Posted on 05/14/2007 11:35:03 AM PDT by reformed_democrat
A decade ago, limoncello was virtually unknown in the U.S., outside of Italian-American families that made their own. Now the sweet, lemon liqueur from Southern Italy's Sorrento Peninsula is something of a fad -- one that had its pop-culture moment back in November when Danny DeVito stumbled onto a morning television talk show fresh from an all-night limoncello bender with George Clooney. In today's bleary celebrity culture, no sort of notoriety is allowed to escape commercial exploitation. Thus the announcement this month that Mr. DeVito is lending his name to a new brand of the lemon juice. Let's just hope that Mr. DeVito learns to drink his namesake the right way.
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The importer that Mr. DeVito has hooked up with, Harbrew, has made a sub-specialty of branding drinks with celebrity names, large and small. For example they offer "Bench 5," a five-year-old blended Scotch branded by Johnny Bench. Five years isn't anything to brag about when it comes to the age of Scotch whisky, and it's not clear to me how associating a whisky with a Hall of Fame catcher will sell the stuff. More sensible is the iced-tea concentrate the company brands with the likeness and signature of celebrity bass-fisherman Jimmy Houston.
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LIMONCELLO
1 dozen large lemons
1 bottle vodka
2 cups sugar
3 cups water
Peel thin strips of lemon, avoiding the subdermous white pith. Steep the peels in vodka for a week or so. Strain. Make simple syrup by dissolving sugar in water over a medium flame. Once the syrup is cooled, add it to the lemon-infused vodka. Bottle and chill.
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Gotta be great for the old liver.
“If he is “light in the loafers,” he’ll do a Richard Chamberlain and wait until he is too old to have a box-office draw with the female members of the audience.”
I’m convinced he is.
(GAK!) DeVito isn't exactly eye-candy under the best of circumstances.
And I was enjoying my lunch until you stuck that . . . that . . . DIET AID up on the thread.
mutter . . .
Good place for this:
Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Quasimodo were talking one day. Sleeping Beauty said, “I believe myself to be the most beautiful girl in the world.” Tom Thumb said, “I must be the smallest person in the world.” Quasimodo said, “I absolutely have to be the most disgusting person in the world.” So they decided to go to the Guinness Book of World Records to have their claims verified.
Sleeping Beauty went in first and came out looking deliriously happy. “It’s official, I AM the most beautiful girl in the world.”
Tom Thumb went next and emerged triumphant, “I am now officially the smallest person in the world.”
Sometime later, Quasimodo comes out looking utterly confused and says. “Who the hell is Rosie O’Donnell ?
Some of us believe in efficient use of our down-time.
Sounds like a smart move on his part and I don’t blame him one bit if that is the case.
It’s hard to imagine how one could be a public figure AND a closeted gay these days, though. You’d think the tabloids and such would have paid off a former “lover” to rat him out by now. Maybe they have, I don’t know.
But where's the vodka?
Heehee...
A recipe so MEN can enjoy limoncello without the chick drink label.
8 ounces purchased biscotti
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, melted
3 tablespoons grated lemon zest
1 (12-ounce) container fresh whole milk ricotta, drained, at room temperature
2 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, at room temperature
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/2 cup limoncello liqueur*, store bought or homemade, recipe follows
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 large eggs, at room temperature
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray the bottom of a 9 by 9 by 2-inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Finely grind the biscotti in a food processor. Add the melted butter and 1 tablespoon of lemon zest, and process until the crumbs are moistened. Press the crumb mixture over the bottom (not the sides) of the prepared pan. Bake until the crust is golden, about 15 minutes. Cool the crust completely on a cooling rack.
Blend the ricotta in a clean food processor until smooth. Add the cream cheese and sugar and blend well, stopping the machine occasionally and scraping down the sides of the work bowl. Blend in the limoncello, vanilla, and remaining 2 tablespoons of lemon zest. Add the eggs one at a time, and pulse just until blended. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
Pour the cheese mixture over the crust in the pan. Place the baking pan in a large roasting pan. Pour enough hot water into the roasting pan to come halfway up the sides of the baking pan. Bake until the cheesecake is golden and the center of the cake moves slightly when the pan is gently shaken, about 1 hour (the cake will become firm when it is cold).
Transfer the cake to a rack; cool 1 hour. Refrigerate until the cheesecake is cold, at least 8 hours and up to 2 days. Cut the cake into squares and serve.
*Limoncello liqueur can be found at most liquor stores and in the liquor department of some specialty markets. If limoncello liqueur is unavailable at stores near you, use the following recipe to make your own limoncello liqueur.
Starting work on it tomorrow!
Its a good joke. I’d give it an LOL. Unfortunately, most people are not familiar with “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Rule #1: if you have to explain a joke to your audience, it is no longer funny. No criticism of the joke, only of the willingness of most people to remain ignorant of history, literature, philosophy, and every other discipline that makes one well informed.
My girlfriend of Italian extraction from Boston has some friends sending her a recipe for Limoncello, it uses Everclear in lieu of Vodka.
I’ve had friends that would take a shot of Compari to clear the pallet before a meal.
O.k....puke a pizza...sound better?
When you factor in Mrs. Devito, the pieces all fit neatly together. If she wasn't Danny's "beard" all along, she could certainly drive a guy to such desperate measures. ;-)
I'll bet Marilu Henner knows the real score.
Except maybe a peach Schnapps bender with Leo DiCaprio.
Never tasted it, but it sounds like lemonade spiked with vodka. I tried a Smirnoff Ice once, and it took three beers to get the taste out of my mouth.
In Japan, they call it "Wait Rikka" ("White Liquor"). They substitute green plums for lemon peels, and let it "stew" for a year.
I gave up the sauce myself some time ago. I will leave the addition of that ingredient to the individual. Since this is my “get-up-and-go” remedy after a night of insomnia, alcohol wouldn’t lend itself to it as an ingredient. I suppose if one had a hangover though, a little “hair of the dog” might be in order.
Remember where you are. I would think everyone here knows who Quasimodo is and knows all about THOND.
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