things that raven and neff have been up to this week, installment 1!
Exams are over, hurrah! Picspam!
Last weekend we made pot pies (spinach and feta and pinenut vs chicken) with cream cheese pastry hnnnng:
(recipes off shutterbean.com if anyone fancies giving them a go! forgot to chop spinach more finely, otherwise were NOMMY)
I also made gnocchi and they were freaking tasty! But took forever, baw.
So Neff and I went out after my final exam (classical and statistical thermodynamics at half-nine) into London for dinner (steak and salad and chips) and our first cocktail of the day (I had a lemon tree - lemon rum with mint leaves, lemonade, other snazzy things - it was delish), before moving on to Lush (we bought about 15 bath bombs and a few other bits), and then the Orbital's new location (sells comics and manga, pretty nice), pootled around Leicester Square and Covent Garden, found the most awesome road in Soho with old designer/vintage clothing (couple of Westwood jackets in there were so gorgeous, but also mildly expensive) and fabric shops until we found Forbidden Planet, which I'd never been into but blimey. They had some absolutely gorgeous figurines in there (massive Darth Talon statue, anyone? And the obligatory Harley Quinn and Ivy, of course) - it was like the first culture shock you get at a con is the only way I can describe it! They were taking stock, so I couldn't venture into the Star Wars section, sadly, but we picked up a zombie cupcake cookbook (it is awesome), Cosplay Fever Red (to see who we knew in it again), the Dead Space novel and volume 2 of MPD Psycho, which we've been meaning to read for aaaaaaaages.
(mini lush haul)
Um. Then Neff dragged me away, again, because that's just what she does, and also so we could meander through Chinatown to find the Hummingbird Cupcake Bakery (does gorgeous looking cakes - we bought three and could only eat two bites of the red velvet cupcake because holy damn they're so rich.
My strawberry cheesecake brownie got squashed D:
THEN MORE COCKTAILS. We went to the Shaftesbury, which was a HIDEOUS shade of pink everywhere (and we got carded this time, hurray, we don't look that old!) and had 2 and a half cocktails each (we don't usually drink this much, I swear) - I had whatever's in a Woo Woo (cranberry juice and vodka and schnapps, I think). Neff's was gin with...more gin? And a lime.
why does Neff look like a creepy Buffy Gentleman in here aaaaaaargh
then we went off for frozen yoghurt at Snog.
(yes, that is pineapple, strawberry, chocolate brownie and a massive cookie you see before you).
And then we came home, had a bath and went to beeeeeeeed because I was a sleepy noodle. Oh no, wait, I lie. We came home, had a bath, went to McDonalds
and then went to bed.
Basically we went on a tiny food and drink tour in part of London. IT WAS A GOOD DAY.
And now, Raven tries to tidy up the living room/make a graphics tablet cosey with shark fabric/cross-stitch Great A'Tuin/make patterns for cosplay/ falls asleep again.
Last weekend we made pot pies (spinach and feta and pinenut vs chicken) with cream cheese pastry hnnnng:
(recipes off shutterbean.com if anyone fancies giving them a go! forgot to chop spinach more finely, otherwise were NOMMY)
I also made gnocchi and they were freaking tasty! But took forever, baw.
So Neff and I went out after my final exam (classical and statistical thermodynamics at half-nine) into London for dinner (steak and salad and chips) and our first cocktail of the day (I had a lemon tree - lemon rum with mint leaves, lemonade, other snazzy things - it was delish), before moving on to Lush (we bought about 15 bath bombs and a few other bits), and then the Orbital's new location (sells comics and manga, pretty nice), pootled around Leicester Square and Covent Garden, found the most awesome road in Soho with old designer/vintage clothing (couple of Westwood jackets in there were so gorgeous, but also mildly expensive) and fabric shops until we found Forbidden Planet, which I'd never been into but blimey. They had some absolutely gorgeous figurines in there (massive Darth Talon statue, anyone? And the obligatory Harley Quinn and Ivy, of course) - it was like the first culture shock you get at a con is the only way I can describe it! They were taking stock, so I couldn't venture into the Star Wars section, sadly, but we picked up a zombie cupcake cookbook (it is awesome), Cosplay Fever Red (to see who we knew in it again), the Dead Space novel and volume 2 of MPD Psycho, which we've been meaning to read for aaaaaaaages.
(mini lush haul)
Um. Then Neff dragged me away, again, because that's just what she does, and also so we could meander through Chinatown to find the Hummingbird Cupcake Bakery (does gorgeous looking cakes - we bought three and could only eat two bites of the red velvet cupcake because holy damn they're so rich.
My strawberry cheesecake brownie got squashed D:
THEN MORE COCKTAILS. We went to the Shaftesbury, which was a HIDEOUS shade of pink everywhere (and we got carded this time, hurray, we don't look that old!) and had 2 and a half cocktails each (we don't usually drink this much, I swear) - I had whatever's in a Woo Woo (cranberry juice and vodka and schnapps, I think). Neff's was gin with...more gin? And a lime.
why does Neff look like a creepy Buffy Gentleman in here aaaaaaargh
then we went off for frozen yoghurt at Snog.
(yes, that is pineapple, strawberry, chocolate brownie and a massive cookie you see before you).
And then we came home, had a bath and went to beeeeeeeed because I was a sleepy noodle. Oh no, wait, I lie. We came home, had a bath, went to McDonalds
and then went to bed.
Basically we went on a tiny food and drink tour in part of London. IT WAS A GOOD DAY.
And now, Raven tries to tidy up the living room/make a graphics tablet cosey with shark fabric/cross-stitch Great A'Tuin/make patterns for cosplay/ falls asleep again.