Cocktail Passion for Pornstar Martini’s

PORN STAR MARTINI

by Hemanshu Patel

Passion fruit syrup

• 300ml Pineapple juice • 60ml Lemon Juice • 3 passion fruits • 250g sugar

Method

• In a saucepan pour in the wet ingredients then add the sugar and pulp from the passion fruit and simmer on a medium heat and stir for around 20 /25 minutes leave to cool then strain into a sealable container. This can be stores in the fridge.

• In a cocktail shaker add 6/8 ice cubes then add all wet ingredients apart from prosecco or champagne. Place the top on the shaker and shake approximately 1 minute. Use the Hawthorne strainer to evenly poor into both glasses • Tip poor the foam at the end to both glasses evenly. Garnish with a half cut passion fruit and serve with a shoot of prosecco or champagne on the side As many of my friends and family know lockdown was a very busy time for the Patel family as we were trying to help the community as much as possible during the week doing food deliveries from Saltwood Stores. This meant that we only had Sunday afternoons free and thus #Sundayfunday was born.

We started mastering the art of making cocktails and then wanted to take it a step further by making some of the syrups needed to take the cocktails to the next level.

Ingredients (2 cocktails)

• Vanilla Vodka 50ml • Prosecco or champagne 2 shot glasses full • Passion fruit liqueur 50ml • Passion fruit syrup 25ml • Passion fruit Juice 50ml • Passion fruit halved • Lime juice 15ml • Orange juice 50ml • Ice cubes

Tools required

• Cocktail shaker • Hawthorne Strainer • 2 Martini /coupe glasses • 2 shot glasses • Strainer • Saucepan

The inaugural We Love Hythe Life Food Festival is once again returning to Hythe Green on the August bank holiday weekend, 27th, 28th,29th August from 11am-7pm Saturday and Sunday, 11am-6pm Monday.

The three-day event is a food lovers dream with over 50 stalls dedicated to showcasing your local vendors and the delights that they have to offer.

Organised by Hythe Life magazine, the festival's ethos centres around local, sustainable shopping and eating. This year, we hope that you can join us for a fun packed weekend of food, drinks and live music to celebrate the end of the dreaded

Covid Pandemic, all while supporting your local businesses! Throughout the pandemic, it has been your local businesses, run by your friends, family and neighbours who have found it hardest to continue. The team here at Hythe Life pride ourselves in using this event to give our community a helping hand to get back on track and bring everyone back together again. Last year we had the pleasure of seeing over 20,000 people from near and far come through our gates and we hope that this year will be even bigger still.

The We Love Hythe Life Food Festival hosts a range of gourmet food and drink producers, most of whom are local to Kent and many of whom are located within a 25-mile radius of Hythe. From the international to the best of British, the We Love Hythe Life Food Festival is an annual celebration of diversity, culture and great food and drink with over 50 stalls dedicated to cuisine from across the globe. With everything available from preserves and pickles to cakes and bakes, spicy snacks to sweet treats, the bustling marketplace of artisan producers, restaurateurs

and high-end street food sellers make sure to offer a foodie feast to suit every budget, taste and dietary need. This year will also see the return of our Demo tent, giving you the opportunity to interact with our fantastic team of suppliers and learn a little about what goes on behind the scenes! If that wasn’t enough, a collection of cocktails, a craft beer tent, Festiveales (locally brewed by Romney Ales) and Pimms & Prosecco is sure to quench the adults' thirst, whilst the smaller members of the family are kept entertained with amusements and funfair rides in our kids corner.

On top of the food and drinks, one of the many highlights of the weekend are the musicians, artists and talent who take to our main stage. This year’s line up once again consists of bands who volunteer their time to showcase their fantastic musical talents throughout the weekend, providing you with the entertainment all day every day. To keep the Bank Holiday mood going, an eclectic mix of bands and solo artists will guarantee that there is a little something for everyone.

Hythe District Photographic Club

by Phil Heading Club Chairman

Hythe District Photographic Club is delighted that “Hythe Life Magazine” has agreed to sponsor the club for another year.

2021, the first year of this collaboration, turned out to be very successful for the club, when despite all the disruption of the Covid pandemic, we celebrated our 10th Anniversary in style, with a full programme of meetings and events. The highlight was the production and sale of our book “August in Hythe” which contained 200 images taken locally and captured the town and its people emerging from lockdown in August 2021.

With the help of Hemanshu Patel and the Rotary Club of Hythe, 250 copies were produced which sold out in 4 weeks, with the assistance of some local businesses, enabling the club to raise £1,000 for two local charities, Hythe Dementia Awareness Forum, and the Pilgrims Hospice. An online gallery of the book photographs can be viewed at: https://hythedistrictphotographicclub.jimdo.c om/august-in-hythe-2021/

“August in Hythe” also raised the profile of the club, locally, and this year

members have been asked by the Hythe Business & Tourism Association and organisers of other events to record happenings in Hythe during the year. 2022 got off to an exciting start when the prestigious and oldest weekly photographic magazine in the world, “Amateur Photographer” featured a two page article on the club in February featuring photographs taken by club members. This resulted in enquiries about membership from abroad. The club started the year with a record 54 members, and this healthy trend is in contrast to many photographic clubs who report a dwindling membership. Our approach has always been one of encouraging members to take and talk about photographs. We set a project each month and invite members to submit images which are reviewed at our monthly meetings. We do not invite “professional” judges to critique the photographs, but prefer to learn from discussion between the members where there is a wide range of experience, and where more experienced members willingly share knowledge to help everyone improve their techniques.

The rapid advances in technology mean that cameras are becoming increasingly more sophisticated, to the point that Artificial Intelligence algorithms are now employed in top end mirrorless cameras enabling them to focus automatically on the

eye of a bird in flight, an animal on the move and human faces. Similarly, the latest smartphone cameras, are more technically advanced than dedicated cameras of 10 years ago. All this technology may make picture taking easier, but it doesn’t guarantee better photographs, which is why the club tries to help members improve their creative and technical skills, through discussion, workshops and group photoshoots. The old adage, “there’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle” applies to photography, so the club doesn’t get too excited about the latest technology but instead concentrates on the creative side and composition, exposure and post-processing of images.

The club meets at 7.00 p.m. on the 2nd Thursday of every month at the Hythe Sports Pavilion in South Rd. Membership is £15 p.a. (students free), and there is a £3 charge on the door at each meeting. The club has an active Facebook® group with almost 170 members and full club members belong to a WhatsApp® group which keeps everyone in touch with local photo opportunities at short notice.

James Willmott - Tranquility of Hythe Stewart Weller - Speedway Chase Down Jade Otto - My Niece Kayde

You are welcome to join a meeting as a visitor, to see what we do. Our full programme is available on our website at: https://hythedistrictphotographicclub.jimdo.c om/programme-projects-2022/

Phil Heading - Windows on the Soul

Anne Willmott - Brugges by Night

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