A tale of Cocktails and Movies that started with saving my Cherries for a Shirley Temple

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AS TENTH AND FINAL POST FOR THE #foodflixflex which my friends and I will be doing this September to celebrate food and cinema, I present you my  too-pretty-not-to-share mocktails. I bought a small jar of cherries to garnish or color some. My nephew would open the fridge and get one cherry but I warned him not to touch any more cherries as it is reserved for my Shirley Temple. He was intrigued and behaved and waited for the Shirley Temple. 
What started as something to stop him from devouring my cherished cherries turned out to be the "pressure" on my part to make that Shirley Tempe one day. He always asks me when I will be making one. I said soon. And soon happened on the last week of September. And it is an apt celebratory conclusion to our September #foodflixflex.

Shirley Temple was a Hollywood child actress and the drink was said to be named after her because she's at the bar all the time with the elder actors and needs something non-alcoholic to drink. Bars and restos near Hollywood claim tales and versions of this pretty red liquid that could surely attract kids.

Since I have no movie in mind while preparing this colorful concotions, I searched for lexus between cocktails and movies and I found a lot. Margarita with a Straw; Casablanca and French 75; Casino Royale and Vodka "Vesper" Martini; Practical Magic and Midnight Margaritas; Silence of the Lambs and Chianti; Cocktail and The Red Eye; and Sex and the City: Cosmopolitan.Well, there's a lot of classic movies to catch up comes October. 



The Recipe:

*My Shirley Temple
Carbonated lime-lemon drink (e.g. Sprite)
Cherry water (but this calls for Grenadine)
Cherries

I blended the cherries without the stems together with the liquids. I reserved the pretty cherries for garnish. Chill before serving.

*My Lemon-Cucumber Spritz
Lemon and Calamansi
Cucumber
Carbonated lime-lemon drink (e.g. Sprite)

Blender all ingredients. Chill before serving.

*My Almost Pina colada
Fresh Pineapples cooked in Sugar
Lemon and Calamansi
Vodka
Carbonated lime-lemon drink (e.g. Sprite)  

Blender all ingredients. Chill before serving.

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