So I heard about this Polish vodka from a friend. The vodka is flavored with Bison Grass, and even comes with a blade of this grass floating in the bottle. It's called Zubrowka; Wikipedia tells me that "Zubr" is the root word in Polish, meaning the European bison, or wisent. As you may imagine, the wisent enjoys chowing down on this particular type of grass, etc, etc.
The vodka supposedly has flavor notes of "woodruff, vanilla, coconut, and almond". Sounds pretty delicious? Apparently this is the new rage in vodka cocktails? I've already seen a variation involving coconut and pineapple, and another involving unfiltered apple juice (this latter cocktail may count as a traditional mixture).
According to Wikipedia, bison grass vodka has been banned in the U.S. since 1978, because it contained a toxic compound called coumarin. New distillations of the vodka have somehow removed the coumarin element, and thus the bison grass vodka can now be drunk on this side of the pond. Interesting, no? Absinthe, bison grass vodka, what's next?
So this morning I baked 8 sweet lemon popovers, but did not preheat the pans first. I disregarded Ruth Reichl's advice! Oh my god. So my popovers were not quite popped, but they were pretty good. I realized too late that I have actual lemon extract, which would have tasted more lemony. Next time. I ate all the popovers with blackberry jam and a little butter, plus some tea. When they had digested somewhat, I went for a 6 mile run. Yee-haw!
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