I asked Chris to suggest the recipe for March and he asked me to do a carrot cake. I only really started eating it myself a few years back but I was up for the idea. I’m quite used to making cream cheese frosting but I did have to get some guidance for the cake…… Continue reading Food Fix: Carrot Cake
I mentioned the weather in my Secret Scent post and it sort of ruined our plans for last Friday night. Pretty torrential rain, wind and cold. Not ideal for Canteen’s Second Birthday Celebrations but we made the most of it! It’s been a while since my last post about Canteen, back in September. I hadn’t…… Continue reading (Mini) Food Fix @ Canteen & Cocktails @ The Bottle Garden, Leicester
As mentioned before, one of my 30 for 30 list items is to bake something every month. I’ve made a red velvet cake before but it didn’t really come out red so I thought I’d try again and see if I couldn’t improve on it. Plus February is the month of love, right? Ingredients as…… Continue reading Food Fix: Red Velvet Cake
My best friend and I have a reasonably long-standing tradition for the last Friday night of each month. We go to Canteen, a street-food night that had always been held three buildings away from our workplace. With news that they were moving to premises anew, largely to be able to offer more traders and more…… Continue reading Food Fix: Canteen @ Leicester Arena
This was intended to be a full food fix covering the ever excellent monthly Canteen event at the LCB Depot in Leicester. However, due to a three hour sleep the night before and a very long day, I didn’t spend as much time at Canteen as I usually would. It didn’t stop me finishing the…… Continue reading Mini Food Fix: Canteen and Gelato Village, Leicester
This was my first year of attending the Birmingham Cocktail festival. It runs over the course of the weekend, Friday-Sunday and is a celebration of all things cocktails. For 2018, its fourth year, the team seemed to have made it the biggest yet. With forty venues taking part, each contributing their own signature cocktail, there…… Continue reading Birmingham Cocktail Festival 2018
I think I drive Chris crazy sometimes because we’ll be walking along, talking about something and he’ll suddenly realise that I’ve stopped because I’m photographing something and he’s therefore left talking to himself. I really got into photography when I was about to start my A levels and there was the option of taking the…… Continue reading June in Photos
I’ve had The Giggling Squid on my to visit list for a while now, so I’m super excited that we finally got a chance to travel out to Warwick and try it out. Aside from having a brilliant name, and very presentable looking outside location on the High Street, it specialises in authentic, tasty Thai…… Continue reading Food Fix: The Giggling Squid, Warwick
A mini food fix this time as it’s a week before payday and my week off so money is a little tight. One of our favourite places, who host the fabulous Canteen each month, were doing a summer barbecue this weekend though in aid of Action Homeless so it would have been rude not to…… Continue reading (Mini) Food Fix: Grays Summer BBQ @ LCB Depot, Leicester
I know I’m incredibly lucky to have had the chance to undertake such a trip where essentially I only needed to pay for flights and have some spending money. My best friend’s family went above and beyond in terms of welcoming me and I appreciated it so much. We may have had language issues, but…… Continue reading My Italy getaway – Part 2: Varese and the food
Ramblings of a coffee & fox addicted Nutter 