I spent most of Saturday cooking up a storm, firstly for family coming round for dinner, plus a few treats for a bloggy picnic on Sunday… (click all the names of the foods to go to the recipes) For Saturday dinner starters I made baba ghanoush (aubergine dip) and Butternut ‘hummus’, with crispy pitta chips [...]
I spent a fun Thursday lunchbreak in the local Urban Outfitters yesterday, taking a stamp-cutting workshop with Christine Schmidt of fabulous SF-based stationery and jewellery studio Yellow Owl Workshop. Christine was on hand giving tips and advice, as well as signing copies of her new book, Print Workshop, which covers all sorts of do-at-home printing [...]
We had bags of fun last night at the Underground Night Market, hosted in the home of Secret Supper Club foody goddess Kerstin Rodgers, aka Ms Marmite Lover. It was a gorgeous warm evening and the house and garden were packed with people and all kind of lovely goodies, from sizzling bacon butties to refreshing [...]
I think this year’s Pick Me Up graphic arts show was even better than last year’s! Nice to see some of my long-term faves in the curated selection, including McBess and Jessica Hische. Anthony Burrill‘s open studio, with interactive cut + paste fun Print Club London‘s popup screenprint studio. Check out their shop for some [...]
Some photos and videos from the Kinetica art fair this weekend. I used a little CCTV lens on my E-P1 to take these, same as last year. Patrick Heide’s Tunnel View – what appeared to be a never-ending wormhole of twinkly colour-changing lights. Dancing Robot by GV Art A machine to replicate the finger-operated ‘singing [...]
Amazingly, it’s exactly a year since my amazing holiday to Japan – in fact today was our final day in Kyoto. Coincidentally, I just got an email from Atsuko, whose fantastic Japanese cooking course I attended earlier this year, to let me know about a week-long foody event she’s helping to organise. It’s a celebration [...]
It’s London Restaurant Festival week: how very, very exciting! It’s basically a big love-in for eating out in London, with restaurants hosting special Festival menus (often at very reasonable prices for 2 or 3 courses) and other markets and events going on. There’s a food market in Spitalfields every day until Sunday (excluding Thursday). There [...]
Part 2 of my London Staycation weekend! On Saturday we wandered over to Portobello because we don’t often venture West. Had a peek at the market but it wasn’t much fun in the rain. We had lunch at Santo, a newish Mexican place at the top of Portobello Road – a really great mix ‘n’ [...]
If you’ve ever walked down Great Eastern Street and seen these old train carriages suspended in the sky – here’s what they look like inside. We had a little tour of Village Underground last weekend, care of Open House – a brilliant initiative where interesting London buildings are open to the public for one weekend [...]
I played in my first-ever poker tournament on Tuesday night – PokerCoder, an event for designers and developers sponsored by Adobe. I was slightly intimidated being only one of 2 girls out of the 100 entrants but it turned out to be a lot of fun. I had two extremely good hands to kick off [...]