born again brazilian

Day 167 of my challenge to experience Brazilian every day this year, and day 1 of my new challenge to do it outside of Brazilian for six weeks, I drank a nice, big cup of Brazilian coffee. Of course, I brought the coffee with me from Sao Paulo procured at Suplicy, one of the fabulous coffee hang outs in my neighborhood.

What is not Brazilian is to drink it from an enormous coffee mug. But, it’s a great way to recover from a night flight with little sleep.

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beesteasandbooks

I recently went out for afternoon tea with a good friend of mine to 108 Marylebone – a charming hotel situated just off the hustle and bustle of Oxford Street. As well as the snug lounge, beautiful surroundings and elegant tea stand, the selection of treats were delicious. My favourite was by far the bakewell slice which had a subtle crumbly texture to it and made me think of another of my favourite homemade treats – flapjack. Since tasting it, I have had it on my mind so I decided to try to create a bake combining the two 🙂

Ingredients

150g butter plus extra for greasing
50g caster sugar
4 tbsp golden syrup
200g rolled oats
50g ground almonds
1 tsp almond extract
3 tbsp jam (raspberry, strawberry or blueberry)
Handful of flaked almonds

Preheat the oven to 190C and generously grease a square tin with butter (as then…

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Jokes And Humour World

Involuntary Muscle Contraction Professor Higgins at the University of Sydney was giving a lecture on ‘Involuntary Muscle Contraction’ to the first year medical students.

This was not an exciting subject and the professor decided to lighten up the mood.

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