At the end of this month the Foodies Festival Christmas is coming to the Truman Brewery in East London and I am pretty excited. I love food festivals! Plus, it's the weekend before my birthday (it's on 28th to 30th November) so it would be rude not to eat my body-weight in goodies, surely? This ...
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BBC Good Food Bakes And Cakes Show
This weekend all my baking dreams became reality as I toodled down to the Business Design Centre in Islington for the BBC Good Food Bakes and Cakes Show*. My main reason for going was to see the Great British Bake Off judges in the flesh (because I'll never get my own place in that tent.) However, I ...
Chocolate Lovers Dream Chocolate Cake Recipe
Today is a friend from work's birthday and when I asked him what kind of cake he wanted he said showed me a Malteasers cake and a chocolate and sweet covered cake. I combined the two and made him this - the chocolatiest chocolate lovers cake I could. This is how I did it. I find that ...
Cake International
Cake International came to the Excel last weekend so Steph and I toodled down to see what it was all about. Cake International is the sugarcraft, cake decorating and baking show and although I'm a keen baker, my presentation skills leave something to be desired. I'd love to be able to knock up ...
Lojo In London: The Boundary Rooftop
Last Saturday I woke up praying for nice weather and, luckily, my prayers were answered. Tom and I were meeting my friend, Kat, for lunch and I'd booked us a table at The Boundary Rooftop in Shoreditch. I'd gotten a bit giddy in the lovely weather we had a few weeks before and decided that it would ...
#BEDN – Cheshire Cheese Company
Cheese! The topic for day 4 is Food Glorious Food and cheese is my pretty much my favourite food item in the world. I totally stand by the fact that there is no savoury food item you can't make, at least, three times better with the addition of some cheese. This is actually a blog post I've been ...