Taste & Smell
Summertime, lazy, warm afternoons by the pool. You’re sipping your mojito feeling hot and looking cool. You shimmy up to the girl ready to make your move and a big fat piece of mint stuck to your teeth spoils your groove… I love the refreshing taste of mojitos in the summer but I hate the whole muddled lawnmower droppings vibe that, for me, spoils the whole affair.
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Here in SoCal, almost like citrus fruits, peaches, plums, and nectarines are so acclimatized they are like natives. You can grow them in your yard or just wait till summer when a never-ending river of numerous local varieties shows up at your local farmer’s market. Starting in late June till the end of August delicious, ripe, local California PPNs are in constant supply. So lets make a peachy keen Nalewka with them!
In Italian Tutti Frutti means "all the fruits". It's a popular, colorful treat made with a variety of candied fruits. It can be an ice cream flavored with many fruits includeing cherries, raisins, pineapple and some nuts thrown in for good measure. The Dutch use the name to describe a compote made by boiling a bunch of dried fruit. In Belgium, Tutti Frutti is a dessert made from raisins, currants, apricots, prunes, dates, and figs. I guess in England they took the idea, made it inedible and called it Fruit Cake. In Poland, today, it is perhaps one of the most popular homemade Nalewkas. It's roots are ancient and it's fun to make so here we go...
What? Pharmaceutical hooch? Well, it’s not that strange when you consider that before people started making alcohol infusions for pleasure they made them and drank them as medicine. They always seemed to make the patients feel better as long as they took their medicine in high enough doses. Nalewka Farmaceutów has got to be one of the strangest vodka infusions I’ve made so far.
It has now been close to a year since I got my two sour dough starters going full blast. 
