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I love going on vacations, who doesn’t? But there is always so much to do when you get home! Between work, laundry, grocery shopping, and everything else it takes a lot to get caught back up. And it takes even longer when your 7 year old is home with you on summer break 🙂
Good thing I made this for you before I left! This was the drink I promised you when I made the Caribbean Rice. I made this for our last cooking club for the year, where we had an island theme. When I found out the theme, I went straight to The Deep Dish. She lives in Grand Cayman and is always posting such gorgeous food. I chose this traditional Grand Cayman drink. It is their version of lemonade.
This went over extremely well at cooking club. I was a little nervous, based on the color, but it is slightly sweet and tangy, and paired perfectly with everything we had there. The recipe uses brown sugar instead of regular white sugar, so there is more depth to this. Also, instead of lemons it uses limes. I did a little research and it seems like different restaurants use slightly different citrus blends to come up with “their” version. I planned on all limes, but they were tiny and didn’t produce as much juice, so I added in a little lemon and orange. It was perfect!
Swanky Caribbean Lemonade
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 1 cup lime juice
- 6 cups water
- Rum, , optional
Instructions
- In a pitcher combine all of the ingredients.
- Stir well until the brown sugar is dissolved. Serve over ice.
- Store in the fridge.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I love this! I think the color is pretty and it sounds really tasty too!
This sounds great. Can’t wait to try it.
Welcome back from vacation…I know it is so much work once we are back!
Your drink sound perfect for summer days!
Summer lemonades are so refreshing this sounds good and different with the brown sugar.
I love The Deep Dish, so thanks for turning to her for help with this!
What a perfect summer drink. I think I will try this with a bit of vodka. I also need to check out The Deep Dish. Thank you for sharing. Pinning now. 🙂
Sounds refreshing, love all the citrus you added to this pretty drink;-)
I recently took cold drink pictures and it was so difficult to take pictures. You ALWAYS take great pictures of refreshing drinks! Delicious!
I would add cover in fridge as it will get bitter being exposed to air. Our tradition recipe uses Seville Oranges. Haven’t had it with honey or Orange before but strawberry syrup is nice also. Drinker of many glasses of swanky with my turtle dinner.