This week’s Quarantini Time features a cocktail named after the swashbuckling Douglas Fairbanks gleaned from the amazing Savoy Club Cocktail Book. As his niece Leticia Fairbanks pointed out to me in a comment on a previous post about this cocktail, her uncle was teetotal for most of his life and certainly wouldn’t have been drinking...

I think it was Nathalie that said this: “tastes like a lollipop”.  I loved the fact Mr R popped a blue mermaid into her glass so that the cocktail colour co-ordinated with her outfit. Joshua sent a text to the daughter of Douglas Fairbanks Junior (she’s a chum) during the party.  She didn’t know there...

ooh , I am getting everything out of order today…  We had one of these after the muffins and before the chicken in champagne.  You get the idea… If you’d like the recipe for these -and you should as they are damn fine cocktails – you might be able to see the recipe better here…

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Just a quick post as I have a DATE tonight coming to my house for dinner so I have an immense amount of cleaning to do… I don’t want to ruin my chances with someone who appears to be quite a stitch by revealing my slovenly side too soon. So just to mention that the...

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