{"id":5555,"date":"2015-08-18T22:07:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T22:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2015-08-18T22:13:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T22:13:10","slug":"elderflower-melon-sorbet-good-gracious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/elderflower-melon-sorbet-good-gracious\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderflower Melon Sorbet: Good Gracious!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of August and that temperature has climbed to the high point that I don&#8217;t even consider going to the pool during the mid-day. \u00a0Today I bought a few melons with the intent of eating them, juicing them and mixing them up for nibbles. \u00a0I doctored a\u00a0HoneyDew Melon Sorbet recipe &#8211; \u00a0with a splash of St. Germain and honey and fell in love!<!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5561\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150818_174858-154x300.jpg\" alt=\"20150818_174858\" width=\"209\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150818_174858-154x300.jpg 154w, https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150818_174858-526x1024.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150818_174858-700x1364.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150818_174858.jpg 1045w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I bought a cantaloupe, mini-watermelon, lemondrop melon, and a honeydew melon and dove straight into juicing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abeautifulmess.com\/2012\/06\/agua-fresca-two-ways.html\">cantaloupe with a little lime and honey<\/a> and followed that that up with what I think is a very creative adaptation of another<a href=\"http:\/\/frozenfix.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/honeydew-sorbet.html?m=1\"> blogger&#8217;s recipe<\/a> for the quickest, easiest dessert I intend to enjoy after teaching classes this\u00a0evening (or any evening forthcoming &#8211; truth be told!)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5559 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honeydew-sorbet2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Honeydew-sorbet2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honeydew-sorbet2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honeydew-sorbet2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I simply replaced her use agave nectar with honey and her use of vodka with my favorite liqueur, <a href=\"http:\/\/stgermain.fr\/\">St. Germain<\/a>, which is a French liqueur flavored with elderflowers, and the best splash one can add to a glass of wine, champagne and now HoneyDew Melon sorbet.<\/p>\n<p>The other small change I made to the recipe is to use my Vitamix to blend the frozen melon balls and added a few pinches of mint leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Perfect. \u00a0Complete. \u00a0Delicious. \u00a0And oh, so <em>good gracious divine<\/em> for the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of August and that temperature has climbed to the high point that I don&#8217;t even consider going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition","category-the-scoop"],"featured_image_url":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honeydew-sorbet-200x200.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honeydew-sorbet-300x225.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honeydew-sorbet.jpg","large":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honeydew-sorbet.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honeydew-sorbet.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honeydew-sorbet.jpg","uncode_woocommerce_nav_thumbnail_regular":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honeydew-sorbet.jpg","uncode_woocommerce_nav_thumbnail_crop":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honeydew-sorbet.jpg"},"post_author":"Gina Jackson","assigned_categories":"Nutrition, The Scoop","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5555"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5567,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions\/5567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}