Oct 29 2012

New: Baker’s Delight Lemon & Cream Cheese {Giveaway!}

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Apple

Good Monday to you all! I hope you’re all trying to make your Monday a positive one!

If I were you I’d get on down to your nearest Baker’s Delight and pick up one of their new lemon and cream cheese scrolls, or their shareable lemon and cream cheese swirl.

Certain to make your Monday better.

The kind people at Keep Left sent me a sample of the new range, which I am so grateful for. I am a huge fan of Baker’s Delight!

But even though I received it free, my opinions won’t be swayed.

Unfortunately for me, the day the samples rocked up I was home sick. So it wasn’t the best day for a taste test anything. I could still smell them though which made it very hard to resit till the following day.

I wasn’t 100% better the following day, but I had more of my taste buds working. Thankfully the buns kept their freshness pretty well.

How is the perfect way to enjoy these?

With friends or family and a nice pot of tea. Simple and satisfying.

The taste?

I loved the icing on the top, probably because I have a huge sweet tooth. The bun itself was lovely and fresh, we think there was a hint of lemon through it but for my personal preference I would have loved some lemon zest through the dough to give a bit of zing to counter the sweetness of the icing. It could have been my cold not letting the full flavours come through though so I will have to try these again to double check!

And if you have some left over after dinner, try chucking together an easy bread and butter pudding for dessert.

I made one using a single lemon and cream cheese scroll and it was the perfect amount. Added some extra lemon zest and mwah! beautiful!

One last thing! Of course!

If you’d like to win one of three $10 gift certificates for Baker’s Delight, all you have to do is comment! First three to comment on this post will be winners. Get in fast!

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Oct 22 2012

Cuppa Tea for your Troubles, Ma’am?

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Apple

I’m a tea person. I was a tea person before I had my first cup of coffee.

I had jars of tea with different flavours that I collected when I was a kid. From strawberry and mango to earl grey. I loved the stuff.

These days I’m quite fond of my evening cup of English Breakfast or Peppermint tea, so when I received an email from the lovely people at UnionMedia asking if I would like to sample some of their Nature’s Cuppa tea my instant response was hell yes!

Little did I realise, their sample pack is HUGE! I mean, I love tea and all but this is going to take me a while to get through. Not that I’m complaining trust me!

So we’ve got chai tea, earl grey, green tea, english breakfast, ceylon tea, peppermint, loose leaf ceylon tea and freeze dried coffee. All organic.

I’m a sucker for a cuppa english breakfast with a bikkie after my dinner at night. I find it nice and calming. My usual choice is Twinnings which I find beautifully smooth and great with a dash of honey.

I’m afraid this isn’t going to be just a one post “review” on Nature’s Cuppa tea range, and let me be honest that my opinion is no way changed by the fact it was a free sample. But I love tea, good tea, and I plan on using it in as many ways as I can think of.

I’ve so far only tried the english breakfast tea. It’s quite different to the Twinnings brand, can’t quite put my finger on it. It has more of a….depth than the Twinnings one – which is nice!

I was going to try the peppermint tea first. However it had been a very long day at work and I fought with the foil packaging – and the foil packaging won. (yes, I could have just got off my arse and fetched a pair of scissors but I’m stubborn) I’m still yet to try it!

And coming up next – Coffee Spice Cake!

I made up a recipe, so proud of myself. Using the freeze dried coffee from Nature’s Cuppa, tuned out great! And I shall be posting that soon for everyone!

Do you enjoy a nice cuppa? Are you more of a traditional earl grey or a daring chai?

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Oct 3 2012

Cook With Jamie: Honeycomb Cannelloni

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Apple

So a lot has happened since my last real post. I’ve been cooking a lot actually, unfortunately I went through a couple of weeks with the camera battery dead flat and remembering too late so I missed a few meals. I’ve resigned from my job, to move on to a new one which has all the ticks in the right boxes including greener grass. My last day at my old work is this Friday, so stress levels are a tad high! I’ve found the best cure is chocolate! lol.

Chocolate aside though, I’ve been cooking a lot from Jamie Oliver’s cookbook.

As the weeks go on I feel a bit more daring with the recipes from Jamie Oliver’s Cook With Jamie book. The image of this dish in his book is gorgeous, which is about the only scary thing about it! It’s such an easy recipe (easier if you actually stick to it and not do your own thing as I do) and it taste delicious!

I’ll be honest though…if I made it again I would omit the creme freiche and most of the anchovies, being that my partner and I are rather sensitive to dairy we prefer non-creamy dishes and the anchovies…well…I’ll be dead honest with you. I don’t really like the taste of them. I know, I know, I know its blasphemy! But in my defence I do add them to tomato dishes and other dishes to enhance the flavour…I just don’t like it when its a strong taste of it.

And as you may have noticed from the photos my dish has beef mince in it. Jamie Oliver’s recipe does not. His is actually a vegetarian dish which includes mushroom.

I’m a meat person. Its very very rare that I’ll cook something for dinner without any sort of meat or fish, I think its something that’s been drilled into me as a child.

Meat and veg, meat and veg, meat and veg.

There’s no mushrooms in mine either, the boy doesn’t like the texture of mushrooms and I like him to enjoy the food I cook for him so ergo no mushrooms!