Chocolate orange Christmas pudding cupcakes Oh, there’s nothing like a spot of Christmas-themed baking! With festive tunes to set the mood, I had a blast concocting this recipe today. Essentially, they’re chocolate orange cupcakes, and you could leave them at that at any other time of...
Right now I am feeling very excited and happy. Even more excited and happy than normal. Why’s that? I hear you ask. Well, I have just bought myself a Kate Spade handbag. This is me, excited to take my new bag on its first...
Matcha green tea is the trendiest health-booster du jour, with everyone from the enviably svelte Millie Mackintosh to the super strong triathlete Alison Steele declaring themselves fans of the green stuff. When the lovely people at teapigs asked me if I’d be interested in taking part in their matcha challenge and offered to send...
You can literally get anything delivered these days, from a massage to a box of goodies to help you through your period. And one new company on the delivery scene is Natural Blender, a ‘smoothie ingredient subscription service’ which sends out weekly boxes full of all the ingredients...
I am so into quinoa right now. Sure, I’ve enjoyed it for a while, but my feelings have developed. Right now quinoa and I are having a little bit of a love affair. Specifically, it’s this quinoa and bulgar wheat mix from Waitrose which...
I was looking around the pantry shelves thinking I’d make some sort of no-bake energy balls. But then I just made it up as I went along and created these babies.They’re like the healthiest chocolate-topped flapjacks you could ever imagine. But never mind that,...
So when London tea bar and shop Piacha invited me in to sample some of their delicious brews, I was unsurprisingly keen. I’d presumed it’d be a case of “choose a cuppa, take a snap, drink up and ta-rah.” But no. I was treated to a...
I make no secret of my love for Twitter. Or Instagram. Or social media in general for that matter. Am I obsessed? No doubt about it. Does that bother me? Less than it probably should. Meh. So when I came across the website Poetweet, I was...
As a young girl, I was somewhat obsessed with dolphins. Completely and utterly obsessed really. I even wanted to be a marine biologist so I could work with dolphins, but then I realised that would require a lot of science and so scrapped that...
My lunch at The Mae Deli was as fab as I’d been hoping. And having been following their Instagram account for a few weeks since before the deli opened, I had high hopes. If you haven’t heard of The Mae Deli yet allow me to introduce it –...