Last week, S. and I made a special trip to Dean and Deluca to splurge on a few exorbitant food items for the holidays. I was hoping to pick up some more elderflower syrup, but there was none to be found. It looks like I'll have to suffer the indignities of Ikea if I want to replenish my stock. Ugh! But all is not lost, as you will see.
I'd been suffering acutely from the lack of sweet-tart-fizzy beverages since I ran out a week before, and then came down with a filthy cold, to boot. Surely there is no time when one is more in need of a lovely tangy beverage. So, rather than go home empty-handed, I picked out a different flavor of syrup, expecting to be disappointed. But it was unso! This blood orange syrup is made by quirky antique Austrians, and oh man, it is good. It contains blood orange juice, lemon juice, sourcherry juice, and orange peel oil, in addition to the sugar and water, and with seltzer from our beloved siphon, it is like the version of Orangina served in the afterlife for very, very good people.* But by some miracle, it is instead available in the actual life for very, very bad people like me. Yum! I think I will use it as a periodic reward for myself as I dig my way out of my enormous pile of end-of-semester work.
*Or at the Magical Café, Normalton.
I'd been suffering acutely from the lack of sweet-tart-fizzy beverages since I ran out a week before, and then came down with a filthy cold, to boot. Surely there is no time when one is more in need of a lovely tangy beverage. So, rather than go home empty-handed, I picked out a different flavor of syrup, expecting to be disappointed. But it was unso! This blood orange syrup is made by quirky antique Austrians, and oh man, it is good. It contains blood orange juice, lemon juice, sourcherry juice, and orange peel oil, in addition to the sugar and water, and with seltzer from our beloved siphon, it is like the version of Orangina served in the afterlife for very, very good people.* But by some miracle, it is instead available in the actual life for very, very bad people like me. Yum! I think I will use it as a periodic reward for myself as I dig my way out of my enormous pile of end-of-semester work.
*Or at the Magical Café, Normalton.
