{"id":3314,"date":"2014-07-03T14:31:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T18:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:54:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T21:54:45","slug":"watermelon-tequila-cocktails-jennifer-kosco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/03\/watermelon-tequila-cocktails-jennifer-kosco\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon-Tequila Cocktails, Jennifer Kosco\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/images.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3315\" src=\"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"213\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1\/4 cup water<br \/>\n1\/4 cup granulated sugar<br \/>\n8 cups diced seedless watermelon (1 pound)<br \/>\n1\/4 cup fresh lime juice<br \/>\n1 3\/4 cups blueberries<br \/>\n3\/4 cup lightly packed fresh mint leaves, plus 8 sprigs for garnish<br \/>\n1 1\/4 cups silver tequila<br \/>\nIce<\/p>\n<p>1. In a small saucepan, bring the water to a simmer with the sugar and stir over moderate heat until the sugar is dissolved, about 1 minute; let the sugar syrup cool.<\/p>\n<p>2. In a blender, puree the watermelon until smooth. Set a fine-mesh strainer over a bowl and strain the watermelon juice, pressing gently on the solids to extract as much juice as possible. Discard the pulp.<\/p>\n<p>3. In a large pitcher, combine the sugar syrup with the lime juice, blueberries and mint leaves. Using a wooden spoon, lightly muddle the blueberries and mint. Add the watermelon juice and tequila. Refrigerate until chilled, about 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>4. Pour the cocktail into tall ice-filled glasses. Garnish with the mint sprigs and serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\/4 cup water 1\/4 cup granulated sugar 8 cups diced seedless watermelon (1 pound) 1\/4 cup fresh lime juice 1 3\/4 cups blueberries 3\/4 cup lightly packed fresh mint leaves, plus 8 sprigs for garnish 1 1\/4 cups silver tequila &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/03\/watermelon-tequila-cocktails-jennifer-kosco\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,7],"tags":[149,363,111],"class_list":["post-3314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beverages","category-recipes","tag-blueberries","tag-tequila-sugar","tag-watermelon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimbly.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}