Tag: cocktails
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The French 75: 3 ways
I am something of a cocktail connoisseur; I love a good cocktail. I have had the best daiquiri in the world, I was that cliché in Havana going to El Floridita, Hemmingway’s old hangout, the cradle of the daiquiri, to try out the drink and true to form I have not found anything quite like…
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THE HOLIDAY COCKTAILS
So what are you serving? Food sure but what about booze? Get your cocktails skates on, stick with three options, make life easy on yourself. Set out the ingredients in a cocktail station, to encourage guests to make their own cocktails. Woah Maddie A Charming Number ingredients: 10 black seedless grapes . 1/2 a pomegranate.…
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#10 | FOR THE HOST/HOSTESS
As far as perfect gifts for hosts or hostesses go, this is it. The table planner; an absolutely excellent gift; the featured is from Not Another Bill. It keeps the party moving, creates the absolutely ideal setting for conversation to flow, laughter to ripple down the table and nary a boring seat in sight. Trust…
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BOTTOMS UP- THE HOLIDAY PAUSE
It’s the most wonderful- busiest- stressful- delightful- magical- everything is everything- time of the year and we can often forget to take it easy, pause and breathe. Compounded by the fact that we may or may not be in lockdown over the holidays; it is a lot to ask and put on ourselves. Hence I…
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ROSÉ ALL SPRING, ALL SUMMER, ALL DAY…
As if there can be anything else for the season. When it comes to Rosé, one brand is my absolute favourite: AIX Rose; a splendid bottle. The best thing about Rosé is that it goes with everything; meat, fish, veggies… it goes down a treat. And in a cocktail, Rosé is a beauty toss in…
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GOOD FRIDAY | FILTHY RICH
Sparkling apple juice is best served with aged Scottish whisky. I discovered the joys of this recently, and because its rosé season, top it off with a little bit of it and you have yourself one fine cocktail. Rosé, is a lifestyle drink that conjures feelings of flirtatiousness, spring, summer and laughter. It’s hard to…
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GOOD FRIDAY | DAIQUIRI
On a Sunday I know but there is a correlation here because it feels like the world is quite literally on the precipice of madness with the impending interview tonight I have never known such knife edge tension outside of Brexit. Never. This one is also for my American people because they’ll need something smooth…
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GOOD FRIDAY- NEGRONI
This week has been a long year, January has been a long decade, the thirteenth month of 2020 if we are being frank. As much as I love a new beginning, I have never been a January person, nor a Monday or morning person and still we move. We made it to the end of…
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ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 18 | THE COCKTAIL MASTERCLASS
What are we drinking? Make no mistake we are DRINKING on Christmas day and the rest of the year, if we have to be hung over into the New Year, so be it and who knows, it may reverse the next lot of misfortunes awaiting us on the other side. We have to be due…