{"id":5337,"date":"2013-05-19T21:48:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T04:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/?p=5337"},"modified":"2013-05-19T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T04:48:34","slug":"when-life-gives-you-lemons-make-pesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2013\/05\/19\/when-life-gives-you-lemons-make-pesto\/","title":{"rendered":"When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Pesto &#124; Ode to the Lemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Text copyright, 2013 Maria Liberati\/Art of Living, PrimaMedia,Inc<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.procida.tv\/justplay4u\/images\/stories\/gastronomie\/limoni_procida.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n(photo credit: Procida.tv)<br \/>\nAlthough they say when life gives you lemons..make lemonade.. I say make a yummy lemony pesto instead..<br \/>\nIn the <strong>Ode to the Lemon<\/strong>, Poet Pablo Neruda called&nbsp; the juice of a lemon \u2018nature\u2019s most intense liqueur\u2019\u2026.<br \/>\nFor 4 people<br \/>\nremove the peel from 4 (uber) fresh lemons..place in food processor with 3\/4 cup shelled almonds and 1 tablespoon of salted capers 3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. Blend..use this pesto to dress a salad, or as a sauce for cous cous or&nbsp; a refreshing sauce for cold summer pasta or even a hot pasta dish..<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n**Special Thanks to everyone that came out to the Pearl S Buck Foundation Event..and the chefs and restaurants that competed in the Tastes of the World Event.<br \/>\n**Thanks to the New York Travel Writers Society for selecting The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm BLOG as Food and Wine Blog of the Year<br \/>\n**See you at the Sons of Italy Scholarship dinner on June 4th at the Philadelphia Quartet Club<br \/>\nFor more info on any of these events email <a href=\"mailto:Events@marialiberati.com\">Events@marialiberati.com<\/a><br \/>\nFor more great recipes get your copy of <strong><em>The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays and Special Occasions-2nd edition<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cover-smaller-21.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"cover smaller (2)\" alt=\"cover smaller (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cover-smaller-2_thumb1.jpg?resize=189%2C244&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"189\" height=\"244\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text copyright, 2013 Maria Liberati\/Art of Living, PrimaMedia,Inc (photo credit: Procida.tv) Although they say when life gives you lemons..make lemonade.. I say make a yummy lemony pesto instead.. In the&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":[947,45,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-house-living","category-pasta-recipes-2","category-recipes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337","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=5337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}