Balthazar: The Parisian Flipped Martini Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

Balthazar: The Parisian Flipped Martini Cocktail Recipe  🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

It’s been compared to Castle, Bones, and The Mentalist, but this French series puts them to shame.  Balthazar – great chef, athlete, extreme sports aficionado, and oh, formidable forensic pathologist – has enough presence, savior faire, panache and other fancy French-named attributes to be in a class by himself.

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Three Coins in the Fountain: Roman Pasta (Cacio e Pepe) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

Three Coins in the Fountain: Roman Pasta (Cacio e Pepe) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

Forget the dark adventures that dance across our current screens and return to a place of light, air, and happiness.  Beautiful Italy, three tug-at-your-heart romances, and a classic Oscar winning song sung by none other than an uncredited Frank Sinatra.  You could not hope for breezier way to usher in soon to be summer.

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The Serpent’s Tooth: Deep Fried Biscuits with Honey Butter Recipe

The Serpent’s Tooth: Deep Fried Biscuits with Honey Butter Recipe

You can never go wrong with these delightful Deep Fried Biscuits, no matter what day of the week or time of the year. This recipe is from Different Drummer’s Own The Serpent’s Tooth, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast. Today’s recipe is from another character in The Serpent’s Tooth.

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Young Sherlock Holmes: Custard Tart Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

Young Sherlock Holmes: Custard Tart Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

If you’d like to time warp to wintry Victorian London this weekend, see this gem of film about the early adventures of Holmes and Watson. Long before Harry Potter and his assorted school chums treated us to mystery and mayhem, Young Sherlock Holmes was up to his eyeballs in adventure at his boarding school as well. Only it’s not magic that the precocious teenager has up his sleeve -- just the mandates of cold, hard logic.

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Ms. Fisher’s Modern Mysteries: Cheddar Cheese Straws Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2

Ms. Fisher’s Modern Mysteries: Cheddar Cheese Straws Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2

Ms. Fisher’s Modern Mysteries is almost as much fun as its prequel. Peregrine is every bit as prying, unrelenting, and audacious as her Aunt Phryne. And as dazzling in her fashionable 60s attire, aquamarine eye shadow, mini skirts, and bold geometric prints that take Different Drummer back to her own youth at Oak Park River Forest High.

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips: Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁

Goodbye, Mr. Chips: Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁

One of the finest films ever made. The fact that it is in black and white and over six decades old only cements its classic status. Filled with the power of love, its heartaches and lessons, a magnificent Robert Donat ages from 25 to 88 without skipping a beat. Not a tearjerker, but keep the hankies (that includes you fellows as well) handy.

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