What a lovely Bank Holiday it’s been! My little sister turned 18 on Friday – the cake I baked to celebrate is quite possibly my best work yet, blog post to follow – and on Saturday I strolled down to the Foodies Festival on Hove Lawns. Strolled is perhaps too casual a word to describe the journey from my house to the festival, for the wind was so strong and the waves so dramatic that I might replace it with “battled” or “fought my way along the seafront, cowering inside the hood of my raincoat”. As you can see from the picture of the Pimm’s tent, I picked the worst day weather-wise to get down there. Being British, of course, we didn’t let that get in the way of eating and drinking in the open air – although we didn’t stay as long as we might have done if it were as gloriously sunny as last year. This year, I was lucky enough to get my hands on a pair of VIP tickets, which entitled …

Last year – can I just say here, I cannot believe that it was entire year ago – I had an absolute ball at the Brighton Foodies Festival. I had just started blogging and took loads of relatively unskilled photos and wrote about them in a blog post that seems to me now as almost embarrassing.. poorly edited pics, horrific formatting, it’s got it all. My blog skills have thankfully improved somewhat over the past year though so you can look forward to this year’s post as I’ll be attending once again! The festival will be on Hove Lawns from the 2nd to the 4th of May and if you’re gonna be in town you gotta get tickets. You can buy them on their website for £13 per grown-up. Don’t want to fork out for tickets? Enter my Twitter competition and win FREE ones!   I’m giving away 2 pairs of tix to Brighton @foodiesfestival! RT this and follow us both to #WIN! pic.twitter.com/Ri4G40jwXN — Cate in the Kitchen (@catekitchen) April 22, 2015 As I’ve already …