Finishing the prawn curry leftovers that are waiting for me in the kitchen, whilst I get some of frozen fruit cider sorbet out of the fridge and have a rollup, and then go to bed in a while after hitting a quick bed time bong to help me get to sleep.
Picked up several big boxes of these Kopparberg cider sorbet in a foil pouch things, elderflower and lime, and they are absolutely delicious, melting in the mouth so one almost inhales rather than swallows or drinks.
I actually took them to be pre-packaged cocktails whilst shopping, glad I did, because as a rule I really don't like cider. At least, not those hideous travesties marketed as cider, 'white lightening', strongbow, that sort of thing, they just smell and taste too much like vinegary rotten apples
Can't taste a hint of that in these, and had I realized what I was buying at the time I very likely would never have discovered them. Glad I did though, I'll have to go back to get a few more to try the other flavours on offer.
Although chances are I'll stick with the elderflower/lime for most of them, elderflower is one of my favourites, elderflower cordial, a nicely flavoured vodka can be made by distilling some clean, drinkable ethanol over and through a big batch of freshly picked elder flowers, which are seasonal, but very available in-season, as elderberry is a very common tree here (and if one is lucky, theres a fair chance of finding jew's ears growing out of the trees too that can be used for soups, stews and such, its a fungus that grows almost exclusively on common elder, although rarely its been found on red berried elder, and iirc on some other substrates too, but thats most uncommon, I've only ever seen jews ears growing on elder. The name comes from the legend that judas iscariot, tortured by guilt at betraying christ, chose an elder to hang himself from, and the fact that they do indeed look and feel like a thin-fleshed, gelatinous, cartilaginous severed human ear, sticking out from the wood)
ponds from now on.
