NewcastleGateshead EAT Festival
Hi Everyone, I'm blogging this morning with a slight hangover but I've been looking forward to telling you all about last night!
Just a quick update on yesterday. I had my weekly weigh in and I've lost 2 lbs since last week so I was really chuffed. That puts me back at 9st 13 (139 lbs). I wouldn't mind losing a couple more pounds next week in preparation for my holiday but I've decided that I'm not going to stress it, especially considering what I ate and drank last night!
I headed to the gym yesterday morning and did 20 mins of cardio on the cross trainer and step machine followed by my free weights session as described in my June training plan. I had a great workout and tried out a new exercise - wood chops with medicine ball, I was really impressed with how much this worked my core muscles, particually my waist. I can really feel that workout this morning I've got DOMS across my whole upper body.
We had a big community event on at work so I got myself ready really quickly while chugging this smoothie (spinach, vanilla whey, frozen mango, frozen blueberries, kara coconut milk) down my neck.
Not a very pretty colour but really tasty!
As we were holding our community event I took along a few snacks for during the day - an apple, orange and Nutty 9 Bar.
I also ordered a turkey salad from the cafe that was doing the catering for the event, it wasn't anything special unfortunately, just 3 slices of deli turkey, cucumber, red onion and shredded iceburg lettuce. It was eaten in such a rush I never got a pic!
After work I went to my hair dressers appointment. I haven't had my hair cut since December so it was desperate for a trim. I love my hairdressers as they have a massage chair and give you a head massage while washing your hair too. They even now serve Tea Pigs tea! She did a lovely job of my hair, its not much different to how it was before, just minus the dead ends and plus a few layers.
I rushed off to my friend Charlies and we got ourselves dolled up for our night out! The evening was amazing. We both had such a brilliant time and the food and drink was fantastic. The NewcastleGateshead EAT food festival is two weeks of activities across the two towns including farmers markets, resturant events, a cupcake fair etc. The event last night was the launch of the festival and was held in the beautiful Victorian Saltwell Park in its Saltwell Towers building. The weather was lovely last night so there was lots of tables outside.
We started off with an organic Wagyu Beef Burger from a local farm in Northumberland. I had mine in a wholegrain bun with fried onions, slice of tomato, fresh salsa, spicy onion relish, organic tomato ketchup and shredded lettuce.
It was probably the most delicious burger I've ever had!
Everything during the evening was all included so we helped ourselves to a few glasses of wine - I had a few glasses of a lovely fruity red. There was a bar with a proper mixologist making up cocktails. We had this amazing cocktail called Bitter n Twisted.
I think it contained gin, lemon juice, some apple liqueur and sugar syrup. There was something sweet and sticky around the rim of the glass as well. Very alcholic but amazing! He also made some cocktails using a locally produced Sloe Gin sorbet. I'm not sure what else he added to this but it was beautiful.
We also sampled some tofu noodle broth from a local asian resturant called Barn Asia. They poured some broth over these little bowls and we ate it with chop sticks and then drank the broth.
This was fantastic! I'm definitely going to try and re create this at home. The broth was very fragrant and spicy.
We sampled some Cuban food - not sure what was in these balls but they were delicious, the other crackery things were a bit too fishy for me.
During the evening we also got to sample various canapes including Chicken Terrine, Pea Mousse with Coconut Cream, Cream Cheese with Chive Flowers and Mackerel with Chilli Jam. Unfortunately I didn't get the chance for a pic. I also tried a danish pastry iced bun and some fruit sticks from a Mad Hatters Tea Party Stall.
We also tried some of the most amazing cupcakes ever. We shared this big one, iced like a rose and the little one, as well as several other small ones.
The red velvet cakes were just fabulous. I could have ate hundreds of these, I'm glad theres no cupcake shops near me or I'd be 20 stone in no time!
Before we headed home we tried a glass of Light Ale from a local brewery in Wylam.
This had a lovely light taste and wasn't too strong. When I got home I enjoyed this bag of chocolate coins before going to bed.
A perfect way to end a perfect evening! We both said that we will definitely be coming back next year.
We had a brilliant time!
As I said at the begining of the post I'm suffering for it a little this morning! I still have my cold as well, although I'm much better, thanks for all your lovely comments to my last post. Today I'm going to make a start on packing for my hols as well as doing loads of laundry. Tomorrow, my Aunt and Uncle are coming up from Brighton so I'm having dinner at my parents (yet another reason why I'm not stressing on the weight loss for next week!) I'm also guessing that the weekend will involve lots of football, you can't really avoid it can you! I don't mind it that much, I just hope that England do well. What do you have planned for the weekend? Hope whatever your doing you have a good one!
