Strawberry Lemonade.

This strawberry lemonade is delicious. My favorite part about it is that it's completely natural - no extra added gunk. I read recently that lemon-scented cleaner has more lemon juice than store bought lemonade. That's definitely not true of this lemonade - just ask my arms. They're sore from juicing all the lemons.

Ingredients:
8 cups cold water, divided
2 (16 oz.) containers of strawberries
12 lemons
1 cup sugar (you could use alternative sweetener for less calories, if you'd like)

Directions:
Juice the lemons. Pour the juice into a gallon-size pitcher, or use a rinsed out milk gallon. Slice the strawberries and puree them in a blender with 4 cups of cold water. Add the strawberry liquid to the pitcher. Heat the sugar with 4 cups of water on the stove until the sugar is dissolved. When the sugar water is cooled, add it to the pitcher. Fill the pitcher the rest of the way with water and mix it all together.

You might have to add a little more sugar to taste, but it depends on the natural sweetness of the strawberries you use.

This recipe yields a gallon of lemonade, but it's easily halved or doubled if you want less or more.