{"id":50335,"date":"2013-12-31T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T08:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/50335\/summer-cocktail-recipes\/"},"modified":"2013-12-31T10:27:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T08:27:03","slug":"summer-cocktail-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/uncategorized\/2013\/12\/31\/summer-cocktail-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer cocktail recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Cherry Smash<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Ingredients<\/span><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cup pitted fresh or frozen (thawed) cherries<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup fresh mint leaves,\u00a0plus 4 sprigs for garnish<\/li>\n<li>8 teaspoon(s) sugar<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup dark rum<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup lime juice<\/li>\n<li>3 cups cherry-flavoured soda water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Directions<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Divide cherries, mint leaves, and sugar among 4 glasses. Mash everything together with the back of a wooden spoon. Stir in rum and lime juice. Fill glasses with ice and top with soda water. Garnish with mint sprigs.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Cucumber-Lemonade Chiller<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Ingredients<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 large cucumbers<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"gmw_\">1 <span class=\"gm_ gm_91e0ffde-0fd2-b05b-9828-a1ccb43568a5 gm-spell\">tablespoon<\/span> chopped fresh rosemary,\u00a0plus 4 sprigs for garnish<\/span><\/li>\n<li>1 cup water<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup gin<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup lemon juice<\/li>\n<li>3 tablespoons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agavenectarsugar.com\/\">agave syrup <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Directions<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cut 12 thin slices of cucumber for garnish.<\/li>\n<li>Peel and chop the rest of the cucumber; transfer to a food processor, add rosemary, and puree. Pour the puree through a fine-mesh strainer set over a medium bowl or large measuring cup. Press on the solids to extract all the juice. Add water, gin, lemon juice, and agave syrup to the cucumber juice; stir until the agave is dissolved. Divide among 4 ice-filled glasses. Garnish with cucumber slices and rosemary sprigs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Monkeylada<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Ingredients<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 very ripe bananas<\/li>\n<li>1 cup diced fresh pineapple,\u00a0plus 4 wedges for garnish<\/li>\n<li>1 cup pineapple juice<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup coconut milk<\/li>\n<li>3 cup ice cubes<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup light rum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u00a0Directions<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Puree bananas, diced pineapple, pineapple juice, coconut milk, and ice in a blender. Stir in rum. Divide among 4 glasses. Garnish with pineapple wedges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delish.com\">www.delish.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='05b9022bb8e1260a26aad5e8c65560bb'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some cocktail recipes to enjoy with friends and family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":50336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1165],"class_list":["post-50335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-recipes"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":null,"tag_labels":["Recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}