As I'm sure I've mentioned a few times now I've been trying to improve my baking skills by baking my way through a Good Housekeeping recipe book I got a couple of Christmases ago. I was trying to crank out a cake a week or so and with my attempt to lose weight, keeping a big cake in our house where ...
Food and Drink
Healthy Eating With LV=
As I've mentioned before, this year I'm really trying to shift some of this excess weight I'm carrying around and generally get fitter and healthier.So, when I was invited to a healthy cookery class with LV= I was pretty excited. I'm not the greatest cook, I mean I can throw together a few things ...
Post-Christmas Catch Up At Cereal Killer Cafe, Brick Lane
I hadn't seen Steph since before Christmas so last week we ventured down to Brick Lane to get something to eat and catch up. Rather than go for the usual Brick Lane curry we headed up the other end of the road and decided to treat ourselves to brinner (breakfast for dinner) at hipster heaven, Cereal ...
Birthday Celebrations
Last week was my birthday. I don't really tend to get excited about my birthday anymore but Tom had listened to my not so subtle hints and booked us tickets to go and see Ross Noble on the evening of my actual birthday. I was super excited, and rightly so, he was mega. Friday was my work Christmas ...
Foodies Festival: Christmas
Last weekend officially marked the beginning of the festive season in our household and it all began with Tom, Steph and I taking a trip down the road to Foodies Festival Christmas* at The Old Truman Brewery. I don't think I've ever been into the Old Truman Brewery before but I was amazed at how ...
Baking With Betty Crocker
I've always been against packet baking. It's like cheating and creating a cake from scratch is one of my favourite things in the world to do. So when Betty Crocker invited me to a Christmas cake decorating class to celebrate the launch of their new vanilla icing with rainbow sprinkles I said yes but ...