hot sauce & lemonade

I was in homemade cooking kind of mood today.

Today I made homemade hot sauce....

....and freshly squeezed lemonade.

Yummy!!

Want the recipes?? Here ya go....

Hot Sauce

1 carrot

1 can of tomato sauce

2 cans of Ro-Tel tomatoes

1/2 tsp. chili powder

1/2 tsp. garlic powder

1/2 tsp. cumin

1 tsp. salt

1 T. sugar

Lime juice

1/4 of bunch fresh cilantro (leaves only)

Peel and cut carrot into 1 inch slices. In a blender put hunks of carrot and tomato sauce. Blend until carrot is in tiny pieces. Add all other ingredients and blend until mixed, but not totally a liquid.

(Before Matt and I got married, he told me that our refrigerator would need to have a constant supply of this hot sauce. Tonight was the first time I have made it in a while, but you can almost always find jar of this is my refrigerator for my sweetie.)

Freshly Squeezed Lemonade

6-8 lemons

1 cup of sugar

5 cups of water

Squeeze all the lemons into big measuring cup. Dissolve the sugar with the squeezed lemon juice and 1 cup of water. Add the remaining 4 cups of water.

(Matt's Mom made this for us a few weeks ago, I just had to get the recipe. We both thought it tasted sooooo good. We even thought it tasted a little familiar. On our way home, it finally hit us that it tasted just like Chick-fil-A lemonade. It takes a little time to make, but it is definitely worth it.)

And as soon as my bananas are ripe, I'll be making some banana bread!!