Eating Bangor

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2012-04-04T05:05:00.000-07:00

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2012-02-28T17:00:00.000-08:00

This Spanish Influenced little cafe is hidden on the high street. From the outside it looks small and dainty. As you walk in the image in your mind stays and with its welcoming and charming staff mixed with the chilled out ambiance its a great establishment.

Tapas

As your relaxing in the european set up waiting to be served you look around and see the simplicity with a modern edge of this cafe.

A friendly waitress made her way to our table and we made our order, after having to change mine twice I finally ordered. I've never been so relaxed waiting for my food. Jerri ordered a tapas and I ordered a Beef burger. When Everything arrived it looked amazing and fresh. Jerri's Tapas was so colorful with steam fresh Ciabatta bread. My burger was fresh, greatly cooked with nice crispy chips. Has to be the first time I've eaten burger and chips without sauce, and by doing that I realised the great taste this dish had. YUM! As you can see that it was a very well presented dish and a great sized portion. But i couldn't get over how amazing Jerr's Tapas was. Full of colour and fresh fruits and vegetables.

Moving on to deserts I had a Malteaser Cake, which was very nice but the icing was very rich and I couldn't eat it :/ It was more than a helpful serving which I was more than happy to receive. It was warmed up for me to, which I guess, was done with a microwave which was a great contrast to my cold ice cream. Jerri had a carrot cake which was a very well presented.

Very nice Food to round up a very good evening. On My suggestion list by far. Very nice establishment with a great set up and staff. Must go if you haven't been before

Service: ****
L&S*: ****
Money: ***
Quality: *****

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Slaughter House Cruelty MUST STOP!

2012-02-28T06:17:00.004-08:00

This should be stop, loving meat eater like won't turn vegetarian but I still think that animals shouldn't be treated like so.

Yr Hen Glan (yellow)

2012-02-21T18:30:00.000-08:00

So its the usual scenario. I'm Hungry and so is Jerri so we decided to pop into "Yellow" (Yr Hen Glan) for a drink and food. To our inconvenience the cook was on his break and we had to wait a while for food until the cook had his break, fair enough we had a game of pool to waste time, after a long wait we ordered food and waited for it to be served. Warning you now, it wasn't a pleasant visit :(

For a starter, there was something in Jerri's Ice in her coke, Not saying its the pub's fault because I dont know how if they're ice is produced there or bought in but it set the tone for our time there this evening. After waiting a while fo our food (think it seemed longer because of the cooks break) my Hunter Chicken came over with no peas :/ which clearly stated in the menu I would receive on the plate, but far from bothered because I was hungry I scoffed it down and was very enjoyable... well the chicken was. Jerri's Chips were cold and mine i found we're warm...ish... but far from fresh :/

The trend of disappointment followed into the dessert we bought when the waitress couldn't find spoons, so we were given a fork to eat, now I had their iScream Sunde, ice cream and a fork.... I suposed I managed. then the next issue arise when Jerri had a dirty mark on her plate, which was sent back and another one was brought back for her :)

Jerri aslo wanted to me to state she didn't have enough Ice Cream with her desert, now I think she was just being greedy, so ill change this to a shout out to her :)

So all in all, The Yellow was a bad experience this time round, but I must asure you I have enjoyed the pub far to many times to count on both hands, for Cheap drinks on a tuesday to food with friends but on this day they we're just not up to scratch but im sure they'll sort that out :D

This is me Jason, Logging out

Service: **
L&S*: ****
Money: ***
Quality: **

*Location & Surrounding;

Sweet and Sour Chicken Stir Fry with Noodles

2012-02-10T05:02:00.000-08:00

How Can I Turn All Of This...

...Into Something Tasty :)

Easy :) like this :)

Step one; Chop the Onions, white and red, and add them to the stir fry packet. and leave

Step two; Right whack a pan on the hob, teaspoon of oil and boom throw the chopped up chicken in. Fry gently until nice and golden (make sure its all cooked through). Add in the stir fry and jobs a good one!

Stepp three: In a small saucepan put the sweet and sour sauce in bring to a boil then lower the temperature so it simmers at the right temperature whilst you finishing everything off.

