Category Archives: Yum

Tetote bakery

By Alice | Published: March 21, 2011

On Sunday we paid a visit to the Tetote Japanese bakery to try their bread that folks have been telling me about and we stocked up on a few things to share. It’s located in Pacific Plaza which opened last year in a unit of a retail park in Wembley, London. Way way back there was the Yaohan Plaza which was a large South-East Asian shopping centre off in the outskirts of London, this then became Oriental City, and then when that closed some of the same people opened Pacific Plaza.

We weren’t impressed with the general Pacific Plaza food court, I don’t think we would bother with it again, and the majority of the Plaza was closed but the Tetote bakery is worth a detour if you are out that way (the Brent Cross Ikea and Wembley Stadium are only a few minutes away). It’s really rare to find this particular style of Japanese baked goods over here so it was pretty exciting to see them! If I was actually in Japan I probably wouldn’t hardly ever eat things like Melon Pan (the white one above) very often but here it was pretty exciting :) Made me think of the bakeries in Hong Kong too.

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sister’s birthday

By Alice | Published: March 16, 2011

When bad things happen in the world it reminds you to hold your loved ones close. I had a chance to do that right away as it was the family celebration for my sister’s birthday. Everyone went over to my father’s house to have a meal and catch up.

This egg with cress was my mother’s centrepiece contribution :)

For once we were not making the food instead my father had asked Momo-san from his farmers market who has a stall of Japanese food to deliver food. It was very delicious.

My family do good knees-ups.

Happy birthday to Rose.

We talked a lot about Japan, it is very much in our thoughts.

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Show & tell: Two good things

By Alice | Published: February 21, 2011

This china mug. It’s from the Tate St Ives shop, I’m having trouble finding anything about it online but underneath it says the design was done for Tate St Ives by Alex Higlett. The drawings are of St Ives landmarks and it says “shoo, cloud shoo!”. Very cheering. (The drink in the picture is a soy matcha latte).

This sandwich. It’s from a Middle Eastern place not too far from my house, they do sit down food there but the flatbread sandwiches to-go are the best. I get falafel with spinach.

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Weekend at home

By Alice | Published: February 14, 2011

It’s good to have a weekend at home to catch up on chores, hang out with the kitties, go to music events and birthday parties, and eat a healing Sunday bowl of ramen :)

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birthday adventures

By Alice | Published: December 20, 2010

We had plans to go off in the car on adventures and go out to a village for dinner in the evening but in the morning it snowed and snowed and snowed so we postponed those plans in favour of close-by things.

Instead of going for dinner we went for a long lunch at a local place that’s had lots of great reviews. It was lovely. The chance to have a long leisurely lunch is so rare. This was a winter salad with hazelnuts, pear, and goats cheese curd.

This pie said for 2/3 to share, we barely ate a quarter but they wrapped up the rest for us to take away so we had the leftovers in the evening.

Dessert!

As I’m the one with the camera there aren’t that many pictures taken of me so I asked Simon to take a picture. So many outdoor clothes that people have in the background and I’m wearing the biggest jumper possible.

We went on a walk after the meal. This is Simon after being hit in the face by a blizzard. He didn’t like snow getting in his ear.

We stopped at a local shop for some birthday supplies (champagne and ice cream ;) ).

Then home to hide under blankets and watch films. The lens fogged up after being out in the cold. Beep sat on us.

Then the next day we made a mission over to my dad’s house for a family celebration. I was really touched by the big effort that was made by my family to come from all over the place to celebrate.

This sculpture in my dad’s garden was made by my sister when she was small, in the snow it had Marge Simpson hair.

The boots started adding up in the hall. The blue boots in the centre are my new winter boots, they are brilliant, warm and comfortable to walk and cycle in.