Marmalade martini
Marmalade martini The year’s funeral is upon us and we’re a few hours away from dancing on its grave in a glittery novelty hat. It’s time to get maudlin and sentimental, remembering the year in all...
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Hot toddy It’s claimed that there is no known cure for the common cold. This is a lie. There’s an excellent cure, but an evil conglomerate of tissue knitters, cough syrup brewers, paracetamol miners...
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Ginger hot toddy The campaign to use up all the festering things in my kitchen cupboards continues apace. Having used up most of my jar of stem ginger in Brownies with stem ginger and Rhubarb and...
View ArticleA milky bedtime drink
Hot milk and brandy I can’t sleep. I don’t know why, but while the rest of London is snoring and drooling its way through the Land of Nod, I am thrashing up and down my bed, twisting my bedsheets into...
View ArticleA Siberian Kiss from Mamont Vodka
Siberian Kiss (it's a rule of cocktails that they must have slightly embarrassing names) When I was growing up, my knowledge of cocktails was drawn exclusively from murder mysteries. Dangerous and...
View ArticleCocktail Making Masterclass, Hotel du Vin, Brighton
"Gin is very much a breakfast drink" I’m upside-down. Next to me ShedLikesFood is also upside-down. She doesn’t seem surprised. Maybe she remembers getting on the roller coaster. The last thing I...
View ArticleOrchard Ramble (a cocktail, not a pastime)
One for me, one for you…..no. Wait. Two for me. You can go and make your own Is it too late to talk about summer? We have blue skies still, and on the days when I put on a jumper I end up smelling...
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