Step four; plate the chicken stir fry on a plate just before you bang on the noodles. Fry them for literally 2 minutes. (think you warming them up) keep them moving all the time and bash on the plate.

Step 5: Pour sauce on top of the stir fry and serve Job Done :)

Only Tip serve the plate straight away or the noodles wont be nice! :/ otherwise save the noodles until ready to plate :)

TADA! :D

Yum!!

Enjoy!

Parc Britannia, Bangor (Table Table)

2012-02-07T19:00:00.000-08:00

I made my way to Parc Britannia in Parc Menai. This establishment has changed hands and owners so many times and yet still been a very well ran Restaurant/Pub and became a favorite dinning place of mine and Jerri's. On that note me and Jerri made our way to Parc Britannia For a wham bam three course meal :D TASTY!

On out arrival we ordered a cocktail to drink whilst waiting for our food and this is how my meal went. We made our way to select and available table, where we made our decision on our meal, where I made my way to the bar to where I was greeted with great service and welcoming hospitality.

My cocktail choice was a Pimm's cocktail. This drink is wired. Who puts strawberries, lime, lemon and cucumber in a drink, ill tell you who, Pimm's, with lemonade and I swear to you...Its good. Just Pimm's on it own with lemonade on its own doesn't do it for me, but add random fruit and veg into it and boom its nice. I know what your saying, Jason that doesn't make sense and ill agree but ill have another one :)

Pimms and lemonade with orange, lemon and strawberries

For Starter i braved for Sticky Chicken Goujons, I say braved, Chicken is always a safe bet and boy they were nice; The sauce thats drizzled on the chicken is just so sweet and taste so good, It Physically makes you want more. With a little garnish salad on the side, its a great tasty dish to get you in the mood for a proper meal, On to the next one...

Battered chicken strips coated in a spiced caramel glaze. Served with a lightly dressed salad garnish

For my main I had Chicken and BBQ Ribs Combo. I went for the 'same' kind of dish so I wouldn't mess up my taste pallet as well deep down I knew this platter included the Sticky Goujons I had fo my starter ;) (I've been here before i know what im doing) This dish comes with chips, coleslaw and a BBQ dip as you can see below. This dish is a 'get you fingers dirty' dish. The ribs are well cooked where the meat falls off the bone and very juicy and tender in your mouth and better yet there's plenty of meat, non of this scraping every piece of meat you can find. With the cold and what seemed to be a homemade coleslaw which had a nice creamy texture and crunch, YUM, just like mam's :D Complemented with nice Chunky Chips, this dish will dill you up and satisfy your expectations. TASTY.

Sticky battered chicken goujons and a half rack of smoky maple BBQ ribs. Served with chunky chips, coleslaw and BBQ sauce

(I had a Full Rack)

For desert me and Jerri Shared a Ultimate Sharing Sundae, Now I will admit ive eaten this dish on my own and with the help of Jerri... Well i didnt feel like sharing to be honest ;) but this bowel of colossal sweetness is great. You can see what was in it from the image below as well as in the caption it says whats in it, but I kid you not this dessert portion has so many calories its rude to say no. With different textures and temperatures I just love it. If your going with your other half, its a great one to get but if your on your own, Man up be a LAD and get it down ya! Great Dish I WANT MORE YUM!

Vanilla and Belgian chocolate truffle ice cream, profiteroles, chocolate fudge brownie, warm chocolate flavour fudge sauce, chocolate crunch, flakes and a whip of cream

All night the staff we're great around us always ready to help and im now sitting here thinking back on my night there with Jerri, the only issue i could think of is that... I had no signal to call a cab :/ but as a great place it is I got to borrow their phone to call one! WINNER. As I've just said im finding it hard to even think of a bad point of the night but now there is one thing and its not only here that does this but if it wasn't because I love them it wouldnt be and issue, Onion Rings.... In a nut shell, they weren't proper onion in batter fried and unless its not it isn't onion rings... of my standard anyway.

