September 2010

Bambinella Pears, the Mini Pear

September 18, 2010

I have the feeling I’ve been mostly attracted to mini fruits of late, there were the mirabelles, doughnut peaches, doughnut nectarines and now these little pears, and like the mini nectarines I have never heard of them before. OK, so there’s a lot I haven’t heard of…but pears are something I’m always on the look [...]

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Failed Yoghurt Plum Cake and Not Quite There Blueberry Cake

September 16, 2010

You see even after 20 years of baking I still do classic mistakes such as this one of wrongly assuming non-stick baking tins are non-stick! However, other than the fact that this is one of the ugliest cakes I’ve made there was very little else wrong with it. I was trying to go for the [...]

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Hotel Iturregi, Getaria, Spain – A Perfect Getaway If It Weren’t For Rules

September 12, 2010

How could you not fall in love with this place? Look at the view of little hills and ocean beyond. Hotel Iturregi is the perfect getaway. Although it calls itself a hotel I would describe it more as a guest house, it has 8 rooms, all individually and expensively decorated with designer bathrooms, fits into [...]

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Mirabelle Plums

September 10, 2010

My favourite jam is made with either mirabelle plums or greengages, also from the family of plums. It’s very hard to get hold of mirabelle jam where I live and for that reason it will go straight into my shopping trolley if I spot it, if you come across the St Dalfour range you may [...]

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Almost A Portuguese Wedding, part II

September 9, 2010

Part Two continues and if you want to read Part One first here it is. Thursday is a long day, writing about it now makes me realise just how exhausting. The Letter of No Trace, Thursday am. A lot was riding on this letter. What Bikerboy was told by the registrar in the UK was that [...]

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Almost A Portuguese Wedding, part I

September 5, 2010

Do you make plans and then have the events turn out completely different? Or is it just me? The week leading up to the wedding turned out to be the week from hell and forced our plans to change the event dramatically…but we did end up with a beautiful day, a memorable day, one that [...]

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Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain

September 2, 2010

I have been waiting to visit Bilbao with the sole purpose of seeing this beauty shimmering in the light showing off its curves ever since it opened. San Sebastían was about food and Bilbao was about Frank Gehry’s glorious Guggenheim Museum. My photos don’t do justice to this building, they were taken in a rush [...]

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San Sebastián, Northern Spain

September 1, 2010

I know…I know…this is not a post about the mad week leading up to the big event…the wedding… and how it all went so off plan…so off plan in fact we had to draw up a whole new plan on the 11th hour…but I’ve tried now three times to start typing and got stuck. So [...]

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