Bagel Boss Woolwich

Hiya!

Bagel Boss opened on the 3rd September in Woolwich and I managed to get 2 bagels and the Jerk wings but missed out on the Chicken, rice and peas. 

Boss Chicken Bagel (£2.75)

I was a bit disappointed with the Boss Chicken bagel but it was because they had ran out and had used a different cut of meat for it which they did say will not happen in the future.

Peri Peri Chicken Bagel (£2.75)

This bagel was so spicy but it tasted amazing! I loved how simple it looked yet it tasted great! I will definitely get this bagel again.

Jerk Chicken Wings (£2)

My number one thing to get is the jerk wings! It was full of flavour and for £2 for 6 wings its a bargain! 

On opening me and my friend visited this place and asked for a take-away as it was so busy. OMG! The smell that was coming out of the bag was so amazing! It makes my mouth salivate just thinking about it! The bagels were soft and sweet but balanced perfectly with the fillings.

Jerk Chicken Bagel (£2.75)

I got A to go and get me the Jerk Chicken Bagel on Monday and like usual the bagel was soft and worked so well with the jerk chicken filling. There was the same yummy taste as the wings but it was much more mild compared to the wings...

I feel like going down there for a portion of wings now.. *dribbles* but then again I would love to try their chicken, rice and peas and also their healthy drinks!

They are located at the bottom of Woolwich High Street opposite Woolwich Leisure Centre :)

Please Visit them at http://www.bagelboss.org/ 

TC 

xx

First Choice Cafe Woolwich - Revisting

Hiya!

So recently me and S took Z to see In The Night Garden in Blackheath and we decided to go and revisit First Choice Cafe in Woolwich.

Oreo Milkshake

Z absolutely loves this! I had a taste and it wasn't too sweet and it had alot of Oreo bits. 

Chocolate Milkshake

 C ordered this and said that it was very nice. I love how its so foamy on top! It looks so pretty :)

English Breakfast

C ordered this amazing English breakfast and they have the best bubble! It was full of flavour and not too greasy.

Lasagne with Chips and Salad

S ordered this and found that it was very creamy. I loved the coleslaw especially with the red onions. 

I love First Choice Cafe as the portions are big and the staff are just amazing. 

What do you look forward to eating for Lunch?

Tc

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The Great Harry Pub - Woolwich

Hiya!

So on Sunday me and my 2 other sisters decided to go out for dinner at our local JD Wetherspoon as everyone else was out.

Me and J decided to get a pitcher of strawberry daiquiri to share. It tasted nice as it didn't too much like alcohol but J said it was a bit strong for her.

I had the Hand-Carved Lamp Rump which was amazing! The lamb was nice and tender and the veggies wasn't over cooked; there was some crunch left in the veg and it was sweet tasting. The sauce which came with the lamb was so yummy!

Z had a kids meal of bangers and mash. He ate everything! I was so shocked as his very picky with his food. He took my mash potato as he ran out.

L had a Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich and she ate most of her meal up. She did leave the onion rings as she's not a fan of onion rings but J loved it. She said it was crunchy and not too oily. 

J had a Sweet Potato, Chickpea and Spinach curry. J loved her meal but she did find that the poppadums were salty.

Dessert. As you know I have a sweet tooth and thus I had to get a dessert. I was disappointed in this sticky toffee pudding as it was dry and chewy but the sweetness was just perfect.

It was such a good evening as it was so chilled out and it was so welcoming. The price wasn't at all bad as our meal came under £40 for 4 people including drinks.

What's your favourite pub meal?

TC

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JRC Global Buffet Ilford

Hi!

We visited JRC Global Buffet in Ilford. Its reasonably priced as the price includes soft drinks and hot drinks. Z had a tropical flavoured slush drink and he loved it.

It was very spacious and looked very modern. There was a good selection of cuisine but I couldn't take many pictures as it was very busy.

I managed to get some pictures of the Japanese section as it was very quiet due to people following the flow of starter, main and dessert. I skipped the starters and went straight to main.

I love how they decorated this section with the banners and Japanese lanterns. I normally would go straight for the sushi but I thought I'd try the other types of cuisine first. I did manage to try the sushi and it was okay but I loved the squid salad! 

I didn't take a picture but the pumpkin dumpling in the Chinese dim sum section is to die for especially with the amazing red bean paste inside but I must warn you that its a sweet dim sum and not to go with the savoury items and as for the main's which I tried it was full of flavour especially the Seafood Paella.

DESSERTS! OMG! They had a good variety of desserts with a chocolate fountain and a candy shop it was my kind of heaven.

Overall I felt that this is the best world buffet I've been to so far; there was a lot of choices including halal and they even had someone who went around with a meat skewer like a Brazilian buffet. The food wasn't amazing but for the price including drinks it is worth it and more! I managed to have 2 plate full of food, 5 dessert plates, 2 soft drink and a cup of tea for £20! I was so stuff but I regretted not getting a soup and trying out the sushi! The best part of this experience was the staff. Friendly on arrival and throughout our stay even when we was leaving. 

