Festive post at Borough Market!
Today was a beautiful winters Sunday afternoon, its about time I-Sammii, got my festive cheer on! Being the lazy person that I am on weekends, where it's a time for me to operate 3 times slower than normal, I headed on up 10 minutes down the road to Borough Market!
Borough market has a whole host of different traders, the main attraction is of course being the food stalls!
The first stall I hit was the mulled wine one- great start to get my festive mode switched on I think!
It was £3.50 for a cup of mulled wine!
After sipping on mulled wine for 10 minutes I wasn't sure if it was the hot drink that made me feel warm inside, or was it the cheeky alcohol? Either way I was on a festive high! ;D
I was a bit disappointed with the Christmas lights however, I thought that the place would be more decorated.
Cheese, cheese and more cheese!! :D They have ALOT of cheese stalls, and free samples to try out! Great compliment to my mulled wine ^^
The one that particularly caught my tastebuds was the cheese pictured above called the Comte Grande Reserve (I think) I will have to come back to this place just to buy me a slab of this!
After snacking on cheese and wine and walking round the stalls it was time for a proper meal, I decided to try out this Ethiopian stall called Ethiopian Flavours.
You could choose between chicken or lamb, I chose the lamb, and also 3 side dishes to go with it!
I did enjoy the lamb, it was very flavoursome, the good thing about this dish was that it was all gluten free! A good thing for the gluten free trend that is going on these days. On the whole however I wouldn't buy it again, it reminded me of a sloppy school dinner, and the vegetables were cooked too soft, the whole thing ran into one consistency.
What comes after a main course?
Of course desserts1 :)
Carrying on with my gluten free meal, I decided to try out the Free From Bakehouse- all their products being gluten free!
I went for the Salted Caramel and Plum cupcake which was priced at £2.50. It is also vegan! Anyway I am glad I am not a vegan or suffer from any gluten allergies, as gluten free cupcakes just don't have the softness of all glut cupcakes!
With it being the festive season and all I also got a mince pie! It always baffled me how it was called a 'mince' pie with the pie having no mince in it at all and how mince pies are actually sweet and not savoury, like the name suggests.
The mince pie was way too sweet for me, sweeter than normal mince pies. Big thumbs down.
I really enjoyed this stall, the Christmas pudding stall! The lady gave me a free sample too and it was gorgeous! The packaging of these Christmas pudding make it the perfect Christmas gift if you're going to visit a relative or a friend.
I know this post is coming out more than a month since Christmas has passed, that is mostly due to me being very lazy, but I hope everyone had a great Christmas break :) Mine was filled with food and family and friends, I think I may have had 3 Christmas dinners in 24 hours too! Oh well its that season for food and to be jolly ( well before the new years resolution of going on a diet kicks in! xD)
Post written by Sammii
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