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...Coined “Shrooms and Sherry”, our grown-up drink is a heady savoury combination of fig liqueur, a porcino amontillado sherry and Hine, a cognac....
...On a hot one in May, however, I particularly enjoyed the What the Flower, a lighter gin cocktail made with electric daisies (or paracress, which has a herby, grassy flavour with a slight citrus tang), cherry...
...Remove from the heat and whisk in the sherry vinegar. Set aside to cool. To prepare the melon, heat a griddle to a medium high....
...“The dining room felt like a restaurant with menus and flowers on the tables,” she says. “There was a sherry trolley on Sunday. Cake for birthdays....
...Behind it is a bar with several old barrels, lines of glasses and wine bottles and a blackboard showcasing ports, Madeiras and sherries....
...You must have trimmed your flowers to below eye level and shined the silver. The sherry glasses should be polished and ready to quench the thirst of the turtle-soup eaters....
...Recipes include lemon meringue pie, sherry trifle and honey mousse with lavender jelly. phaidon.com Older Carolino serving wagon, €3,500This Danish/Italian-designed food and drinks trolley – billed as “...
...González Byass bought the single bota of 1728 from an almacenista in 1841 but never clarified if it was made from stalwart sweet sherry grape Pedro Ximénez or a blend....
...Instead of flower-bearing locals, Russia faced a strong, freedom-loving nation that refused to surrender....
...A take on shime saba, Japanese cured mackerel, followed, before a show-stopping courgette flower stuffed with crab mousse, served with courgette purée and finished with a bisque that is itself layered and...
...A bullseye selection of sherries is on the menu to accompany now-classics such as charcoal-grilled lamb with slow-cooked chard, fresh coriander, white beans and garum – puddings include rosewater and cardamom...
...Neither, despite her position as quintessential thrower of London soirées, can I see her as a 21st-century Mrs Dalloway, fussing over the flowers....
...With its whimsical painted flowers and birds — and snakes on the handles — this pot has a touch of the Grayson Perry about it....
...For the gin: infuse four chamomile tea bags (or 5g of loose flowers) into a 700ml bottle of gin. Strain the tea, add 250g honey and stir until dissolved....
...Strain into a chilled sherry glass or a small wine glass....
...In order to achieve a rounder, sweeter profile closer to the gin liqueurs of Alas’s childhood, they aged the gin in a mix of virgin Spanish oak, sherry casks and French oak....
...Light-bodied but wonderfully silky, it has notes of fine spices, coconut-y gorse flower, honey, Earl Grey tea and ginger biscuits....
...Toast Friday night with their signature French 75 — a sparkling mix of gin, verjus, lemon, wine and orange flower water — or a pale-pink Earth Martini, made with a hint of earthy-sweet beetroot....
...My favourite app is PlantNet, which identifies plants, flowers and herbs. I used it a lot during lockdown. The other app I use is called CLZ Book....
...Why The home is near the High Weald area of outstanding natural beauty and has a large garden designed by Chelsea Flower Show gold medallist Andy Sturgeon. Who Jackson Stops....
...Instead, I felt like I had entered the pages of some of my favourite books: The Story of Ferdinand, the bull so seduced by the flowers in the women’s hair that he lies down in the middle of the bullring...
...The flowers have a very particular shade of white that appealed to me....
...centre of the table there stood, as sentries to a fruit-stand which upheld a pyramid of oranges and American apples, two squat old-fashioned decanters of cut glass, one containing port and the other dark sherry...
...We saw it in The Photographers’ Gallery and were mesmerised by it – it depicts a field of flowers in a forest, shot with a long exposure, at that strange time between night and day....
...Workers in conical straw hats tend to flower beds, while little white egrets carefully pick through the tall grass....
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