I’m Anne-Marie Smith – my passion is recycling, upcycling, design and craft. I have a studio (garage) full of vintage (or junk as my husband likes to call it). I’m a whizz at organising events (bossy). Oh and I love food whether that’s cooking, bottling, baking or eating it!

tea & toast & tapas is a lifestyle blog and online shop stuffed full of ideas, inspirations and handmade loveliness.

No 14 is the biggest upcycling and design project I’ve undertaken here. An original wooden chalet restored and updated but still retaining that seaside chalet feel with lots of vintage touches. Available to rent from Easter 2021 subject to campsite opening dates and Covid 19 restrictions (Contact for Details on Bookings)

The Pop-Up Artisan Market is a whole new venture. An online space for creative businesses based here in the Costa Brava to promote and sell their work to a wider audience. Particularly during these difficult times when the usual places like Arts and Crafts Markets and Events are cancelled and people who would normally buy their unique and original pieces for themselves, their friends and their families from independent traders have few means of seeking them out. Its been running since November last year and we are gradually building a following and adding to our traders all the time. Do get in touch if you think this is for you!

I’m Anne-Marie Smith – my passion is recycling, upcycling, design and craft. I have a studio (garage) full of vintage (or junk as my husband likes to call it). I’m a whizz at organising events (bossy). Oh and I love food whether that’s cooking, bottling, baking or eating it!

tea & toast & tapas is a lifestyle blog and online shop stuffed full of ideas, inspirations and handmade loveliness.

No 14 is the biggest upcycling and design project I’ve undertaken here. An original wooden chalet restored and updated but still retaining that seaside chalet feel with lots of vintage touches. Available to rent from Easter 2021 subject to campsite opening dates and Covid 19 restrictions (Contact for Details on Bookings)

The Pop-Up Artisan Market is a whole new venture. An online space for creative businesses based here in the Costa Brava to promote and sell their work to a wider audience. Particularly during these difficult times when the usual places like Arts and Crafts Markets and Events are cancelled and people who would normally buy their unique and original pieces for themselves, their friends and their families from independent traders have few means of seeking them out. Its been running since November last year and we are gradually building a following and adding to our traders all the time. Do get in touch if you think this is for you!

Great British Puds

October 14, 2018 /

The Christmas diet starts on Monday. This is so I can lose a couple of pounds a week (she says hopefully) between now and the day when I consume my own body weight in Quality Street, dinner with all the trimmings, mince pies and countless other rich and very bad for me foods. Oh how lush! The Christmas diet was actually supposed to start this week but I went for a curry with all the extras.

So in anticipation of the deprivation ahead, I know that is not the right attitude but its misty and a little damp and the sun seems to have gone away so am feeling wintry, where was I? Yes in anticipation of the deprivation ahead I have been looking at all things scrummy and stodgy and so not diet food on Pinterest. Where I found this. Jam Roly Poly.

I was never a fan so much at school it was rather stodgy and the custard watery but I later discovered you can make this without suet and its much lighter but infinitely comforting with a nice thick custard.

Here is the BBC Good Food version without suet but if you want the old fashioned kind The Great British Pudding website has it and every other luscious pud you can dream of. Happy stuffing your face am going for one last hurrah over the weekend before I’m on rations!

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