I will be going back i hope they'll do something about there onion rings ;)

ciao for now

Service: *****
L&S*: ****
Money: ***
Quality: ****

*Location & Surrounding;

Oscars Lounge Bar & Restaurant

2012-02-01T19:00:00.000-08:00

So I ventured to the new Oscars Lounge Bar & Restaurant;

My first Impression; Its modern, sleek, shiny and very classy. You walk in through the bar area and make you way up stairs to the restaurant section. We were seated by a very friendly female host, after taking our drinks order, we were told to help our selfs to the all you can eat Indian which we had come in to try, Game on!
I started off with a plate of onion bhaji, poppadom and mango chutney, along with Chicken Tikka Strips fried with onion. Now it was nice dont get me wrong but sometime i just hate the hassle of 'All you can eat' Now my plan was to have this random selection plate, followed by a small portion of chicken tikka with pilau rice and then Chicken korma with the same side, but we were restricted to one plate, the initial problem occurred when I had Chutney all over my plate, I didn't want chutney with my tikka or korma so I had an issue that i resolved.....with....Naan Bread :)

My own selected 'starter' was very nice and plenty of flavor and very tasty so I moved on to the korma, Now you know how much of a sucker I am for a korma but this one didn't please me for some reason. Dont get me wrong it was very nice but there was this taste which came through, Im not sure what it was but it didn't please me very much, I found it very off putting having this taste I couldn't pin point nor was I used to having it in my korma. On that note I found the korma a disappointment for me :( at this point I moved on to the chicken tikka. At the end of my korma dish, I had way too much sauce so this ment I had to find a cunning plan of getting myself a nice clean plate without them realising it. My super spy lessons payed off and I was heading towards the buffet with a clean plate ready for my tikka. Tikka was nice, nothing WOW about it, just an usual tikka that was nice. I think the mistake I did here was going to indian in such short space of time.

Being a tad disappointed with my korma and the non WOW factor that was available I enjoyed my time in oscars We had dessert again where we found myself having the same dessert as I did in Spicy Vujon , Completely the same and i was just as disappointed as I was last time. One dessert that the group had was literally a screw ball ice cream turned on its head and the chewing gum gone, This is all it was, she paid £3(ish) for a screwball. I was very disappointed. Jerri ordered a banana split, which was more like banana in cream.... :/ AWKWARD

So all in all i liked the Oscars as place, great set up, food was great despite the disappointing korma. I hope dessert standard isn't a trend all Indian Restaurant do have because it just brings down my night. SORT IT OUT. But all in all avoid the dessert to maintain good moral and its a great place to visit with all you can eat at £8, its not 2 shabby :)

This is Jason reporting form oscars TTFN

Keep reading :)

Service: ***
L&S*: ***
Money: ***
Quality: **

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January Pace To Go Award

2012-01-31T07:02:00.000-08:00

Hey Guys,

Now i was thinking as im going around munching on different food i might aswel state which one was my best, Dont you think? so from now on ill inform everyone which restaurant/cafe i enjoyed the most that month

So the Winner For January 2012 is....

THE ANTELOPE

With their fine food and great service the tip my place for this Month. With great views of the surrounding area this is a no brainer, Students, save your money and treat yourself! Its a place you'd want to dine!

Perfectly situated on the straights

Proud Antelope stands firm as logo of the Pub

Great View from the Pub

Good Food good Deals, Bargain

Student Cooking

2012-01-30T05:24:00.000-08:00

Chicken and bacon Carbonara with fried Garlic Ciabatta

Fast, simple and cost effective, this dish will serve two, or three on a push, and for student it will be cheap as chips! So lets get started; These will be all the ingredients you wil need, I've got the prices from asda as they're the cheapest of the major supermarkets at the moment all of this costs £11.84 between two, £5.92 each? Now that's not bad. Lets move on to cooking... :)
Read all of this before cooking, I have some tips in there for you :)

Ok then so other additional things you will need are a tea spoon of oil and a table spoon of butter at the ready.

Step 1. Boil the Pasta, You can use any pasta, I choose the wholewheat one only because its healthier and at least we can try and balance out a healthy diet with all the consumption of alcohol we will be doing. Pop the Pasta on the hob and let it boil for about 10/15 minutes (keep an eye on it and constantly stir, don't want burnt pasta). When cooked, drain through the colander and run cold water through the pasta, still in the colander, and leave at the side until ready for use.

