It's true: I rarely leave Devon and Cornwall. But for the hottest day of the year, with everyone heading for a bonus day on the beach, I ended up travelling to South London. Craziness. What a good time I had . A superb party held to celebrate my dear friends, J and L's 40ths. J had invented two new cocktails, Penge Punch (in honour of the venue) which was lethal - a stronger version of Long Island Iced Tea (including laminated instruction sheets for novices on how to concoct the tipple - he is so anal organised).
There was also a totally delicious Southern Sangria (Spanish red, lemonade, a healthy dash of fresh lemon and lime juice and tons of ice and fruit).
Needless to say, a good time was had by all. Hawaiian shirts, fairy lights, paper flowers, cocktail dresses, posh kebab canapes. I spent a manic hour in the kitchen assisting these two strapping lads and generally dropping things on the floor.
A really great idea. Wraps containing pre-bbqed meat, veges and condiments had been prepped the day before and our job was to bake them for 15 minutes and then slice them into 2cm slices and serve on trays as kebab canapes. They were hungrily snapped up.
Finished off with some perfect hangover food made by the resident starlet, H, chocolate dipped peppermint creams.
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Quanitity makes a large pitcher
300 ml cointreau
There was also a totally delicious Southern Sangria (Spanish red, lemonade, a healthy dash of fresh lemon and lime juice and tons of ice and fruit).
Needless to say, a good time was had by all. Hawaiian shirts, fairy lights, paper flowers, cocktail dresses, posh kebab canapes. I spent a manic hour in the kitchen assisting these two strapping lads and generally dropping things on the floor.
A really great idea. Wraps containing pre-bbqed meat, veges and condiments had been prepped the day before and our job was to bake them for 15 minutes and then slice them into 2cm slices and serve on trays as kebab canapes. They were hungrily snapped up.
Later we moved on to genuine live opera singing (M and L were astonishing), a put-together-at-last-minute-band and then dancing, Shisha pipes with apple tobacco and fire baskets in the garden.
And after just a couple of hours sleep (there were about eight kids in the house) we were up and at 'em again. I'd bought long some fab bacon from Borough Market (my first time at BM - WOW, what a change from Devon farmers' markets) from Sillfield Farm and we cooked up bagels,bacon and more pitchers of Southern Sangria in the sun.
Finished off with some perfect hangover food made by the resident starlet, H, chocolate dipped peppermint creams.
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Penge Punch Yeehah
Like a
cross between long island iced tea and mojito. Kicks
a fair punch
300ml
vodka,
300ml tequila
300ml dark rum and
300ml white rum
300ml tequila
300ml dark rum and
300ml white rum
125ml
sugar syrup infused with mint
1
litre of Coca Cola
125ml freshly squeezed lemon and lime juice
Loads
of ice
TASTE
AND ADJUST TIL YUMMY!