Please check out their website for location details and types of cuisine: www.jrc-globalbuffet.com

What is your favourite cuisine?

TC

xx

Valentines Viennese Hearts

Hi!

I love my cups of tea but I cannot have a cup of tea without a snack. I decided to make Viennese fingers for the first time but I decided to make them heart shaped.

Ingredients:

125g Unsalted Butter (Soften)

125g Plain Flour

40g Icing Sugar

1 Medium Egg Yolks

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

100g Chocolate (Whichever you prefer)

Equipment:

Mixing Bowl

Hand Mixer

Baking Tray with a baking sheet 

Piping Bag with a Star Shaped Piping nozzle

1. Place the butter and icing sugar together into a mixing bowl. Cream together until its fluffy and paler in colour.
2. Add the egg yolk and vanilla extract into the mixture and beat well.
3. Place the flour into the bowl and fold it into the mixture until fully combined.
4. Place the mixture into the piping bag and pipe out some hearts. 
5. Bake between 10-15 minutes or until golden on top.
6. Place the chocolate (I used dark chocolate) into microwavable bowl and microwave for 15 seconds until melted. Put back into the microwave for another 15 seconds if not completely melted.
7. Put the chocolate into a piping bag and pipe either a message or a chocolate heart in the middle to cover. 

I loved these as it was soft and crumbly and the dark chocolate worked well as wasn't too sweet. I placed chocolate in between 2 viennese hearts to make a chocolate viennese sandwich. You can be as creative as you want especially as Valentines Day is coming up.   

Hope you get a chance to try this recipe

TC

xx

25th Birthday Cake!

Hello!

I know I haven't been up to date with my posts but I have been lazy. I'm sorry!!

So alot has happened and I am now 25!! EKKK!! Lol

Here is my yummy birthday cake from my amazing little sister although I had to design my own cake LOL

Chocolate Celebration:

Sponge: Vanilla

Filling: Fresh Cream and Fruit Cocktail

Covering: Fresh Cream with Dark Chocolate Ganache 

Topping: White Chocolate covered Strawberries, 

Border: Pipped Fresh Cream with Half cut strawberries

Extra(s): Chocolate Champagne Bottle  (Bought from Thorntons)

This cake was very light as I asked for a vanilla chiffon sponge, the layer of cream was just enough to balance the dark chocolate making it less bitter and the fruit cocktail was not thick but just right.

I am very blessed 

TC

xxx

Here is a simple Chiffon Cake recipe if you wish to try it

https://en.cookpad.com/recipe/1472541

May Bakes 2014

Hello !!

So sorry for not updating as often as I would love but I have been extremely busy; not only am I having to go through the terrible twos but I've just started a college course but still found time to bake ;)

It was my mum's birthday the other day and thus another reason to mess up the kitchen and create alot of cleaning was due for LOL

Fruit Birthday Cake with Chocolate Wafer

Fruit Birthday Cake with Chocolate Wafer:

Sponge: Vanilla

Filling: Fresh Cream and Fruit Cocktail

Covering: Fresh Cream

Topping: Strawberries, Mangos, Kiwi, Peaches and Blueberries

Border: Chocolate Wafer Biscuits 

Extra(s): White Chocolate Plaque (Handmade)

This cake is just as lovely as my amazing mother :) It tasted good and is so pleasing to the eyes but I do think that we should of cut the wafer into the same length as it does look messy *sighs*

Anyways...

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I have recently started to experiment with baking cupcakes and it has been so fun. Below are recent cupcakes I've made for the first time.

I saw a recipe online for Ferror Roche Cupcakes and decided to have a go. I didn't follow the recipe through 100% as I didn't want it to be too sweet nor did I want a chocolate overload!
Summers here so I have to watch my weight lol..

Ferror Roche Cupcake with Nutella Butter Icing

I really liked the taste of the Nutella Butter icing but I was dissappointed in the Ferroro Rocher in the middle.. The wafer bit had become soggy and not as crisp but the nuts gave it a lovely texture and luckily I didn't make it a chocolate sponge as the butter frosting was so sweet.

Here's the recipe I kinda followed http://cookiescupcakesandcardio.com/?p=4742.

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Chocolate Cupcakes with Oreo Butter Icing

I'm not a big fan of Oreo cookies (or any type of cookie xD)  but my friend asked me to teach her how to bake Oreo Cupcakes for her boyfriend and so we did.. lol

The recipe I was meant to follow had a cream cheese frosting but I didn't have any so I made it into just butter icing with crushed Oreo biscuits.

I loved the taste of them as the bitterness of the Oreo's made the butter icing less sweet but I had so much trouble piping the icing on as some of the crushed Oreos would get stuck in the nozzle ¬¬ 

Here's the recipe I kinda followed: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/1871966/recipe/oreo-cupcakes

Sapporo Ichiban Catford

Hey!

Sorry haven't been blogging much but its been so much easier to just tweet xD

Anyways..

Yesterday I went on a dinner date with my cousin and sister Sapporo Ichiban in Catford, London.
I have heard so much about this place but never ventured there.

