cimorene

I mentioned that we cleaned out my MIL's deep freeze from her cottage a week ago. The contents just barely fit into our fridge, and we had to thaw two things right away that wouldn't fit.

We made some amaretto milkshakes to use up the old and already-open containers of icecream, but we discovered that they were so delicious that we quickly ran out of amaretto and had to buy more pistachio icecream for the tastiest flavor. Obviously we can get more amaretto, but in the meantime we also have MIL's rather large stash of booze, so we decided to try a few things:

I'd never tasted whisky before. My parents made cocktails, and they let me have them, but just a few that they particularly liked, and I was never particularly fond of alcohol in general. Nobody ever put whisky in front of me and offered it to me, so I never tried it. But given its cultural weight, I wanted to, so we made brown derbies (from a YouTube video of easy classic whisky cocktails) the other day. Wax ended up drinking them both because it was disgusting. I suppose I still need to taste it with just soda water or whatever, but I'm not a fan.

After we ran out of amaretto we were looking for a new liquor to put into an icecream milkshake, and last night's coconut icecream (which is kind of gross by itself as icecream for some reason - it has a weird aftertaste; the balance of flavors just isn't right) seemed like it wouldn't go with the coffee liquer, so we put in some cognac. That was also disgusting and Wax also ended up drinking the whole milkshake (but it only had 40 cls in it, so unlike with the brown derby incident, she didn't get drunk). I also still intend to taste cognac by itself, but again, definitely not a fan.

There's a bottle of forest berry liquer that we're curious about as well, but we'll have to find something other than pistachio and coffee to go with it. Maybe like a chocolate cake?

There's half a bottle of Southern Comfort, but given that's also whisky I'm inclined to doubt that I will find it at all palatable.

There was a bottle of Valamo berry wine. That was the first thing we tried. It's hella weird, and it has a VERY STRONG BERRYness, but it was actually ultimately delicious and we would definitely buy more if you didn't have to go to the monastery to buy it.