I feel like a newscaster:

“This week in London…..”

……I BAKED SOMETHING!

Actually, two main themes: Anne Boleyn & baking.

We have had a week of all things Anne Boleyn.

1. We visited Hampton Court Palace where she lived. {You can also wear Harry Potter-esque robes, walk through a maze, and see the world’s largest vine when you visit the palace. Fun!}

2. We visited the Tower of London where she was beheaded.

3. We went back to the Globe to see the play Anne Boleyn. It’s such a fantastic play. We saw it last year, and the cast is just killer. {No pun intended.}

4. Lastly, I baked something! A galette, which is a fancy name for a free-form tart, with the discovery of English plums, store-bought pie crust, and sugar packets.

{Yes, I became a sketchy person who swipes sugar from cafes.}

How cute are English plums?

Half-price raspberries. Like the crisp earlier in the summer, this is an “add-whatever-you-got” kind of dessert. 

This is a low-sugar dessert, since I only swiped four sugar packets. I added three sugar packets and a  squeeze of lemon juice to the fruit.

I just sort of mounded the fruit in the middle of the pie crust, folded the edges over, and brushed with an egg wash {beaten egg}. I saved one sugar packet to sprinkle over the top.

I turned the oven on {I think it was 200 C.} and baked it for about half an hour. Ta-daaaa!

The beautiful thing is that they have real whipped cream and fresh mint in all the grocery stores over here. {Oh, and natural light, so my pictures of food indoors actually look good.}

My roomies and I have even been eating this for breakfast. Oh yeah.