Revealing Ealing

A few weeks ago I was contacted by the lovely Sarah from Celestial Cakes and having checked her baked lovliness out for myself at last weeks Farmers' Market I wanted to let you all know about her business in my latest reveal. She started Celestial Cakes 4 years ago and bakes with all the good stuff, organic eggs, milk and flour as well as locally (or homegrown) veggies - with these all going into her cakes. Celestial Cakes Website I had the pleasure (and boy were they pleasurable) of tasting the Beetroot Brownie and Coconut, Lime and Courgette cake - here they are for you to drool over..... I think that last photo is my favourite and trust me when I say that cake makes your mouth water. Coming from a big family of cake lovers (hi Dad) but not being an especially good cake baker, I'm glad Sarah found me so I could visit her whenever I'm next in need of home cooked delicacies I can pass of as my own (joke!). I found her at the Ealing ...

I've got a really embarrassing confession to make, before last Saturday I had never been to the Ealing Farmers' Market........... Still talking to me? Good, then I'll tell you all about it! We started out on a relatively sunny Saturday (Spring is being such a tease this year!) with a stroll across Ealing and through Dean Gardens, a little park that runs alongside the Uxbridge Rd with lots of blossoming trees and a seemingly popular play area. We quickly stumbled across Leeland Rd and, oh my, were we impressed with what we found. I'm not going to say that I'm a Farmers' Market expert, but both myself and my bimbling partner in crime were VERY impressed by the small but perfectly formed market. I will let my pictures do the talking so you can see for yourself, but there were meats, fresh fish, cheese, fruits, raw honey, organic cakes (watch this space for a future post about Celestial Cakes), mind blowing tomatoes, bread (baked in Nort...

A week or two ago I introduced you all to the term ‘bimbling’. If you weren’t paying attention (naughty), bimbling is a term often used by my family to describe a generally aimless wander that inevitably results in one of the following: coffee & cake, buying gorgeous things or lunch with wine. On a really good day, we do all of the above……who am I kidding, we usually do all of the above (especially the wine part!). Anyway, the other day, we embarked on a gentle bimble with a foodie destination in mind and stumbled across a little path that looked too intriguing not to walk down. This path is called Radbourne Walk and it runs from Mattock Lane down to Occupation Rd along the back of the allotments next to Northfields Ave. It looks like there’s some conservation work going on at the moment via The Ealing Dean Allotment Society which is so encouraging to see (if you fancy helping out, contact allotmentsw13@gmail.com ), but as it was the first sunny day for...

 Hello, this is my first post on my new blog that will be all about.......*drum roll*....Ealing. I have lived in most of the main areas of Ealing - the South bit kind of near the Common, the Central bit in the thick of it (NB I would advise anyone looking to move anywhere NOT to move in the middle of a Fire and a Police Station, well not if you want any sleep!) and we're now settled a bit West next to one of the beautiful parks. The honest truth is that I love it all and find it impossible to choose my favourite bit because there is so much that is totally brilliant. Can someone buy me this mug please? Also, I think this is a really exciting time for Ealing - we have new restaurants, pop-up shops, facelifts to the old retail sites, births of new retail sites as well as the prospect of a new film quarter  more about it here  AND (phew, sorry had to pause for breath there) not to forget the Cross Rail development. So, m...