No, gentle readers - all two of you - we are not changing directions entirely.
Living apart from each other is difficult, but it has allowed us opportunities to surprise each other with consistently excellent ideas. In early January, we found ourselves discussing the Hallmarkishness of Valentine's Day. Borne from this conversation was the idea that maybe infusing brandies for each other would be the perfect gift.
The Rules:
- Do not share infusion ingredients, no matter how excited you are.
- Create two infusions to swap at the end of the month (which would give us time to craft entries prior to Valentine's Day).
That's it. That's all we agreed to.
We started in earnest immediately after the conversation. Both of us trolled websites and blogs for ideas, and we settled for our flavors.
Neither of us shared our ingredients, though we were both guilty of texting one another while at the grocery store, dropping vague hints - that were so vague neither of us could have guessed anything based on them.
This past weekend, before knowing the infusion ingredients, we smelled each other's brandies and wrote down our immediate thoughts of what was in them. Then we had a small taste and wrote our next guess. Then we made the big reveal.
What follows this month will be our initial thoughts during the smelling and tasting followed by our various successes and failures.
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