17 May 2015

MY OLD DUTCH

Okay so, this place is just utterly incredible.

It's a pancake house, but they serve waffles and other cafe food like salads...guess what we chose. Zoe and I went to the King's Road and after ages of walking up and down trying to decide where to eat, we chose My Old Dutch, although Joe & The Juice looked super cool.

The pancakes are amazing, but massive. We decided to go for the kids sized (we're all kids at heart) savory pancake and a normal sized pancake which was sweet. I can truthfully say it was really good. The service was really friendly and inside had a cool simple, minimalist vibe to it. It is right at the end of the road and took us ages to actually find it, but we did. 

This is an amazing place to eat at, but beware the portions are big!

A LOVE FOR CHOCOLATE BROWNIES

I LOVE baking and it's a great activity to do either with your friends or just to do something over the holidays or weekend when you're bored. This week I have been on a constant search through the cupboards, to find something tasty to nibble on, however this week, there has literally been nothing in the kitchen. So I thought it would be a good idea just to bake something yummy and very easy. So here you go, my favourite simple brownie recipe of all time (:

Traybake tin: 30 x 23cm
275g softened butter
375g caster sugar
4 large eggs
75g cocoa powder
100g self-raising flour
100g chocolate (you can use which ever chocolate you prefer)

Preheat the oven to 180*C/fan 160*C/gas 4. Put the baking parchment in the bottom of the tray.


Measure all the ingredients into a large bowl and whisk the mixture until it is evenly blended. At this point the mixture tastes AMAZING. Not even joking so just try a tiny weeny bit (lets be real now, we all know that that is never gonna happen, so take a lot, it tastes like heaven). Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and evenly spread it using a spatula, so that the top is even.


Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes, so that the your brownies have a slight crispy layer on the top, and a skewer can be inserted into the middle and come out clean. Let the brownies cool and then cut them into whatever sizes you want, I made about 24 using this recipe.

Nomnom

10 May 2015

RHINELAND

As I am doing German for my GCSE's, I got given the chance to visit The Rhineland with school. I was lucky enough to go with some of my closest friends and honestly had a great time with lots and lots of laughing along the way! I thought I would share some of the photos I took there.


At one point, we tried to find this old German playground and our group, being our group and not realising that our teachers had left us talking outside the loos, we got kinda stranded and decided it would be good idea just to guess where we were going. The high standard map reading, that we all participated in was well...helpful.


There were also lots of vintage German shops, which I ran in with my camera. As you may have noticed though in the photo above, the vintage shops were not as German as we assumed as they all had English posters etc. Crazy, right.

I am so grateful that I got the opportunity to go, even if we didn't speak much German.