Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Overwhelmed with chives!

The garden is growing, so much so, that I am overwhelmed with chive blossoms. Last year most of them went into garnishing salads, but there are way to many this year. We started out making little bouquets for the table.
A while ago I made Alton Brown's Black Pepper Vodka, which was great with a bloody mary. But after reading some more about infusions, bitters, and such, I decided to try something on my own. I thought the chive flowers would work better with a friend, So I included some celery leaves. And Voila!

I drained a cup of vodka from the bottle. After picking all the chive flowers apart from their bunches, I labouriously got them into the bottle. I then minced up an equal volume of celery leaves, which were even harder to get into the bottle. If I do it again I'll definitely need a new plan. I then poured as much of the reserved vodka back in as I could.

If all goes well, I plan on a nice, spring, herbal vodka tonic followed by a nice, spring, herbal bloody mary next weekend.

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