Coffee cake

It’s quite extraordinary how prospects of intense revision sessions, early nights and hearty countryside walks can turn into a bowl full of flour, a couple of cracked eggs and a Coffee Cake in a blink of an eye. Revision during holidays never works. I think I should stop pretending it does to save myself theContinue reading “Coffee cake”

Florence

So tomorrow marks the start of my Easter holiday – a three week break that promises to be packed full of Spanish revision and to brighten the mood, a two day break in Firenze! I booked it up about a month ago as a rather over-the-top mother’s day present for my Mum (althought admittedly, mostlyContinue reading “Florence”

Nigella, eat your heart out…

Only a geek like me could choose to spend all of saturday chopping, blending, icing and cutting out hudreds of tiny marzipan carrots. Yep, that’s right…today was the official bake-athalon; although I’m not so sad as to pre-plan a baking marathon on my own. Oh no, the event was held at my friend’s house andContinue reading “Nigella, eat your heart out…”