Got my arse out of the house a bit more often this week due to obligations of walking my sister’s dog that im looking after whilst shes on holiday. I hate that walking really does actually do wonders for when you are feeling down but i still cant usually will myself to go… That said i could have done without it this morning, i got drenched in the rain. Although i did find a bullace tree with fruit so im going to get a big bottle of gin and infuse it with them.
Walks and dogs can do wonders for our spirits - and failing that, there’s always gin! ;) I’m intrigued, what’s bullace? Google says it’s in the plum family and “closely related to the damson and sloe” but that doesn’t mean much to me considering I’ve never heard of damson or sloe. Are they similar to regular plums that you’d find in a grocery store? What do they taste like?
If you drink alcohol, try a sloe gin at some point, it’s delicious. The plummy flavour works so well with the bitterness of the gin and the tonic water, also it’s a really pretty shade of purple.
If you also like the taste of saffron, Hendrick’s had a fantastic saffron gin a few years back. This one’s orange, best with a soda water mixer, and tastes creamy almost and slightly almondy with how the spice mingles with the body of the gin.
I really miss gin sometimes, drinking absolutely wipes out my energy levels to the point where it’s not remotely worth it anymore though. Alas lol.
As a present for looking after the dog the other week my sister got me a watermelon and kiwi gin (one of the limited ones that whitley neill sometimes do) and its soooo good. I think I replied back to her later that day saying how good it was and got a response “that was quick”… like, its a friday afternoon, what did you expect?
I tried one earlier, not very nice fresh. They have a kind of plummy flavour but not very sweet and really astringent, you leave them in the gin for ages to mature and let their flavour out. It tasted very similar to a sloe, damsons are a bit more like a normal plum, bigger and sweeter, they can be used for jam.
Got my arse out of the house a bit more often this week due to obligations of walking my sister’s dog that im looking after whilst shes on holiday. I hate that walking really does actually do wonders for when you are feeling down but i still cant usually will myself to go… That said i could have done without it this morning, i got drenched in the rain. Although i did find a bullace tree with fruit so im going to get a big bottle of gin and infuse it with them.
Walks and dogs can do wonders for our spirits - and failing that, there’s always gin! ;) I’m intrigued, what’s bullace? Google says it’s in the plum family and “closely related to the damson and sloe” but that doesn’t mean much to me considering I’ve never heard of damson or sloe. Are they similar to regular plums that you’d find in a grocery store? What do they taste like?
If you drink alcohol, try a sloe gin at some point, it’s delicious. The plummy flavour works so well with the bitterness of the gin and the tonic water, also it’s a really pretty shade of purple.
I love gin, and you had me at purple :) this sounds right up my alley!
If you also like the taste of saffron, Hendrick’s had a fantastic saffron gin a few years back. This one’s orange, best with a soda water mixer, and tastes creamy almost and slightly almondy with how the spice mingles with the body of the gin.
I really miss gin sometimes, drinking absolutely wipes out my energy levels to the point where it’s not remotely worth it anymore though. Alas lol.
As a present for looking after the dog the other week my sister got me a watermelon and kiwi gin (one of the limited ones that whitley neill sometimes do) and its soooo good. I think I replied back to her later that day saying how good it was and got a response “that was quick”… like, its a friday afternoon, what did you expect?
I tried one earlier, not very nice fresh. They have a kind of plummy flavour but not very sweet and really astringent, you leave them in the gin for ages to mature and let their flavour out. It tasted very similar to a sloe, damsons are a bit more like a normal plum, bigger and sweeter, they can be used for jam.