• Weekly Treats
  • This week’s sweet treats 27/06/2014

    K Patisserie, Tacloban, Philippines, cupcake, Asia, Charbonnel et Walker, truffle, sea salt caramel, teacake, Coffee #1, Southsea, Tazzina Cafe, West Meon, The Tenth Hole, Eastney, chocolate fudge cake, raspberry & almond cake, pecan brownie

     What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly round-up of some of the many sweet treats we’ve eaten this week. Here’s five of our favourites! 1. In Helen’s own words – “An exceptionally GOOD cupcake found in Asia! Well done K Patisserie in Tacloban, Philippines“. I’m guessing they are hard to find […]

  • France
  • La Colombe – a real discovery

    La Colombe, Sainte Colombe, Bedoin, France, Mt.Ventoux, Mont Ventoux, cycling, aubergine, tapenade, amuse bouche, sabayon, financier

    I was staying with 3 cycling pals at La Garance, a lovely hotel on Route de Mont Ventoux which is in a small hamlet called Sainte Colombe in the department of Vaucluse in the Province, south of France. From sunrise until sunset cyclists would be ascending and descending the mountain. Around the hamlet it is very pretty […]

  • Weekly Treats
  • This week’s sweet treats: 13.05.13

    What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly roundup of the sweetest treats we’ve eaten this week. Here’s 5 of our favourites…. This week’s sweet treats (clockwise from top left): Honeycomb smash cheesecake topped with honeycomb pieces from Prezzo.  A well-deserved slice of toffee cake from Cloisters Cafe, Petersfield, while out cycling in Hampshire.   […]

  • Products
  • Coco Chocolatiers

    I drive past Coco Chocolatiers most Fridays and always think ‘I must go in there sometime’ but never do. Last Friday I finally did, and as soon as I entered the shop there was the most delicious, unmistakably gorgeous smell of chocolate, mmm. There’s nothing quite like it is there?  Coco Chocolatiers had plenty of chocolates in […]