{"id":52,"date":"2010-11-30T16:41:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T22:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/?p=52"},"modified":"2010-11-30T16:41:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T22:41:02","slug":"it-must-be-christmas-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"It must be Christmas Time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I apparently really only update this thing at Christmas. Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>So, I did indeed strain my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/?p=50\">infusions<\/a>, sweetened two of them and set them all to age. They will be bottled for presents. They look quite festive. I also discovered a large Svedka bottle of raspberry-apricot infused vodka in the back of the pantry. The raspberries were infused LAST YEAR and the apricots I added in January ans strained sometime earlier this year. Oh and there was a jar of apricot infused vodka. Dunno what the hell to do with any of this. I make stuff and either don&#8217;t eat\/drink it or just give it away blindly. Who knows if people even like these experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, on to the other kitchen stuff. This season I have on my list to make:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Meringue cookies (another experiment. Never made them before)<\/li>\n<li>3 types of jam\/jelly with a variety of fruit. 2 is a variety, right?<\/li>\n<li>Bourbon caramel sauce (again, an experiment)<\/li>\n<li>3 flavors of marshmallows<\/li>\n<li>Chocolate Cherry Bourbon bark (experiment. recipe includes the lines &#8220;hat bourbon you drained off? Swig that shit.&#8221; Yeah.)<\/li>\n<li>Honey Caramels. I have not yet decided if I&#8217;m going to do this one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So yeah. And I haven&#8217;t ordered my jars yet. I may just deal with the regular canning jars from the grocery store this year. It&#8217;s about what&#8217;s inside, not the outside. Yeah. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I apparently really only update this thing at Christmas. Ugh. So, I did indeed strain my infusions, sweetened two of them and set them all to age. They will be bottled for presents. They look quite festive. I also discovered a large Svedka bottle of raspberry-apricot infused vodka in the back of the pantry. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/?p=52\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It must be Christmas Time&#8230;<\/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":[17,19,16,18],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Rylh-Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}