Innovative sign that shows the different market areas

My favourite lunch place in London is not a café, it’s not a restaurant and it’s not at home… It’s Borough market!
You’ll find whatever you’re looking for here, all wrapped in good, old market environments. Such as…

…Turkish delights…

…chocolate…

…and lots of people looking to find today’s lunch or dinner meal.

We found our lunch; french toast with raclette cheese and wheatgrass juice.

Dig in! :)

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My spicy meal (according to Reshma, it was not spicy at all…)

Tonight we celebrated Reshma’s birthday. Hurrah!
She took us to an authentic south indian restaurant in Tooting Broadway that specialize in vegetarian food, Saraswathy Bavan.

I just had to add a picture of Kaveh’s tahli. An amazingly huge dish, with a lot of exciting spices and flavours.

The birthday girl deserves cake. Not only one, but two. Luckily she shared with the rest of us.

Thank your for a real Indian night!

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It’s never to late to have dinner outside, especially when you have a lot of candles in the trees…

My friend Tracy and me have been planning to have a barbeque night for weeks now. She is lucky to have a big garden outside her flat, and that’s not very common for Londoners. Days went by and nothing happened. But yesterday we decided to get it over with (well… I could do it everyday if it was up to me) Because of a lack of charcoal, we made the food indoors (nooo, that doesn’t matter, what counts is that we ate outside!) On the menu was couscous salad with peppers, cucumbers, onions and mint leaves + homemade tzatziki with greek yoghurt, cucumbers and garlic + chorizo sausages + kebabs + smoothies. Mmmmmm!

Tracy serves the bowl of couscous.

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Blueberry muffins for him:

Mix this in a bowl:
+ 1  3/4 cups of flour
+ 2/3 cup of sugar
+ 1 big spoon of baking soda
+ 1 tea spoon of vanilla sugar or vanilla extract
+ 1/2 tea spoon of salt
+ 6 big spoons of melted butter

And mix this in another:
+ 1 egg
+ 1/2 cup of milk

Mix the content of the two bowl together, and add
+ 1 cup of blueberries

Place in muffins forms. Bake in the oven for 20–25 minutes, 200 degrees.
The recipe will give you six big, American muffins.

Enjoy!

{ I’ve been on holiday – I hope you noticed.
But now I’m back, hoping to keep you posted. }

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Like I promised yesterday, I’m adding some photos from my super-weekend with my friend Steffen, who came from Oslo this Friday for a short weekend trip. Shopping was obviously on the menu.

We were looking, he was shopping. And I was inspired by cup trees like this. This tree is from Selfridges. Would be rather stressful to have one in my living room, but a nice idea!

My friend Tracy took us to a lovely Spanish restaurant in Soho for lunch.
Tapas and rosé wine was on the menu, of course.

…before we continued the shopping. Like I said, I was mainly looking. At this chair, for example, that I would love to have in my flat. Maybe if I was rich?

For dinner we entered a pub with a beer garden (with BBQ in the back corner!) Because BBQs are permitted in all London parks, this was the second BBQ meal of the whole summer. Lovely (but not really healthy)! After a delicious meal, we found our way out to a club in Shoreditch.

Sunday was dedicated to Covent Garden. And a couple of Snogs.

Healthy, as it is frozen yoghurts with your own choice of fruit and other toppings. Mmmm.

The ice bar also had a fascinating decoration in the ceiling, with colourful lightning!

I hope he would like to come back.

^^)

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It’s been here for weeks now – forcing London-workers out of their hot offices. Even the underground has been a cool place to be those days. And for those of you who have been in London; can you imagine?

The heat has given everybody an excuse to enjoy summer in the packed parks, which by the way have turned yellow, let’s say burned, as a consequence of the dry weather. I’m not complaining; in my opinion this is the weather I’ve been longing for, dreamed of, and (to be honest) did not expect to turn up.

As a celebration of the good conditions, Saturday was spent in the park with good friends, wild berries, marshmallows and a couple of refreshing drinks.

At Sunday I managed to move out from my dear mr. Mac, and read one of my dissertation books sipping a caffe latte at Café Nero. Brands and Branding by Rita Clifton was carefully read in the shade as the temperatures reached 30 degrees.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend too!

{ L O V E }

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I wouldn’t call myself a food blogger. But, when you’re asked for a recipe by a lovely friend, what do you do?
Blog it, of course.

You’ll need:
+ Tagliatelle pasta
+ Lean ham
+ Bacon
+ Single cream
+ Mushrooms
+ Lemon
+ Garlic
+ Salt
+ Pepper

+ Wild rocket
+ Plum tomatoes
+ Feta cheese

+ Baguette
+ Parmesan

How to make it
Place pasta in a saucepan of boiling water, add salt and let boil for 10 minutes. Strain immediately.
Cut the mushrooms and the bacon, and fry them before adding cubes of lean ham.
When properly fried, add a box of single cream (or a mix of cream and milk for a healthier choice).
Add pieces of garlic and squeeze half of a lemon over the pan. Spice up with salt and pepper if needed.
Let it boil for some minutes. Mix pasta and meat sauce in a bowl before serving.

Serve with salad, baguette and parmesan.

Bon appetit!

Hope you’re tempted now, Mari :o)
And many thanks to Oda, for making me addicted.

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