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Bristol Eats…A Whole Lot of Fried Chicken (Bristol Eats)
I’m feral. I’m not refined. My dad constantly threatens I’m not too old to be sent to a Swiss finishing school, despite I’m 25.
I’m not prim or proper. I like eating with my hands. But in my defence there are times when its just called for and a knife and fork would just be weird.
When my housemate invited me to a street food gathering, I grabbed my sunnies and was out of the door in a flash. I am culprit of really bad food envy. That’s why I love tapas and generally anything that will mean I can try all sorts of food in one meal. I’m just greedy.
Bristol Eats is every Thursday from 5pm to 10pm at The Yard at Lakota. Did you get that – EVERY THURSDAY!! Not one of these food celebration that comes along to tempt us with sexy treats to never be seen again. EVERY THURSDAY! Based on this fact, I think I’ve found my new after work treat.
Source: Bristol Eats
Turning up around seven-ish, the DJ was in full swing and so was the food vendors. Eight different truck of various sizes and cuisines were there, which makes me very happy indeed.
Needing a well deserved drink after work, I headed to an old favourite, CUPP Tea Bar. Tried at a street food festival back in June last year, I’ve been obsessed and truly converted to the joy of bubble tea. I went for a Green Tea Mojito to get the party started. Yum. What’s not to like about fresh mint, rum, sharp lime juice and the subtle note of green tea. The green tea did make me feel I was having a good cleansing drink whilst being naughty. *Warning – below I have bad hair net hair from work- please don’t detract from the beauty of the food and drinks*
The perfect drink to be paired the best fried chicken of my life. This is not an exaggeration, I know I always write nice reviews and how you should try this and that BUT seriously guys you need this in your life. Made by the dudes from Meat and Bread, I’m seriously in love. I went for the fried chicken with the jerk beans, slaw and pickles (I’m that kind of girl). Dammmmmmnnnn. I want to be in a committed loving relationship with the dish, failing that, a dirty weekend away with it.
The chicken was moist and tender and my god the fried chicken batter, had kind of a sexy buffalo wing flavour with herbs like a touch of rosemary. The batter was a combination of a light tempura and a bhaji combo that, kind of blew my mind. And for being fried it wasn’t greasy and oily, just sexy crisp.
The jerk beans were immense, similar to meaty Boston Baked beans but with all the sexiness of jerk, chilli, mace, all spice, also light nuggets of juicy chicken. What! What! The slaw adding a creamy cooling element to the whole party and you just can’t go wrong with a good pickle…wink…wink…
I plan on following these guys around all summer long for their fried chicken.
FRIED CHICKEN!
Check out below, my housemate’s awesome t-shirt, cool or what?!? She went for a burger from Soul Burger, an Aretha Franklin, no less. Piled up with fresh salad, an awesome juicy burger with plenty of soul. But she did keep coming back to my jerk beans.
To finish, the meal nicely I wanted something sweet. I paid vee double moo‘s fantastic VW camper van for a sweet treat. A deliciously creamy vanilla ice cream shot with a tequila and lime syrup poured over the top. You know I love me some tequila, the fieriness of the tequila and sharpness of the lime worked beautifully with the creamy ice cream. My friend also tried the black cherry vodka shot, which was great but my heart will always be with the tequila. There is also kid friendly ice creams and even churros!
Source:Vee Double Moo
There you have it, Bristol Eats and my new obsession. Check it out, they also have a DJ thee so you can try to dance away some of the calories you’ve just had. I’ll definitely be coming back!
(I wasn’t paid to review these places – I just love sharing great food!)
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FoodNerd x
Cutest Cupcake In Town (Primrose Bakery, London)
This is the third instalment of Cookery Courses with Cousins, which would actually make an interesting cookery programme! The first two was with my cousin Katherine, Rococo Easter Egg Decorating and Paul. A Young Brownie Masterclass. This time we had our two other cousins Sonia and Georgia to join in the fun too.
On a sunny Sunday morning, we made our way to Covent Garden, to Primrose Bakery. With our noses pressed against the windows, we waited to be let in for our cupcake decorating course.
A super cute, little bakery with room 12 overly excited ladies to try not to eat a lot of frosting. Lisa, was teaching us the great secrets in to how to do the perfect frosting swirl. Below is a perfect swirl, I would love to say that I created that miniature beauty, but that would be a lie.
