Saturday Morning Cartoon Cocktails!

This week's cocktail night was EXTRA fun (in my mind) because it involved not just nostalgic old cartoons, but wearing pajamas!

Here, Astrid is arriving with her old toy, a HUGE stuffed seal named Golfje. So nice to be surrounded by familiar things... cartoon themes, jammies, toys.

And here is an OLD picture of Astrid holding Golfje in her right hand! CUTE!!!

Judith and I with Scooby in the background. Judith made the first drink of the evening... inspired by the cartoon Candy Candy. Despite the title and the appearance, the drink wasn't QUITE as sweet as it appeared.



 

Candy Candy was garnished with... you guessed it... CANDY! Note the fried egg and the marshmallow boa.

Candy Candy:
- hard cider
- 7-up
- gin

Candy Candy (when still a virgin):
- apple juice
- 7-up

Either way, you've got to garnish it with candy!

Drinking the Candy Candy's while setting up for the next drink. 

Maybe it was a little sweet for Remco-- but he doesn't like sweet drinks to begin with!

Lauren munching on the newly-arrived pumpkin seeds straight from Connecticut to Talmastraat. 

 Arjen with the box of Scooby Snacks. No, there is no such thing, but I printed it off the internet and we stuffed a bunch of homemade cookies inside it.

A great picture of Arjen as a kid! xoxox

Arjen even made up a game that I thought was really clever and very fun! This was really my drink although he thought of the recipe and the game. It was based on the Scooby episode about the Bad Humor ice cream factory and the three phantoms haunting it... the dreaded vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate ghost. As with the show itself,  the idea was to get to the shots of strawberry (DeKuyper Wild Strawberry liqueur), vanilla (Cuarenta Y Tres), or chocolate (DeKuyper creme de cacoa). If you were able to get these flavors (clues), you could later use them as shots to pour over your chocolate, strawberry, vanilla ice cream.

The terror of the thing was that if you got caught by one of the three phantoms, you would be locked in either the freezer (like Shaggy and Scoob in the episode) and possibly freeze to death, or the milk room (where due to Shaggy's poor plumbing skills he nearly drowned himself and Scoob).

Incidentally the Scooby snacks looked like rocks (modeled after the show again) but tasted great.
Scooby Snacks:
- 3 cups cereal (your choice)
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1 egg
- 100 grams melted (then cooled) butter
- mix it
- let stand for 15 minutes
- shape into small balls
- bake 180c. for ten minutes (per batch)

Candy Candy, Scooby Snacks... what next?

A tad young for some of these Saturday morning cartoons, but I had to put an old picture of Judith in too! (no, it's NOT Bram!)

At the height of the game we were all forming a bottle-neck (no pun intended) at the threshold of the booze. Very fun!

I won a little drip of the vanilla, which taster great over the ice cream. As a side note, I had no idea my boobs looked so big.

I love this picture of little Deana! The early signs of OCD are very telling-- note the one red, one white hair barrette to match the dress!

Lauren was next with her Gummy Beary Juice. Apparently the Gummy Bears tippled with this illusive 'gummy berry juice' and were consequently capable of bouncing to tremendous heights. Obviously, this is the drink the world's been waiting for. And it was delicious!

Gummy Beary Juice:
- port
-shaken with forest fruit jelly (clever!)
- mixed with a splash of cassis soda
- add a sparkling rose floater on top

This drink was refreshing, sparkly and berry tasting-- again, not as sweet as you might think.

It wouldn't be cocktail night is Lunchbox Lissenberg were not in attendance, making everyone sick with adoration. 

Great to have Reinout with us! 

Astrid arrives with her grey drinks. Who knew that grey was SO DELICIOUS?!?!
Her drink was a shot named the I'll Get You Next Time, Gadget. This is probably one of the only cartoons that even partly holds up to viewing years later. Which is not to say it's high art, but Inspector gadget wasn't nearly as bad as some of the others we revisited. And the drink was GREAT!

A lot of taste for a little drink. 

I'll Get You Next Time, Gadget!
- Bols Yogurt
- Drop liqueur

simple and perfect!

What a fun night! Nostalgic being the key word. What a strange thing to brainstorm the old shows (of course I'm a little older and the Banana Splits and Josie and the Pussycats didn't come into play). But we watched clips of many, many old favorites that are now just laughably bad. Still, it's nice to laugh on a Friday night. I felt like a kid again, with a huge pregnant belly and sipping booze. This was certainly one of my all-time favorites!

Next week's theme: Thanksgiving
How can we NOT? It's the day after Thanksgiving. Think pilgrims (from Leiden), Indians, corn, cranberries, squash, the Mayflower, the New World, and in general harvest themes. We'll make it work!
 

We certainly missed Maarten this week! But he was good enough to send along this old picture--- what a spruce goose in the spiffy white robe-- ready for Saturday morning cartoons! ADORABLE!