Need a quick and easy recipe to seriously impress your chocoholic friends/family/other half with? Well you’re in the right place! This amazing fruit and nut raw chocolate won’t take you more than 10 minutes to knock up, but you’ll look like you’ve been secretly training as a chocolatier. Continue reading
Mr H and I are total travel junkies – before we’ve even unpacked our suitcases from our last holiday we’re already planning where to go for our next one. We love adventures; exploring new cities, immersing ourselves in different cultures, and of course sampling the local cuisine. Continue reading
Chocolate milk is just the ultimate indulgence isn’t it? For me, it also comes with a hint of happy nostalgia – it takes me right back to being little and finding it hilarious to blow bubbles in it with my straw. I still find it pretty funny (and I’m sure my mum would still tell me off if she caught me doing it!).
Did you ever watch Sesame Street when you were little? Well I hope so, because if you didn’t then this little blurb is going to be lost on you, so feel free to skip down to the ingredients if you like. Back to the Street – I often feel like as an adult, I morph between Sesame Street’s characters on a daily basis like nobody’s business; some days I’m a happy-go-lucky Elmo, other days (particularly at certain times of the month) I will admit to having my Oscar the Grouch moments, and then there are the times when I turn into the Cookie Monster, and there’s only one thing that will satisfy my cravings. Continue reading
Risotto is one of those things I’ve always liked the taste of, but I could never quite bear how it made me feel after eating it. Arborio rice (the rice that is used in a typical risotto) is particularly starchy, so can easily leave you feeling bloated and heavy after you’ve consumed a whole bowl of it in one go. Pair that with a rich, cheesy sauce as many risotto recipes do and you’ve got a combination that leaves many people feeling pretty darn rubbish. Continue reading
This recipe is totally dedicated to my lovely builders – for the last couple of weeks not only have they worked construction-related miracles in the Hollingsworth household, but they have also doubled up as the most fabulous recipe testers.
In the last fortnight I’ve been working on making the perfect black bean brownie – I can’t tell you how many batches they’ve tried (and, by their own admission, enjoyed). The first time I produced a tray fresh out the oven I spoke nothing of their secret ingredient, and when I confessed (post consumption) what the brownies were made of they were most surprised! To be honest it’s for that reason that I prefer black bean brownies over sweet potato ones – you can’t really taste the beans at all and they just add to the texture and overall deliciousness. Continue reading
Unless you lived under a rock in the 90’s (or unless you were too young to remember or NOT EVEN BORN YET which makes me feel so old I can’t even bear thinking about it), you’ll remember that advert where the butler walks around an ambassador’s party with a pyramid of Ferrero Rocher. Brilliant marketing though this was (given that just about everyone seems to remember it) it upset me for a number of reasons; Continue reading
When people used to tell me they made their own granola, in my head they were instantly elevated to the dizzy heights of domestic goddess – I mean who has the time to bake their own granola, and also how the hell do you make it?
Well things sure have changed since then and I’ll tell you something – you can knock up a huge batch of granola that will last you all week in less than half an hour. And it’s really easy. And you’ll look like a regular Bree Van der Camp to all your friends and fam. Winning. Continue reading
My favourite thing about visiting Israel has to be the food (unless my cousins are reading this in which case my favourite thing is seeing family, closely followed by the food). They might call it the land of milk and honey, but for me it’s the land of houmous, falafel, baba ghanoush, dates, figs, oranges – the list just goes on and on.
I’ve got a serious case of ‘matcha mania’ at the moment. My obsession started back in April when Mr H and I visited Japan – you can literally get matcha flavoured EVERYTHING out there – and by the time I left I was totally hooked. For anyone unfamiliar with the stuff, matcha is essentially powdered green tea leaves, but because you actually consume the leaves (which is where many of the antioxidants are) rather than throwing them away as you would with a teabag, it’s heaps more powerful as well as being much more concentrated. Continue reading
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