{"id":1718,"date":"2010-08-20T16:47:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T16:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathycasey.com\/blog\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2010-08-20T16:47:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T16:47:18","slug":"squeeze-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/?p=1718","title":{"rendered":"Squeeze the Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is National Lemonade Day, so celebrate with a tall glass of your favorite variety of fresh-squeezed\u00a0lemonade! I have a superr fun receipe below, just for the occasion. My friends at Paramount Citrus<\/a> sent us these super cute aprons to wear today, so of course my\u00a0staff put them on for an impromptu photo shoot!<\/p>\n

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\nMy assistant, Jill, loving lemons and loving life<\/strong><\/p>\n

Be sure to go to Paramount Citrus’ “Squeeze the Day”<\/a> Facebook page – Paramount Ctirus will donate $1 (up to $10,000!)\u00a0to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation <\/a> for each person who “likes” the page\u00a0over the next month.<\/p>\n

Raspberry Lemonade<\/strong>
\nFor a delicious variation, toss in a pinch of dried lavender or a couple of flowering sprigs of fresh lavender when you cook the syrup. This \u2019ade\u2019s also fabulous with some gin or vodka added.<\/p>\n

Makes 1 drink<\/p>\n

2 ounces Raspberry-Lemon Syrup
\n4 ounces chilled soda water<\/p>\n

For garnishing
\nLemon wheel
\nFresh blackberries<\/p>\n

Fill a tall glass with ice. Measure in the syrup and soda water. Stir. Garnish with a lemon wheel and a few fresh Raspberries.<\/p>\n

Raspberry-Lemon Syrup<\/strong><\/p>\n

Makes 1 1\/2 cups, enough for about 6 servings<\/p>\n

1 cup water
\n1\/2 cup sugar
\n1\/2 cup fresh raspberries, or substitute frozen
\n1 tablespoon thinly sliced lemon zest (see Tip)
\n1 cup fresh-sqeezed Paramount Citrus lemon juice<\/p>\n

Combine the ingredients in a small heavy saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat, and boil for 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Strain through a very fine strainer, pressing out as much liquid as possible. Discard the solids and let the syrup cool to room temperature. If not using immediately, cover and refrigerate, for up to 7 days, until needed.<\/p>\n

Tip: With a potato peeler, cut off only the yellow part of the lemon skin. Peel it off in long strips, then cut the strips into thin slivers (julienne).<\/p>\n

Recipe adapted from\u00a0from Sips & Apps, \u00a9 2009 by Kathy Casey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is National Lemonade Day, so celebrate with a tall glass of your favorite variety of fresh-squeezed\u00a0lemonade! I have a superr fun receipe below, just for the occasion. My friends at Paramount Citrus sent us these super cute aprons to wear today, so of course my\u00a0staff put them on for an impromptu photo shoot! My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11760],"tags":[1364,1368,1365,11876,949,1369,1042,1370,1366,1367,860,11857,11859,1220,912,1371],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dishing-with-kathy-casey-blog","tag-alexs-lemonade-stand-foundation","tag-blackberries","tag-facebook","tag-fruit","tag-garnish","tag-glass","tag-lemon","tag-lemonade","tag-national-lemonade-day","tag-paramount-citrus","tag-raspberry","tag-recent","tag-recipes","tag-soda-water","tag-syrup","tag-wheel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}