London 2012 Olympic games recap: photos from the Olympic tennis.

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This year London has seen a summer like no other. From the Diamond jubilee through to the Paralympics there have been so many parties and celebrations and such perfect sunny weather which have charged Londoners with positive energy, you can actually see people smiling on the streets.

And you know what? I am one of them, I am still excited about the Olympics and the fact that I got to work on them at Wimbledon is just the highlight of my year.  It really was an amazing experience.

Now just minutes before the Paralympics opening ceremony starts, I would like to share with you, the photographs I took while working at the Olympics, I have resized them because they are so many, but if any of you would really like a full size photo of any of the players, I will be happy to email them to you. Just leave me a comment at the bottom of the post.

Working at Wimbledon during the Olympic games has taught me many things, amongst them I learnt that I kind of love tennis, and that sport journalism is not as much of a boy’s club as I thought.  In fact I wouldn’t mind doing some of that again in the future. I hope you enjoy seeing these pictures and that you enjoy watching the Paralympics.

Thanks for stopping by, Maria X

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Wahaca arrives to London’s Southbank centre today

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Crowds fled to the Southbank centre to celebrate Wahaca’s new opening, the experimental Mexican restaurant, built out of eight recycled shipping containers.

Thomasina Miers, founder of the Wahaca restaurants and presenter of Mexican Food made simple, has designed a new menu which boasts with mouth watering specials such as the Salmon ceviche, the slow cooked  ‘carnitas’ and the traditional street tacos.

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The Chocolate Festival is in London this weekend

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This weekend the Chocolate Festival is taking place in London Southbank centre where I am  heading off to now. If you are looking for something to do; go and check it out because is brilliant.

Visit the Chocolate festival’s page  here, if you would like to find out more :)

For now I leave you with some photos from the previous festival. Enjoy!

Have a great weekend *-*

Simple pastry, vegetarian courgette tart

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Last week for my ‘Food on Fridays’ column I cooked a vegetarian tart with, courgette, sweet corn, spinach and tomato, in puff pastry.  It was delicious and the best part, it was ready in less than half an hour.

I also mention why sometimes tinned fruit and veg, are sometimes better than what we consider as fresh alternatives.

Oh, and for dessert the simplest fruit tarts you will ever see. I hope you try cooking them and enjoy them.

 

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Would you ask for a doggy bag? Poll results

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The moment all of you, well some of you, have been waiting for…..  The ‘Doggy bag’ poll results, has arrived.

First of all, I would like to thank all of you for voting, on my poll it was very insightful.

A few weeks ago I read an article by Susie Mesure  in The Independent website, about how much food do restaurants throw away, and although is nothing new, it got me thinking why is there so much waste.  Then after a little bit of research I found an article on The Evening Standard by Priscilla Pollara where they say that ‘Doggy Bags are so tomorrow’.

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Peter Lawrence interview on drought resistant plants, colour trends and talking trees

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Yes drought has hit the UK, and there may be a hosepipe ban coming our way, but that does not mean that we cannot make use of our gardens, Peter Lawrence explains.

He is going to tell us which colours have been selling more at The Secret Garden Nursery, where he works, and he will show us which plants we can grow in these dry weather conditions.

Also stay tuned if you like to know more about talking trees.

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Stop buying more than you need!

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Food waste may be something that you hear about constantly but Media outlets keep on talking  about it, because it KEEPS HAPPENING.  For that reason I am now ranting: Stop buying more than you need!

In 2008 Martin Hickman wrote an article for the Independent saying: “Britain throws away £10bn of food every year.”  

You would have thought that those reports would be enough to make a change? Well, it appears that not much has changed.  Rebecca Smithers, wrote for The Guardian that 7.2m tonnes of food that is thrown away annually could have been eaten. Where as Anna-Louise Taylor, wrote for the BBC that 4.4m tonnes of that comes from British Households.

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