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Dec. 8th, 2007 02:20 pm1. I stumbled upon Infusions of Grandeur, a site where a pair of Mad Scienticians (sic) make an exciting variety of vodka infusions. They start by quintuple-filtering the cheapest back-of-the-bottom-shelf vodka through a Pur water filter -- this removes a lot of the impurities that make cheap vodka unpleasant. (The vodka still isn't shooting-grade or anything, but it's smooth and neutral which makes it perfect for infusing, and anyway infusions would be kind of a waste of genuinely good vodka anyway.) They then steep a wide and exciting variety of things in the vodka for varying lengths of time, testing as they go.
This method has resulted in fruit vodkas (like apple, lime, orange, and pineapple), nut vodkas (almond and coconut), spice vodkas (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, vanilla, etc.), infusions-that-are-actually-suspensions/solutions (caramel, honey and chocolate vodkas), and more... esoteric infusions (garlic -- which apparently makes a good marinade -- and chile pepper). I want to get a back-of-the-bottom-shelf vodka, a water filter pitcher and some spare filters, and some infusion materials, and make some. (Caramel and chocolate and cinnamon and vanilla and apple and coffee and strawberry sound good -- that is, individually, not in one big mix, of course -- and there are a couple of infusions that are perfect for filling holes in my gift list....)
2. This author promo written by a romance writer (video on YouTube, mild/humorous sexual references -- nothing explicit, but I probably wouldn't watch at work) is absolutely freaking hilarious. It's so good to see someone with a sense of humor about their own genre and writing!
3. I have settled on a name for my steampunk ball persona: Lady Cordelia Jameson Peabody. (I'm trying without much success to convince Pav that he wants to go as Doctor Justinian M. Pavastone, but he's not biting.) Cordelia is a Gentlewoman Scholar of diverse Interests and some Means, and a widow, who has an interest (an academic interest, she maintains) in studies natural, mechanical and occult.
4. More BPAL. Rather than try to pick out individual scents (which it turns out I kind of suck at, and also, if you want that there are a million people on the BPAL forums who can do it brilliantly), I'm just giving impressions.
( Dragon's Eye; Bow and Crown of Conquest; Centzon Totochtin; Coyote )
This method has resulted in fruit vodkas (like apple, lime, orange, and pineapple), nut vodkas (almond and coconut), spice vodkas (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, vanilla, etc.), infusions-that-are-actually-suspensions/solutions (caramel, honey and chocolate vodkas), and more... esoteric infusions (garlic -- which apparently makes a good marinade -- and chile pepper). I want to get a back-of-the-bottom-shelf vodka, a water filter pitcher and some spare filters, and some infusion materials, and make some. (Caramel and chocolate and cinnamon and vanilla and apple and coffee and strawberry sound good -- that is, individually, not in one big mix, of course -- and there are a couple of infusions that are perfect for filling holes in my gift list....)
2. This author promo written by a romance writer (video on YouTube, mild/humorous sexual references -- nothing explicit, but I probably wouldn't watch at work) is absolutely freaking hilarious. It's so good to see someone with a sense of humor about their own genre and writing!
3. I have settled on a name for my steampunk ball persona: Lady Cordelia Jameson Peabody. (I'm trying without much success to convince Pav that he wants to go as Doctor Justinian M. Pavastone, but he's not biting.) Cordelia is a Gentlewoman Scholar of diverse Interests and some Means, and a widow, who has an interest (an academic interest, she maintains) in studies natural, mechanical and occult.
4. More BPAL. Rather than try to pick out individual scents (which it turns out I kind of suck at, and also, if you want that there are a million people on the BPAL forums who can do it brilliantly), I'm just giving impressions.
( Dragon's Eye; Bow and Crown of Conquest; Centzon Totochtin; Coyote )