Just a quick update on yesterday. I had my weekly weigh in and I've lost 2 lbs since last week so I was really chuffed. That puts me back at 9st 13 (139 lbs). I wouldn't mind losing a couple more pounds next week in preparation for my holiday but I've decided that I'm not going to stress it, especially considering what I ate and drank last night!
I headed to the gym yesterday morning and did 20 mins of cardio on the cross trainer and step machine followed by my free weights session as described in my June training plan. I had a great workout and tried out a new exercise - wood chops with medicine ball, I was really impressed with how much this worked my core muscles, particually my waist. I can really feel that workout this morning I've got DOMS across my whole upper body.
We had a big community event on at work so I got myself ready really quickly while chugging this smoothie (spinach, vanilla whey, frozen mango, frozen blueberries, kara coconut milk) down my neck.
Not a very pretty colour but really tasty!
As we were holding our community event I took along a few snacks for during the day - an apple, orange and Nutty 9 Bar.
I also ordered a turkey salad from the cafe that was doing the catering for the event, it wasn't anything special unfortunately, just 3 slices of deli turkey, cucumber, red onion and shredded iceburg lettuce. It was eaten in such a rush I never got a pic!
After work I went to my hair dressers appointment. I haven't had my hair cut since December so it was desperate for a trim. I love my hairdressers as they have a massage chair and give you a head massage while washing your hair too. They even now serve Tea Pigs tea! She did a lovely job of my hair, its not much different to how it was before, just minus the dead ends and plus a few layers.
I rushed off to my friend Charlies and we got ourselves dolled up for our night out! The evening was amazing. We both had such a brilliant time and the food and drink was fantastic. The NewcastleGateshead EAT food festival is two weeks of activities across the two towns including farmers markets, resturant events, a cupcake fair etc. The event last night was the launch of the festival and was held in the beautiful Victorian Saltwell Park in its Saltwell Towers building. The weather was lovely last night so there was lots of tables outside.
We started off with an organic Wagyu Beef Burger from a local farm in Northumberland. I had mine in a wholegrain bun with fried onions, slice of tomato, fresh salsa, spicy onion relish, organic tomato ketchup and shredded lettuce.
It was probably the most delicious burger I've ever had!
Everything during the evening was all included so we helped ourselves to a few glasses of wine - I had a few glasses of a lovely fruity red. There was a bar with a proper mixologist making up cocktails. We had this amazing cocktail called Bitter n Twisted.
I think it contained gin, lemon juice, some apple liqueur and sugar syrup. There was something sweet and sticky around the rim of the glass as well. Very alcholic but amazing! He also made some cocktails using a locally produced Sloe Gin sorbet. I'm not sure what else he added to this but it was beautiful.
We also sampled some tofu noodle broth from a local asian resturant called Barn Asia. They poured some broth over these little bowls and we ate it with chop sticks and then drank the broth.
This was fantastic! I'm definitely going to try and re create this at home. The broth was very fragrant and spicy.
We sampled some Cuban food - not sure what was in these balls but they were delicious, the other crackery things were a bit too fishy for me.
During the evening we also got to sample various canapes including Chicken Terrine, Pea Mousse with Coconut Cream, Cream Cheese with Chive Flowers and Mackerel with Chilli Jam. Unfortunately I didn't get the chance for a pic. I also tried a danish pastry iced bun and some fruit sticks from a Mad Hatters Tea Party Stall.
We also tried some of the most amazing cupcakes ever. We shared this big one, iced like a rose and the little one, as well as several other small ones.
The red velvet cakes were just fabulous. I could have ate hundreds of these, I'm glad theres no cupcake shops near me or I'd be 20 stone in no time!
Before we headed home we tried a glass of Light Ale from a local brewery in Wylam.
This had a lovely light taste and wasn't too strong. When I got home I enjoyed this bag of chocolate coins before going to bed.
A perfect way to end a perfect evening! We both said that we will definitely be coming back next year.
We had a brilliant time!
As I said at the begining of the post I'm suffering for it a little this morning! I still have my cold as well, although I'm much better, thanks for all your lovely comments to my last post. Today I'm going to make a start on packing for my hols as well as doing loads of laundry. Tomorrow, my Aunt and Uncle are coming up from Brighton so I'm having dinner at my parents (yet another reason why I'm not stressing on the weight loss for next week!) I'm also guessing that the weekend will involve lots of football, you can't really avoid it can you! I don't mind it that much, I just hope that England do well. What do you have planned for the weekend? Hope whatever your doing you have a good one!
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