Right now when I look out of the window this is what I can see.
Obviously not quite that close up. I mean I did hang out the window to take the shot.
Lovely though isn’t it. And it will be gone in a few days.Category: Uncategorized
Pretty tasty
A few weeks ago the nice people at Kent & Fraser asked me if I wanted to try some of their gluten free biscuits.
Well, believe it or not I did. For two reasons.
First I’m a very lazy baker so the occasional free biscuit doesn’t go a miss.
Second my nephew is coeliac so we are always on the look out for things that might be nice for him to try.
So they sent me some Lemon Shortbread and some Stilton & Walnut.
I thought I’d like the savoury ones more being a bit of a cheese fanatic.
But that proved not to be the case. The Stilton & Walnut were nice but a little to strong.
But the lemon butter, oh gosh the lemon butter.
Melt in your mouth, light, crumbly, tart yet sweet at the same time.
When my nephew next visits I’ll be keeping the lemon ones all to myself gluten free on not ;0
Hidden words
Last week I was walking from Holborn to near Oxford Circus.
I went past the works going on at Tottenham Court Road. I saw these words painted high up on the side of the building.
Not visible until now.
And they’ll be hidden again soon. But they’ll still be there.Playing with colour
I’ve been doing some bits and pieces of web design recently in WordPress.
One of the tools I really like for picking colour schemes or playing with palettes is Color Scheme Designer.
There’s hours of endless fun to be had coming up with bonkers schemes.
And of course it is very helpful when you need to design a scheme or adapt one for some one.
Cheat Chips
I know its really bad.
Chips are bad aren’t they anyway. And to cheat as well. That’s doubly bad.
Surely I should make my own. But why would I bother when I can have these.
Because they really are very good. Nearly as good as my Grandma used to make and she made amazing chips.
I reckon its the beef dripping.
And all with no boiling oil. Fat fires. Or smelly house. Its genius I tell you. Genius.
Pie-aggio: A day at the races
Ever since tasting Brays Cottage pork pies I’ve been avidly following what they are up to on Twitter in the hope that they will be coming to a stockist near me soon.
Today that hope got a teeny bit nearer when they launched their Pie-aggio van at Fakenham Races.
I’m not sure its quite up to a trip to London but I’m dreaming they’ll launch a fleet of them to brings pies to the whole country.
Meanwhile I shall be looking out for it if I venture up to Norfolk.
Eggs-periment
Look what I’ve got:
Yep TURKEY eggs.
Sourced by the ever helpful Brays Cottage.
I also have five other types of egg (quail, bantam, chicken, duck and goose).
I shall be eggs-perimenting in an eggs-travagent style later.
If you want to find out what I get up to keep an eye on my blog at www.withknifeandfork.com