#sorrento🍋

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Italy, Sorrento 🌊⛵️🐚🍋

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🍋 LE LIMONCELLO 🍋

C’est une liqueur délicieuse à boire en digestif après un repas, mais aussi parfaite pour être utilisée en cuisine dans des desserts. Le Limoncello est fait à partir d’écorces de Citron macérées dans l’alcool.

C’est une spécialité Italienne, de la péninsule de Sorrento pour être plus précise.

Avant de se lancer dans le Limoncello maison, essayez par tous les moyens de vous procurer de l’alcool pur à 95°.

❗️Attention, n’utilisez pas de l’alcool à 90° MODIFIÉ que l’on trouve à la Pharmacie, celui-ci n’est pas consommable ❗️

C’est ce degré d’alcool qui va vous donner le meilleur rendu pour la liqueur maison.

Si vous n’en trouvez vraiment pas, prenez de l’alcool de fruit, mais en gardant à l’esprit que cela sera moins bon.

🍋 Dilution de l’alcool

Pour 1 litre d’alcool pur à 95°, on compte généralement 1 à 1.3 litres d’eau en fonction de vos goûts en sachant qu’ 1.2 litres d’eau pour 1 litre d’alcool à 95°C vous donnera un alcool à 45°, pour moi la dilution idéale pour une liqueur.

Si vous utilisez de l’alcool de fruits, donc un alcool à 40°, pas besoin de le diluer dans de l’eau car vous n’avez pas besoin de le rendre moins fort. Il vous faudra cela dit, une toute petite quantité d’eau pour dissoudre le sucre, qui ne se dissout pas seul dans l’alcool. Je conseille un demi verre d’eau pour cela, pas plus.

Selon les goûts, je recommande donc 400 g de sucre pour 1 litre d’alcool à 95° et seulement 250 à 300 pour 1 litre d’alcool à 45°.

🍋 RECETTE DU LIMONCELLO avec de l'alcool pur ou avec de l'alcool de fruits

• Temps de Préparation 30 minutes

• Temps de Cuisson 5 minutes

• Portions 2 litres

🍋 Ingrédients

• 1 litre d'alcool à 95° ou à défaut, d'alcool de fruits à 40°

• 400 g de sucre ou 225 g si vous utilisez de l'alcool de fruits

• 6 gros citrons bios non traités

• 1.2 litres d'eau de source ou un demi verre d'eau si vous utilisez de l'alcool de fruits

🍋 Instructions

• Lavez les Citrons et prélevez l'écorce avec un économe en essayant de ne pas prélever le blanc du citron, qui est amer, et juste la partie jaune.

• Faites les macérer pendant un mois dans l'alcool dans un endroit frais et sec, à l'abri de la lumière. Remuez la bouteille régulièrement pour que les arômes se développent bien.

• Après un mois de macération, filtrez l'alcool. Préparez un sirop de sucre en faisant bouillir le sucre et l'eau jusqu'à ce que le sucre soit dissout. Laissez bien refroidir avant de mélanger ce sirop à l'alcool.

• Mettez en bouteille et laissez reposer la bouteille une dizaine de jours de préférence avant de la consommer. Conservez-la au congélateur.

Le limoncello se déguste très froid, il ne gèlera pas à cause de la forte concentration en alcool.

🍋 Un autre conseil ?

J’ai pu voir dans quelques recettes que certaines personnes rajoutaient un peu de jus de citron pour réhausser le goût.

Bonne idée ou pas ?

Pour avoir essayé les deux, clairement, ma réponse est non. Le jus de citron ne va pas réhausser le goût de votre liqueur, elle va juste lui donner un côté plus amer que l’on ne veut pas retrouver dans du limoncello. Si vous voulez réhausser le goût, si par exemple vous ne le trouvez pas assez citronné, rajoutez des zestes et attendez qu’ils macèrent à nouveau, ou faites macérer votre prochaine liqueur plus longtemps mais ne rajoutez pas du jus, cela fausserait les proportions et altèrerait le goût.