Tip 1. When boiling anything pop the kettle on to get boiling water straight away BUT dont put the water in a cold saucepan, stick the pan on the hob for a little while just before the water is reaching boil in the kettle then transfer into the saucepan to maintain heat of the water

Tip 2. Add salt to the water. Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius, the boiling point of water will increase 1.5 degree celsius for every 58 grams of salt thats in it! Now I'm not saying go wild with the salt but more salt = higher temperature = Faster cooking rate of the pasta. A teaspoon will do.

Step 2. Right, whilst the pasta is cooking you need to prepare the meat, I prefer the chicken cut into small cubes. Throw them in the pan with the pre-heated oil and fry them, season well. Chop up the bacon into small bits and leave on the side. Making sure the chicken is cooked properly (Chicken is a dangerous meat to eat not cooked properly, it's not beef) then add the bacon into the mix when 100% sure the chicken is cooked through properly. Lightly cook the bacon, when done pull off the heat.

Tip 3. For efficiency and practicality i've bought a pair of 'cooking scissors' to cut up my meat into desired sizes.
Step 3. Pour the carbonara sauce into the pan with the cooked meat and let simmer for a while before adding the pasta. Let simmer at low heat if there isn't much sauce make sure you keep stirring but there should be enough, you need to add in the pasta next.

Tip 4. If there isnt enough suace or 2 much sauce in the bot, indstead of using water, use milk since carbonara is milk based and it keeps the creamy texture of the sauce where as water will thin it down.

Step 4. Add the Pasta like there is no tomorrow. Stir the entire mixture in the pan until the pasta : chicken : bacon ratio is even. Leave on the hob for a bit longer to re-heat the pasta and keep on a low temperature (Keep stirring)

Step 5. Chop the Ciabatta in half working down the thin edge of the bread so that you have two big flat pices of bread, now cut again to more desirable shape or size if need be. Now add the 2 Table spoons of butter into the frying pan, once melted sprinkle lightly the Garlic salt over the melted butter. when done add your Ciabatta into the frying pan and fry gently at maximum power ensuring the butter gets on ever part of the Ciabatta bread. Once done remove and place on a plate.

Step 6. Pour the Carbonara into a bowl and serve hot with a slice of Ciabatta bread and enjoy :)

Again not mine but i will update all of my cooking as i go along, but as you can see you can use any pasta you might want in your Carbonara

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2012-01-27T03:03:00.000-08:00

Ginsters Meat Feast.....

One Is enough :)

Tasty! :)

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Spicy Vujon Bangor

2012-01-20T19:00:00.000-08:00

Indian Is far from being my favorite only because I'm scared to try hot things, everything I eat, has to be mild, I can't go through the sweating and the fierce gasping of air. In fact a Chicken Tikka is my limit! Which I'm quite disappointed about because I can't have a real taste and experience of food that India has to offer.

But to be fair I am a sucker for a good Korma! So with the reassurance of Jerri, Spicy Vujon Special Chicken Korma with pilau rice, plain naan bread which followed after 2 poppadoms... each ")

After the poppadoms with mango and mint sauce, which i fell in love with, the mango more than the mint, we were served our main. The waiter bought our food on a trolly, admittedly never seen a waiter and a trolly before, I am not going to lie I thought to myself...he's a little lazy isn't he, but then i remembered we had a table of 9 and if I had a trolly when I used to work as a waiter...I'd take it any day of the week... Moving on.

Now please comment upon this, the factor is, me and Jerri, we shared a portion of rice, which was fine but you know that moment you have nice food in front of you with plenty of sauce but u need rice to eat it with and you realise it is on Jerri's plate, not your own and then you come to the conclusion that sharing rice wasn't a good idea in an indian even though she convinced you it's 'what you do in an Indian' But as stated my korma was1st class, with amazing texture and just made me want more! With the colourful rice, it was a very beautiful dish. Not being very experimental with my indian ( I will soon I promise) I had the plain naan which I used to soak up my korma sauce (since I didn't have enough rice) and it tasted so good. Very Rich and Full of taste! YUM! I will be going there again

Dessert was to follow, but very disappointing :( for one, the outer chocolate shell over my ice cream was cracked, and it was literally out of a pot. No 'cooking' at all :( makes me sad :( but then again it was nice :( i wanted something made for me, SORT IT OUT SPICY VUJON otherwise im only having the curry -_-

