What happened to January?  We are  more than half way through already!!  Despite this, we are still doing our New Year’s greetings…maybe it is just us because we don’t see people that often.  Anyway, there is always work to be done and there is never enough time to do it all.  I have been catching up with harvesting; what we both hate is leaving stuff on trees and watching them drop to the ground.  Today, I harvested the sorrel (roselle).  I have to admit that I feel very lazy when I think about these because you have to sit and take off every single sepal.  My problem is that I don’t like sitting down and this task forces me to be sedentary.

You have to remove the sepals from the pods:

These are the sepals all nicely cleaned up:

It is however very satisfying once it is all done.  This year, I am making Sorrel Elixir (liqueur); I am making two versions: one has very little sugar and they other is more syrupy.  I think that the sugary one will do very well poured over ice-cream and desserts.  The colour is really amazing when you see the sorrel infusions.  It looks better than this in real life.

But then it gets very dark as it matures:

Once it is mature, it tastes a bit like a sherry.

Here is the sepal picture again just because it is rather beautiful!

Have a lovely day!!