1 Year!

Hurray! This is my 366th posting! I MADE IT! Who knows if I'll keep up posting one a day for the next year, but I reckon I'll keep posting a few times a week, anyway.

Monmouth Coffee

Best coffee I've found in London so far. Delicious cafe au lait. Always a long line.

donuts!

Donuts at Old Spitalfields market! Only £2 - £2.20 each!

specialty sausages made by special women

Okay, I lied. Here's a couple from the Minnesota State Fair (greatest fair on earth). There are so many foods to choose from -- it's a yearly struggle to pick the good stuff.

cupcake

Nothing like a Salted Caramel cupcake and HyVee root beer at a Labor Day weekend picnic with the family.

pecan pie

Purchasing coffee and pastries.

Bar Italia

Bar Italia, serving some of the best coffee in London, has been around since the 1940s and is open 24 hours. I stopped in at the early hour of 9 PM.

Tapped and Packed

Did manage to take a break from dissertation-writing to grab a tea with a friend at the new Tapped and Packed on Tottenham Court Road.

strawberries and cream

Wimbledon may be long over, but you can still enjoy strawberries and cream in this lovely summer weather.

meat on a stick

The Tudor kitchens were my favorite part of my trip to Hampton Court Palace.

organics

Guess where....

Roast Bone Marrow

For the adventurous foodie, order the roast bone marrow salad at St John in Smithfield.

Watch Out Kids About

Have a refreshing 99 in the summer heat.

cream tea

Nothing  like a good cream tea.

Wheatgrass shots

Off to Borough Market for cleansing wheatgrass shots!

juice

Colorful juices for sale.

Water cress, etc.

Fresh produce in the springtime.

willenkate

It's finally D-Day. Wills and Kate are gettin' hitched today! I hope they have these "Let Them Eat Cake" cupcakes at their reception. Wish me luck as I brave the throngs for a glimpse of something--anything!--this afternoon.

brownie shard!

Arrived at Borough Market early enough on Saturday to see this impressive creation at the Flour Power City Bakery stall. They'd sold enough brownies by noon that it was unrecognizable.

But you can tell what it is, right? It's the Shard (that omnipresent, all-seeing eye as fellow blogger raskolniikov rightly described it)! You really can't escape it.

epic pub lunch

Spring has definitely arrived in London, and what better way to celebrate than an outdoor lunch? Here we see a pub lunch to end all pub lunches. The scampi were the best part.