As you walk through the first set of glass doors you get greeted by a small fish pond and then another set of glass doors. We were greeted by the hostess in a very polite manner, she then showed us to our table very quickly.
The area in which we sat at had a fun atmosphere as the tables had a whole on the ground so you was sitting on the floor

We sat down at our table and went through the drinks menu as she brought us the buffet menu to order from. This buffet is an order to make buffet so the food is as fresh as it can be as other buffets leave their food out for who knows how long.

The seating area had a homey feel with cushions on the floor, a lot of ornaments on the side and a japanese outfit hanging on the wall; it was so homey half way through the meal i took off my shoes and sat cross legged xD 

So anyways..

Back to the food.

We ordered a Milk Ice tea Bubble Tea (£2.50), an Cream Iced Coffee Bubbe Tea (£2.50) and a Jasmin Tea (£1.20).

I had the Cream Iced Coffee Bubble tea I thought that it was ok but I did wish they added some ice to it but if they had I would've got less drink.

The buffet price was £12.90 per person (Mon-Fri). You can order up to 8 items maximum at a time and trust me you do NOT want to keep ordering 8 dishes as some dishes are huge and there is a wastage fee of £1 per sushi or £2 for any other dish.

On the buffet menu it tells you what you can order but not what it consists of so if you do come here I do suggest that you keep one of the main menus so you'll know.

The above picture shows the exact same salad but with different seafood. The top contained tuna flakes whilst the bottom contained seafood sticks. The salad was made up of a lot of celery, some carrots and some lettuce drenched in mayonnaise. It was fresh yet after eating it all you get stuff easily.

Carrying on with salads I ordered a pickled salad. To be honest I wasn't all that please with it as the radish were cut into square chunks and it wasn't spicy vinegary enough for me but thats just me! My mum makes this but she slices the radish and carrots thinly and adds a lot of fresh chillies. But you know what people,' No one can beat your mother's cooking'. LOL  

We had two different Gyoza's a pork one and a vegetarian one as I'm not a big fan of pork.

If you was wondering what gyoza's are then the only way to explain them is that there like chinese dumplings.

Both plates of gyoza came with a vinegar sauce.

The reason we came here was for sushi and it did not fail us here..

The above picture shows the selection of sushis we had. They were nice but on the buffet menu didn't have alot of choices compared to the main menu but you can always add it on. We had a really strange one and didn't expect it to be nice but to our surprise it was. I can't remember the name but it had papaya, melon and avocado. 

The main dishes were huge! I never expected my Yaki Soba to be on a big plate and so it took me ages to finish MOST of it. The noodles weren't very greasy and it contained a lot of vegetables; where normally you get big chunks of onions, you get big chunks of Pak choi. We also a chicken Katsu. The Katsu came out on a plate with lettuce underneath but it didn't have any sauce. The chicken was tender and moist in the middle but because there was no sauce the batter was very dry and it was hard to eat especially when they give you 2 pieces, one on top of another.

You all know the image above.. Yes it Aromatic Duck with Pancakes. There was a lot of duck compared to the vegetables! By this time we were so stuffed and couldn't eat anymore but we didn't wanna pay the wastage fee so forced it down our throats!

My cousin ordered a bowl of boiled rice thinking that there was going to be sauce on the katsu was finding inventive ways of eating the rice and here is one of them..

 Ta Dah! An Aromatic duck and rice burrito! lol

But at least we didn't have to pay wastage fee as she did manage to finish the bowl of rice!

So would you be trying out a new restaurant? If so let me know how it goes. 

- TC x-

Tayyabs WhiteChapel

Helllooooooo..!!

The other day I went out with my friend and her family to celebrate her birthday. She had booked a table at Tayyabs which serves Punjabi cuisine. 
The location for this place was very random as it was in a secluded road away from other restaurants  we had to wait an extra 30 minutes even though the table was booked for 8pm! The restaurant was so busy that there wasn't enough walking space for 2 people. LOL. 

The menu contained  few dishes which would of made it easier to decide what you'd like but it was harder as it contained dishes but no description of what each dish contained so we decided to order a bit of everything to try. The waiter came over without the need of a pen and paper and repeated our order just from memory! It was fun to watch as he also sounded like the guy from the £1 fish song! xD

We had to bring in our own alcoholic drinks as they didn't serve alcohol but had to pay for coke even when we bought our own. The bottled water was FREE though so it wasn't bad.

Tayyabs own bottled water, Mango Lassi and Vodka&Cranberry Juice

As we waited we snacked on complimentary poppadoms. The sauces served with this was spicy mint sauce, mango chutney and red spicy sauce (sorry didn't know what it was), but within a 10 minutes our orders started pouring onto the table as both the starters and mains came out the same time! This was really filling as  it made you want to eat faster so you'll get fuller easily.

Chicken Tikka and mixed meat grill

In all the bill was good for the amount of people who went and we was all stuffed even though there was alot of food left! I would recommend visiting them but book in advance as you maybe waiting for over an hour just for a table without notice.

Visit www.tayyabs.co.uk for more information and pics!

Take care and let me know what you think 

xoxo

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