Ok so I bet you can’t guess which one I swirled and which one Lisa did right?!? For some reason I just couldn’t get my head around the hand gesture to work right with the spatula! So I covered mine with lots of sprinkles….
We tried the swirl on a mini and standard size cupcakes, after a demo to make cloud light butter cream frosting. Oddly easier to do the swirl on the smaller cupcakes, even through my examples aren’t proof of this!
We next went on to frosting chocolate cupcakes with a rich ganache frosting. This smelt amazing, and very tempting to scuttle off to a corner and face plant into the whole bowl.
We piped a design on top of the chocolate cupcakes using, hand made piping bags and different colour buttercreams. Some designs worked better than others, I like the combination of dots and lines, there was even a Henry the Cat in frosting too.
The sugar high got to my cousin a bit more more than everyone else…
Some more of our artwork in sugar form.
The Cupcake Cousins.
We had a great laugh, and left with a goodie bag with the recipes and a voucher for a free cup and four of our beautifully crafted cupcakes. We just now need to practice of a couple of hundred cupcakes each to day and then we’ll be making the beautiful swirled cupcakes too.
After all the sugar, we needed lunch. Just around the corner was one of my favourite restaurants that I had to share with my cousins. I last went there for a catch up with my uni friend, where we drank a lot of gin. Of course it was Mishkins! I love this place and wish there was one in Bristol to get my salt beef fix. Me and two of my cousins went for the special, a Reuben Burger. Say What?!? A soft chewy bagel, topped with a tender burger, crisp sauerkraut, thick juicy slices of salt beef and then a delicious amount of melted Swiss cheese. Served with a bowl of Russian dressing to dunk the crispy onion rings and East-end Chips (chips with skin on) in. I also went for a side of pickles too as I’m that kind of girl.
Sonia went for the special Big Apple Dog, a crispy meaty hot dog smothered in dill pickle and crispy shallots and jalapeno chillies. Damn!!
It’s fair to say we were well and truly stuffed after our lunch and I may of had a nana nap of the coach back to Bristol while clinging on to my cupcakes.
(We weren’t paid to attended the course or Mishkins – I just love sharing great food!)
April Foodie Penpals
Wow, the months are definitely speeding up, only seems like yesterday I was writing up last months parcels.
This month I had the lovely Saidas & Rita from Lithuania, they must of known the weather in the UK was going to brighten up and even become sunny, because from their parcel they sent me, it was the perfect picnic kit in the sun.
There was small sausages, a cheese with fennel seeds, pumpkin seed crackers, tomato chutney and even dessert with cute bagel cookies. Perfect for the sunshine ( the picnic didn’t last long, like the sunshine!). Everything was delicious, I especially liked the crackers with the chutney.
They also included two bars of chocolate, which are in my top drawer at work for when we need a pick me up- although I don’t see it lasting long!! There was also a wonderful smelling tea which I can’t wait to get stuck into.
It was a lovely parcel and a big thank you to Saidas and Rita for putting it together for me. It was really nice to try some Lithuanian treats.
I had Lucia at Lulabella’s Kitchen to buy for this month, she has a lovely blog where she has wonderful healthy recipes but not the usual boring salad!
I got her a bottle of pomegranate molasses, as I love the sour sweetness it adds to tagines, and I’ve had it on vanilla ice cream which makes a nice change from the usual fudge sauce.
Lucia said that she could have some treats, so I included a small box of truffles I brought back from my recent to Berlin from a fantastic old chocolate shop (which I will be posting about very soon). A less naughty treat was some Pop Chips, not fried or baked but actually popped like popcorn! So a lot healthier and great tasting. I could eat a whole bath tub of these bbq beauties!
I also included two olive products, a chili olive snack pouch and an olive pate which I thought looked interesting.
There was also Pukka vanilla chai tea bags, which I adore the smell of and love a cup after a run! A perfect brew.
I also found some cute cupcake cases from Ikea, that I couldn’t resist including!
Finally, I included a bag of prawn sweets (which are surprisingly hard to find in Bristol! But found them in a fantastic traditional sweet shop on Gloucester Road) as when I asked Lucia what she wouldn’t want in her parcel, she said shellfish but would be surprised if someone sent her prawns in the post! Check out her blog to see what she thought of her parcel.
If you want to check out how to take part in the scheme check out Carol Anne’s website to sign up.
(I wasn’t paid to include any of these items – I just like sharing good food!)