{"id":23994,"date":"2013-06-07T13:14:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T17:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=23994"},"modified":"2013-06-07T13:14:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T17:14:36","slug":"cooking-with-basil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/06\/cooking-with-basil\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking with Basil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Basil Tea\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02 cups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3 Tablespoon chopped fresh basil leaves<\/p>\n<p>Add chopped leaves to a teapot and add 2 cups boiling water.<\/p>\n<p>Let steep 5 to 10 minutes<\/p>\n<p>You can either strain into a cup to filter the basil leaves or pour them into the cup and eat\/drink them with the tea.<\/p>\n<p>Add sugar to taste.<\/p>\n<p>Pour over ice if you want it cold.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23995\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23995\" title=\"Baisl\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Baisl-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Baisl-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Baisl-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Connie Hope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here\u2019s another Basil idea\u2026.<strong>Basil Lemonade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 cup water<\/p>\n<p>Also 3 cups cold water<\/p>\n<p>1 cup sugar (or use sugar substitute, but check measurements)<\/p>\n<p>1 cup fresh basil leaves, packed firmly<\/p>\n<p>2 cups ice<\/p>\n<p>Frozen lemonade, small can or packet powdered lemonade<\/p>\n<p>\u00bc cup lemon juice<\/p>\n<p>In a small saucepan over medium heat , bring 1 cup water and sugar to a boil.<\/p>\n<p>Lower heat and cook until the sugar dissolves, about 5 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Remove the saucepan from the heat.<\/p>\n<p>Add fresh basil leaves, cover and let stand for at least 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to add a tea bag for added flavor, please do.<\/p>\n<p>Fill a pitcher with 2 cups of ice.<\/p>\n<p>Strain the sugar\/basil syrup into the pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>Discard the basil.<\/p>\n<p>Stir in 3 cups cold water and packet or small \u00a0can of lemonade.<\/p>\n<p>Makes about 6-7 cups of Basil Lemonade Ice Tea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out by cookbook, <em>In Addition\u2026to the Entr\u00e9e<\/em> on Amazon.com and my website at<\/p>\n<p>www.cookingbyconnie.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basil Tea\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02 cups 3 Tablespoon chopped fresh basil leaves Add chopped leaves to a teapot and add 2 cups boiling water. Let steep 5 to 10 minutes You can&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}