{"id":367,"date":"2011-03-30T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2016-02-24T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T20:08:13","slug":"gourmet-lemonade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/gourmet-lemonade\/","title":{"rendered":"Gourmet Lemonade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>This is a lemonade recipe you won&#8217;t want to miss!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is no ordinary lemonade, this is <strong>Blueberry Basil Lemonade<\/strong>. Three great flavors all blended together to make one incredible creation. Since summertime\u00a0screams lemonade, it\u2019s seems like there is no better time to start preparing for summer, than now.<\/p>\n<p>August Lemons\u2122\u00a0are perfect lemons for lemonade, they are very juicy. Therefore, they don\u2019t require as many lemons as other varieties; and what better place to get them than directly from the <a title=\"fruit company\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">fruit company<\/a> that grows them. The tangy and sweet combination of this lemonade is a flavorful explosion, and I just love the hot pink color!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1224 alignright\" title=\"Lemons for Gourmet Lemonade Recipe\" alt=\"Gourmet Orchards August Lemons\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Lemons_20lb.-243x300.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Preparation time: 5 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Note: one August Lemon yields \u00bd cup lemon juice. For every 1\/2 cup of lemon juice the following ingredients apply.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/2 cup August Lemon juice<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup blueberries<\/li>\n<li>4 fresh basil leaves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blend ingredients together with an immersion blender then strain. Pour over ice in a shaker, strain and serve. If you prefer your lemonade on ice, fill glass half way with ice and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>For delicious <strong>\u201chard lemonade\u201d<\/strong> add a shot of vodka to your shaker and this will soon become your favorite cocktail.<br \/>\n<strong>Printable Blueberry Lemonade Recipe<\/strong><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2374 alignleft\" title=\"Blueberries\" alt=\"Blueberries for lemonade recipe\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Blueberries-300x199.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"119\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This recipe was created for Gourmet Orchards by Diane Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>Diane is a recipe developer and writes the food blog visit her at\u00a0 Created by Diane for more delicious recipes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe for lemonade takes the term &#8220;gourmet&#8221; to a whole new level. Take a look at how our guest blogger, Diane does gourmet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,34,35],"tags":[60,61,118,120,133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"https:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gourmetorchards.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}