Ooh I have been eating SO much lately. Not leading a very healthy lifestyle. Ah wells, here are my latest addictions:

Ben & Jerrys ice-cream. Ive finally tried it. Dublin mudslide. Irish cream liqueur ice cream, chocolate chocolate chip cookies & a coffee fudge swirl. real good ice-cream. Ill be back for more, and worringly, its just down the road.

Carrot cake at Pret a Manger. This cake is by far the best carrot cake Ive eaten. Full of goodness.

Avocados from Portabello Market. 5 for 1 pound. Bargain. Let me tell you a delicious filling for sandwiches. Finely dice up several rashers of bacon and fry it on a pan until crisp. Then, mash up a whole avocado and add the bacon mixing it. Add grounded up peppercorn and squeeze half a lemon. Heap a generous amount of this beautiful mixture onto freshly toasted bread. This stuff is too good.

Masala Chai. Okay, this is something I have been addicted to since the beginning of this year. But I havent had enough of it. Now, I get requests for chai in my corridor. Here is what you do for two servings:

Pour one cup of water into a pot and add to it some cloves, cardamon, cinammon sticks, and star anise, sugar and 2 tsp of loose black tea leaves. Once it starts boiling, add one cup of milk. When it boils, turn down the heat and cover letting it simmer for 2 minutes. Then strain and drink whilst its hot!

Greek yogurt & Summerfruit Compote from M&S. This stuff is delicious, but well worth its money. The fruit compote is probably the only item I regularly buy from Marks and Spencer. What I do is get a bowl, scoop some creamy thick (plain) yogurt, top it up with sweet compote and spinkle a handful of muesli with nuts.

Cheese. All types. okay, so minus goat, blue and feta cheese. Corie got me started on them, when she brought over some Dutch smoked cheese she brought from Amsterdam. I think I have three cheeses going in my fridge..smoked, English chedder and philadelphia

Fe outside B&Js parlour

Gabu loving the cheese stall at Portabellos (its my third Sat in a row at Portabellos. *blush* Im making sure Im going somewhere else this Sat!!)