Last weekend Alex and I went to visit Stone Barns Center For Food & Agriculture. We’d eaten at Blue Hills at Stone Barns for our anniversary, but since our reservation was so late in the evening we hadn’t had a chance to explore the grounds. Now, I have a bit of a reputation for not [...]
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Every coffee junkie has a limit
Posted: 11/11/2010 in eating out, Food and Drink, out & aboutTags: coffee, coffee shops, la colombe, nespresso, new york city
I love lattes, flat whites, cappuccinos, french press and drip. Straight-up without any flavoring because nothing beats the taste of coffee with milk. Perfectly happy to make it at home but I also appreciate a decent coffee shop. In fact that morning coffee (with the occasional almond croissant) over the summer was one of the [...]
Last week the girlfriend of one of Alex’s colleagues gave us a box of Girl Scout cookies and I don’t think she was prepared for my over excited reaction. You’d think I had never seen over-priced packaged baked goods before. We (Johnny foreigner) don’t have Girl Scout cookies, they are something we only learn about [...]
So many other things that I should be getting on with, but I picked up a jar of clotted cream from Dean & Deluca and it would have been a shame to waste it.
The care parcel from my mum arrived yesterday (yeah!). Packed full of plain bars of chocolate, liquorice allsorts, fruit allsorts, liquorice twists and the latest Doctor Who DVD. So, this weekend I will be transcending into Nirvana via a sugar fueled sci-fi fest!
I feel I should clarify my last post, in case my mother reads it and worries that I have converted. I am using ‘Lent’ in the broadest sense. It all started off with one of those internal monologues, what could I temporarily go without. Don’t smoke, barely drink, but I could try to cut down [...]
It rained, and it rained, and it rained yesterday afternoon, evening and night. Being the fool that I am I went out after getting home. I had no choice, my hands were tied. Because when I got home, first time, I found a card and v. v. good chocolates perched on the coffee table. When [...]
