Other - Blogmas - Day 24 & 25

Day 24 & 25 

Well we have reached the end of blogmas, it was a challenge for me to post everyday on here, and so today is a round-up of what I have posted 

Day 1 - Chocolate Orange Cookies 

Day 2 -Baileys Chocolate Review 

Day 3 - Whittards Festive Chai Black Tea Review 

Day 4 - Cooking Books Wish list 

Day 5 - Bircher Muesli 

Day 6 - Favourite Christmas Foods 

Day 7 - Girl Guiding Christmas Fate 

Day 8 - Food Cushions 

Day 9 - Christmas Mugs 

Day 10 - Photos of Christmas Items Bought 

Day 11 - Day 15 - Cookies & Bamboo's 

Day 16 - Christmas Crumpets Review 

Day 17 - My Christmas Tree 

Day 18 - Cheese Stars 

Day 19 to Day 21 – Smoked Salmon Scrambled Egg 

Day 22 – Beer questions 

Day 23 – 8 things I have learnt from blogging 

Well that is all I have done, it has been a success!! 

Some finally pictures of my plants and pre-christmas treats 

Have a great Christmas and see you guys in the New Year 

Nic xx 

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Other - Blogmas - Day 23

Day 23

It's 2 days before Christmas, as we are all busy preparing for our Christmas dinners, doing the last minute shopping. 

So in this post I will reflect of the last 8 months of this blog and what to learn in 2016

1. I can do very popular posts even if's because I shared them to a linkie
2.  Keep going at it, even though you do not get a single comment!
3. Have fun doing it that is what it's all about
4. Practice your bakes before!
5. Hopefully, get some skills from this!  
6. Improve on followers aka get a few more!!
7.  Be careful how much you bake! (I have had a week of eating bakes as nobody at work has eaten them!)
8. Enjoy the new year!

 Thanks for the support of this blog, I will post a mini-post tomorrow as a round up post of this blogmas till next year 

Nic xx 

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Other - Blogmas - Day 22

Day 22

  I'm really bad at doing this blogmas , I have had a busy day today with finishing up my Christmas shopping. I have most problem that effects us ladies what to buy for men?

I have always bought my dad beer, i know, but there are so many breweries, so many types. Independent breweries or the main ones that are stocked on the supermarket shelves

If you buy beer for your family, what is your favourite to buy? 

Nic xx 

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Food - Blogmas Day 19-21 - Scrambled Egg with Smoked Salmon

Blogmas - Days 19-21

I have been really busy again, it seems that work wantss to own this time of year, plus buying presents and driving lessons too!

What is your favourite Christmas breakfast?

Mine is scrambled egg with smoked salmon. I do love it as it's luxury and filling! I also like it with bacon to here is my version

Scrambled Egg with Smoked Salmon

Preparation time: 5 minutes 

Cooking time: 5 minutes 

Total time: 10 minutes

Serves: 1

Food - Recipe - AD - Leek & Salmon Pie

I was lucky to get my first blogging assignment on behalf of British Leeks to produce a recipe that involved Leeks, so after some, though I came up with this quick cheats pie

 Leek & Salmon Pie

Preparation time: 30 minutes 

Cooking time: 30 minutes 

Total time: 1 hr
Serves: 1

Food - Blogmas - Day 18 - Cheese Stars

Food - Blogmas Day 18

Oh, it's 1 week till Christmas, where did the time go!! Anyway a quick recipe for cheese stars 

Cheese Stars 

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
Makes: 12

Blogmas - Days 16 & 17

I have been really busy again, work consultations, which have not been fun at all. So I would share some more products I have bought on a Christmas theme and my tree

Day 16 

I recently bought some fun crumpets, one like trees and the massive version, they were all very yummy!!

Kingsmill Christmas Tree Crumpets

Warburtons Giant Crumpets 

I loved the advert for these with the Muppets (I have yet to see the second film and TV series) I'm yet to try them, but they look amazing!

Day 17

I finally finished putting my tree up, I live in a small flat so it's nice to have a tree

Till next post 

Nic xx 

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Other - Blogmas - Days 11-15 - Chocolate Chip Men

So sorry I forgot to post the last few days, due to work with consultations and I also did not get the job I had the interview for :(

Day 11-15

This post really is all for the last 4 days of not posting! I made some Gingerbread men Shaped cookies from some shop-bought cookie dough in the freezer. I mostly followed the packet instructions! 