Bonne dégustation ! 🍋 Avec modération, bien sûr !

[whatgaviiformes]

For the September prompts, could I request Lemon Tree and Kayo please? Somehow the idea of these two together is singing to me...🍋🖤

Hiiiii. I really wanted to be able to do this for you; please forgive me for this not being my strongest of pieces. I did have to add Gordon to get Kayo to speak to me, and the lemons are there even if the tree is not. <3. They are siblings, and peers, and they respect each other. Hopefully it shows. Thanks so much for the ask and the support.

I like the headcanon of Gordon calling Kayo "Tin" so I borrowed that from Nutty with her permission. :D

Characters: Kayo, Gordon

Words: 870

Genre: General

Universe Notes - Military!Gordon, TAG.

Warnings: Mentions of Alcohol Consumption (responsible)

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“Hey, Tin?” Gordon quickly plopped into his mouth a sardine from the charcuterie display he’d ordered as his antipasto and, as Kayo grimaced at his manners, he at least had the good graces to swallow before he continued.  “I���m going to need you to relax.”

“I really don’t understand how you can eat that.”

“They are a bit salty,” he mused, swirling on the flavor still in his mouth. “But I can’t just leave the little fishies there uneaten. It’s inhumane.”

“Yeah, ok.” She turned back away from his feast of fish, gazing out to the expanse of ultramarine beside them.

It was to be his home the next few days – the Gulf of Naples that is, beautiful waters in Mediterranean blue, watched over by what was left of the towering Mt. Vesuvio visible in the distance. For Gordon’s experience in the depths of the sea, the bay was a relatively shallow estuary. But it wasn’t about how deep the body of water went. He was more concerned with what creatures called the place home, in this instance which fin whales – and one razorback in particular he’d been tracking as part of his research dissertation.  (D.Sc. meet Gordon Tracy!)

Gordon called it a “surface trip” which didn’t mean surface at all really, just that he’d be arriving by boat instead of submarine and diving within the capabilities of standard research tech instead of the Brains’ tested and certified deep-sea gadgets of International Rescue. It would be enough for him to listen to the whale song, and if he was lucky, maybe he’d get to see his boyo.

Since the excursion was to depart tomorrow out of a little town in the outskirts of Sorrento, arriving a day early gave Gordon the time to reorient himself to the normal sleep schedule of the time-zone and decompress from being constantly on call as they were. He’d been in Italy for only a few hours, but the warm wind and the friendly lapping of blue on the shore calmed him, so his spirits were high despite the nerves around the importance of this trip.

His companion was less thrilled by the break. Virgil had been unavailable, Scott was busy with Tracy Industries reports, and Alan could hardly fly him over in a space rocket, so Kayo had offered to drop him off. It had taken some heavy pleading, a bit of chore reallocation, and eventually Kayo agreed to stay and leave the next morning.

A worthy exchange. His siblings deserved a holiday. And once he saw an opportunity unfolding to spend some time with his sister, he couldn’t let go of the idea. They didn’t call him a master of pranks for nothing – though this was less of a prank and more of a gentle coercion.

Their first of their entrées arrived, for the traditional trattoria included two within the standard four-course meal, and Kayo nodded kindly in thanks. Gordon beamed, a “Grazie!” while he moved his plate of fish to the side to make room for his pasta.  

“I’m relaxed,” she told him after a while only once they’d dug into their meals. “Really.”  

Gordon eyed her deliberately, mindlessly twirling his pasta with his fork and watching peridot scanning the room even as she said it. “I think you think that. I can tell you are still on look out.” He saw her start to panic and added, “I can only tell because I know you.”

She frowned, shrugging. “Maybe I am. Someone has to do it.”

“It doesn’t have to be you all the time. We are safe; promise.”

“Yeah?”

