Ferran Adria Coffee Sapiens Breakfast
Coffee Sapiens launch event with Ferran Adrià and Lavazza

Coffee Sapiens launch event with Ferran Adrià and Lavazza

It is not every day that you can find yourself in the presence of a genius. Such a thing happened a few days ago when I was invited to a breakfast event where visionary, culinary master Ferran Adrià was to give a talk on a project he’s embarked on after closing down El Bulli. A wide-ranging coffee project on the cusp of innovation and entrepreneurship The subject of his talk was his enormous current project, an encyclopaedia on all things…

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Broklands Museum
Travel Bites: a family day out at Brooklands Museum

Travel Bites: a family day out at Brooklands Museum

Having a husband with a passion for classic cars and motorbikes, we occasionally attend related, themed events and meetings. While sometimes I would rather stay home with the dog, other times it makes sense to make these a day out and make the most of them. One place we’ve visited a few times is Brooklands Museum, near Weybridge in Surrey. Yet we had never visited as a ‘family’; the Mini event seemed a good opportunity do such a thing, especially…

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Vegan chocolate mousse with aquafaba
Incredible vegan chocolate mousse

Incredible vegan chocolate mousse

Have you ever heard of aquafaba? I first came across this relatively new word a year or so ago. It seems it was created putting together aqua (water) and faba (from fava beans) because aquafaba is in fact, the water that is usually discarded after boiling pulses. For years indeed, I have chucked in the sink the liquid from cans and jars of beans, chickpeas and peas. Gosh! What a mistake. It turns out this strangely gelatinous liquid has some…

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Homemade yogurt in the CrockPot
Make yogurt at home with the CrockPot

Make yogurt at home with the CrockPot

In an effort to reduce single use plastic in our household (a near impossible task, I fear) I had recently started buying fresh milk from the milkman. It came in lovely, old fashioned bottles which were then picked up at the next delivery. I was happy. Yet the milk wasn’t of great quality and within as little as 24h would smell sour, and be properly curdled often within two days. Moreover, the milk bottles were also delivered in plastic bags….

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Marshmallows recipe
Fluffy blood orange and raspberries marshmallows recipe

Fluffy blood orange and raspberries marshmallows recipe

Fluffy…soft… squidgy.. I only discovered marshmallows quite late in life, once I moved to the UK. I hated them initially, as the plasticky, gosh knows what is inside shop bought ones. In my view they are not really that nice at all. Yet once I tried the real thing, home made, I was hooked. I thus decided I had to try and make them myself. Sounded pretty simple at first… Not really. I failed a few times, until one day…

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