Magazine Monday #26: Strawberry-Rose Agua Fresca & Welcome to #CookoutWeek!

Happy Magazine Monday and kickoff of #CookoutWeek! During this week, I am joining over 50 of my blogger friends to celebrate summer by posting delicious cookout-themed recipes. If you love grilling, frozen treats, picnics, berries, s’mores, campfire meals, and other summer goodies… you are in the right place! This week, we are also hosting a HUGE giveaway thanks to our generous #CookoutWeek sponsors. Enter below to win.

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• Char-Broil Classic 280 2-Burner Liquid Propane Gas Grill from blog hosts The PinterTest Kitchen. This grill has 280 square inches of cooking space over porcelain-coated grates and two 12-inch side shelves for extra prep space.

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Here’s a full list of the bloggers participating in #CookoutWeek 2018! You can find yummy recipes by checking out any of the links below: The PinterTest Kitchen ♥ 2 Cookin Mamas ♥ A Day in the Life on the Farm ♥ A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures ♥ April GoLightly ♥ Authentically Candace ♥ Blogghetti ♥ Body Rebooted ♥ Bottom Left of the Mitten ♥ Cheese Curd In Paradise ♥ Chef Sarah Elizabeth ♥ Coconut & Lime ♥ Cookaholic Wife ♥ CookwithRenu ♥ Daily Dish Recipes ♥ Everyday EileenFairyburger ♥ Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice ♥ Family Around the Table ♥ Fix Me a Little Lunch ♥ For the Love of Food ♥ Frankly Entertaining ♥ Frugal & Fit ♥ Get the Good Stuff! ♥ Hardly A Goddess ♥ Herbivore Cucina ♥ Join Us, Pull up a Chair ♥ Jolene’s Recipe Journal ♥ Jonesin’ For Taste ♥ Karen’s Kitchen Stories ♥ Kelly Lynn’s Sweets & Treats ♥ Mildly Meandering ♥ Moore or Less Cooking ♥ Our Good Life ♥ Oven Tales By Syama ♥ Palatable Pastime ♥ Sarah Cooks the Books ♥ Savory Moments ♥ Seduction In The Kitchen ♥ Strawberry Blondie Kitchen ♥ Sweet Coralice ♥ Tampa Cake Girl ♥ Technotini ♥ That Recipe ♥ The Baking Fairy ♥ The Beard and The Baker ♥ The Freshman Cook ♥ The Simple Supper ♥ The Spiffy Cookie ♥ The Weekday Gourmet ♥ This is How I Cook ♥ Who Needs A Cape? ♥ Wildflour’s Cottage Kitchen

So, listen.  I know that last week, I noted my propensity toward using drinks on my Magazine Monday posts because they tend to be easy to make last-minute.  This is not that.  When I got the June/July issue of Bon Appetit, I knew that #CookoutWeek would follow not too soon after, and I wanted to get a recipe from that issue.

It just so happens that I’m starting the week with a refreshing drink you can make for your next cookout to celebrate the wonder that is strawberries in the summer.

At least this one doesn’t have booze in it?

(Although, it would be really good with a shot of rum in it, probably, if your cookout guests are looking for some adult libations…)

Also, since the point of Sarah Cooks the Books is that I’m cooking from books, I thought that #CookoutWeek 2018 would be an excellent time to bust out Al Roker’s Big Bad Book of Barbecue, a book that, honestly, I never saw myself using, as I’m not a huge barbecuer.  But here we are.  I guess stranger things have happened.

Point being, you’ll be seeing recipes from ol’ Al this week.  Enjoy!

Strawberry-Rose Agua Fresca
Makes 4
From Bon Appetit Magazine, June/July 2018

Ingredients

1 lb. strawberries, hulled

1/4 cup mint leaves

2 Tbsp. fresh lime juice

2 Tbsp. light agave nectar

1 tsp. rose water (optional)

2 cups cold water

Club soda

Ice

Mint sprigs, lime wheels, and whole strawberries for garnish

Puree strawberries, mint, lime juice, agave, rose water, and plain water together in a blender.  Transfer the puree to an airtight container and chill for about an hour.

Skim any foam off the surface of the mixture and add ice to four 12-oz. glasses.  Fill the glasses about 3/4 of the way with the strawberry mixture, top off with club soda, and garnish with mint, strawberries, and lime wheels.