Very early this morning, Zips caught an old program on the Food network or the Cooking network or something that featured our favorite iron chef Cat Cora cookin' with Rocco DiSpirito and one of their projects was making Limoncello. Limoncello Lemonade is something we enjoyed in a rare moment of indulgence (and imbibing) in Chicago at a restaurant called the Grand Lux Cafe (make a reservation. order the beignets!!!!) It turns out it's basically vodka, lemon peels, and simple syrup.
We had some plain old vodka laying around in the seldom used booze cart we have in the kitchen, so I used a vegetable peeler to strip all the yellow (and none of the white) off 6 lemons and pour about a quart of vodka over them. It just has to sit (days? a week?) until the peels are no longer yellow (all the good lemony oils out of 'em). Then I guess we'll strain it and add the simple syrup.
Believe me. I'll let you know when it's ready!!!
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