"If music be the food of love, play on"

I love my food.  I genuinely get excited waking up in the morning in anticipation of my soggy bowl of raisin wheats (in WARM milk), count down the minutes until lunch when I can enjoy a sandwich, salad or something a little fancier if I'm smoozing and the excitement for dinner begins approximately around the time I finish my last mouthful of lunch. 

 

I love big hearty meals, I love tapas style snacking, I love overflowing bowls of fruit as much as I love giant bars of green and black's chocolate, bags of haribo or M&S salted caramel popcorn. 

 

I have been making a conscious effort to eat a smidgen healthier, which I do find difficult as my job and social life dictate I eat out at least 3 times a week. 

 

Some of my most recent food obsessions (NB I use this word not lightly...)

 

Edamame and chicken gyoza from Giraffe - the sauce they cook the edamame in is like crack. Try it and you'll never want to eat anything else again.

 

 

I love Japanese food in general, I visit Yo Sushi at least once a week which is overkill I am sure.  Hubs is only too keen to accompany me as he loves the fact you get food straight away and don't have to wait.  Yo recently extended their 'Blue Mondays' to 'Blue Thursdays' (although now they're back to only Mondays) where all the plates cost £2.40 - as you can see we clean up at these nights!

More sushi from a local Aberdeen restaurant, Konnichi. I wasn't crazy about the atmosphere but the rolls are awesome.

 

My absolute favourite Aberdeen restaurant is the Rendezvous @Nargilie.  It's a gorgeous little Turkish place in the heart of the West End, we always go for the Vezir which is an extended version of Meze.  The shirts belong to my brother and adorable Granda, who is Egyptian - that's where we get our love of Middle Eastern food!

 

 

Although we do eat out a lot I do find time to cook occasionally :) last night we had these yummy stuffed aubergines recipe here - http://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/s/stuffed_aubergines_with_mozzarella.html

And tried out my friend Lauren's idea of a 'fun salad' or an indoor picnic as I like to call it! All our favourite foods; corn on the cob, sunblush tomatoes, chicken satay, greek salad with feta and strawberries. YUM

 

I have an insatiable sweet tooth which can usually be satisfied by bog standard chocolate, however if I'm in the mood for something fancier I go for Cocoa Ooze! It's an amazing local chocolate company and possibly the best chocolate I have ever tasted in my life! Check them out here http://cocoa-ooze.co.uk/

 

Enough food porn for the time being...



"This was the moment I'd been dreading for the past six months. Well, actually for the past 22 years"

Wow so that was an unexpected five month break from the blogging world! I blame the crazy summer Scott, Baxter and I just had.

We spent the majority of our weekends watching our friends get married, or celebrating upcoming nuptials by getting embarrassingly tipsy (read drunk off our asses) at the respective hen and stag weekends.

We managed to fit in a trip to Canada and Boston to see Scott's brother, sister-in-law and gorgeous nephews, plus a couple of days in St Andrews to celebrate our First Anniversary...

July 2nd 2011 was my favourite day of all time EVER, flanked by a fabulous Friday spent on the golf course by then men and the top floor of the Old Course Hotel by the women followed by and intimate rehearsal dinner for 100 of our closest friends ;), we spent the day after the wedding enjoying a gorgeous BBQ at the Jigger Inn and another night of debauchery.  Our three day wedding was big, glamorous, fun and filled with all the people we love.

I'll do a post on the big day itself soon but for our anniversary we had a couple of days in our hotel, spent luxuriating in 5* bliss and looking bag over the last 365 days since we said 'I do'.

If Scott and I had a signature pose this would most definitely be in - car shot! Heading down to the Old Course

visiting our church! Not as beautiful a day as the previous year

Our stunning suite

Bubbles in the hotel room! Not an awkward pose at all.

a good looking man in the pub after our gorgeous meal. Note to self, make sure next year's romantic anniversary dinner does not clash with the Champions League Final...

So that was how we celebrated.  I loved being the bride but I think we were lucky in that by having a short engagement we didn't lose sight of what was important (yes...even more important that the Vera Wang....) the forever that comes after the last of the favours are collected, the last of the confetti is hoovered away, and the last guest has left the residents bar!