Olive Garden Limoncello Lemonade
Olive Garden, home to fine Tuscan fare (snicker) (and fyi, i ordinarily SHUN the hack term "fare", so it’s sardonic here, ok), has a new bev that may impel the otherwise reluctant to cross the breach: Limoncello Lemonade. Limoncello is the delish liqueur made from submerging lemon peel in vodka and letting it ferment. (Authentic limoncello uses lemons from the isle of Capri & the Amalfi coast.) Limoncello, "Sicily’s signature liqueur", is sposedly easy to make at home. But sigh it takes weeks to age. That said, OG's drinkie won’t be avail til feb 13. It’s a combo of Caravella limoncello, Smirnoff Citrus Twist, & froz lemonade. You could just go buy the Caravella & skip the Olive Garden experience, but what the hey
posted by TG @ 12:13 PM
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18 Comments:
Love being FIRST!! KH (Birthday Girl) loves lemonade...
Not fair TWISTED!
so yer not optimistic about the taste of this, then
skeptical that it'll be good, eh
Dean said...
Limoncello = this year's Pomegranate? I think not.
Perhaps not, but Olive Garden is definitely this year's PF Chang.
i'm gonna keep trying to make comments until i get "bombdal" (for now, all i got was a lousy lxonpx)
NUKEFW... do ya think that Fort Worth would mind?!
C'mon, tg... to even suggest that Limoncello is made from submerging lemon peel in vodka is beyond your usual high reporting standards. Maybe one can use vodka to approximate it at home, but they certainly don't use vodka as a base in Italy.
Too bad Olive Garden is wasting the prescious stuff on the plebes and a slurpee machine.
Oooh how strange that today there is a link to the Red Sea and then comes this story about a disaster there:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11157659/
BK, what do they use in Italy? Can you make lequeur out of lemons? (I want to make a joke about making lemonade.)Every recipe I see on the Internet has vodka. But I can't say that I've had it in Italy.
They use 100% pure grain alcohol. That's 95% alcohol by volume... it dissociates into 5% water. There's no such thing as 100% alochol in a bottle.
Vodka is 40-45% alcohol. You could try it with Everclear here.
Everclear works well. Just remember that you are drinking something twice as strong as vodka. Or you may forget lots of things after drinking several glasses of homemade limoncello.
How do you make limoncello at home?
There is a recipe at the following link:
http://starchefs.com/features/
limoncello/html/recipes_01.shtml
Had it, liked it. In fact I had two.
Absolutely the BEST lemonade I have ever tasted! I will be visiting the Olive Garden more frequently after having the limoncello lemonade. It transports you to an irresistable destination!
I was lucky enough to visit a family in Sorrento, and the the woman who ran the farm made all sorts of stuff like mozzarella, limoncello, they had walnut trees, and capers, and tomatos and salamis, and it was fantastic. The daughter was kind enough to right down the recipe for their limoncello for me. I'm not sharing my "italian family recipe" here, but I will say that your posts have all the ingredients (yes it is grain alcohol), but the one very important ingredient can only be found around the amalfi coast and capri. The sorrento lemons. Try as you might at home, but you need the lemons.
And, btw, I actually found the OG's offering quite refreshing.
I love limoncello and or you may forget lots of things after drinking several glasses of homemade limoncello.
what do they use in Italy?
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