Celebrate your Cinco de Mayo holiday with a margarita. Need a margarita recipe?  Follow this tried and tested margarita recipe to impress your friends.

First of all make sure you have tequila, triple sec and lemon or lime juice. Wet the rim of the glass with lime juice and then dip it into fine sugar. 

Mix 1.5 oz of tequila, .05 oz triple sec and 1 oz of lemon or lime juice together and shake in a cocktail mixer. Then pour the margarita into the glasses and place a slice of lemon on the edge of the glass.  Couldn’t be easier.

Root ginger is one of the world’s most cultivated spices and although popularly used in cooking and food, gingerbread, ginger ale, ginger beer and even ginger tea, historically it has long been known for its strong medicinal value. 

Zingiber officinale, is ginger’s botanical name, which means “shaped like a thorn”. The strange looking ginger root is called a rhizome.

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Have a go at brewing your own beer & wine at home.  All you have to do is type in “Home brew” and up come a whole host of online suppliers of home brewing kit.  Add your local city and then maybe more local suppliers will come up. You can also try EBay, plenty of suppliers will ship the stuff to you at reasonable costs.  Once you have the starting kit then its just a case of getting the ingredients sent to you. Continue Reading

Meantime brewery is a relatively small brewery based in Greenwich, London.  Founded in 2000 by Alastair Hook a Brew Master, passionate about creating new beers, with interesting flavors, brewed with care and a long time to maturation.  Meantime first won a medal at the World Beer Cup in 2004, and since then it is the only British brewery to win medals every year at the World Beer Cup.

In 2007 and 2008, Meantime had four of its beers ranked in the “World’s 50 Best Beers” by the International Beer Challenge – no small feat!  Have you tried a Meantime brew?  Next time you are in Greenwich, London go on a Meantime Brewery tour or have a meal at their pub “The Greenwich Union”

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