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