaret
Love a good pucker, too. This looks so refreshing for a hot summer day.
Kim Bee
Nothing like a good pucker on a cold day. Especially when it's a pink pucker.