Okay, so you want to organize a cocktail party and you need to prepare food and wine. If it’s a celebratory occasion, you would probably want some champagne. The truth is, we want to have a few extra bottles just in case some of your friends decided to bring a date or a plus one. Of course we don’t want to treat our guests with cheap champagne, but we certainly don’t want to cry over our bills when we make our purchase. So what do we do? Here’s a suggestion, sparkling wine- Prosecco
Prosecco is a sparkling wine made of a variety of white grapes grown in the Veneto region of Italy. Traditionally Prosecco was made as a soft, somewhat sweet wine with just a little fizz, but today’s Proseccos are dry and very bubbly. It can replace champagne in some cocktails such as Mimosa if you like. (Which I suggest if you’re making Mimosa, better than using cheap champagne) Like other sparkling wine, it is served chilled.
It generally goes best with seafood, especially calamari and carbmeat. But as most champagne and sparkling wine do, it pairs nicely with everything even the heaviest pastas. If you wish, you may also use it as an ingredient of an Italian mixed drink Sgroppino (with vodka and lemon sorbet).
So next time you want champagne for an occasion but wish for less pricey alternatives, try Prosecco. Note- Italian wines are so chatty!
Finally! A day without Edison Chen’s scandal in the top news (in HK anyway). I would like to take an entry to highlight some of the “by-products” that show the extent of the scandal.
Note: The scandal even makes headlines on one of the 10 most influential newspaper of the world, Neue Zurcher Zeitung.
Parodies were made upon the scandal
Chen was accompanied by police officers on his way to his press conference. The amount of officers would make one think the President was passing by
Coming to WE tv, “High School Confidential” stars 12 girls and it’s all about their four-year high school lives. Apparently one was pregnant, one was diagnosed with a brain tumor, one was anorexic…etc…
Why only girls anyway? As if they assume high school boys problems aren’t “interesting” enough. What about that fat kid? That nerd? That closeted gay guy? Hmmmm maybe that’s what they are shooting now. After this HSC there’ll be an HSC- Boys Only edition
So who might watch this?
1) Parents - Apparently the creator of the show is also a mother, so it’s targeting audience like herself
2) High School students- As they can relate most
What about the others? I don’t think the show would be able to draw a huge amount of audience from other groups. My first reaction to this was “This is totally high school”
High School Confidential premieres Monday March 10 at 10/9c on WE TV
Wait, did I just use bullfrogs and anti-aging in the same sentence? That’s right, according to this article, the researchers in South Korea have discovered bullfrogs’ skin contain a certain substance that removes free-radicals (which is the molecules that speeds the aging process).
So that’s right ladies and gentlemen, we can turn to bullfrogs next time instead of fighting for that body shop vitamin E lotion. Who knows? You might even find a prince in the process.
Yes, the play written by Frank Marcus in the 60’s is brought back alive to Hong Kong by Wordybird Theatre Company. Watch our alcoholic lesbian, June Buckridge, spiral out of control when her character in a radio play is scheduled to be killed off. To add more drama, June suspects her live-in lover, Alice, is cheating on her with a predatory tv producer.
The play is showing in Hong Kong Fringe Club from February 27 to March 1
After getting “Lost”, Maggie Grace ( The Fog) gets taken in Paris and sold into slave trade. Directed by Pierre Morel (Banlieue 13), Taken stars Liam Neeson as the father of estranged Grace and also a former spy. The plot sounds kinda “uh-uh” to me but with a cast like this, it makes me wonder if good acting and directing can make up for the plot.
Taken is written and produced by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and shot in Paris. Expected to be released in France on February 27.
P.S. Am I the only one who miss Grace’s blond hair?
A.Ho