Christmas oranges

[plonq]

We bought the traditional box of Mandarin oranges on our way home from work last night.  I tossed a couple in my lunch today (and ate them both shortly after arriving at work), and I'm already thinking that we may need to buy another box later this week.  =9

I peeled one last night, dropped the segments into a glass, and covered them with iced vodka.  The vodka picked up a very subtle orange flavour, but the orange slices... yowzers!  If they'd been dipped in dark, semi-sweet chocolate they could have induced spontaneous orgasms.  As it was, they were really good.

[Edit]
Calling up the Environment Canada page and seeing things like this:

make alcohol that much more appealing.

Comments

[unciaa.livejournal.com]

Mandarin oranges are nummy. About equally popular to regular oranges around here; given your comment I take it that is not the case there?

[plonq.livejournal.com]

You can generally get them here year-round - canned, it not fresh - but they are mostly a Christmas tradition over here. In the weeks leading up to Christmas you see stores stocking them by the crate load.

Typically we buy them a box at a time, with each orange individually wrapped in tissue paper.

[fetlock.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to try that Plonq. Ice vodka hummmmmmmmm!

-Fetlock

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Before I moved out here I bought a bottle of Smirnoff, drank about 1/3 of it (not all in one sitting!) and then filled the level back up to full with mandarin orange sections. I gave the whole works a shake, stuck it in the freezer and then promptly forgot about it when I stacked up some peas and corn in front of it.

I found it again a couple of months later and gave it a taste. T'was goooood.

There was another trick that I did (which I hope to repeat some day) with strawberries and gin. I sliced up fresh strawberries and filled a mason jar with the slices, with a little sprinkle of sugar between each layer of slices. I then topped it up with gin, put on the lid, gave it a swirl and let it steep for a couple of weeks. If you like gin, you'd really like this concoction. =9

One of these years I'm going to get myself a large clay pot and make a Christmas rum pot.

[duncandahusky.livejournal.com]

For years, my family always served mandarin oranges and champagne at Christmas brunch (starting when I was about 12. My parents were cool that way). Trouble is, they were the awful mandarin oranges out of a jar - I never really cared from the flavor of them, but dude! I was 12 and it was champagne :-)

I really should hunt down some fresh mandarin oranges. The combination with vodka does sound delightful, particularly something tasty like Grey Goose.

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I'd be willing to bet that fresh tangerines or blood oranges would work just as well if you have trouble tracking down fresh mandarins.

[tamarik.livejournal.com]

You need to come back down to the South so we can go freaking drinking sometime. I mean it.

[cwtyger.livejournal.com]

Looks like a repeat of last year's weather patterns? o_O?