BEDKNOBS & BAUBLES

Sipping: Strawberry-Infused Vodka

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Making infused vodka had been on our summer to-do list for over a year and I’m not really sure why we dawdled for so long. (Maybe I’m just too impatient for a cocktail?) It was incredibly easy and well worth the wait.

Here’s what you need to do:

  1. Fill a large Mason jar with your berry of choice (other fruits and peppers will also work). Make sure it’s ripe and take off any part of the fruit you wouldn’t normally eat (pits, stems, etc.).
  2. Add vodka (or gin or clear rum or whatever else your heart desires). We used Tito’s vodka.
  3. Seal it and stick it in the fridge for a couple of weeks. We shook ours every few days to mix it.
  4. Give it a taste. If you like the intensity, strain it and store in the fridge.
  5. Enjoy!

We kept it simple and mixed our concoction with 7Up. The lemon-lime soda added sweetness to the infused vodka without overshadowing the strawberry flavor. Next up: Blackberry vodka? Jalapeno tequila? Cherry rum?

Weekend Snapshots

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Weekend Snapshots:

  1. I spotted a sandpiper darting around a parking lot.
  2. Enjoying a Saturday morning cocktail at Merchant after the Farmers’ Market.
  3. At the Farmers’ Market, we picked up cheese curds, aged cheddar, hot sauce and a flower-shaped cookie.
  4. We visited the carnival on Sunday and I couldn’t resist another summer treat: cotton candy.
  5. The ferris wheel.
  6. Another sign of summer: the ice cream truck. (When I was little, my mom told me it was a “music truck.”)

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The best things come in small packages and many times they come tucked into a Christmas stocking. When I was growing up, Santa would fill my stocking with holiday candies on Christmas Eve, but there was always a little gift hidden beneath the sweets. Check out my guest post on La vie … J’aime to see what I’d love to find in my stocking this year.

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