Watermelon Lemonade: The Lazy (Best) Way

Posted by The Editorial Desk / Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

If you haven’t noticed already, it’s pretty nice out today. Not too hot like the rest of the summer, with a pretty steady breeze to keep things cool. It’s nice. This is a nice day.

To go along with today’s pleasant weather, we recommend making some watermelon lemonade, lazy summer edition.

Most recipes for watermelon lemonade are simple, but are what we would call “somewhat time consuming.” Like this Smitten Kitchen recipe. You have to dice up your watermelon, puree and strain it, then juice a few ounces of lemon juice, make simple syrup and then, after everything’s finished, clean.

It’s a nice recipe that we recommend you try, just not today. Do it on Sunday.

I’m not one to promote laziness in the kitchen, but the afternoon is only so long, and you never know when it’s going to start raining. That’s why we’re going to offer you a method of making watermelon lemonade that’s less time consuming but still a memorable summer treat.

First, you take a watermelon, preferably cold, and crack it open and cut it up into cubes, ditching the rind. Place the cubes in a glass. Then you take some lemonade (you can make your own if you want, which will probably taste better, but, remember, it’s Tuesday and you’ve done enough today) and pour it over the watermelon cubes. After that you go outside and drink it while thinking about how great summer is.

Sounds stupid, doesn’t it? It works.

The big chunks of watermelon mellow out the no doubt super sweet lemonade that you’ve poured over top of it, and the drink doubles for a pretty light calorie snack, if you discount all of the sugar in the lemonade. You can also put booze in it if you’re in that kind of mood. It might not be elegant, but can pretty much guarantee that it’s better than whatever this is.

- Kris King

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