Meyer Lemonade w/ Rosemary + Thank You Sunset Magazine
This meyer lemonade recipe was originally published in 2011. It’s an oldie but goodie!
Meyer Lemonade Recipe
It’s been almost 15 years ago since we had our first conversation about growing a garden together. It’s been that long? We still can’t believe it. Back then, our garden inventory was a mere small handful of terra cotta pots filled with herbs on a tiny balcony of a second story apartment. We were only able to occupy half of that balcony because we shared the apartment with two other roommates. So, our personal space back then was one bedroom, a shared bathroom, kitchen and half a balcony.
Compared to what we have growing now, we had very little back then. But we always dreamed big because of what our monthly issue of Sunset Magazine inspired us to what we “can do” with our small space and if we had just a bit more yardage, of what we “could do”. Well, we found our space, filled it with 38 fruit trees and continually played in the dirt. But never ever in our wildest dreams would we ever believe that we would find ourselves and reading about ourselves in Sunset Magazine, the exact publication that continually encouraged and inspired us to grow more and live green. It’s surreal and strange to see our faces in the very magazine that inspired our garden to grow and flourish to become what it is today.
Feature in Sunset Magazine!
So it’s here, the February 2011 issue of Sunset Magazine and we’re on pages 50 and 87. There isn’t just one, but two stories about our garden citrus in this issue and it’s too overwhelming for us to even comprehend how this all happened. We’re still in shock and often shy about it all. In fact, they even used our photographs of the detailed fruit that we shot in the story. Double shock treat omg wow!
All we can say right now (or shout) is a huge THANK YOU to all the editors at Sunset Magazine, Senior Garden writer Sharon Cohoon and photographer Andrea Gomez for championing our humble citrus garden in this month’s issue. And to all of you readers and friends who have supported us on this blog, we thank you profusely.
We’re thrilled, excited, in shock and even more humbled by this whole experience. You all made our wildest garden dreams come true!
To celebrate and keep in theme with the citrus sunset stories, we made some refreshing meyer lemonade. The floral qualities of meyer lemons brighten up the classic lemonade with a floral twist. With an added sprig of fresh rosemary, this wonderful meyer lemonade becomes extra special, delicate and fragrant for such a joyous occasion. Make sure you slice up the meyer lemon rinds and infuse in the lemonade. The flavor will pop, and make this a drinkable meyer lemon candy.
Thank you to every single one of you!
Much love and gratitude,
-Todd and Diane
You can read one of the stories here, at Sunset.com. For the 2nd story, you’ll just have to buy the February 2011 issue. But also included are our some of our favorite citrus recipes! 😀
our meyer lemons are finally ripe for this meyer lemonade recipe
a touch of rosemary, one sprig is plenty, makes this lemonade outstanding
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Meyer Lemonade with Rosemary Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup (120ml) fresh Meyer Lemon Juice
- 1 cup (240ml) Simple Syrup *recipe follows
- 4 cups (960ml) Water
- a couple sprigs of fresh Rosemary , for garnish
Instructions
- Combine meyer lemon juice, simple syrup, and water in a pitcher, adding in a few freshly squeezed rinds of the Meyer lemons. Stir to combine
- Chill until ready to serve. Serve over ice with fresh rosemary sprigs if desired.
Notes
Simple Syrup
This is our basic simple syrup recipe. We'll often make variations by substituting palm sugar or agave nectar for some of the sugar or by infusing ginger or mint into the syrup when boiling. They are great for making your own sodas with a soda water. Simple syrup keeps very well, usually for months if your storage jar is sterile before filling. Makes about 3 cups.- 2 cups (480ml) Water
- 2 cups (400g) Sugar
Simple Syrup Directions
- Combine sugar and water in a medium saucepan. Stir and bring to a simmer. Simmer for 15-20 seconds then take off the heat.
- Allow to cool then store in a sterile jar in the refrigerator.
Nutrition Information per Serving
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The best and the most classy home made lemonade. I have bookmarked this refreshing recipe and will make it asap. Thanks for sharing lovely posts.
What a beautiful photo. Love the idea of the rosemary.
It was so fun to see you guys featured in Sunset magazine. Congrats to you both on digging in the dirt & creating such beauty! That lemonade is sunshine captured in a glass. xo
Congrats to you for your success. As always, your photos are just amazing. We’d love for you to share your recipe at dishfolio.com!
Your gorgeous photos have me dreaming of summer lemonade. A lovely contradiction to what we’re living with here in MN! Congrats on the article – it’s very well deserved.
Beautiful photos and such an inspirational story. We’ll be trying to grow our first mini garden on the balcony this summer. Our first summer as a family!
Thank you Alina. For further inspiration, especially for balcony gardening, you might want to check out Fern at Life on the Balcony. One of our favorite garden bloggers.
Congratulations you two! Well deserved! I loved reading the article and of course the photos are beautiful. In reading the article I got answers to some of my citrus growing questions, so thank you twice! We have a navel orange, two Meyer lemons and a Moro blood orange in our yard. I treasure them and need to learn to do more for them, take better care of them. I am citrus crazy, and when I go out to pick fruit it makes me happy, and smile. Your home garden sounds amazing. Hope we get to see it sometime…and maybe a citrus growing lesson.
I saw the piece online and loved it. You guys make me smile from ear to ear, and I agree, three times as many photos and I would have loved it that much more!
Oy! I totally forgot to say congrats yesterday when I saw you! I loved the spread and thought it was WELL deserved! How appropriate that they should feature someone who they had an influence on! I was just wishing there had been even MORE pictures! ๐
Congratulations! Well deserved! You have gorgeous photographs and a beautiful garden ๐
I’m so excited for you both, congrats on the articles! I did a double take when I saw it, then grinned from ear to ear. What an inspiration! You’re famous! ๐
Stunning and beautiful. ๐ Congratulations on the SUNSET spread(s)!
We only have 2 Meyer lemon trees and two mandarin trees here. Well… and a fig tree. With a third of an acre, we ought to find more room, because I want some valencias, navels, blood oranges, avocados… the list goes on.
Cheers!
[K]
What a wonderful honor! I suscribe to Sunset, now I will keep it even longer!
Here in snowy, cold NE Kansas, we have a little greenhouse, and the highlight of my winter is to harvest the meyer lemons!!! I love to be able to tell folks that this came from my lemon tree!! We were fortunate to harvest about 6+ gallons of fruit, and juiced almost 2 gallons of juice, freezing it in one pint quantities for future use!! This doesn’t happen every year, as having a little home greenhouse comes with certain problems.ie: The propane heater decided to shut off during the night, and before we found it, the greenhouse temp was in the 20’s!! Didn’t kill the trees, but every one of the baby limes and leaves on the lime tree (yep,had to have one of those, too), fell off. The lemon tree only lost about half it’s fruit and leaves, hence the harvest. Anyway, your pics are the perfect eye-candy. Thank you for your super blog!!
We have always talked about what we’d do if we had a house in cold weather and keep saying a greenhouse would be a must. Sorry to hear about the casualties. We get nervous the few times over the winter when we have a frost. Luckily now everything is getting established to the point that they have been unaffected.
Cheers to happy harvests!
T & D
I love Sunset magazine and what an honor for you two to be in it…major congrats to you both! You deserve it!!
Your pics are gorgeous, as usual ๐
Very cool! I can’t wait to get the magazine and see the piece about you guys.
Congratulations! That is such a nice article. I’m a longtime Sunset subscriber so it’s a thrill to actually know someone who is IN an issue! Beautiful photos. Love the lemonade recipe posted here too.