Week of October 2-8

[mrissa]

Four rejections, one request for revisions. Small revisions. Like, two lines of revisions. So: fingers crossed on that one.

I've got half the long table on the sun porch covered with ripening tomatoes, and in a minute I'm going to go get the hulls off the toasted hazelnuts, so they'll be ready to whack with a rolling pin a couple of times and stuff into apples for CJ's birthday (observed) tomorrow. And then I will collapse on the couch, because I've already had enough of today.

I also brought in lots of rosemary. Does anyone know if olive oil will keep normally if I infuse it with rosemary, or under what conditions and for how long it would keep? I really want rosemary oil fairly often throughout the winter, because rosemary buns are a great joy, but I don't want to waste the time if it'll just go rancid for some reason I haven't adequately thought through.

Also I have a hippo to mend.

Comments

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Rosemary oil goes rancid faster than plain olive oil. It keeps longer if you can store it in the refrigerator. I won't presume to say how long it will keep, not knowing the temperature of your pantry or refrigerator, or your tolerance for oil that's just starting to turn. (Though I'd guess it's low, with your nose.) Most oils used to smell faintly rancid to me, until I started buying them in small bottles and keeping them refrigerated.

If you have huge amounts of rosemary, have you considered infusing vinegar? That keeps a long time, and makes a nice marinade for lamb. Or you can use it to deglaze the pan after you saute fish. Or you could just remove most of the woody bits and store the rosemary in little bags in the freezer, to make rosemary oil as needed.

Best wishes for the hippo's speedy recovery.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I'm the only person in the house with any real fondness for vinegars. But it'll store in the freezer and thaw to make rosemary oil? Very cool. Useful information all around, thank you.

The hippo is now quite mended (with green thread) and has been greeted joyfully by the pup in question. Would that all my chores met with such immediate positive feedback.