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A Double Dose: Cocktail Making and Pub Quiz – 31 July 2020

Disclaimer: images used to publicise this event are not reflective of the level of skill required.

Want to enjoy the best of summer but the local pub’s 5 available seats have all been taken?

Desperate to show off all your newfound knowledge after 3 months of hibernation?

Look no further to Oxford10’s next event of the summer, a 2-for-1 bill of cocktail making and pub quiz on the evening of 31 July!

Event details here!

We’ll be showing you how to shake that mixer, and you’ll have a chance to flex your mental muscles and make new friends in several thrilling rounds of quizzes! We look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible.

List of ingredients:

Singapore Sling
2 parts gin, 1 part cherry brandy, Juice of one lime, ½ part Cointreau, ½ part D.O.M. Benedictine, 1 part Angostura bitters, optional garnish of pineapple slice, maraschino cherry

Mojito
4 parts white rum, 10 fresh mint leaves, several slices of lime (optional), sugar (caster sugar is ideal, but any type is fine), Angostura bitters

Equipment
If you don’t have a cocktail shaker, a large jam jar or a coffee flask (with lid screwed tight) work just as well. Optional extras: straws, drinks stirrers, flamboyantly coloured cocktail umbrellas.

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Summer Events Roundup

Screen-sharing is so out of date. We have webcams of a projector screen instead.

We recently held two more fantastic social events (virtually, though hopefully not for much longer).

On 31 July, we held a doubleheader event, starting with a cocktail-making session (featuring a classic Mojito and a more exotic Singapore Sling), with plenty of ice to cool things down after a long workday.

That was followed by a pub quiz from the comforts of home – participants paired up and tackled categories such as General Knowledge, Entertainers, and About Oxford.

Do you still remember the price of an Oxford Tube single student ticket to London? (£8) Or the year both boat crews in the Boat Race managed to sink their boats? (1912) Well, neither did everyone there… but hopefully it gave everyone a healthy dose of nostalgia for their time at Oxford!

(If you did know, then turn up for our next quiz events in the near future!)

A few days later, on 4 August, we welcomed Dr. Tom Crawford to the online lecture theatre to share his work on ‘Using Maths to Clean-up our Oceans’. He shared how a mathematical model for river outflows can help predict which areas are most susceptible to pollution from rivers, making it easier to coordinate clean-up as needed.

If you missed it, check out this recording of his lecture (as part of the Teddy Talks series):

Oxford10 Masterchefs

This week, we welcomed Oxford10 members from around the world – London, Toronto, Florida, and LA – for a virtual cooking masterclass led by our Vice-President, Maggie Ewen!

Despite being miles apart, we did our shopping for ingredients beforehand, and came prepared to cook up a storm. On the menu this evening was a summer salad, salmon for the main course, and no-bake cookies for dessert.

Freed from the terrifying prospect of Gordon Ramsay chucking our food in the bin or demanding our white apron, this was a much more pleasant cooking session than the typical Masterchef experience.

Good food demands good company, and it was a great chance to meet up, chat, and enjoy some home-cooked food, maybe with some wine on the side.

Have a look at some photos below, and do join us for our next virtual events, wherever in the world you may be!

Virtual Summer Cooking Class – 9 Jul 2020

Join our virtual cooking masterclass here.

With the height of summer upon us, we hope everyone’s staying suitably cool and hydrated (and socially distanced, of course). Next in our series of virtual Oxford10 events is a cooking masterclass led by none other than our Vice-President, Maggie Ewen!

How does it work? Before the event, we’ll share the recipes on our website (see below), and you’ll get all the listed ingredients prior to the event.

On the day itself, we’ll cook the meal together and see how similar or different the end results are!

For this episode of ‘Masterchef Ox10’, we’ll be having a delicious summer salad to start, followed by baked salmon, and finally no-bake cookies to top the meal off with dessert.

Do join us on the 9th of July – register here!

List of ingredients:

Summer salad:
1 red pepper (yellow pepper is fine too), a handful of watercress, 1 avocado, 1 teaspoon of mustard (preferably grainy mustard but dijon is ok too), 3 tablespoons of olive oil, 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, a small bowl to make the dressing, a bowl to mix everything together

Baked salmon:
Salmon fillet (1-2 slices), a frying pan, some olive oil

No-bake cookies:
1/2 cup butter (unsalted) (~113.5g), 1/2 cup milk (dairy or non dairy milk) (~122g), 2 cups of sugar (~ 320g), 1/4 cup cacao powder (~ 21.5g), 1/2 cup almond butter (also works with peanut butter) (~ 125 g), 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (optional), 3 cups of rolled oats (243g) (if you are gluten free, please make sure to use gluten free oats!), a stove, a saucepan, baking sheet, and some parchment paper

Oxford10 goes to the cinema

The only cinema in the world that encourages you to talk during the movie!

Earlier this month, Oxford10 held a virtual movie night using the Netflix Party plug-in. We spent an evening watching ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ together, an American spy thriller starring the likes of Henry Cavill and Alicia Vikander.

For some, this was their first joint-viewing experience, while for other veterans of the new COVID-19 normal, they knew exactly what to expect. Either way, we all had a roaring time, chatting about the plot as it unfolded.

If you missed it, do join us for our next event, which is a joint cook-along session. We’ll all attempt to cook the same dish at the same time (think Masterchef, but without the threat of elimination!) Event details to follow shortly.