Make your Own Summer Snow Cones
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 4:00AM 
Summer’s almost here and nothing says summer to Benny and Nicky like homemade snow cones! We try our best to teach our boys about how to eat following the seasons, enjoying what’s fresh and abundant at the moment. They look forward to this time of year because they get to pick the fragrant, juicy lemons from our neighbor Terri’s tree.
And when you live across the street from a prolific lemon tree, you’re obligated to come up with multiple ways to use its fruit – lemonade, lemon muffins; lemon bread. After all, one of life’s most important lessons is to not waste food.
But the boys’ favorite way to use lemons is lemon snow cones. Snow cones are very easy to make at home. You can find ice shavers at housewares stores, but we just put the cubes in a plastic bag and break them down with a meat mallet before finishing in the blender or food processor. Paper cones and spoon straws are summertime stock at your local grocery or party store. We make the syrup ourselves so the anticipation and enjoyment of the cones lasts longer.