Fresh summer treat (and Happy Canada Day!)Amazingly crunchy and a nice complement to a salad or your favourite dish. It does splatter all over you when you peel it and it looks like a vampire has had a go at your neck. D&B thought I was attacked by that hottie from that Twilight movie - unfortunately that wasn't the case, but my stained neck and clothes were worth it. High in antioxidants too and very good for the bathing suit countdown diet.

From Wiki: Pomegranate juice provides about 16% of an adult's daily vitamin C requirement per 100 ml serving, and is a good source of vitamin B (pantothenic acid), potassium and antioxidant polyphenols.

Get out there and have some maple syrup or some Canadian Beer today, there is also a big party in Trafalgar Square all day!

Henna night
It was colorful, loud, fun, full of great food, lovely family and friends and a very artistic henna woman with a smattering of Indian dancing. Am not sure what the food was but Momma Amin made a lovely layered dish which consisted of a bottom layer of crispy stuff, then chick pea and potato stuff, fresh pomegranate, green mango chutney, hot spicy chutney and other layers that I can't remember. All I know is that it was delicious! bottom crispy layer
chick pea and potato something
my henna hands
and the chutney of something? I don't ask questions, I just eat!

Afternoon tea with Rexi and DustyIt is 2am and I have two scraped and bloody knees because of afternoon tea at the Wolseley. Why? Well when you have half a pot of Darjeeling tea, some tiny finger sandwiches and scones at 5pm your body thinks it is dinner. But when you try to go to bed at midnight you can't sleep as you are full of about 6 cups of tea! (I am usually exhausted by 11pm)

So you toss and turn and think crazy caffeine filled thoughts until about 1:30am. At this point you have burned off those finger sarnies and your stomach is empty. So you creep to the kitchen to eat half a pomegranate and some pesto pasta a few glasses of water to try and flush out that bloody tea and try to get back to bed.

On the way back to the bedroom you forget about the two stupid Ikea boxes of shelves that no one wants to embark on putting together and in the dark you trip over them and go flying onto your knees! I had a glass of water in my hand and managed to save that albeit my pjs are a little wet. So you hobble back to bed and feel the throbbing and check out the knees which are both scraped and bloody - lovely! I feel like I am 6 years old again with this sensation - I can't recall the last time I scraped my knees?!

I digress from the subject of the posting- afternoon Tea at the Wolosley was lovely - we had a lovely waiter and Dustin Hoffman, bless his soul he looks fabulous, was there with his family enjoying afternoon tea too. Rexi seems to always be bumping into celebs everywhere she goes so it was fitting that on her bday one the greatest actors was there laughing and having a great time next to us.

The Wolseley was lovely and I recommend you going there as the atmosphere and the Venetian & Florentine influenced decor is just fabulous - it was originally a car showroom in the 1920s. Next time I will order a meal and leave afternoon tea to it's proper time - in the afternoon around 2pm non? Or I will order decaf!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY REXI! luv Sands

Mango madnessSainsburys has impressed me with fruit this week. I had the most delicious mango and pomegranate, I was actually smiling with pleasure while eating it. Coops had never had pomegranate before and exclaimed, 'what a taste sensation!'

I am usually unimpressed by Sainsbury's selection and quality of fruit so this was a treat. The only thing that annoys me is that they sell some fruit and veg and now their grapes in tiny bags, why not do what they do in Canada and put heaps of grapes out for people to choose how much they want?! All this packaging is driving me crazy. I am going to take a pic of the only way you can buy fresh snow peas and beans here - it is mad.

I miss Canadian supermarkets where you can buy what you need! Central London supermarkets need to step up - are they like this all over the UK?