HippFest Silent Cinema Festival has begun – whoopee! My Mary Pickford Silver Screen Supper video goes out on Saturday morning and is available for 48 hours so if you have landed here looking for more information about her enchiladas or cocktails, please skip to this post for the shopping list and cooking tips. I promised...
Here is something super cute to scoff after your Mary Pickford enchiladas! I made these in honour of HippFest Silent Cinema Festival which is ALMOST UPON US my lovelies. Have you got your pass yet? Only £20 for loads of amazing silent films with specially commissioned musical accompaniment, lots of talks by knowledgeable folks and...
Greetings to all those attending the wondrous Hippfest Silent Cinema Festival! Passes are only £20 for 5 days of fabulousness, do sign up, it’s all online! Wherever you are in the world, whatever the time difference, do grab a pass as most things are available for 48 hours so you can watch in your own...
This week we propose a Mary Pickford for your cocktail hour. You will need 2oz rum, 3/4 oz pineapple juice and 3 dashes of grenadine. Shake with ice. Serve with a whistle swizzle stick if you have one! Cheers Mary!
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Cripes. This party took place in September 2014, so my memories are now pretty dim, but this has just got to come off my “to do” list… The first part of my report was written soon after the party (sensible) and is here… My notes don’t help much as many Betty Balfour cocktails had been...
Oops – I missed one. Vic said: “Sponge based trifle cake in a drink form.” There are various versions of this cocktail online but we followed the recipe in the Stork Club Book: 2oz.rum 3/4 oz. pineapple juice 3 dashes grenadine Shake and serve in a 3 oz. cocktail glass. Some versions online include marashino...
Mr Rathbone liked these. He thought they tasted like “candied rum” – how poetic! He liked the photo too – saying that the parrot added a “touch of the tropical”. I think that I got the recipe from the Stork Club Bar Book but for speed here it is on the internet… The Boris Karloff...
“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” I have finally cracked open the box of Biscuick that Rosalind kindly lugged all the way back from the USofA for me. I have two lovely 1930s recipe books for the weirdness that is Biscuick and so I wanted to try some using...
“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” Well, another sad and sorry singleton’s Sunday for me, hanging around wondering if my beau is coming over...
