Ladies Who Lunch

Hello! I hope everyone is having a fantabulous weekend so far (either my spell-checker is broken, or fantabulous is actually a word).

I’ve been shopping with my Mum in Chester today, which is one of my all time favourite activities. My Mum is the best shopping buddy ever – she understands that every shopping trip has got to start with a coffee and should always include lunch, she’s fantastic at sniffing out bargains, she is honest when I try stuff on, and best of all she sometimes treats me to nice clothes.

The best thing about shopping is having a nice lunch to reward ourselves for a hard morning of traipsing around. I don’t go to Chester all that often now, and I know that a load of new restaurants and cafes have popped up recently, so I checked out Trip Adviser to find somewhere we haven’t been before. Zuger’s Tea Rooms was highly recommended, so we decided to head down to the Amphitheatre and try it out.

It just looked like an ordinary cafe inside, although my eyes were immediately drawn to the gorgeous looking cakes on display. The food however was definitely a cut above what you normally get in a cafe. Both my Mum and I had a “Brotliteller”, which was described as a DIY sandwich. It consisted of a bread roll, salad, a slice of melon and then a filling – I had smoked salmon and Mum had emmenthal cheese.

This was so fresh and the smoked salmon had a lovely delicate flavour rather than a deep smokiness that can sometimes blow your socks off.

Zuger’s is famous for its ice-cream sundaes and neither of us could resist, although we did decide to share … which was a good job because it was huge!

This was called a Coupe Jacques, which had vanilla and strawberry ice-cream and fresh fruits. It was soooo good – I was in heaven for the 5 minutes it took me to demolish my half.

As well as buying some nice clothes in town, I also received a couple of cookbooks that I sent off for. For the month of August I’m challenging myself to follow one new recipe a month, so I thought that I should find some new recipes to explore.

I’ve had a flick through both of the books and it looks like there are some delicious recipes to try out. The trouble is that I don’t know which one to try first!

If you own either of these books, which recipes do you recommend?

Who is your best shopping buddy and why?

I’m truly exhausted after my shopping trip, so I’m going to completely chill this evening. I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!