{"id":1042,"date":"2009-05-23T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T13:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marialiberati.com\/blog2\/?p=649"},"modified":"2009-05-23T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T13:58:30","slug":"fresh-watermelon-strawberries-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2009\/05\/23\/fresh-watermelon-strawberries-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Watermelon, Strawberries &#038; Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-652\" title=\"watermelons1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/watermelons1-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"watermelons1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-651\" title=\"strawberries\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/strawberries-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"strawberries\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\ncopyright 2009, Maria Liberati<br \/>\n\u00a0A Happy Memorial Day weekend.. Does this mean summer is finally here? It must be summer, I got to purchase my first baby watermelon yesterday and plan on eating the whole thing\u00a0 myself!!<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t \u00a0think of a more refreshing way to spend a warm summer style day..besides it reminds me of my summers spent in the mountains of Abruzzo..eating lunch on the terrazzo and reveling in the beautiful Italian sun and peaceful quiet while being cooled down by\u00a0 munching on a \u00a0slice of\u00a0\u00a0 sweet watermelon..<br \/>\nFor those of you that don&#8217;t \u00a0want to eat a whole watermelon or would appreciate another type of fruit..try my second favorite summer time dessert fresh strawberries with lemon.<br \/>\nFragole con Limone<br \/>\n1 pound of fresh strawberries<br \/>\n1 fresh lemon<br \/>\n1\/4 cup sugar<br \/>\nhandful of fresh mint leaves<br \/>\nWash and quarter strawberries. Squeeze juice of one lemon on top, sprinkle sugar and toss gently. let marinade in refrigerator for 2 hours. Serve\u00a0 chilled garnished with fresh mint leaves.<br \/>\nEnjoy!<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHope to see you on June 4th at Foster&#8217;s Gourmet in Philadelphia and \/or Horsham Day in Horsham, Pa at Deep Meadow Park..See you then..<br \/>\nHappy summer eating.<br \/>\nMangai Bene, Vivi Bene<br \/>\nMaria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>copyright 2009, Maria Liberati \u00a0A Happy Memorial Day weekend.. Does this mean summer is finally here? It must be summer, I got to purchase my first baby watermelon yesterday and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27,23,7,41,57,31,11,655,55,32,39,374],"tags":[713,286,209,212,183,714],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abruzzo","category-caro-diariodear-diary","category-cooking-school-in-tuscany","category-cucina","category-entertaining","category-features","category-la-dolce-vita","category-recipes","category-slow-food","category-special-occasions","category-the-mediterranean-diet","category-travel-customs","category-upcoming-appearances","tag-fresh","tag-lemon","tag-memorial-day","tag-strawberries","tag-summer","tag-watermelon"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}