Other - Blogmas - Day 10

Day 10 

Hi guys, I had my interview so I'm hopeful I might have got the job, I won't know till next week, so another, random post of my photo's not a lot of Christmas food or recipes. This week is to busy for me, so sorry :(

Decembers Flamingo Candles - The Melt Crowd Box -

I loved all the fragrances from this months box, my favourite was Black Tea & Almond and Snow Angel. 

 My Gingerbread family Yankee Candle Tea Light Holder - I got this mended as it broke, I love the fragrance of Christmas Cookie which I always burn at this time of year

 Ikea plants (the fake ones) are always so pretty, no watering!!

 Reindeer ornaments - this one is from last year, I love the bell on it!

Gingerbread cutters, waiting to be used in making Gingerbread, recipe coming soon!!

Well that is all for today, till next post 

Nic xx 

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I'm sorry I'm really bad at posting on correct dates

Day 7

Today was our Girl Guide Christmas fete, the girls have stalls with Games, biscuit decorating and a cake stall I always buy a cake from one of the stalls, unfortunately, I was on the tea & coffee duty, so I did not have time to photograph the cake I bought, then it got squashed on the way home :( I did get a candy cane though.

Day 8

I'm really bad at not buying Christmas novelty items that look like food, unfortunately, I bought one this year

A Christmas Pudding Cushion!

Have you guys bought one of these novelty items?

Day 9 

Not a massive post as I have a job interview tomorrow for a trainee position - fingers crossed! So I will post my collection of mugs that have a Christmas theme.

Till next post :)

Nic xx 

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Other - Blogmas - Days 4, 5, & 6 - Bircher Museli

Hi guys, it's 4 days into December - crazy!!

Day 4

Today has been quite busy with my driving lessons, so I have not much to post for today, but a wish list of books that I would like to cook with next year 

• Primrose Bakery Everyday - I have already one of the primroses bakeries books, but them bringing out another with such tempting recipes that I'm keen to try!
• Totally Chocolate: 60 deliciously seductive recipes - I'm a chocolate lover so I really want to learn more about using it in recipes
• Primrose Bakery Christmas I really want to make some of these recipes!
• Scandinavian Christmas I really want to bake something this reminds me of Danish Christmas, even though we had an English Christmas!

Other - Blogmas - Day 2 & 3

Hi everyone this is day 2 & 3 of my sort of Blogmas, enjoy :)

Day Two - December 2nd

Food shopping can be enjoying with the pressure to buy Mince Pies, Turkeys and all the trimmings. I do like to buy my food in bits and pieces. I also look out for special foodies items that I might only have a this time of year so hence the bill at the supertanker going up, which confuses the checkout assistant when you squeeze so much in a small basket!

So Anyways I bought a couple of items that I thought I would try over the festive period

Baileys Chocolat Luxe 50cl rrp £18 (I paid £15)

I love the limited edition design of the bottle, it looks really tempting. I'm really keen to start drinking this, maybe over some ice cream or just as a plain shot. 

Have any of you guys tried this yet, I'm keen to see what you think!

Food - Blogmas - Recipe - Chocolate & Orange Cookies

Hi everyone, long time no see! I have been really busy with applying for jobs and preparing for Christmas, as it's now the first of December (where has the year gone!!). I'm trying to do a post at least once a day for a sort of Blogmas. I have watched Volgmas before, so it shall be interesting to see if I can keep up doing a post a day! To the bake, I have not done anything since October! So now I have a few spare minutes to bake, here is some simple but grown-up cookies

Blogmas- Day 1 - Decmeber 1st 

Chocolate & Orange Cookies

Prep Time: 15 mins 

Cook Time: 15 mins 

Total Time: 30 Mins 

 Makes 24

Other - Weekly Favourites

Weekly Favourites

Food - Recipe - Rhubarb Crumble

Hi everyone, long time no see!! With now autumn coming in its comfort for me to have on my own as my parents are in Australia on holiday for 3 weeks (lucky!) so it’s house sitting and exploring Weymouth again (cheap break for me) and with the final of the bake-off showing in less than 10 minutes! It’s time for a recipe again, you can swap the rhubarb for any other fruit apples and both pears would suit this perfectly!

