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Treats for your Valentine

Treats for your Valentine

Heart-shaped Raspberry Lime Curd Tart Ingredients: 350g shortcrust pastry 3 egg yolks 125g caster Sugar 50g unsalted butter, melted 250 ml half-fat crème fraiche 2 tbsp plain flour 1 lime, zested and juiced 150g raspberries Cream or Ice Cream to serve Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Roll out the pastry on a floured surface to ½ [...]

Cake and shake: Completely Wonderful cafe

Cake and shake: Completely Wonderful cafe

Neatly tucked away on Welton Road, behind Sainsbury’s and en route to the co-op, Completely Wonderful cafe is somewhat of a hidden gem. On a fresh Saturday morning we set about trying out some of their ‘cakes and shakes’. Though it often appears closed from the outside, ‘Completely Wonderful’ is in fact very much open [...]

The Living Room launches a new Autumn/Winter menu that won’t disappoint

The Living Room launches a new Autumn/Winter menu that won’t disappoint

With Christmas approaching The Living Room offers up a new Autumn / Winter menu that, whilst probably out of the the range of most student budgets, offers the perfect semi-decadent offering for when the parents come up to stay and treat their hard-working children. Don’t let the name deceive you – the Living Room has [...]

Mission for muscles

Mission for muscles

In today’s body-conscious society, protein shakes are becoming more and more popular amongst young people. With protein shakes for women now being advertised, it seems that it’s not just men who turn to the magical shakes to help them on their quest for a perfect body. But do they actually work? LS2’s Jack Cummings and [...]