cut_lemon.png I tend to not think much about limoncello. Too sweet for me to sip on its own as an after-dinner quaff and too much a cordial to be much used in cocktails, I just find myself glancing at it from time-to-time and thinking, *hmrph*. Until I found myself with four bottles of it, that is. How this came to be I’m not entirely sure but I blame my wife and Danny DeVito primarily, though not in conjunction.

My wife became interested in limoncello after seeing it featured on one of Giada’s shows on Food Network and decided to whip up a batch…boom, 1.5L of limoncello hanging around the house. Then, to compare the homemade to a manufactured brand we purchased another bottle and taste-tested them for comparison. And purchased one once again, after Danny DeVito’s infamous appearance on The View where he was fairly visibly intoxicated after a night out with George Clooney due to his, “…last seven limoncellos…” I found it amusing and then some months later unexpectedly running into a bottle at a liquor store here in Tulsa went ahead and picked it up. Why not, right? (Let’s just hope Avril Lavigne doesn’t take it on herself to develop her own line of limoncello as well). So, wham, I then have approximately 3L of limoncello cluttering my bar. Urg. And finally, a marketing firm saw fit to send a bottle of limoncello to me without warning and, great gobs of goosefat! , I have nearly 4L of the stuff sitting around the house. What to do? Oh, yeah, write a damned post, that’s what. Read More »