Kung Hei Fat Choy!

Today Celebrates the Chinese New Year, we are leaving the Year of the Dragon behind and moving into the Year of the Snake.  Apparently those who were born in the year of the Snake are regarded as intelligent, but can also be somewhat unscrupulous! Having never really cooked any Chinese food (except for the odd…

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Orange and Almond Tea Cakes

Or an adaption of Lily Vanilli’s Pink Grapefruit, Almond and Brown Sugar Tea Cakes, as it really should be!  I recently bought Lily Vanilli’s Sweet Tooth as a post Christmas gift to myself! I was tempted by the colourful, pretty cover as well the reviews I’ve read of it and having seen the bakery for…

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Milan

Having booked a few days off back in October and not really knowing what to do with them (well besides DIY  – but that’s boring right?) we took to the Edinburgh Airport website to see where you could fly to and then checked out where was offering the cheapest flights. Milan won. In keeping with…

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100th Post Birthday

I can’t believe this is my 100th Post!  When I was eventually convinced to start a blog by Stuart just over a year ago I didn’t actually think I would stick with it, how on earth would someone as quiet and shy as me (hahaha)  find enough to create 10 posts never mind 100!!  But…

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Rainbow Ruffle Cake

  The cake I went for for the Edinburgh Cake Ladies East Meets West event was a Rainbow Ruffle Cake, which was essentially the same cake as I did for Dad’s 80th, but with only 5 layers and not 6, and also using pastel colours I had spotted this cake ages ago on Pinterest, and…

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Easts meets West

Yesterday afternoon East met face to face with the West, in what was to be later referred to as a Cake Convention of the Edinburgh Cake Ladies and Glasgow Bakers.  The theme this time was showstoppers, and as you can see from the tasty photos below, we weren’t disappointed! This amazing cake by Kirsteen Oliver…

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Rick Stein’s, The Seafood Restaurant

A very late post about where we ate on our road trip last summer!!  One of the main reasons we choose Padstow as our location in Cornwall was because of Rick Steins The Seafood Restaurant. I do like Rick and his fishy dishes and I thought I’d seize this opportunity to go there! Unfortunately we…

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Lake of Menteith

The day after boxing day we took Mum and Dad out for a little drive.  We headed out of Edinburgh, across the Forth Road Bridge and followed the river all the way to Stirling, then up on towards Callender and ended up at the Lake of Menteith We decided to have a spot of lunch…

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Goodbye Christmas, Hello New Year!

And so the Christmas festivities are over.  The few days of gluttony have passed and it’s onto New Year preparations and planning what resolutions we won’t be keeping!  For us, this Christmas was about celebrations, spending time with friends, family and each other, and generally enjoying having almost 2 weeks off work to do guilt…

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Jamie’s Golden Chicken

It seems that we are the only people on the planet not to own a copy of Jamie’s 30 minute meals, or at least within our circle of friends! and therefore I have felt a little left out!  So when he brought out 15 minute meals I made sure I got my copy! Christmas dinner…

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