Hidden Dragon

Sure, it looks like an innocent Creaming Soda doesn't it? And it tastes tame too. But this innocent facade hides a hefty dragon punch of booze. It's the pre-mixed Grand Cosmopolitan by Smirnoff, mixed one part, with two parts generic lime lemonade (lime pop or soda for my Northern Hemispherian friends). And after three of them, you forget what the end of your sentence was by the time you get there.

Good stuff.

Vanilla Vodka Strawberries.

After one day, the vodka was already turning red

Take two punnets of strawberries, washed and hulled. Add to an air tight container with a split vanilla bean. Cover with vodka. Let sit for three months. I'm not sure if this needs to be refrigerated or not, but I'm not taking the chance - mine is living in the back of my fridge.

I meant to take a photo when I made this yesterday, but forgot. Ah well, I tohught, it's going to be there for a while. But already today the vodka is going red. It's quite cool actually.

Around xmas time I plan on removing the vanilla bean and blenderising the rest. To be served with either chocolate ice cream (perhaps in the blender to make a smoothie?) or Baileys or Creme De Cacao... I'm going to call it a Neopolitan. Strawberry, Vanilla, Chocolate, get it?