Summary;
Great Service with polite waiters, Location wasn't the best, I like to sit out of the window and watch the world go by, even though it was bangor, there wasn't a world going by and I wasn't directly next to the window. It was expensive but i've realised it's the trend of an Indian restaurant ( I could be wrong). But you do get great quality and service but shame about the dessert :(

Service: ***
L&S*: **
Money: **
Quality: ****

*Location & Surrounding;

Errr

2012-01-19T11:23:00.000-08:00

I do apologize that my grammar and english isn't 100% but I'm on the case :)

Somone marking my Blog whilst eating Obviously

Chicken

2012-01-18T17:31:00.000-08:00

There are more chickens on earth than humans.

America eats 8 billion chickens a year.

In the U.S. 46% of all chicken eaten is consumed in restaurants.

Americans eat 80 pounds of chicken per capita, which is more than beef at 63 pounds per capita.

Hooters restaurants sell 30 million pounds of chicken wings each year. That is enough to circle the earth at the equator.

A headless chicken can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.

Chicken has to be without a shadow of a doubt the most popular and cheapest meat on the market! For this reason it has been used in so many dishes all over the world, and not only does this simple animal produce us this simple yet versatile meat, it pops out eggs as well! Now on the whole i cant say I like the look of a chicken but put that poor creature on my plate and ill say see ya :)

Cooking Secret: I always find it hard to shape my chicken, because its full of fiber strings going across its hard to cut a 'perfect' cube shaped pice of chicken, or if its a poor quality, then its hard to cut it into thin strips etc. So what I do is boil them :) Now i mainly cook with chicken breast so i boil the chicken in a lightly salted pan for about 10 minutes tops, no more. Then because the chicken becomes tender and firm, i can shape it into tidy strips or shapes as i want to, then i usually fry it in choose flavours or whatever i had planned for dinner :) If the Chicken inside is undercook dont worry, you're going to continue to cook it, either be boiling or frying, grilling and this will cook the rest of the chicken through still giving you the perfect chicken in the way you want it.

Nicely Shaped Chicken

Dish; Just like Cornels:

2 TS of Mixed Herbs

2 TS of Jerk Chicken Seasoning

1 TS of Salt&Peper (one Each)

1 TS of Flour

1 TS of Garlic Granules

Bowl of Milk

Pre Heat you Deep Fat fryer to Maximum. Mix all the seasoning and the flour together well.
With your pieces chicken simply dip them into the milk before ~~tarnsfering~~ transferring them to the the seasoning plate, where you will cover the chicken making sure every sector is ~~coverd~~ covered with seasoning.
Then simply lower the chicken carefully into the fryer, watching out for splashing oil.
Continue these steps until all chicken is in the fryer ensuring you dont over fill the fryer. Let the chicken fry freely in the oil until it is floating on the surface of the oil, once the chicken pieces are floating there are done.
Quickly remove the chicken into a bowel with kitchen paper to drain out the oil.
After a minute or so serve with plenty of sauce and enjoy chicken, Just Like Cornels.

Not My Dish Guys But Once I Get A Chance To Upload My Image I Will

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Mikes Bites

2012-01-18T11:49:00.000-08:00

There is no secret why student love Mikes Bites, after spending £40 in £ap in Yellow (I know what your thinking how? One round cost me £24 :/ ) I was well on my way for a hangover, so after a moider on the phone with mother me, Jerri, Anna and Steve made our way to Mikes Bites.

Hangover Heaven. It's not too often you can go to a cafe and find food you would at home, simple full english fry up breakfast, WOW. Hangover cure; now not being a fan of mushrooms, a hash brown was used to replace instead, and the portion served is brilliant! After stuffing that down with a large mug of tea, it's a great place to chill out and enjoy watching Bangor move on by!

