Category Archives: Food

Give! Me! Bread!

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Met Mum

Eat your lardy heart out, Mr Atkins, but there is no way you will ever see me on a no-bread-diet. A while ago, when my innocent ears first got wind of the idea of cutting out any kind of bread, … Continue reading →

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Wear it pink!

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Met Mum

The beautiful ladies at AVON have come up with a gorgeous idea to raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer – a Breast Cancer Crusade Baking Set, complete with pink ribbon and heart shaped cutters and six silicone cupcake cases. The … Continue reading →

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National Cupcake Week – or: the world’s easiest cupcake recipe

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Met Mum

Because we all needed another excuse to eat more cake: it’s national cupcake week, hurray! I have posted this super easy, fool and fail proof recipe before, but given the current celebratory cake mood, here goes: Tweet

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Fancy a snog?

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Met Mum

I like mine small and cool, velvety soft like chocolate and refreshingly zesty like passionfruit. I like mine to tickle my senses, to make me lick my lips and crave for more, more, more. I like my snogs late at … Continue reading →

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Malnourished Monday – It’s THAT time of year again

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Met Mum

Comes January, the word diet seems to be in everybody’s mouth. Lose those pounds, get in shape, drop the flab – diet, diet, diet! No matter where you look, and no matter how you look, the well-meaning (and often unwanted) … Continue reading →

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Champagne

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Met Mum

I drink it when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I am alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and I drink it when I … Continue reading →

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Have your shoes and eat them: Prêt-à-Portea at the Berkeley Hotel

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Met Mum

Fashion week is over and done, the wind is ripping the yellow leaves off the trees and a hot tea all of a sudden sounds much more tempting than ice-cold Pimm’s and lemonade. Time to loosen that tiny, waist-cinching belt … Continue reading →

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Lattemamma

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Met Mum

My friend Julia recently introduced me to the term Lattemamma – the Swedish, slightly more PC translation for Yummy Mummy. Think cafes on Östermalm (Stockholm’s very own South Ken), German estate cars and children called Apple or Moses. I only … Continue reading →

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Bring out the cook in you: Tana Ramsay’s kitchen secrets

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Met Mum

Bank holiday weekend is lying ahead of us, and I already know what will be cooking in our pots on Sunday: succulent Indian lamb chops accompanied by a lemon-zesty couscous, followed by heavenly chocolate cupcakes. I tried it on my … Continue reading →

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Cookie love

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Met Mum

Sometimes I find myself full of longing for a tiny bit of Lilly Pulitzer, college friend of Jacqueline Bouvier (better known as Jackie Kennedy), fashion designer and Queen of Preppiness. But this side of the pond there is just no … Continue reading →

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