Plum update:

[bladespark]

Did not make plums in rum sauce for lunch because I got a wild hair and decided to decant the steeping plum ethanol and make the next back of liqueur. It was a marked improvement from batch 1, but there are still gains to be made, I feel, so batch 3 needs to happen. First I have to buy more everclear, though!

But after mixing and tasting and mixing and tasting, and then comparison tasting with the first batch, I was plummed out!

So instead of plums in sauce for lunch-dinner (I have strange meal schedules) I had macaroni in home-made marinara with some mexican crema. That sounds weird, but it's SO GOOD. It's basically making a tomato cream sauce. Like vodka sauce? But with more basil, and more tang, because crema.

So I am replete with plum liqueur and good pasta.

But now I definitely need to buy more everclear! I think I know what to do to improve the next batch, so we'll see how that goes.

Comments

[cornerofmadness]

this all sounds yummy

[bladespark]

It is very yummy! Food is my coping mechanism. I try to keep from like...just stress-eating random shit, but indulging in *good* food indstead of just "eh, it'll keep me alive" food is one of life's great pleasures.

[cornerofmadness]

I love to cook and try new things (not a stress eater, quite the opposite) so I would like to explore these, thanks