Pink Lemonade for your Valentine

Pink Lemonade

1 pint blackberries or blueberries*

1 cup sugar

4 lemons

3 limes

In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar with 1 cup water. Add the berries, reserving a few for garnish. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Turn off the heat. Set aside to cool.
Juice the lemons and the limes, reserve one lemon to slice for the glasses. Pour juice through a sieve into a pitcher, add enough water to make 1 quart of liquid. Pour the blackberry mixture through a sieve into the pitcher, pressing on the fruit to get all the juice leaving the seeds behind in the sieve. Chill. Serve lemonade over ice, garnishing the glasses with a few berries and a slice of lemon.

*Note: It's easy to pretend in LA that it's summer in the middle of February. Elsewhere in the world, I'm guessing you could use frozen berries in place of fresh and then you could pretend that it's summer where you live, too.

I've heard it's best when you drink it out of a juiced lemon half with an itty bitty bendy straw.