Pavlova from la.foodblogging
Ingredients:
6 egg whites
a pinch of cream of tartar
superfine sugar
dash of white wine vinegar
whipping cream
vanilla essence
the pulp of 4 passionfruit
sliced kiwi fruit
sliced star fruit
Visit la.foodblogging for method and a more exact recipe.
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Showing posts with label more ways to waste time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label more ways to waste time. Show all posts
Monday, 6 April 2009
White, yellow, and green
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
More ways to waste time
Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, and Further Tales of the City.
Brian may be wasted, but he makes perfect sense.
1960s Mai Tai menu.
A la Frannie Halcyon, mix with a picher of Mai Tais and add best friend.
Trader Vic's Original Mai Tai recipe -
2 ounces of 17-year old J. Wray & Nephew Rum over shaved ice.
Add juice from one fresh lime.
1/2 ounce Holland DeKuyper Orange Curacao.
1/4 ounce Trader Vic's Rock Candy Syrup.
1/2 ounce French Garier Orgeat Syrup
Shake vigorously.
Add a sprig of fresh mint
My version -
Large pitcher
Ice
Equal parts light and dark rum (both Old Oak)
Lime juice
Orange juice (Tropicana smooth)
Pineapple juice
Splash of grenadine
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Now playing on iTunes: Patti LaBelle - Lady Marmalade
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Thursday, 22 January 2009
The mononym
Capucine
In our house there was a rumor that Capucine had once been male. After a while, true or not, it became accepted as fact. It seemed the most logical way to explain away such perfection. And, she was perfect.
Men look at me like I'm a suspicious-looking trunk, and they're customs agents.
Walk on the Wild Side (1962) - Capucine in her role as the disillusioned prostitute, Hallie Gerard, with Barbara Stanwyck as her Madam, Jo Courtney.
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Thursday, 8 January 2009
More ways to waste time
The V.I.P.s (1963), featuring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli, Maggie Smith, Rod Taylor, Orson Welles and Margaret Rutherford. Margaret Rutherford won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the Duchess of Brighton.
A wonderful film for so many reasons, not least of all because it chronicles a time when travel still had an air of romance.
Now playing: Alphaville - The Jet Set
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
No particular reason
Other than, I find the current vogue for flooding the airwaves with disaster and horror films during the holidays completely unacceptable. I want happy. These make me happy, if not on the box then at the very least on the turntable. Crackling away in all their vinyl splendour. One would think that by now they would have found a way to build nostalgia into a CD. After all, turntables and all the paraphernalia do take up quite a bit of room.
Dr. Dolittle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1967 Film) 
South Pacific (1958 Film Soundtrack) 
The King and I (1956 Film Soundtrack) 
Flower Drum Song (1961 Film Soundtrack)
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Now playing: Richard Rodgers - A Hundred Million Miracles
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Sunday, 21 December 2008
More Berlin
Taschen's Berlin Style
The first edition cover of Christopher Isherwood's semi autobiographical novel that would become the basis for the play I Am a Camera (1951; film, 1955) and the musical Cabaret (1966; film, 1972).
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008
More ways to waste time
Born Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene, but better known as Peter Berlin. In 2005 filmmaker Jim Tushinski premiered his feature-length documentary That Man: Peter Berlin at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Lawrence Hellman, producer of That Man: Peter Berlin, talks to David Lamble of ClaudesPlace.com.
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Sunday, 16 November 2008
When the hourglass ruled
The Opposite Sex (1956)
The Opposite Sex was the first remake of The Women. And, a musical remake at that. While not too dissimilar from the original it is approached from a sufficiently different perspective to make it interesting and fresh.
Kay Hilliard (played by June Allyson), a former nightclub singer, finds out her Broadway producer husband of ten years, Steve, has been having an affair with chorus girl Crystal (played by Joan Collins). Idealistic to the bitter end, she goes to Reno for a divorce. After that, Steve marries Crystal, but Crystal isn't true. When Kay hears about this, she starts fighting to win her ex-husband back.
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