It’s been over a month since I wrote a post about Jelly Ronson – a glow-in-the-dark gin & tonic jelly recipe by Bompas & Parr. But it has taken me this long to find the time, the courage and an occasion special enough to actually make some myself. Here are the results…
I really recommend listening to Paprika Balkanicus whilst making jelly – their songs are at just the right tempo for sprinkling gelatin and dancing around the kitchen in a jelly-like manner. Dr. Oetker’s sachets (available in most supermarkets) seem to work as well as fine leaf gelatine, but can come out a bit lumpy, so I recommend sieving the mixture when you pour it into the jelly mould. Finding moulds was not as easy as I’d thought. I found a few antique copper ones at Spitalfields market – see the post below – and also managed to find a ‘brioche mould’ at a hardware shop, which seemed to do the trick. Maplins sells blacklights. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: alcoholic dessert, bompas & parr, food art, gin & tonic, glow-in-the-dark, jelly, party-food
I was very excited when I came across the amazing jellymongers at Bompas & Parr, who explore the space between food and architecture using jelly!
Here they bring you Jelly Ronson; a glow-in-the-dark gin jelly, which I will be attempting to make in the very near future. Let me know if you try it and we can compare jelly photos…
Jelly Ronson, a glow-in-the-dark gin jelly was created by Bompas & Parr for Mark Ronson’s 33rd birthday party held at Hedsor House on the 4th September 2008. The jelly uses Bulldog Gin with it’s assortment of rare and exotic botanicals including Poppy and Dragon Eye. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bompas & parr, dessert, food art, gin, glow-in-the-dark, jelly, jellymongers, party-food, wobble
The Antic Banquet festival was held over a sunny weekend back in September on an organic beef farm in Norfolk. Imagine possibly the largest organic burgers ever, served in pitta bread crammed with salad and sauce; sweets and apples served by a horned creature from a Hansel & Gretel house; knives and forks hanging from the trees; bouncy bands and djs; cartwheeling zebras; maypole dancing; craft workshops; hula-hooping; poetry; puppet shows; an impromptu surprise birthday party in a pig pen (clean and empty of pigs!) and a magical violin concert in the church up the road, and that goes some way to describing this small festival.
The actual banquet itself took place on Sunday afternoon after hours of spit-roasting, basting, simmering, washing and chopping… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Alison Knowles, antic, banquet, Events, festivals, food art, hog-roast, salad
