My girlfriends and I went to Glass House Estate Winery for their High Vin Sunday Brunch simply because it sounds like a lot of fun. For $65 per person, you are treated to a buffet brunch, a glass of bubbly and a flight of five 1oz wine. We stumbled upon it, and really, we couldn’t resist. The four of us usually go out for afternoon tea, and we all like wine, so this naturally fits our MO to give it a try.
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This is the classic French 75 cocktail but I changed it up with a sparkling rosé. I called it Blush 75 (and others may have named it similarly as well) because the sparkling rosé would give it a tint of pink. The colour is also perfect for Valentine’s Day. And I love that I have all the ingredients at home so I don’t have to buy a bunch of cocktail stuff that I don’t use often.
Ingredients
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When we were in London, Mr. really wanted a Sunday Roast, so a friend living in the UK suggested that we check out Hawksmoor, a steakhouse with multiple locations in the UK as well in the US. Since our hotel was close to the Spitalfields location, that’s where we ended up.
For £27 per person, we got this beautiful plate of slow roast rump cooked to a perfect medium pink (you have a choice of pink or well done), and it comes with crispy beef dripping roast potatoes, the biggest Yorkshire pudding I’ve ever seen, carrots, greens, roasted garlic and a luscious bone marrow and onion gravy.
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