Breakfast on a Spoon, Cider, Prosecco, and Gate Crashing.

It’s been a full week since my last blog, and yes I know that’s a poor effort. In my own defence it has been a crazy week! I started at  a new company in Covent Garden, I attended a bar opening, went on a 2 hour hunt for the best fish and chips in Stratford, attended my first after work drinks, followed by gate crashing a 16years old girls epic house party, (I decided to meet my neighbours at 12am). Stu and I also went on an overnight trip to Birmingham to attend a cider festival, and on our way there we realised that I had the location wrong, and instead we found ourselves at an International Food Festival where we ate and drank the day away.

All in all, I have been 1 busy munchkin.

Not a bad last resort!

So, with so much going on, I have been a little lacking in the cooking department, but I promise NOT in the eating!  I have been spoilt for choice all week starting with Stu cooking me creamy garlic prawns for dinner one night. Another night, with a suggestion from one of Stu’s colleagues we went looking for the “best” fish and chips in Stratford, with what felt like hours of walking on an already empty stomach we finally located our destination @ 10pm. 


You know those places that scream “ DON’T EAT HERE” in flashing lights out the front? That’s what we encountered, so with sad smiles on our faces we turned around and decided to go to our trusty Westfield, where most places had already stopped serving and we stumbled upon a pizza shop. It was actually a blessing in disguise, as we had the special of  the day which was a truffle, salmon and capers pizza, made with truffle oil base, and a Mediterranean anchovies and tuna salad.

This week I also attended the opening of the Duke of Wellington in Notting Hill. Now, that's a cool venue it has recently been refurbished and I am really looking forward in going back and checking out all the different rooms!

As it was the opening night that had so much free food for the patrons to sample, so I manage to eat my through a delicious array of nibbles, including breakfast on a spoon (see picture)
(I think it was a mix of pancetta and bacon base with an egg fried on top) – AMAZING! 

I also sampled the Pork Lollipops – pork belly on sticks dipped in applesauce, cheesy potato croquettes, and crab meat and watercress served on crispy pork skin. (Also the free gin)

All the dishes were very delicious, the venue-looked great also with its eclectic mix of furnishing and funky art – Check it out, it’s a nice bar and the prosecco is cold J

So I tried to organise for us to do something special over the long weekend as we were suppose to go to the Bath, after a few FAIL! moments and some utterly useless brain activity on Saturday we decided to make the trip up to Birmingham for the weekend to attend a cider festival I found online...

Turned out I should have checked Google maps, the place was 1.5 hours from Birmingham. "Insert FAIL! x 5 for the weekend)

So we decided to make the most it, we went on our own cider festival and did a bit of a pub crawl starting at 11am, and ending when we had devoured too much food at the International Food Festival we stumbled along.  In saying that, turned out Birmingham to be a blessing in disguise.

Here we enjoyed homemade chocolate, chocolate cannoli, French garlic roasted potatoes and chicken in a garlic red sauce, masala chips, chorizo, poppadoms, and finally what I had been waiting a week for, English fish and chips served with mushy peas!

The festival was a great break from London and even though I can't read a map, we ended up having a really good time, we also purchased this really cool grater! I tried it out last night with the garlic :)

So, as I have been quiet on the #cassieskitchen front, I did cook dinner tonight, and it was an oil based sun dried tomato and pesto fettuccine.

You can see the final product here