Archive for April, 2010

Macaroons – again (sorry)

Friday, April 30th, 2010

I swear that I’m not on a commission from the Great Macaroon Foundation.  It’s just that I love them and since I wrote last year about giving them as a hostess gift, I’ve had so many faithful Trufflers asking me for the recipe. I made them again recently and that reminded me to commit the recipe to Trufflebox.

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The ultimate indulgent treat

Friday, April 30th, 2010

I am going to go out on a pretty safe limb and make a sweeping generalisation about womankind; we love being spoiled. Spoiling ourselves, being spoiled by a husband, lover or best-friend, we’ll take them all. Not all the time, of course. Just enough. It’s the indulgence that gets us. The decadence. The delicious, quite innocent, naughtiness. Nowhere is this better encapsulated than at The Dorchester’s Spa and Spatisserie. Whether you’re looking for a gift that’ll really spoil an amazing lady or want to have a girlie afternoon of total indulgence (brides, are you listening?), read on…

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Magnifique for a glass of wine but not so magnifique for dinner

Friday, April 30th, 2010

My first trip to Terroirs was after my husband and I had sneaked out of the second half of a particularly awful play (those old theatre habits must be dying hard). We were very much in need of something to take away the taste of what we’d just been watching and Terroirs proved to be just the ticket.

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