The skepticism was evident. He was almost offended. Almost.  “Yeah.” It had been a long time since his brief service in WASP, but the training gave him lessons for a lifetime. “Closest exit is that one” – he gestured his fork towards the wall to their left – “there’s a gentleman behind me that obviously knows who we are but won’t dare approach because you keep giving him the stink eye, our server is oblivious which is kinda’ nice actually, and the owner has come by twice. Dice is out on that one, but he’s harmless. Now, agree to get some limoncello with me.”

“Gordon- “

“We’re in Italy; it’s required.”

“It’s a digestivo. That means after the meal.”

“It’s alcohol,” he challenged, grinning. “That means when the mood strikes. I won’t push if you don’t want any, but lemons, Kayo. Lemons.”

“Yeah, yeah. You make lemonade.”

“Nuh-uh. You make limoncello!” He was pleased to see her laughing, even if it was at his expense. Kayo was good at her job, too good, and she took after workaholic Scott in ways Gordon didn’t necessarily believe were the healthiest of habits. He knew what it was like to be “on” all the time. It would cause burn out. Always did.

They placed their additional drink order and the bottle was brought out with the timing of their second entrée as they requested, with minimal questioning. The locals were kind about the whims of their tourists.

“So where did you stash Shadow again?”

Kayo swirled the narrow glass to twirl the liquid neon, and she narrowed her eyes at him with a gleam. “Wouldn’t you like to know?”

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Italia

Day 2 - Lemon Frenzy 🍋

Steps walked: 23,862

Flights climbed: 7

Vehicles ridden: 1

Points of interest visited: 1

Lemons spotted: all of them.

Drugs are great. We took some to sleep and it enabled us to get thru the night and wake up comfortable in the morning, ready to face the day.

Our B&B host, Dino, chided us for not telling him ahead of time that we are both vegano, that he could have plant milks for us, and that his wife is vegan. (Of course not as strict now they have a kid because kids make everything harder, he says. “Wait til you have kids,” to which I got to reply with delight “Oh no I’m sterile.”) He was hilariously Italian as he went on and on about mozzarella, erculano, and how we’re going too fast and we go to bed too early.

We escaped long enough to trek thru Pompei to get to a cafe that allegedly had vegan-as-is croissants (unlabeled). If you know anything about me, you know I can’t resist a vegan croissant. We booked it thru town with a minor detour due to some big church thing for Madonna (I can’t believe she tours in Pompei!) to get our croissants where Google translate helped mediate the exchange. We got two citrus croissants that were not labeled anywhere as vegan but the guy didn’t correct us when we asked “vegano?” three or four times.

We checked out and leisurely made our way to the train station - another long walk - only to arrive at the platform at the same time as the train to Sorrento. How perfect! Except we don’t have tickets yet… so we buy our tickets, the train leaves, and we’re forced to wait forty minutes for the next train, only to discover no one ever asked for our tickets and no entry required them. We could have totally gotten on the first train without paying and we wouldn’t have had to wait. Crime does pay, as it turns out.

‘Twas a crowded train ride to the end of the line, where we then had to trudge for nearly half an hour with our bags on cobbled streets and unreliable sidewalks to get to our hotel. (Side note: i wonder why no one ever talks about all the vespas and scooters in Italy. There are so many! I just figured I would have heard about it before this.*)

We checked in to our hotel around lunchtime, ate our croissants illicitly on the balcony (no food allowed in our hotel room), and headed back out. Naturally, all the stuff we wanted to visit was back in the direction of the train station, but a 25 minute walk goes much easier without two backpacks and a roll-y bag with dysfunctional wheels.

To paint the scene, all these walks are lined with more citrus trees than you’ve ever seen in your life and drivers who might not actually run you down but you probably shouldn’t test that theory.

We grabbed a quick lunch at a family owned Italian restaurant and had some tasty food including “the best tomato pie [Dan has] ever had” then continued on my lemon quest.

