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Do you wanna build a snowman? ☃️ We finally g Do you wanna build a snowman? ☃️

We finally got some snow today. The girls were so excited to go out and play in it. We even managed to make a little snowman and make sure he stayed safe given the current situation. 

 

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Weekends are made for pancakes 🥞 A short stack Weekends are made for pancakes 🥞

A short stack of banana pancakes topped with berry yoghurt, @jackpotpeanutbutter  golden syrup and blueberries.

I love these as a quick and easy breakfast and it's the easiest recipe ever. 

- 1 banana
- 2 eggs 
- 3 heaped spoons of oats. 

Mix them all up and pop them in the pan. Easy! 

What's for breakfast where you are? 

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Another night, another burger 🍔 Another vegan Another night, another burger 🍔

Another vegan burger actually, an onion bhaji burger to be precise. 

It was so good but definitely needed more mango chutney. Although, I think there's not much in life that can't be improved with a huge dollop of mango chutney. Amirite?!

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You've stolen a pizza my heart 🍕🍕🍕 Pizza You've stolen a pizza my heart 🍕🍕🍕

Pizza is one of my favourite foods and this one is a good one. Tom made the dough from scratch and I'm not entirely sure he'll be doing that again soon 😆

Not vegan thanks to the mozzarella and goats cheese but absolutely bloody delicious. 

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A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone🌷 Tuli A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone🌷

Tulips are my favourite and these yellow ones have really made me happy the past few days. 

Don't wait for someone to buy you flowers, buy them yourself and revel in how they make you feel.

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Every night is burger night when they taste this g Every night is burger night when they taste this good 🍔

Tom outdid himself at the weekend with this vegan stack burger. He added a potato rosti, homemade burger sauce and a slice of @violife_foods It was bloody delicious. 

Were actively trying to cut our meat intake even if we're not fully committed to going completely plant based. 

Little steps right? 

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Lonely, chocolonley 🍫🍫🍫 This is my favou Lonely, chocolonley 🍫🍫🍫

This is my favourite chocolate in all the world and it is using all of my willpower to not just inhale all of it immediately. 

Tom got me this little @tonyschocolonely_uk_ire selection for Christmas. I've had it hidden so no one else can have any but I finally allowed myself a bar tonight. Myself, no one else.

What snacks do you refuse to share? 

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Honestly, I reckon I have at least eight a day. I'm not too fussy when it comes to my tea but I do prefer it quite strong (stronger than this photo looks), no sugar and molten hot. Obviously, it's good if it comes with a biscuit or two too. 

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Happy Afternoon Tea Week! – Review: Afternoon Tea at Vivi

17/08/2019      Leave a Comment

*I was sent this item for review purposes. All thoughts and words are my own. If I didn’t love it I’d let you know.

Happy afternoon tea week! Who’d have thought, a whole week dedicated to what is, essentially, our national pass time – afternoon tea. Now, you know me, I don’t need any excuse to stuff my face with tea and cake but it’d be rude to let this week go by without acknowledgement. So, isn’t it a good job I went to Vivi at Centrepoint recently to try out their new afternoon tea!

afternoon tea tower

One of my favourite things about the afternoon tea selection here is that there’s no need to share! Yep, you get one of these little tea towers each. There’s a selection of five different types of finger sandwich. A fruit and a plain scone with strawberry jam and clotted cream and a selection of five mini sweet treats too. That’s not all though, there’s even candy floss to top it all off.

finger sandwich selection

The sandwich selection was really nice although I was expecting some strong flavours that didn’t quite come through. There was smoked salmon and cream cheese, cucumber and dill butter, egg mayonnaise with mustard cress, coronation chicken, mint and mango chutney and roast beef and horseradish. The coronation chicken was definitely my favourite but it was always going to be a winner, I love coronation chicken.

scones

The scones were soft, fluffy and full of flavour. The strawberry jam was nice and fruity and the clotted cream lovely and smooth. Clotted cream on scones is just the best. I only actually tried the plain scone (I brought the other one home for Tom, who rated it very highly) but I used all of the jam and cream so I’d definitely need a top up on them before I tucked into the other one.

scone with clotted cream and jam

I’m not the biggest fan of battenberg or macarons so I was always going to skip over those, but the chocolate eclair was incredible. It had chocolate cream inside it too and I could have easily eaten another twelve of them in one sitting. It wasn’t the most ladylike thing to eat but it was totally worth the impolite moment of shoving it straight into my face. The victoria sponge felt super fancy too with the little dot of gold leaf on the strawberry on top. It also didn’t disappoint on taste. As well as the blackberry macaron and the teeny tiny battenburg (I was a big fan of how this looked but can’t stand marzipan) I took the carrot cake home too. Tom was very happy that I’d brought him a box of goodies away with me. He highly recommended the cakes.

cake selection

There’s only one way to finish off a nice afternoon tea… cocktails! The cocktail menu at Vivi takes inspiration from musical icons and my choice was named after a song by The Beatles.

cocktail menu

It was absolutely delicious, as I’m sure you can imagine, but I’m not sure I’ve yet found a gin cocktail that I haven’t been enamoured with – even for just a short time! Also, the fact it was garnished with flowers made me very happy.

weeping guitar cocktail

Vivi is an absolutely beautiful restaurant serving up 1920s, art deco, Palm Spring vibes. I fell in love a little when I walked in. The views aren’t much to write home about as it’s in the middle of a building site at the minute but with it being about ten steps away from Tottenham Court Road station it’s such a fantastic location to catch up with friends.

Vivi restaurant bar

I’m a big fan of afternoon tea so if you want to read some more about it check out best friend’s day afternoon tea, afternoon tea on the Thames, Mad Hatter’s afternoon tea and Pret a Portea at The Berkley.

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