It's never rare to find ~~simplisty~~ simplicity, fully satisfying anyone, but the people at Mikes Bites do it so well, I would advise anyone wanting a good slap up meal at fair prices to go Mikes and even more so to cure the post-night hangover. Mikes 1-0 Hangover ...Ill be back soon ;) : D

Service: **
L&S*: ***
Money: ***
Quality: **

*Location & Surrounding;

STUDENT APPROVED

Mostyn

2012-01-18T11:01:00.000-08:00

Im sure my first pint was in Varsity £ap. Now everyone who's ever been to Varsity, on a Thursday night in bangor will know...It's not the best pint in the world and this put me off lager big time. Now with cider as my drinking weakness I grew up and developed a bitter taste and now, older and wiser, a good cold lager can be very ~~refeshing~~ refreshing. After a night in Mostyn I can officially say it's very close in being the best lager I've ever had! It's such an enjoyable pub. Very well kept, so homely and inviting. It was so good that im going to make Mostyn a 'treat' I very much enjoyed it and cant wait to go back and enjoy it again :)

Mostyn, my Treat

Service: ****
L&S*: ***
Money: ***
Quality: *****

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Random 1

2012-01-17T08:03:00.000-08:00

Greggs...

Sausage, bean and cheese pasty ...

One is Just Not Enough...

Steve Hughes (tuesday 17.Jan.2012)

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Antelope, Bangor

2012-01-15T12:00:00.000-08:00

So here I begin my ~~journy~~ journey, and we begin with The Antelope.

Situated nicely on the menai straight with a great view of the island! Well nice! As an islander it was nice to see where I call home on this beautiful frosty day over the straight.

With great location, the inside is just as good, with polite and helpful service and great chilled out atmosphere.

I started with Sticky BBQ Chicken Wings as Jerri got Prawn Salad. The wings were so much hassle free, I don't know if I got lucky with the ~~pices~~ pieces I got but I tell you something I striped the chicken off, which tasted great, with full flavour in the BBQ sauce to go with the honey and mustard dipping sauce and a small garnish. LOVED IT. Jerri's Prawn salad wasn't bad either, very light but annoyed I couldn't get the small prawns on my fork :? I'll work on it!

Now for my lasagne; I ordered chips to go with the meal (I didn't need it) plenty on the plate, but I did get extra garlic bread. :p With garlic bread as my guilty pleasure I enjoyed every little bit of the meal! Great homemade lasagne with no decorations. Just here it is, eat it...and I did :p as well as Jerri's Cod, light flakey fish in light batter! YUM! Lovely

What better way to finish a 3 course meal than with an Apple Pie? TASTY! To be honest it took me ages to decide to either have Custard or Ice Cream, and in the end with the only logical reasoning I had in my head I choose Custard, why? Because I'm 20 and only little children have ice cream -_- (Damn You Mam Making Me Grow Up!) But Never the less it was very enjoyable; I just wanted more, but my evolved ~~stomatche~~ stomach made to eat wouldn't have any of it :( but never the less it was very enjoyable.

And on that note as I sat there drinking my chill-out lager, deciding how to get home, with no signal on my phone it came to my ~~conclution~~ conclusion, except for the fact I had no signal, this place isn't bad at all to come and just relax and enjoy someones company such as Jerri. I can not at all hesitate for a second that, The Antelope is a place I woud suggest to a friend, or anyone, to go and enjoy food. :) I'll be going back :)

Service: ***
L&S*: *****
Money: ***
Quality: ***

*Location & Surrounding;

From The Beginning

2012-01-14T22:30:00.000-08:00

So I'm Chilling and Thinking of all the things mam always told me about me;

"Jason, You're a Human Dustbin!!"
"Jason, You Should of Done Catering GCSE not Graphic Design"
"Jason, Why Don't You Become a Chef? You're Useless at Football"
"So What Have You And Steve Cooked Today Then?"

Then i Thought What My Girlfriend Says To Me;

"Jason, Can You Make Me Food?"
"But Jason, You Always Cook For Me"
"I Bought You a Spice Rack, Fed Up Of All These Small Pots In My Cupboard"
"Jason, You're An Alcoholic"

Then I Thought What Do i Watch On Tv When I'm Home With Mam;

-Man V's Food
-Ace of Cakes
-Cake Boss
-Ready Steady Cook
-Come Dine With Me (Convinced i could Win This!)

So I decided to become Eating Bangor where I will Go round Giving my opinion on What I'll consume and I'll be posting about random things I'll cook and whip up, especially now I have a smoothie maker...or a food processor I manipulate .... But Yeah :)