mountains of cake

We had a wonderful last event this afternoon - a room full of lovely ladies eating all of the cake and crust-less sandwiches, drinking tea and pink fizz. Thank you everyone who came and donated towards our now incredible 81% of the total! Can't believe we have got here already, and it feels amazing!

The gorgeous ladies from The Body Shop came to make us over (picture of me and hot honey Emilie - wow - new purple eyes look is, um, startling??!) and give relaxing hand massages: thank you so much!

The mountain of cakes from Blueberry Hill was staggering and delicious! Thank you Ella and Rachel for making our do so special! Home made jam for the wonderful scones; heart-shaped vicoria sponges; melting double-choc brownies to name but a few treats. Want to plug them again: http://blueberryhillcakes.co.uk/

Thank you also to Paul the bakery in Clapham Junction for the lovely fruit tarts. Yum. Also, of course the most fab chocs ever made - L'Artisan Du Chocolat provided that last wafer thin mint. But not in a gross exploding way. And thanks to hosts Charlie and Mary who were brilliant yet again.

Apologies for the terrible photography, but you get the idea!

supper club saturday night

REALLY looking forward to getting cracking on the prep for tomorrow night's supper club - Rosie and I are cooking for 18 wonderfull guests, including our folks and the amazing Barry and Paul, as well as lots of Charlie and Mary's friends.

We have managed to come up with the impossible - a menu that doesn't cost the earth (otherwise there'd be very little point in doing it), seems quite flash and not too difficult to make. Only thing left now is not to mess it up by over-salting, burning, drying, losing, spilling...

• starter: stuffed mushrooms and a cruchy rocket and radish salad - and a glass of dry white wine
• main course: coq au vin, braised red cabbage, greens and potatoes gratin (with the coq au vin replaced by a red onion tartlet for our one marvellous veggie guest) - and a glass of light red wine
• pudding: red fruit cheesecake with jelly on top - and a glass of fuity white wine
• cheese course: with apple, celery and homemade chutney - and a glass of deep red wine
• coffee and THE most amazing and beautiful chocs very kindly donated by L'Artisan do Chocolate - their salted caramels are to die for.... scrummy

that should keep the gang entertained for a while....

Thanks again to Charlie and Mary for hosting this wonderful event - it's going to be super fun!

Chloe