Walking on our way to a limoncello Lemon grove we passed another one that we were able to walk around in. It was so pretty. A lovely garden with lemon trees, orange trees, olive trees, squash plants, tomato plants, and peppers. They also had a restaurant but we were so full we decided we’d come back for dinner.

On to I Giardini di Cataldo where we had hoped to have a tour and a limoncello workshop but they didn’t have any available for the day. Womp womp. We tasted some limoncello and got lemon sorbet and ate it in their lemon garden before continuing to meander in the direction of shops.

Fortunately I had set a limit as to how many Lemon things I could get for myself and I immediately met that limit so I guess I’m done shopping for the… trip. Except I still need a Leonardo souvenir, I mean let’s not get crazy.

Here I am casually showing off all my lemons.

Another 25 minute walk to the hotel to drop off our stuff. By this point, I can confirm we had already exceeded yesterdays step count.

Just before sunset we walked to a dock overlooking the coast and watched the last rays of orange sunlight disappear behind the horizon. The coast is a steep cliff face that drops off into the ocean, but in the distance you can actually see Napoli looking like an island, in reality just more of the Italian coast. Then Dan’s eagle eyes spotted a bat. Then another. And sure enough within a nook of the cliff, at least half a dozen bats had roused and were feasting. It was awesome. We watched them for a little bit. I think a few more even joined them as we watched. It certainly felt like there were more bats there when we left.

And the days recurring themes of walking and lemons continued as we headed back to La Limonaia, the lovely lemon grove where we had decided to dine. Our wonderful server was very confident about our “vegano” requests and he had the chef prepare dishes for us. For Dan, a lemon vegan cream sauce on linguini and for me, a salad made with fresh veggies from their garden. Those same veggies we had seen in the afternoon as we wandered around the grove. So fresh! And I could totally tell. I slathered my tomatoes in balsamic glaze and enjoyed some of the best tomatoes I’ve ever had. (Also a hilarious thing we’ve noticed here is when they bring you bread it comes in a little paper bag as opposed to a bowl or a plate. It’s so funny.) We drank, we ate, we were merry, all under the lemon trees. ‘Twas in general a near perfect dinner experience and we happened upon it by happenstance. Not only a great way to celebrate Jimmy Carter’s birthday but our 12 year anniversary. Six years of marriage. I can’t believe I’m old enough for that but there it is.

After dinner we met Carol at her hotel which was thankfully in the same direction as our hotel so we wouldn’t have to backtrack anymore. She got us drinks, gave us a lemon souvenir she’d gotten in Capri that day, and she and her group regaled us with stories from their trip. As ours is still near the beginning, theirs is coming to an end. We chatted until we noticed the bartender was waiting for us to be done to leave so we wrapped it up and Dan and I walked back to our hotel to gratefully rest.

*Sarcasm

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katevoegele: Sorrento, you are hands down the hardest place to leave 🌊🇮🇹🍝🍋 Feeling so recharged and incredibly grateful for the best week celebrating my amazing mom & dad’s 40th wedding anniversary! Thank you both for being crazy enough to invite your crazy children to celebrate in this unbelievably magical place with you, we love you so much!! ❤️❤️❤️

(I’ll post links to all my outfits in stories and on my @shop.ltk if they’re still available!)

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Sorrento Italy Travel Vlog October 2023 🍋 Walking Tour of the Charming V...

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Exploring the Charms of Sorrento: Uncovering Top Tourist Attractions 🏖️

When it comes to the best cities in Italy, Sorrento stands out as a gem on the stunning Amalfi Coast. This picturesque town boasts a blend of rich history, breathtaking views, and a vibrant culture. If you're wondering about things to do in Sorrento, you're in for a treat. From idyllic beaches to captivating day trips, Sorrento has it all.

🏖️ Sorrento Italy Beach Bliss: Sorrento is blessed with some of the most beautiful beaches in Italy. Take a leisurely stroll along the Marina Grande, where colorful fishing boats create a postcard-worthy scene. Relax on the golden sands, soak up the Mediterranean sun, and dip your toes into the refreshing waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea. It's the perfect way to unwind and take in the coastal beauty.

