Bits and Pieces

So I've finished making my vodka concoctions, not exactly what you'd call a resounding success but fun never the less :) I strained the lemon rind after having soaked it for about a week, they were all anaemic: 

And now it looks all lovely like this:

It's VERY lemony and VERY potent, we diluted some with Sprite and it was great!

The grapefruit concoction was less of a success, it's crazy bitter and almost impossible to drink even in the smallest quantity. My sister, Tarryn, volunteered to take it to hockey and feed it to the girls there on their Fines Evening (where people get fined, normally a gross drink that they have to drink for doing something funny/strange/weird during the season...like I dunno maybe BREAKING an opposing team members finger or something - you know who you are!!) but I have a feeling that one of my favourite friends, Zoe who loves G & T, might enjoy it so I'm gonna store it for her until she FINALLY gets back from Korea in August.

Speaking of favourite friends another one bought me this gorgeous egg stand from the UK but since I'm not much of an egg eater I put it to much prettier use and now it stores all my bits and pieces of lace :) thanks Lise!!

it's my life

So I've finally set up a blog to show the world what I do. No idea if anyone will actually be interested but here we go :)
My parents just got back from a month on Italy and regaled us with tales of exploits and new tasty food.
And at the same time we got a monster crop of lemons from our farm...hence the only right thing to do was to make limoncello :)

I grated the rind of 4 lemons into a large mason jar (loving them right now) and added a bottle of cheapish vodka (I'm so stingy I couldn't bring myself to buy an expensive bottle) and let them marinate for a week. The vodka turned this lovely yellow colour and the lemon rind sort of went all  pale and pastey - how interesting! So the next step is to make a syrup of water and sugar and them add it to the vodka (having strained it first of course!) I'll keep you updated on the progress :)
With the left over lemons I made a wonderful homemade lemonade which I enjoyed so much it was half finished before I even had a chance to take a pic :)

 Also from the farm we got some lovely grapefruit which I am making a grapefruit-infused vodka with which I've never made before but hold thumbs :)