She's baaackThe straw drinking coffee gal...remember this post in 2006? The straw drinking trend never emerged, I guess teeth whitening kits are becoming cheaper so people don't have to be soooo careful with their pearly whites...

Itsu for sushi
Had a great fast and friendly sushi dinner at Itsu the other night with my Canadian visitors, the fashion-pharmacist is a sushi freak. The one we went to is located on Wardour Street in the heart of Soho. There we had spicy tuna and salmon sushi, sashimi, grilled chicken teriyaki, a fabulous chicken and coconut soup with ginger and I had a lovely pineapple zinger juice. Their website is funny as it has some interesting copy - I italicized the parts I think are funny/odd:

'because Itsu food is light, full of goodness and won't make you fat.'

'because it tastes amazing. You can eat lots without guilt, sorrow and pain.'

I am typing in the dark as the girls are still dreaming...they are 'carpe diem' each morning sleeping til 11am- but that is the way to do it when you are on holiday. Shopping, sightseeing and walking makes one very tired! (Carpe diem - phrase from a Latin poem by Horace. It is popularly translated as "seize the day")

Salad days

This pic is taken from a city garden. It is a little garden on the side of the fashion-pharmacist's house and it has enough lettuce to feed a small army.

After a day in the sun we had a salad with roasted eggplant/aubergine, steamed cauliflower, tomatoes and olives. The fresh garden salad and all of its toppings tasted delicious!

Home gardens are definitely the way to go...I was very surprised at how large the lettuce was already and how many of them there were.

The garden already had loads of bulb and spring onions and the tomatoes were just starting to creep up their poles...will have to go back for fresh tomato salad soon.

Am going to try and make coffee ice cream and will report back :)

A new trend in drinking coffee?
I had two lovely visitors from Canada here recently and they turned heads and made people laugh at the way they consumed their coffee....

Can I have a skinny latte please.... and a straw? Wuuut!?! was what the baristas would say or think - which was clearly visible on their faces when they saw the lovely girls put their straw in their coffee cups.

There are two reasons given for this:
1) Ro started this as she liked to get all the sugar from the bottom of the coffee cup at first and from then just liked drinking it from a straw

2) The reason that most people accept and do the nod and the ureka aaaah..is 'I just got my teeth whitened' and then people realise that beauty has its price and maybe isn't a bad idea after all.

They do have nice teeth though!

May have to do this when I drink red wine. And apparently they have some converted Torontonian's drinking coffee this way....

Thx girls it was fun having you.....xxx