{"id":3675,"date":"2014-08-07T18:11:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T01:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2014-08-07T18:13:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T01:13:45","slug":"an-abundance-of-basil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/3675","title":{"rendered":"An abundance of basil"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you might remember, last year, we planted a large bed of basil. It was quite lovely, but there was really a lot of it.<\/p>\n

This year, I decided to plant just a few small pots. (We still have pesto in the freezer from last year, and all of our neighbors have probably had their fill too.)<\/p>\n

However, the bed from last year reseeded itself, and I am loathe to pull out healthy volunteers, so we now have a large amount of basil among our cantaloupes and lettuce. (At some point, all of my beds will be a mix of everything because of my reluctance to eliminate volunteers. For example, this year we have tomatoes in 3 or 4 different beds. This is a nice treat though.)<\/p>\n

In the course of perusing food blogs this summer, I saw a recipe for basilcello<\/a>. (If you haven’t tried limoncello<\/a>, you should. It’s an Italian lemon liqueur, best served ice cold.) So naturally, I thought I’d give it a try. And I made it with lemon basil, which I love, hoping that lemon flavor would come through.<\/p>\n

The results were fabulous. And you could taste the lemon flavor as much if not more than the basil. Here are a few pics of the process.<\/p>\n

First you start with some vodka in a mason jar.<\/p>\n

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After washing the basil leaves, you par boil them, plunge them into an ice bath, and then add them to the vodka.<\/p>\n

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The basil then steeps in the vodka for a week. It gradually becomes green colored.<\/p>\n

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You then strain out the basil leaves, add some simple syrup (with relatively little sugar overall), chill the final beverage, and it’s ready to consume.<\/p>\n

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Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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