For anyone who watches True Blood, here is your own bottle of V. If not, here is a bottle of homemade vanilla.
I mentioned before that I was making homemade vanilla for Christmas presents this year. It was not difficult at all, and I really enjoyed how they turned out. It was, however, much more expensive than I anticipated. (Not terribly expensive, just more than I thought it would be.)
I say it was more expensive because typically I wouldn’t give 30 of my closest friends a gift. I wanted to make these for my family members and the children’s teachers, but since that consists of about a dozen people, the remaining dozen and a half were just because I was feeling crafty and ambitious.
In the end, I’m really glad that I made as many as I did. Who really cares about the extra cash once it’s already spent and the gift is made, right? It felt awesome giving them away, and I think (hope) everyone really liked it.
January 7, 2012 at 6:29 PM |
So how do you make this beautiful vanilla? At one point someone brought me some from Mexico where it is apparently the best. Since then I buy the imitation stuff which is no good… Maybe I’ll have to steal this gift idea in the future!
January 18, 2012 at 4:28 PM |
http://maggieandjim.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/christmas-crafting/
This is the link to where I posted it. It’s quite simple. You get a small bottle that you want to use, add a vanilla bean, and add vokda. There is a ratio of vanilla beans to vodka, but with the size of bottles I had (really small), just using one bean split in half and filling the rest with vodka was enough.
Good luck! Order your bottles online since you live in a place where something like this isn’t readily available. Same with the beans.