Category: Food & Drinks

  • This snippet of interesting information was found through Treehugger‘s blog. Prêt à Manger is a popular chain in big cities like Manhattan, Hong Kong and London. I only recently found out that their tasty food is also grown according to…

  • Coffee is so good but so bad… I love my little vanilla latte on a Friday morning but it turns me into a stressball… It doesn’t particularly wake me up, it just makes me feel wired and tense! I’d say…

  • I was planning on making my same old butternut squash, pecorino and prosciutto salad as I usually make, but Andrew had a fantastic idea. He’s making a steamed butternut squash, zucchini, carrots & green chilli bubble & squeak. Yes, dear…

  • These are the ultimate coolest egg cups! Little hippie van eggcups with a surfboard-come-salt shaker. They’re from Free Spirit in Brighton, and Andrew’s sister and her hubby bought them for us for Christmas. Today was their christening with the first…

  • Forgot to mention, we had a fantastic New Year’s eve. We organised to have dinner with our downstairs neighbours, Jerome & Nicky. We started around 8pm with cheese fondue, followed by a chinese broth fondue consisting of fresh salmon, tuna,…

  • I think I’m in love with the Twinings tea with Vanilla and Coconut. It’s sooo nice, I just love the bit of flavour it adds to my good ol’ cup o’ tea! It also means I don’t put any sugar…

  • Ughh we bought fresh white bread today and I thought I’d really enjoy having a nice big slice with some butter. Turns out after eating it, it feels like a big ball of flour and dough in my stomach. Definitely…

  • MmmMmm today’s a good day. It’s a chilled out day at work, and my Christmas cards-writing morning was accompanied by a nice gingerbread skinny latte. (Updated: It was only a half-hour of card writing, and in exchange I didn’t take…

  • Beautiful Christmas time drinks… Long Kiss Goodnight Ingredients: 1 oz Vodka (vanilla vodka or regular, your favourite) 1/2 oz Baileys Irish Cream 1/2 oz white Creme de Cacao shaved Chocolate Ice Hershey’s Kiss Mixing instructions: Freeze a martini glass and…

  • Last night, we had friends over for Chinese fondue, and it was a really good evening. We’ve become the Missionaries of the Fondue Set, and our goal is to convert as many people as possible to Fonduism. It’s a very…