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Recipe: Kale, Chickpea & Sumac Red Onion Salad (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free)
As recently mentioned, I’ve just discovered the spice sumac and have been on the hunt for recipes to use it in. I’ve mostly just been sprinkling it over fish and vegetables for a zesty zing but knew I could be doing more. This is a quick and easy recipe adapted from Serious Eats. It’s tasty,…
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Nail News: Dose of Nail Colour
I do love an imaginatively packaged product. Check out this capsule collection of nail polishes, DOSE. Designed by Jane Schub, creator of the fantabulous StrangeBeautiful range, to inject a dose of colour to your nails. Each prescription bottle set has three 3ml pills popping with nail colour. The sets above are currently available in the…
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Vaishaly Cleansing Balm Review – post traumatic cleanser disorder!
“Don’t believe the hype” should be a warning sticker on certain products. Vaishaly Cleansing Balm is one such product and unquestionably my most disappointing skincare purchase ever. This left me with post traumatic cleanser disorder! I have dry, sensitive skin so am always looking for soothing, well formulated products that won’t strip my skin. I…
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Skincare Empties From First Aid Beauty, Kiehls, Sarah Chapman, Superdrug, Uriage and Vaishaly
Skincare products I’ve recently finished using. Whistle stop reviews below: Superdrug Little Blue tin: good old petroleum jelly – when I recently had a horrendous allergic reaction which resulted in a hideous rash on my face, this turned out to be a very unexpected skin saviour. I had tried everything and just smoothed this on…
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Winter Be Gone: Kevyn Aucoin The Spring Lip Palette
Despite what the weather tells us, today is the first day of spring. I am currently typing this with frozen fingers (the tips have gone all white!). Since I can’t change into spring clothing without risk of hypothermia, I shall be marking the occasion with lipstick – as all good celebrations should be. To lift…
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Art On The Soles Of Her Feet
To mark Art Basel Miami Beach, designer Charlotte Olympia worked with British artist Boyarde Messenger to create a collection of hand painted shoes based on her signature Dolly Pump, inspired by six famous paintings including works by Picasso, Mondrian, Pollack, Van Gogh, Lichtenstein and Hodgkin. See more pics at Citizens of Fashion.
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Sabrina’s Kitchen: Persian Seafood and Spice Supperclub
My first supper club experience of mouthwatering Persian grub from Sabrina Ghayour was a winner (read about it here). So when I heard she was planning a brand new menu based on seafood and spice, I couldn’t waddle there fast enough. Check out the menu we feasted on below. Amazing sounding isn’t it. Though incorporating pomegranate,…
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Spice Spotting: Sumac
This set of herbs and spices were a lovely gift from a friend who had been to Turkey. Most of the packets I knew what to do with but the sumac I had no clue. Though I didn’t realise it, I’ve eaten sumac numerous times as it’s one of the ingredients in za’atar, a condiment used…
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London Food Shopping: The People’s Supermarket – for the people, by the people?
Our ancestors would think they’d died and gone to heaven if they walked into a supermarket today. All that bounty all in one place – no hunting or gathering required. Quite amazing really. You can’t beat supermarkets for convenience and I often have fun wandering the aisles exploring the goodies on the shelves. However I’m not…
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Hairmazing Hair Sculpture
I have just been to the hairdressers for a trim. I would love to see my hairdresser’s face if i’d whipped these pics out and said I want “something like this”. These amazing creations and hair sculptures are part of the Tressé Agoche collection, by Haitian-American designer Joanne Petit-Frére. See more of her work at www.tresse-agoche.com
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London Theatre to Watch Now: Feast at the Young Vic
There’s a great production called Feast currently on at the Young Vic. Yoruba mythology in Nigeria is the starting point of the show, which then weaves a path through the diaspora showing how Yoruba traditions travelled and adapted across time and continents via the Atlantic slave trade to the present day. All packed into a 90-minute multi-media…
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La Cave A Fromage: Mouthwatering Macarons For Cheese Lovers
Sometimes the key to a lady’s heart isn’t through chocolate. It’s through cheese. Cheese glorious cheese. Sometimes it’s a combination of the two. If you’re looking for a gift for a fan of fromage, you wouldn’t go wrong with these cheese macarons from La Cave a Fromage. Cheese and fruit/nuts are regularly eaten together so…
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Incredible Colour ‘Photograph’ of Van Gogh
Take a look at this ‘photo’ of Vincent Van Gogh. Incredible isn’t it? The artwork ‘Revealing The Truth’ was created by Lithuanian photographer, Tadas Cerniauskas, using one of Van Gogh’s self-portraits, a red headed friend and a touch of digital wizardry to imagine how the artist might have looked. Here’s a link to a video…
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New Illamasqua I’mPerfection Collection: Nail Polishes
I’m loving these new specked egg effect nail polishes from the limited edition I’mPerfection collection from Illamasqua. Gotta love a polish called Freckle. Nail polishes, £14.50 from Illamasqua
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Recipe: Pho-filling Culinary Adventure ~ Cooking Vietnamese Fish Pho From Scratch
Sometimes you’re watching TV and see something so mouth-watering that you start drooling and eating it yourself becomes a mild obsession. Or maybe that’s just me. One Saturday morning i saw Rick Stein on his Far Eastern Odyssey series making a Vietnamese noodle-based soup dish called pho (pronounced “fur” apparently) on a boat sailing down the Mekong…
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