{"id":103,"date":"2012-06-04T19:31:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2012-06-04T19:31:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:31:35","slug":"me-n-martha-project-day-5-strawberry-shortcake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Me n’ Martha Project: Day 5, Strawberry Shortcake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We continue with our salute to All American cooking in honor of Memorial Weekend with a Strawberry Shortcake. I’ll admit I took liberties with the recipe, but hey, isn’t that what America is all about…liberty! Bad jokes aside, I did follow Martha’s shortcake recipe exactly as it appeared on page 63, but I kind of did my own thing with the strawberry part. I marinated the strawberries with sugar, a dash of cinnamon and nutmeg, some fresh ginger, a little lime juice and a splash of Grand Marnier for about an hour. Then I drained the juice, added a half a cup of Pinot Noir and reduced it to a syrup. Trust me, it may not be Martha’s way, but it’s a good thing!<\/p>\n

Just look at that picture – Strawberry Shortcake, Marilyn Monroe and a Martha Stewart cookbook! It doesn’t get more iconic than that and when you add just a pinch of desperate fame whoring from me, it’s as American as apple pie…except it’s not an apple pie, it’s a strawberry shortcake…you get the idea…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We continue with our salute to All American cooking in honor of Memorial Weekend with a Strawberry Shortcake. I’ll admit I took liberties with the recipe, but hey, isn’t that what America is all about…liberty! Bad jokes aside, I did … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p77v4L-1F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}