{"id":50,"date":"2010-06-30T14:10:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T19:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/?p=50"},"modified":"2010-06-30T14:10:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T19:10:42","slug":"infusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Infusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a lot of herbs. I planted 3 types of basil (I only count one maybe two that have survived. tip: don&#8217;t use popsicle sticks as markers) and I don&#8217;t use a lot of basil. In fact, I don&#8217;t know of anyone outside of the country of Italy that would use this much basil. So I decided I had to do something. I made Lime-cello last Christmas (went over quite well) and I heard I could do the same with herbs. Herbs have a far shorter infusion time (36 hours instead of 6 month for fresh fruit). So. Here I am. Veritable small hills of basil, mint, and lemon verbena (the hell do you do with verbena??) and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specsonline.com\/\">Spec&#8217;s<\/a> nearby. 100 proof vodka and Everclear in hand, I made up some infusions. So far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 12oz jar of Everclear + Lemon Verbena (it turned green in 4 hours)<\/li>\n<li>1 12 oz jar of Basil + Everclear (again, green in 4 hours)<\/li>\n<li>1 12 oz of Basil + vodka (not as vibrant green in a day)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This was done Sunday. I still have not strained out the herbs. why? LAZY. I will do it tonight and probably won&#8217;t sweeten it until it&#8217;s aged up a bit. I dunno. Sugar is cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a lot of herbs. I planted 3 types of basil (I only count one maybe two that have survived. tip: don&#8217;t use popsicle sticks as markers) and I don&#8217;t use a lot of basil. In fact, I don&#8217;t know of anyone outside of the country of Italy that would use this much basil. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/?p=50\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Infusions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[15],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Rylh-O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}