{"id":14899,"date":"2021-09-09T18:38:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T17:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14899"},"modified":"2021-09-20T18:46:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T17:46:33","slug":"daily_2424_-_lime_water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/09\/09\/daily_2424_-_lime_water\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2424 &#8211; lime water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2424_lime_water.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI like to drink flavoured water with my meals. Sometimes I drink Adrian&#8217;s apple juice water. Sometimes that&#8217;s too sweet for me, so I make lemon-flavoured water for myself.<\/p>\n<p>Observations:<\/p>\n<p>One lemon can power a whole lot of water. Almost like perpetual stew: when the water runs low, I fill the carafe up with more, on top of the existing lemon slices. After a while the lemon starts dissolving, with individual cells floating around in the water, and that just makes it taste even better. It doesn&#8217;t last forever, though &#8211; after a while it loses its flavour. <\/p>\n<p>Lemon slices make better drinking water than lime. Lime can initially taste nice but becomes bitter quite soon.<\/p>\n<p>The peel also makes the water bitter. I cut off the peel and the pith from my lemons before using them for this. With luck I run across a recipe that calls for lemon peel but no lemon juice, so the peel goes in the food and then I only need to throw out the pith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to drink flavoured water with my meals. Sometimes I drink Adrian&#8217;s apple juice water. Sometimes that&#8217;s too sweet for me, so I make lemon-flavoured water for myself. Observations: One lemon can power a whole lot of water. Almost like perpetual stew: when the water runs low, I fill the carafe up with more, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,745,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14900,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899\/revisions\/14900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}