Rhubarb Crumble 

  Prep Time: 30 Minutes

Cooking Time: 1 hr

Serves: 2

Food - Recipe - M & M Cookies

Hi everyone, another busy couple of weeks now schools have started back, so have many of my volunteering and job hunting! These cookies are made from M & M's that were in the back of my cupboard after a Guide Trip to M & M world that I forgot to eat!!

M & M Cookies

Cooking time: 15 Minutes
Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Total: 20 Minutes
Makes 20 Cookies

Food - Recipe - Cheese and Onion Muffins

Hi everyone, I have not posted on here in over a month, I have a had a busy summer with Girl Guide Camp (I'm a unit helper!) which involved a trip to Brownsea Island. Plus family birthdays, colds and trips to my parents holiday home in Weymouth which have all been nice!. So I thought I would do some savoury muffins as I had some free time!!  

Cheese and Onion Muffins

Makes 5 Muffins 

Prep Time: 25 Minutes 

Cooking Time: 15 Minutes 

Total Time: 35 minutes 

Food - Recipe - Danish Dream Cake (Drømmekage)

From a very young age, I had this cake at birthday parties as well as normal Victoria sponge type cakes, even though I don't remember it much!! For those on my blog that don't know I was born in Denmark (my parents are English so don't worry) and always go back every few years, less now my dad has retired, we would eat a lot of Frikadeller's and this cake, plus the pastries as well. I decided to re-create it to see if I can do it again!

 Danish Dream Cake (Drømmekage)

Prep Time: 15 Minutes 

Cooking Time: 45 Minutes 

 Total - 1 hr

Makes 12-16 servings.

Food - Recipe - Mixed Berry Buttermilk Muffins

Hi, everyone, it seems ages since I did a proper bake, with the summer starting and fruit coming out of our ears, I decided to do this bake from this book. I used a mixture of blueberries and loganberries which my parents seem to have lots of!! You can just use blueberries or other summer fruit.

Mixed Berry Buttermilk Muffins

Prep Time: 15 Minutes

Cook Time: 25 Minutes

Makes: 12

Food - Recipe - Matchpoint Pavola

Hi guys I have been so busy that I have had not a lot of time to bake or when I did they did not go well :( So I decided to do a quick pudding to celebrate the tennis (or I bought a Matchpoint Fruit salad from the Sainsbury's that was reduced to Clear, along with some Coconut Pieces, Extra Thick Cream and Meringue Shells)

 Matchpoint Pavlova 

Serves 2

Prep Time: 5 minutes 

Total: 5 minutes

Food - Recipe - Carrot Cupcakes with Orange Icing

I saw this recipe for what to be similar to my favourite carrot cake, I tweaked it a little to include some spices that are normally in a carrot cake, plus I used wholemeal plain flour to give a different flavour.

  Carrot Cupcakes with Orange Icing

Serves: 6

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Total: 50 minutes

Food - Recipe - Red Velvet Cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Since been back from the USA, I wanted to do an American bake, finally agreeing on these lovely cupcakes, mine turned out more brown than red!!!

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 15 mins

Serves: 12 

Food - Recipe - White Chocolate Rice Pudding with Rhubarb and Orange Compote

White Chocolate Rice Pudding with Rhubarb and Orange Compote

Hi everyone, I have been so busy with work and Guides, I recently was awarded my 5 years voluntary service award, so to celebrate, and I also got some of the young Rhubarb stalks my dad was going to put them in the compost heap - so wasteful plus he also peels them! So I put them to good use in this rice pudding as a treat!

Prep time:  30 minutes

Cook time:  45 minutes

Total time: 1hr 5 minutes

Makes: 1

Food - Review - Food Review of Las Vegas

Food Review of Las Vegas 

Here is the promised post of what food I eat on my holiday, I'm only going to include the nights out when we eat out and special items I had, mostly we cooked for ourselves buying food from Walmart as we had a holiday apartment instead of staying in a hotel.

