I'm clearly nesting, because I've been very busy in the kitchen. Either that, or I'm being like Enrico and finding ways to avoid doing the dusting...
Anyway, I've started some limoncello (this takes weeks, and involves first the extraction of lemon essence from the peels using pure alcohol, then adding a sugar syrup to make it drinkable). That should be ready in the next month.
I've always wanted to make sauerkraut, but I'm irrationally afraid and grossed out by fermentation that I do myself, so I've avoided it. I finally bought the cabbage yesterday, confessed my fears to Michael, and the lovely man did the cabbage chopping and massaging, and it's in the sink doing its thing for the next three weeks.
And since we'll have a crowd at Christmas, I decided to make a traditional Christmas cake! Since these need to be "fed" with brandy for months, September's a good time to start. That's now in the pantry and ready to be nurtured with a weekly brandy infusion.
Love,
Alexandra
Anyway, I've started some limoncello (this takes weeks, and involves first the extraction of lemon essence from the peels using pure alcohol, then adding a sugar syrup to make it drinkable). That should be ready in the next month.
I've always wanted to make sauerkraut, but I'm irrationally afraid and grossed out by fermentation that I do myself, so I've avoided it. I finally bought the cabbage yesterday, confessed my fears to Michael, and the lovely man did the cabbage chopping and massaging, and it's in the sink doing its thing for the next three weeks.
And since we'll have a crowd at Christmas, I decided to make a traditional Christmas cake! Since these need to be "fed" with brandy for months, September's a good time to start. That's now in the pantry and ready to be nurtured with a weekly brandy infusion.
Love,
Alexandra
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