🚗 Day Trips from Sorrento: Sorrento's strategic location makes it an ideal hub for exciting day trips. Hop on a ferry to the stunning Isle of Capri, where luxury and natural beauty collide. Explore the ancient ruins of Pompeii and marvel at the preserved snapshots of Roman life. Don't miss the chance to venture along the Amalfi Coast, with its winding roads and jaw-dropping vistas.

⏰ Best Time to Visit Sorrento: The timing of your visit greatly influences your Sorrento experience. Spring and fall offer mild temperatures and fewer crowds, making it an ideal time to explore the town and embark on day trips. However, if you're a fan of warmer weather and beach lounging, the summer months are your best bet. Keep in mind that popular destinations can get crowded during peak seasons.

Sorrento is a town that effortlessly blends history, nature, and the zest of Italian culture. Whether you're strolling through its charming streets, savoring delicious limoncello, or simply gazing at the enchanting sea views, Sorrento is sure to captivate your heart.

In conclusion, if you're looking for the perfect blend of relaxation, exploration, and natural beauty, Sorrento should definitely be on your travel radar. With its top tourist attractions, stunning beaches, accessible day trips, and varying seasons, Sorrento offers an experience that caters to every traveler's preferences. Plan your trip wisely, and get ready to fall in love with the irresistible charm of Sorrento. 🌞🌊🍋🏞️

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Mmmmmozzarella 🍋 Sorrento Coast

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Enjoy the oranges 🍊 and lemons 🍋 from the balcony @laterrazza_sorrentocoast #orange #oranges #lemon #lemons #arancia #limone #km0 #0miles #organic #organicfood #biologico #biologic #laterrazzafamilyholidays #citrus #citrusfruit #fruit #freshfruit #frutta #agrumi #agrumeto #sorrento #santagnello #sorrentocoast #penisolasorrentina #costierasorrentina #costieraamalfitana #positano #amalfi #capri #naples (presso La Terrazza Family Holidays, Sorrento) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnEbS86tHj3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Sorrento 🍋 Italy 🇮🇹

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Sorrento, Italy 🍋

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Buongiorno from Sorrento! 🌺🍋🍊 ______________________________________________ #sorrento #italy #bayofnaples #sorrentinepeninsula #southernitaly #travel #travelitaly #naples #pompeii #positano #amalfi #capri #ischia #buongiorno #villaastor #lifestyle #coast #mountvesuvius #volcano #peninsula #seaview #gulf #gulfofnaples #mediterranean #mediterraneansea #lemons #flowers #italianstyle #vacation #traveleurope (at Sorrento) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cex4ODtjiAR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Eccoci finalmente a Sorrento. Preparatevi ad iniziare un viaggio 🧳 colorato, vitaminico (come i 🍋 di questa terra), gustoso, raffinato e molto speciale. Tutto inizia proprio qui al @mediterraneosorrento 🏨, il posto perfetto per un soggiorno da sogno, mentre si scopre (o riscopre, come nel mio caso) la Costiera Sorrentina e Amalfitana. Per lo staff di questa struttura alberghiera non ci sono clienti, bensì ospiti. Qui mi vedete nella zona piscina, a pochi passi del giardino di agrumi privato. A bordo della piscina trovate l’Aqua Pool Lounge, ideale per un pranzo delizioso o una cena informale. Vi consiglio di provare la famosa pizza mimosa (con quelle note di limone 🍋 che vi sembrerà di assaggiare Sorrento) del super pizzaiolo Benito. Ringrazio @pietromonti77 @frankiemontinapoli per l’ospitalità impeccabile. #theplacetobe #luxurytravel #luxuryhotel #luxuryhoteldesign (presso Hotel Mediterraneo Sorrento) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb-Xy3IMsTZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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