> If you like Turkish delight you’ll love this Strawberry Chocolate Cake smothered in thick milk chocolate ganache and fragrant rose flavour! Pairing traditional English flavours with something more exotic: tea, strawberries, milk chocolate, English rose and a Turkish Delight twist! Although I originally infused the ganache with rose tea bags, I have amended the […]
Wahaca Canary Wharf
“Dinner with Crayons” is my occasional series of weekend kid friendly restaurant and cafe posts. Today we are at Wahaca Canary Wharf. My 3 year old accompanies me to the main UK chains, some independent places and who knows, somewhere more glamorous if we don’t get kicked out. Second time around taking Ted to Mexican […]
Friends old and new at Food Blogger Connect 2010
Today’s post features as many of the folks at Food Blogger Connect that I have managed to get decent pictures of – namely that their faces are just about showing and they not in the middle of eating some of that yummy food at food blogger connect. There are also some shots interspersed to give you […]
Food Blogger Connect at The Hempel 2010
My iPhoto folders are bulging. My computer is groaning and making tired noises. My camera had so many images on it I swear it felt heavier. Not only did I have all my pictures from 3 days of Food Blogger Connect, there were a week’s worth from my holiday in France too. I must confess […]
Highlights Food Blogger Connect 2010
Ten days’ holiday, three days at Food Blogger Connect and it feels like a life time away from the blog. I will do a more detailed post (or three!) in the next couple of days but in the meantime here are a few pictures to give you a flavour of FBC10 which took place in […]
Counter Cafe Hackney Wick
Today’s Dinner with Crayons kid friendly restaurant/cafe review continues my mini-series of cafes within reach of the 2012 London Olympics site. We are visiting The Counter Cafe in Hackney Wick, run by the same team behind The Container Cafe. The Counter Cafe is, as you can see above, quite literally in the shadow of the […]
Maison Cupcake featured on Londonelicious
Not a guest post as such but today, Maison Cupcake is being profiled on Kristain’s Londonelicious restaurant blog. Kristain is featuring profiles on a number of other bloggers this month whilst she takes a break so you might want to also check out some of her other recent and forthcoming posts about other food bloggers. I […]
Ottolenghi Chickpeas, Sweet Potato and Lemon Garlic Yoghurt
A little snack to keep you all going. The past week has been very frustrating whilst my blog was refusing to pitch up at it’s new host but we got there eventually. So today I will share a little Ottolenghi recipe lunch with you that I made for my in-laws recently. The recipe in Ottolenghi […]
View Tube Cafe Stratford
“Postcard from” is my occasional series of non-recipe weekend posts. Today’s postcard comes from the Container Cafe Stratford and it’s View Tube, a social enterprise and community project overlooking the London 2012 Olympic site. The Container Cafe Stratford As the crow flies, we live less than 2 miles from the London 2012 Olympic site. […]
Cadogan Arms Chelsea
*This review was originally published in 2010. The restaurant is still open, but menus and experiences may have changed.* The far reaches of the Kings Road in deepest darkest Chelsea is not somewhere I’ve been many times since buying my first (and only) Vivienne Westwood t-shirt on one of my earliest trips to London. […]
Bulk Batch Slow Cook Tomato Sauce
1997. Were you still up for Portillo? I was. Recently moved in with my boyfriend, now husband, in Shepherd’s Bush, West London, I was still registered to vote in Enfield and Southgate, the constituency which came to represent the fall of the last Conservative Government. Determined too that my local MP, Michael Portillo, would […]
Rhubarb Muffins
When rhubarb comes into season, don’t just make rhubarb crumble, try out these rhubarb breakfast muffins. How often do you bake? For me it varies. You may find it hard to believe from the frequency I’ve blogged lately but I sometimes go nearly a fortnight without baking anything. Then I’ll have a mad burst and […]
