General Chat

I had two glasses of bubbly last night......... ok, 2 and a half, beause I mistook DH's glass for mine......... and fell asleep with a book on my full belly.

I'm not the party girl I used to be :-D

Looks like a good way to ruin some decent shallots to me Merlin.

LOL Dermot! I am still giggling.

I had a new kitchen fitted at the beginning of this year, and I was shocked at the amount of alcohol and liqueurs we had stowed away in the old units over the years.

I decided to invite my friends round for a cocktail night to use some of it up.
I only needed to buy a selection of mixers.
One after the other, we produced about 10 completely different drinks, each one made in a 2.5pint jug!

Just 6 of us ladies, and what a night we had... Hic!

Sharron, Get a Brace of Pheasant Chuck them in a pot with Shallots and a Bottle of Red, bung it in the oven for a while, then enjoy the results, Happy Christmas.**M**. :-D :-D

I've got liqueurs from twenty odd years ago

50 years ago we were living in Ghana, where we threw lots of parties and had a large selection of drinks.

They were duty-free and dirt cheap, and we brought home all the spirits/liqueurs. Because they were all opened bottles there was no Customs limit!!

Back home the partying slowed down a bit and the taste for liqueurs went out of fashion, so we still have part bottles of Cointreau, Cherry Brandy and a couple of others I can't remember. Very occasionally I have a Cherry Brandy and it is still fine. :-D :-D

Is that a record??

Merry Christmas, everyone. :-) :-) :-)

Our problem is not with booze but the blinking glasses it's weird I fill 'em up put 'em down and before, you can say "Just the one Mrs Wembley" it's leaked out and evaporated! Can't seem to see it happen so we simply have to keep topping them up! ;-) ;-) ;-)

:-D

'I had eighteen bottles of whiskey in my cellar and was told by my wife to empty the contents of each and every bottle down the sink, or else... I said I would and proceeded with the unpleasant task.

I withdrew the cork from the first bottle and pured the contents down the sink with the exception of one glass, which I drank. I then withdrew the cork from the second bottle and did likewise with it, with the exception of one glass, which I drank.

I then withdrew the cork from the third bottle and poured the whiskey down the sink which I drank. I pulled the cork from the fourth bottle down the sink and poured the bottle down the glass, which I drank.

I pulled the bottle from the cork of the next and drank one sink out of it, and threw the rest down the glass. I pulled the sink out of the next glass and poured the cork down the bottle.

Then I corked the sink with the glass, bottled the drink and drank the pour. When I had everything emptied, I steadied the house with one hand, counted the glasses, corks, bottles, and sinks with the other, which were twenty-nine, and as the houses came by I counted them again, and finally I had all the houses in one bottle, which I drank.

I'm not under tha affluence of incohol as some tinkle peep I am. I'm not half as thunk as you might drink. I fool so feelish I don't know who is me, and the drunker I stand here, the longer I get'.

I don't like wine but use it for cooking. OH has two bottles of red wine that somebody has given to him but we have decided is too good to cook with.

He won't open it because he would not drink the whole bottle quickly enough and I don't even cook with it very often.

I suppose it will just have to stay in the cupboard indefinitely along with the large bottle of sherry we bought for somebody as a thank you but who died before we could give it to them.

We've a bottle of dry sherry in our cupboard bought for my father to have a tipple. He wasn't much of a drinker and died over 8 years ago!
It seems to good to use in cooking, but probably better than throwing it down the sink.

Tastes and fashions change, which is probably why we have opened bottles of some of the spirits. Waste not, want not. Cheers!

Take the top off a can of condensed milk, tip the contents into a blender.

Fill he can with whisky and tip that in the blender.

Do the same with single cream.

Put in a teaspoonful of instant coffee.

Give it a whizz and,voila, you have a pretty fine substitute for Bailey's.

MAGGIE
DRIPPING ON TOAST SHOULD BE MADE A
VITAL FOOD MOUTH DROOLING,
AS FOR BOOZE HALF A GLASS AND I'VE
HAD IT,,,,CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE LOL

MAGGIE
DRIPPING ON TOAST SHOULD BE MADE A
VITAL FOOD MOUTH DROOLING,
AS FOR BOOZE HALF A GLASS AND I'VE
HAD IT,,,,CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE LOL

as classy as me Maggie :-D :-D :-D

Mmmmmmm- condensed milk.
Used to love condensed milk sandwiches :-D
Second only to dripping on toast.


You can see how 'classy' I am :-D

If you like, but there should be a use-by date on it, normally a couple of years :-)

I'll just have the whisky ;-) :-D :-D :-D

somewhere......... I have a recipe for a boozy drink......... whisky, condensed milk & chocolate.......... even thinking of condensed milk makes me go ewwwwwww..... I'll have the whisky & chocolate :-D

When I open the bottle, should I keep it in the fridge?

Seriously, be careful of Bailey's and all drinks containing cream, eggs or milk: they have a use by date...check the bottles :-0