Mix It Up!

8/12/2021

Today I want to talk about cocktail foam, because it makes your drinks look awesome.
For this you need a series of ingredients.

An acid - an acid like lemon juice will stabilize the foam
A protein - like egg white to create the foam
Sugar to stabilize the bonds, and mask the taste of the protein

Your chosen drink element - alcohol or non alcohol

Mocktail Recipe

100ml cold fruit tea (choose a colour/flavour that suits your colour theme if important)
50ml lemon juice (strained so clear)
50ml of cordial (I used rose)
2 medium egg whites
3 ice cubes (broken up a little)
A garnish

Method

Put ALL the ingredients (EXCEPT the ice and garnish) into the shaker and shake for about half a minute, until it's obvious a foam has built up (with a cocktail strainer it will begin to seep from the strainer lid) add ice and shake again until the ice has broken up and the foam recovers. The drink will be nice and cold now.

Pour into your glasses, garnish and serve!
I shot this cocktail I made two ways. Light and bright, and dark and moody, which to you like best?
Now you have it, try recipes with your favourite alcohol ingredients, or mix up your flavours.

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A Wedding Breakfast
It was my pleasure to photograph a wedding breakfast created by Colline Watt, owner of Colline's Kitchen recently. With a bubbly and nurturing nature, it's no suprise to me that this mother from Zimbabwe wants to feed us all with delicious, fresh and sustainable food, along with a decadent cake or two, and how typical that, on the first date that weddings were permitted in the UK after lockdown, she got the call and I found her in a pretty garden with spectacular views piling food and flowers on to a table in a high wind, and creating an edible work of art.
Colline's successful cafe business, set in the historic Town Hall in the market town of Newbury has been put on hold since Lockdown in March, but she maintains a service, delivering food as diverse as Afternoon Tea and Mongolian beef stir fry, sourcing fresh ingredients locally. Find her at www.collineskitchen.com

BUNTING
When Jo, owner of The Bunting Basket asked me to photograph her bunting, I read her bio, and discovered how the business began, and how it came to be named The Bunting Basket. After making bunting for a family christening, Jo was innundated with requests for it from her friends and aqaintances, and she soon began to sell it at craft fairs, carrying her stock in a wicker basket. When I read this, I knew a picnic basket had to feature in my photographs. I looked at the fabric designs, and thought about the premise for the business and then began to prepare my shoot. Find her at www.thebuntingbasket.co.uk

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