I found and I love...

There's a bit of a theme developing here, but it's a flavour I just can't get enough of!!  I found this bakewell tart limited edition milk chocolate in Thorntons yesterday, and it is AMAZING.

Pub desserts

Pub grub is ace, but pub desserts are the best...check out these delights! Baked Alaska, chocolate and raspberry pot and chocolate bombe with sherbet and cherry sobet.

cocktails of choice...

A definite favourite flavour of mine is Amaretto and mixed with cherry liquor, vodka and cranberry it tastes just like cherry bakewell! I found this cocktail at the Bickley in Kent.

You can't beat a Mojito and at The Blues Kitchen in Camden they serve them in these super cute jam jars...such a good cheap idea to take home for a party!

Breakfast in the City

My sister Chloe walks from Shoreditch to Soho everyday and when there's a little spare time in the morning will stop and try the cafes en route.  She sent me these pics from St. Ali in Farringdon.  Super healthy Granola, passion fruit, mango, pineapple, watermelon and minted yoghurt...she said it was amazing! I'm definitely going to head there soon!

I found and I love...

I saw this rum when I was over in the states but wouldn't have been able to drink the whole bottle so never got to actually try it.  I share an office with Blue Tomato magazine and when they got sent a bottle of Kraken I was so pumped to try it! Mixed with Ginger beer and lime it is a really tasty alternative to my usual Sailor Jerry lemonade....if you see it in a bar I highly recommend it! So far I've only seen it in one bar in London - the secret bar under the Breakfast club restaurant in Shoreditch....that place is also well worth a visit (if you know the password!).

Cocktail Cupcakes

The second in a series of cocktail cupcakes. Southern Comfort and Amaretto are my two favourite drinks.  I usually have them with lemonade but a nice cocktail alternative is to mix it with sweet and sour mix to make an Amaretto Sour.  I used the same basic cake mix as my original Mojito cupcake and then improvised with the lemen juice and lime juice.  Next time I'd maybe use lemon flavouring rather than juice, or maybe rind to give it more of a lemony flavour.  I also added sliced almonds to the cake mix.

I found and I love...

I don't do fish sushi (tried, will continue trying but so far not for me) I really like the idea of the little bites so I was so happy to see this in M&S!  Great for a light lunch a mid morning snack in my case, this new veggie sushi style wrap pack tastes really fresh with some of the wraps themselves made of courgette it's a super healthy delight!  

I found and I love...

After the amazing Saves The Day show last week at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, I needed a little post show snack and stumbled upon these in a shop near the station.  The perfect sized hit of Bueno and great to share these little eggs of joy better not only be out of Easter!

Top of the popcorns

Always my go to snack, and although I've always loved microwave popcorn, you couldn't beat cinema popcorn....'til now. When I'm asked that all in important question 'sweet or salted?' I always dreaded the servers face when I say 'can I have mixed? and in alternate layers if possible?'.  I know I'm being awkward but the combination of a sweet and a salty bit of popcorn at the same time is the ultimate flavour!! So, I was very excited to try Metcalfe's Skinny Sweet 'n Salt popcorn in Pret last year! It is exactly what I'd been waiting for and it's way less calories than a bag of crisps. Poifect.  

Another great sweet and salty mix is from Ike and Sam.  I first tried it at the Taste of Christmas fair last year and have since bought it from whole food's store. It's quite pricey but the big bag lasts for ages.

At 'The Red Shoes' Secret Cinema recently, the amazing smell of popcorn was wafting around the giant old factory building, there were a couple of stalls by a UK company called Love Da Pop. Making the freshest popcorn possible, I had the caramel flavour, mmmm mmmm!

1 Metcalfe's Sweet 'n Salt Topcorn  2 Popcorn Bunnies print by ArgyleWhale  3 Ike and Sam's Sweet & Salty popcorn  4 Love Da Pop flavoured popcorn

A visit to Florida

In Naples, West Coast Florida I indulged in iced mochas, frozen custard, margaritas and tons of things that will rot my teeth.  On fifth Avenue (around 5th/10th) there is a Kilwins and the smell of them making chocolate and fudge on a huge table right by the open window is insanely good. I brought back some peanut butter fudge from here and it is amazing, I wish I'd brought back more!  

The idea that these caramel apples were in the departure terminal of Miami airport is a bit scary, I couldn't eat one of these on a normal day let alone about to board a plane for 9 hours....ergh, still, they look pretty!