{"id":557,"date":"2013-07-19T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2013-11-11T23:15:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T04:15:34","slug":"a-mango-licious-twist-on-a-summer-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/19\/a-mango-licious-twist-on-a-summer-favorite\/","title":{"rendered":"A mango-licious twist on a summer favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, my mom made and us kids drank ALOT of <a title=\"Kool Aid\" href=\"http:\/\/www.koolaid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kool-Aid<\/a>. It was cheap (less than 10 cents an envelope I think), it was easy (I was making it myself from about the age of 8 or so), it was kid-approved, and it was the 70s. Cut her some slack, ok?<\/p>\n<p>Today, I don&#8217;t buy Kool-Aid. It really doesn&#8217;t jazz my adult palate, but I know that kids tend to like sweet, color, and fruitiness in a drink, so I do have some standbys for when I&#8217;m entertaining the under-10 set. This is one of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-12-12.16.07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-583 alignright\" alt=\"SAMSUNG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-12-12.16.07-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mango Lime-Ade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2\/3 to 3\/4 cup sugar<br \/>\n1\/2 cup lime juice<br \/>\n1 9.6 ounce can Goya Mango Nectar<br \/>\nWater<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dissolve the sugar in about one cup of boiling water (I boil the water in the microwave and then pour over the sugar in the bottom of a sturdy glass pitcher). Combine this with the lime juice and mango nectar in a 64-oz pitcher. Stir well to combine, then add water and ice to fill the pitcher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p>Hard to beat on a summer day! I know I&#8217;ve been posting a lot of beverage recipes lately, but it is HOT here in this urban jungle &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, my mom made and us kids drank ALOT of Kool-Aid. It was cheap (less than 10 cents an envelope I think), it was easy (I was making it myself from about the age of 8 or so), it was kid-approved, and it was the 70s. Cut her some slack, ok? Today, I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kid-approved"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-12-12.22.56.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ImYM-8Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}