Morning.

We ate so much last night. In my head I was still going to stick to my no carb diet, but that went out the window after about two minutes when I had a glass of Prosecco in front of me and some gorgeous cicchetti mainly consisting of mini bruschetta with various toppings. After that I decided to leave the diet at home and eat whatever was put in front of me. After all, this is one of the best restaurants in London at the moment, so it would be silly to miss out. We continued down to the restaurant after a while and had an amazing melon soup, and then something I've never tried before. Scallop carpaccio with anjovis - just enough to add a gorgeous salty flavour to it. It was the best carpaccio ever. When Vanessa's boyfriend Ben arrived the Italian showed his sense of humour and sent up a lonely uncooked carrot on a plate and said that was all they could do for vegetarians. Haha he's too funny. After that he presented the most gorgeous vegetarian meal for him though, and then we all had a portion of Gnocchi - once again, the best Gnocchi ever, I never even used to like Gnocchi. They then asked us what we'd like for our main course. Pardon?
I chose grilled prawns. Yum! For dessert we got two massive plates. One with the most delicious lemon tart and the other had some Italian home made biscuits (I've forgotten the name now) with peach cream and berries - it was phenomenal. And then the big surprise for me that he'd kept telling me about, Frangelico sour jelly. Mmmmm it tasted exactly like the cocktail. It was beautiful. I am so proud of my man for being such a good chef and host. Got up early this morning when he went off to a meeting and I've had time for a power walk. He just came back home now and we're going to chill for a bit before heading to work.

Last nights dinner

Take one piece of recipe book 

Find a page you like

Follow instructions and, in this case, fill a mackerel with lemons, thyme and garlic 

In the oven for a few minutes until cooked 

Serve with steamed vegetables and Greek yoghurt sauce.

Inspiration

I looked through these recipe books to find my dinners for this week. Logged onto Sainsbury's and ordered all the ingredients to arrive at my house on Wednesday when I come home from work. I love that you could practically run your life from your living room if you needed. At least it's good for days like today when I don't really feel well enough to be running around in busy supermarkets

Sea view dinner

After receiving all my thousands of present we all went to Salt - a stunning restaurant in Tylösand by the sea.

It was so nice of them to acknowledge my birthday in Tylösand

Gorgeous view by the entrance 

Busy restaurant even though we were there early at 6pm. 

Gorgeous sea view all the way around 

Fish soup with garlic bread and aioli as main course 

DESSERT! The best I've had for a long time. In Sweden we have a chocolate called Plopp (I know funny name) and it is milk chocolate filled with caramel. This was a plopp brownie with fudge sauce and banana Ice Cream. Two big pieces of Plopp baked into the brownie. Yum! 

I just could not stop going on about it 

Even better view at the back of the restaurant.

Gorgeous food, brilliant location.

A restaurant I definitely recommend if you come to Halmstad in the summer.

My birthday

On my birthday we went to Båstad.

A really cute town next to Halmstad

A gorgeous organic pop up shop

They'd built a ski slope for the kids

right on the beach

Absolutely stunning town

With the cutest little streets

On our way home we went to Cafe Utsikten for lunch

Gorgeous view

The service and food was a bit so so though, and you are definitely paying for the view rather than anything else.

Sweden cont. - lunch with Mum and Dad

After our day in Gothenburg we stayed over at my sisters house.

The next day we went to Mum and Dad to spend some time with them before heading out to my friends house for a crayfish-party/barbecue.

The Italian joined in time for dessert (cheesecake) after he'd finished in my parents gym downstairs.

Busy week

This week has flown by. Didn't finish til 8pm on Monday, worked from 6-17 on Tuesday and finished about 7.30pm yesterday. This meant that all I've done is come home, have dinner and sleep. I've done some running and exercises in the mornings.
I still felt like I didn't have much energy and this resulted in very exciting food choices. Pic one - dinner last night. Pic two - dinner tonight. Pic three - lunch box for tomorrow. The inspiration and fantasy is flowing here.

Happy (almost) birthday to me

We had dinner in the private room at Shoreditch House

It is such a gorgeous room and pretty much my dream flat. High ceiling, old style ware house windows and a cracking view of East London

Clearly I am very funny:)

The gorgeous girl that organised everything. Thank you!

The food was amazing, lots of different dishes in the middle of the table for everyone to share. Almost like tapas.

As a started we had, Mozzarella and cherry tomatoes, baby octopus and calamari, parma ham with parmesan cheese and Ravioli

Not sure what I did wrong here

I got a new necklace from the girls that went beautifully with my dress

And a new bracelet from L that I also put on straight away. At least I think that's what the Italian took a photo of here.... not too sure

For main course we had, risotto primavera with goat cheese, lamb, chicken and sea bream

And dessert was panacotta with berries, lemon tart, tiramisu and cheese

After dinner we went up to the roof top and had cocktails by the pool

It was a lovely night, but since most of us had a long week before and some had to go home to their children it ended quite early and we were home by 2am.