Eat - Shop - Repeat

In this week's Eat - Shop - Repeat, it's all about crop tops and baking failures - hence the "stolen" picture of the lemon squares!

EAT : It must be psychological in some way, because every year around this season I find myself craving lemony desserts. Either it is cupcakes, cookies or plain old ice-cream, if it is lemon flavoured, I'm into it!! So I tried myself to make Lemon Squares (link) - for the second time! And I failed - for the second time! This recipe just doesn't want to be made right and though it tasted so lemony and buttery and perfect, it looked like it had been in a car accident - and smelled kind of funny too! I don't know what's going on, but I'll confine myself to cupcakes from now on!

SHOP : I'll also put the blame on the warm weather for this shopping splurge that happened last week. Whenever I was in a shop and there were crop tops on sight, I just saw red lights and something was beeping in my head, saying "Target Locked"!! So I gave in, with good measure, and got only two! The one on the left (link) caught my eye during a casual walk, when I randomly found myself in H&M. The right (link) one is from Pink Woman, a shop in The Mall Athens, that I always passed by but never went in.. seems like I'll be visiting it again!!

The Body Shop Coconut Shower Cream

So as I said in the previous post, the gift my friend gave me contained two lovely coconuty products from The Body Shop. This is the Coconut Shower Cream and it's the one I was most excited to try out from the two.

This product has a thick creamy consistency, much like a body lotion, and it reminds me greatly of coconut milk, mostly because it smells exactly like it!! The scent lingers on the skin for a little while and for someone obsessed with scents with coconuty notes, like me, this is a must have product! I really like it layered under my body lotion and perfume - which of course have coconut in them!!

One thing that is a little bit tricky about it, is that it doesn't foam up easily. Because of how thick it is, this needs a lot of water to create a decent foam. Something to be expected, as it is a shower cream! And that's the only con about it.

Putting this little downside aside, this product provides another thumbs up for The Body Shop. It has a luxurious feel to it and with the virgin coconut oil that it has, it is actually good for your skin!

The Body Shop Lip Butter in Coconut

If you'd ask me a week ago about The Body Shop Lip Butter, I would definately and directly respond with a "naaaah". But that was a week ago and now I'm a changed person!!

Last time I tried these Lip Butters - a long long time ago, they were sticky and shiny and after all not really moisturising.. But thanks to a good friend, this improved (?) version fell into my hands as a birthday gift and I am totally in love with it!!

The formula is very smooth and glides on the lips easily, leaving a satin finish with little shine. It has no colour to it which I really like for a lip butter and it's not at all sticky. I find it really good for my lips as it moisturises them perfectly and it even leaves my finger with which I applied it, feeling very smooth and not greasy!!

Now leaving all the standard criteria aside, let's talk about the scent!! It's coconut of course and I'm telling you.. I could smell this all day!! It smells like coconut water mixed with a tiny bit of vanilla - or something sweet and warm anyway - and it's really addictive!

There's nothing more to be said about it.. The Body Shop and this product in particular gets a wholeheartedly thumbs up from me, plus a wink because it's coconut and it makes me think of summer!!

p.s. The gift my friend gave me included another coconuty product, which I'll tell you all about in the next post!!

Eat - Eat - Repeat

As you can tell by the title.. this post is all about food!! I pondered for a minute to add a little bit of "Shop" in here but who am I kidding?! This place and the food there is so perfect that anything else would be a diversion!

I'm talking about New York Sandwiches (link), a little place at Ampelokipoi, hidden near Mesogion street. It's one of these places that you pass by but never notice, which is a pity really because I can tell you, I had the best burger of my life in there.

I wanted to go for a long time, as I had read about it in many articles - all saying about the great sandwiches and burgers this place has to provide - and the time at last came.. Here I am standing outside with great anticipation and awe!!

I had a BBQ burger, which at first look didn't seem much, but it proved itself from the first bite. The fries coming with the burger were oh so great and I tried to eat all of them even though I was so. (Attention, picture of the burger coming up)

All in all this place is a must-go, great food, great prices and a very nice set up with a New York essence lingering all over the place. I will definitely be going back for more, maybe one of the hyped sandwiches this time!! One thing you should have in mind though, this place is small.. like.. really small!! So let's hope for a remodelling of this place, or I am surely prepared to fight for a seat!!