Last year I tasted gin and tonic cake for the first time at The Oliver Conquest, along with some scrumptious fruity gin truffles, but I took a long time to getting around to baking it myself! My first attempt was for the work bake-off before Christmas and all was going smoothly before I managed to…
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Half Hitch Gin Cocktails
In December The Oliver Conquest’s gin of the month was a local one – Half Hitch from Camden – and I had the chance to taste it with Gin Club with a Reading Problem. This post is focused on the cocktails we drank that evening, so you can recreate them at home 🙂 Gin and…
Al Desko lunch with Deliveroo
Has anyone else seen the ‘trend’ of al-Desko lunches? Well that’s what this post is all about… Having just gotten back into the workplace after 18 months off, I’m not sure I approve of never having to leave your desk during the day – that’s just not right! Popping out to grab some takeaway lunch…
Half Hitch Gin Tasting
New Year New Gin! The Half Hitch Gin tasting at The Oliver Conquest actually happened before Christmas, but its been so busy so I didn’t get a chance to post about it before now… Now I’m super excited about Half Hitch as it combines two of my passions – gin and Camden! Its made by…
Bananana
What do you do when you’ve got bananas going brown? Make banana bread of course! So I did. I went to google for a recipe and went for the first BBC good food one I found. Perhaps I should have gone for the second – it was the Mary Berry recipe!! Oh well, I think…
Chicken noodle soup
A Vietnamese inspired noodle soup for all those suffering with colds and sore throats at the moment! Ingredients for one: 750ml chicken stock – I used Knorr stockpot 1tsp ground ginger (I didn’t have any fresh – fresh would be waay zingier) 1 tsp ground corriander 40g fresh corriander (half a packet from the supermarket)…
Frieze Sculpture Park
Last weekend I decided to enjoy the unseasonably warm autumnal weather with a walk around Regents Park. Whilst there I walked past the huge hanger set up for the Frieze Masters art fair. Tickets had all sold out for this, but there was a free alternative – the Sculpture Park open to all further on…
Camden Brunch @ Colonel Fawcett
One Saturday morning, just as my hangover was dawning I managed to drag some friends to the Colonel Fawcett for brunch to sort myself out. Actually this is slightly exaggerated – their brunch runs from 11am to 3pm on Saturdays and I think we were there in the afternoon when the girls had finished yoga….
Camden beach & tank party
Last week – on possibly the last day of summer :s – I took advantage of the long bank holiday weekend to spend a day hanging out in Camden. The plan was to head to Made in Camden under the Roundhouse for their bottomless Bellini brunch – but unfortunately they were short staffed and only…
Secret streets: Kentish Town
I get very easily bored on my running routes so I like to mix them up every so often and take the back streets or non straight forward ways. This week I ran around the back streets of Kentish Town where there are loads of surprises! Colurfully painted houses on and around Leverton Street Definitely…