vanilla extract

This is the vanilla extract started waaaaaaaay back here in mid December in the year of our Lord 2009. 

Conclusion: a waste of two cups of perfectly good vodka. Maybe I had just not use tired dried out old beans. Maybe vanilla extract requires good moist flexible vanilla beans that do not snap when you bend them.  Hey, it was an experiment, ah'ight? 

I tried some in coffee this morning for vanilla latte trentadue and although it was not awful, it was not as good as regular ol' Tone's which I can pick up at the big box store very reasonably. 

I have a lot of extra good vanilla beans from an eBay order that was accidentally doubled, an order that was already big. I think I'll devote a few to this and give it a few more months to redeem itself. It's only fair, eh? 

orange

The orange chunks got a little bit torn up, being peeled by my pet gorilla and all (he's not allowed to use a knife).

vanilla extract

The vanilla beans I bought on eBay have dried out. Poor things. Didn't get around to all of them. So let that be a lesson should you buy them by the quarter pound. Shame to waste them, in'nit?

Even dried out, the package still packed a wallop POW vanilla, right in the kisser.

* 7 vanilla beans cut open and in this case broken up, they were that brittle.
* 2 cups vodka, Pinacle, 40%

This could take a couple months, I'll bring this post forward if this experiment works.