For the Love of Christ Lemonade...

I don't mean to be redundant in my blogging...but SERIOUSLY, you must must must do yourself this one favor! MAKE THIS LEMONADE.

Today is a cool 90 degrees in Austin. That's right...COOL. A tiny breeze even.

I went to the dog park, and totally forgot to bring a beverage. Mistake numero uno!

SO...after dropping Hallie off safely at home, I promptly went to the grocery store and bought 12 lemons. And some La Croix fizzy water, in the Pamplemousse variety. That's Pomelo in Spanish, and Grapefruit in English. Now you know.

But, I digress... Fizzy water and this lemonade are mutually exclusive of one another, unless you get sassy and want fizzy lemonade!

For the Love of Christ Lemonade
(AS IN: for the love of christ do yourself a favor and make this NOW!

Juice from approx 6 lemons
approx. 1/4 cup agave nectar (again, I used tangerine ginger, but regular works)
Fresh grated ginger approx. 3 teaspoons or to taste (I freeze some and then use a microplane to grate it!)
approx. 1/2 gallon of filtered water

First Juice all your lemons. Make sure not to get any seeds in there, but the pulp is nice. A fine strainer works pretty well for this if you don't have a citrus juicer. Then add the water, until it isn't the most sour thing you've ever tasted. Then add agave until it's sweet but not too sweet. Then add ginger until you're happy, realizing that tomorrow it will taste more gingery than today. Stir and/or shake the shit out of it in a pretty glass pitcher, giant pickle jar that you're reusing or anything that will hold a bunch of liquid!

Then...sit back, relax in the sun, and rejoice in that cool refreshing drink.

You will not be disappointed, I promise.
Mmmmmmmm.

PS: If you're worried about lemons and acidity in your gut...
read this. The opposite is actually true!