Food - Recipe - Strawberry and White Chocolate Cookies

Hi everyone I'm back from my holiday to Vegas, I will be doing a review of the restaurants I went to in my next post, but as usual when you come back from your holidays you do a massive shop as you have nothing in your cupboards, but always forget one thing! I thought I would do a small bake this week, to get me back into the swing of things, plus I'm also busy with work to bake a batch of cupcakes :(

Strawberry and White Chocolate Cookies 

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Total time: 35 minutes

Makes: 14

Food - Recipe - Lemon & Mint Cheesecake

Another recipe to use up all the items in my fridge before going to Las Vegas for a week of sun and relaxation

Lemon & Mint Cheesecake

 • Preparation time: 10 minutes

Makes: 1

Food - Recipe - Lemon & Blueberry Greek Yogurt Muffins

Lemon & Blueberry Greek Yoghurt Muffins

 With me going away on holiday in less than a week, it's time to use all the items in the fridge which in this case was half a pot of Greek yoghurt! I have not really cooked with Greek yoghurt before only had it with stewed fruit or on my granola! So this was a total experiment, but it was a good one!

Prep time:  10 mins

Cook time:  25 mins

Total time:  35 mins

Makes: 12

Food - Recipe - Quick Chocolate Chip Cookies

Hi, another recipe, I made these chocolate chip cookies before I had my driving lesson, so they are quick if you have not that much time on your hands, or want a quick treat!

Quick Chocolate Chip Cookies

Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cooking Time: 15 Minutes
Total Time - 30 Minutes

Makes 12

Food - Recipe - Pea & Lemon Risotto

I was recently challenged by one of my twitter followers, to do a recipe for a fussy vegetarian. I searched all over for ideas, not of course not knowing whether vegetables for this recipe would be good enough for a fussy eater. With the zesty lemon and rosemary which go well together. For non-vegetarians this can be served alongside some grilled chicken, or as I have done some baked fish and extra vegetables.

Pea & Lemon Risotto

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cooking Time 25 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

Serves:1

Food - Recipe - Lime & Malibu Mini Cheesecakes

Lime & Malibu Mini Cheesecakes

As cocktail season starts, I thought about doing a recipe to embrace the warmer weather. These mini cheesecakes are perfect for this with the hint of coconut & lime. For non-alcoholic version, you can omit the rum.

Makes: 6 Mini Cheesecakes

Prep Time: 30 Minutes

Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 1hr

Food - Recipe - Raspberry & White Chocolate Blondies

I want to really do my first bake for this blog, but I had a decision which to do first brownies or biscuits. So, in the end, I choose brownies! You can use butter for this recipe, but I choose margarine instead to save time!

Raspberry & White Chocolate Blondies

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
Makes 12

Food - Recipe - Spicy Chilli Con Carne

Spicy Chilli Con Carne

I never have cooked a Chilli Con Carne before, so I saw this as a challenge, as I'm keen to eat spicy food but never cook it. I choose this recipe from the TV program The Hairy Bikers and Lorraine Pascale: Cooking the Nation's Favourite Food.

I have halved the quantities as I wanted to make enough for 1 portion and one to freeze for later, but it can be doubled up to make the full amount. The avocado salsa does not freeze so it can be used the next day to go with Taco's or a salad with some tomatoes and rocket

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cooking Time: 45 minutes
Total: 1hr and 5 minutes
Serves: 1

Review - Food - GBK 02 Review

 Review of GBK

Hi guys, my second post on here is a review on a restaurant that I was lucky enough to go to!

I was lucky enough to get tickets to see McBusted at the O2 in London, there are plenty of restaurants in the 02 before you go into the actual arena area, which was nice. I last went to the o2 when it was the Menuluim dome! So I choose to go to Gournment Burger for a simple cheap meal

Food - Recipe - Apple & Strawberry Compote

Apple & Strawberry Compote

Hi everyone my first recipe on here!! As spring is coming into full prominence, it's time for all the British fruit to come into flourish. I love apples esp. cooking ones for making compotes to crumbles. This recipe is simple and can be served with anything I did it with a pastry bottom with layers of fruit and Greek-style yoghurt 

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 15 minutes

Total - 30 minutes

Serves 1(can be doubled up for more)

Other - Intro Post

Hi guys, I'm Nic 27 from England and I'm here to share some recipes from cakes and bakes inspired by my travels and my late Gran. So enjoy :)