At the latest Chester Clandestine Cake Club (CCC) the theme was "Mystery Ingredient"! How exciting! I could just tell we were going to get some weird and wonderful creations! Well, actually they weren't all that weird after all - apart from my cake... haha! I immediately knew what I was going to make for this theme - a white chocolate and wasabi cake topped with salted caramel. Obviously I would never have thought of it by myself, I got the recipe from Marian Keyes' new book "Saved By Cake" … [Read more...]
May Books
June 16, 2012 by 4 Comments
I had a pretty rubbish month for books in May. Mainly because we took out the Blockbuster free 2 week trial, so were watching a DVD every night and I was too tired to read much when I went to bed! Anyway, here are May's reads: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt Source - recommended on Twitter. This was a book that had great reviews but I just didn't think it was that great. It was an old fashioned sort of cowboy tale, set during the Gold Rush in California. Not awful, but not fab … [Read more...]
Jubilee Fever!
June 8, 2012 by 9 Comments
I really enjoyed all the festivities over the Jubilee Bank Holiday, which mainly involved eating lots of cake! Sarah hosted a lovely afternoon tea party for us on the Sunday and we watched the Floatilla on TV. On Monday, we went to the Great British Food Festival in Warrington. There were lots of nice food stands, some giving away free samples (mmmm Cheshire Cheese!). There was a victoria sponge competition and after the cakes were judged the public were invited to try all the cakes! … [Read more...]
Olympic Meme
June 1, 2012 by 1 Comment
I was tagged in this meme by Kate at Another Goldfish. You can see her answers HERE. 1. If every day tasks were Olympic events what would you get a gold medal in? Emm... how about sleeping? I love my sleep and could easily sleep 12 hours plus a night. 2. As a child (or now even) did you excel at a particular sport and if so which one? No. I did quite a few sports: badminton, tennis, swimming, gymnastics etc but I was never great at any of them. And I famously got asked to leave the … [Read more...]
