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Battling the heat- I am not winning.

It is currently 98 degrees outside with a real feel of 109.  Guess what… our air conditioning went out yesterday afternoon- hello heat and welcome to my house, please don’t stay long.  While I can’t get an actual temperature reading in my house, you can imagine that it is a little on the uncomfortable side.  Fortunately, I did make that pink lemonade pie, and it is helping but I need to be eating it in a freezer not the oven that is my existence at the moment.  I went to a hot yoga class the other morning at Charleston Power Yoga, and it was awesome.  I had never been to a hot yoga class before, and the best thing about it besides how awesome I felt and what a great work out it was, when I walked out into the steam of the morning, because I had been in such a hot room, the 85 degree air felt so refreshing.  Seeing that it is hotter outside now that in the yoga class, I don’t think that will work.  Also, moving as little as possible seems like a better option at the moment.  I did google recipes to “beat the heat” and came across a great blog called Gooseberry Patch.  Here are their ideas for recipes to beat the heat http://gooseberrypatch.typepad.com/blog/2012/07/rru-beat-the-heat.html.  When the AC is fixed hopefully this afternoon, maybe I will have the energy to try one, but for now, I will stay seated on the couch in front of the fan.

Pink Lemonade Pie

We got back from our month in the mountains on Saturday evening.  When we left Twilight on Saturday morning at 6:30am it was 56 degrees.  When we arrived in Charleston 14 hours and 40 minutes later at just after 9pm, it was 86 degrees.  We had only been gone for 30 days, but that heat and humidity hit me something fierce.  I know I should be more used to it, but holy smokes Batman- it is hot down here.  We had such fabulous weather in the Catskills that I am sure the atmosphere will cooperate and cool fall weather is just around the corner 🙂 Fortunately one of my best girlfriends has a place very close by with a pool, and she has invited a few of us over tomorrow night for some pool/girl time.  To show my wondrous appreciation for her very nice cold relaxing pool, I thought I should bring something special to eat.  But then I thought about standing in the kitchen with the oven on and cooking and chopping and sweating, and I got so upset at my friend for inviting me to her pool, but then I thought about the pool again and how nice it is, and realized how ridiculous I was being.  So instead of cooking, I found a super awesome, super easy recipe for Pink Lemonade Pie that should be a perfect pairing with a frosty cold beverage, wonderful friends, and a great pool.  By the way, I love my friend and if she wanted me to slave away in the kitchen I would, but I think she will be very happy with this instead!

Pink Lemonade Pie

Ingredients:

1  can sweetened condensed milk

1  can frozen pink lemonade concentrate, thawed

1  container Cool Whip (thawed)

2 prepared graham cracker crusts

Directions:

In a large bowl, mix together sweetened condensed milk and lemonade concentrate. Fold in whipped topping. Pour into pie crusts. Refrigerate until completely chilled.

How easy is that!!