A
while back, a coworker of mine graciously gave me a bunch (more like a bush) of
rosemary. To be honest I held on to it for a couple of days. What in the world
am I going to with these… limbs?
In
short, I used the woody stems as skewers for shrimp, roasted chicken with the
sprigs, and boiled mashed potatoes with the leaves. However, the
approach that I anticipated the most was infusing vodka.
We
combined 750mL of vodka with one 9” rosemary sprig and two 5” lavender thingies
(isn’t “thingies” a standard recipe measurement?). Side note: Liz has named her lavender plant Lilly. I support it. We
let it do its thing for 3-5 days and tested daily to get a gauge of where our
herbal preference was. Yes, I thought testing daily was excessive too, but the
infusion takes unusually large strides that are very interesting to the
palette. When we found our preference we strained the concoction. It tasted
great. I was proud of my liquid Frankenstein.
This
is the point that I want to say, "go try it" or “you’re welcome”. Except - You
know when you have a beautiful bouquet of flowers and after a few days they
start to wilt but aren’t yet dead? Yeah, it started to taste like that.
It
wasn’t you science experiment. It was me. Maybe I didn’t do something right. Maybe I didn’t show you enough love. However, you’re still going down the
drain. Next experiment, hot pepper infused Whiskey. I’ve got high hopes for
this one.
