Cheese bread

 

This is delicious with soup, with a salad or just with lots of butter...........
I make it anytime I buy a cheese that turns out not to be so popular amongst the crew here, or anytime I seem to have an abundance of cheese!
Think of it as a cheese scone pretending to be a loaf of bread

111/2  ozs plain flour

1 tbsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

31/2 ozs cheese..... strong cheddar works well , I usually use whatever has been hanging about in th fridge for more than a little while

7 fl ozs milk

2 eggs

1 tbsp wholegrain mustard

2 flozs olive oil

Preheat oven to 180C (350F) 

lightly oil loaf tin

sift all the dry ingredients in to a bowl

add the grated cheeese and mix

Pour the milk eggs and mustard into a jug and whisk very lightly with a fork

add the liquid to the dry and mix well

You will get a fairly wet dough

scoop into tin

Bake for 50 mins 

remove from tin and bake for a further 10 mins

leave to cool

Great to bring on a picnic as we did last weekend ....... enjoy

Adapted from Rachel Allen's rustic bacon and cheddar bread 

Savage beauty by Alexander McQueen

The Alexander McQueen exhibition 

opens at the Met May 4th

I will get there this week

If it kills me

All images from Met Blog

Interestingly I was in the McQueen store last week
and was struck by how beautiful it was and how it reminded me of a museum
Each piece felt Museum worthy.... exquisite

Tonight is the Costume Institute Ball

My ticket must have gotten lost in the mail

Image from Barneys

But Daphne Guinness had hers

and was getting dressed in the window of 

Barneys at 5pm today

You can watch the video HERE

Fashion Performance Art

New York 

you gotta love it!

Kate and Sarah's Wedding dress

Kate Middleton and her sister Pippa

from

Vogue.com

Simply Exquisite dress for Kate
by Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen

Mary Katrantzou by Erik Madigan Heck

Oh I am breathless after taking in these incredible photos of

Mary Katrantzou

Spring 2011

by

Erik Madigan Heck

of

Nomenus Quarterly

They are simply the most beautiful things I have seen this year

Inspired by Pierre Bonnard and Vuillard paintings

Heck took the colorful work of this talented designer and shot to a new level

I am sure that this shoot will open up new doors for Katrantzou

and make editors and buyers sit up and take note

The color saturation and combination is artistry

This is one of the most difficult styles to pull off

Minimalism is restaint

but this is also a form of restraint

The beauty come from knowing just when enough is enough

That is pure talent and intuition

and not something that can be taught

They also make me think of Klimt and Egon Schiele

and the Russian Tea Rooms

All images Erik Madigan Heck

Darr, Hollander & Lexer

Another great store further down Atlantic is 

DARR

I love the wooden table set with wooden dinnerware

I would think it too much but actually it is really beautiful, it has a simplicity and purity.

I did purchase a beautiful Horn bangle for $30

(will post it later)

They stock the incredible 

Cote de Bastide 

line of fragrance and candles which I have loved ever since I bought 

my first Fig room scent from 

The Cross

10 years ago

The same owners also have a store across the street 

Hollander & Lexer

Where they sell their own line of locally made menswear, 

although when I dropped in there were quite a few items I coveted for my own wardrobe,

along with a few selected labels.

love this image of old shoe lasts from their site

so enjoy shopping 

and buy local whatever that locale may be

x

Holler & Squall

So The first Shop I visited on Atlantic was
Holler and Squall
Amazing eclectic mix of curiosities and interesting and unusual lighting
Also really good price points!

Holler and Squall has a beautifully curated collection of old and new items, most with very reasonable price tags

I would love this as an Island in my Kitchen......... with the rug included


All above images are from the Holler and Squall blog
As I did forgot my camera
Do check it out for the latest additions to the store

Spring in Brooklyn

Spring is pushing her blossoming head through the dark clouds of winter.

Almost 1 year since I came on my first trip back to New York

Which led to us packing up and moving over

It's been a long winter here

Looking forward to better weather

Today I browsed the shops on Atlantic Ave

some of my favourites coming up in the next few days