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Soups Perote #VPeats

Recently, I saw an opportunity to enter a food challenge and I am so glad to be part of it. In celebration of Villa Plus’ new “Local Food” guides that have been rolled out for each destination, they are asking bloggers to recreate a dish from one of the regions. There are 5 regions (Menorca, Kefalonia, Costa Blanca, Fuertaventura, Costa Del Sol) and with 2 bloggers to each region. I was chosen to cook a Costa Del Sol dish.

To be honest, I have never been to Costa Del Sol nor tried their local cuisine. So I did some quick research and did a very quick dish which is the soups perote. I chose this dish as this is my first time cooking such a dish and therefore I liked the fact that it uses minimal ingredients which are easy to get hold of. I was also intrigued that it uses old bread. So if you happen to have any old bread, you might want to try this out instead of baking bread pudding.

Soups Perote #VPeats

Cherry & Chocolate Chip Muffins

Today is National Cherry Day. I am so pleased to team up with OXO Good Grips to celebrate the day and bring you this simple recipe.

cherry chocolate chip muffin

Lemon & Lime Butter Chicken Gold from Flora

Markettiers and Flora has challenged a few bloggers to use Gold from Flora to create our own 5pm family mealtime recipe with less than 10 ingredients and for a budget of £10 or less. The recipes I create will be tested by the Unilever kitchen and will be featured with nutritional information on the Gold from Flora website.  A winning recipe will win an additional prize of a picnic hamper.

lemon & lime butter chicken

Lavender Shortbread

Three years ago, we had a landscape gardener design our front and back garden which included rows of lavender. The small patch of grass we had in our front garden was filled with yellow, golden stones. This year, the lavender has really bloomed and fills the front garden with a nice sweet smell. I’m really pleased with it this year – they’re absolutely gorgeous!

lavendar shortbread

Thai Pineapple Fried Rice

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I come from Singapore where there are so many tropical fruits like pineapple, melon, papaya, banana etc available all year around. These are generally easy to get hold of from Waitrose too, both in store and online.

Thai Pineapple Fried Rice recipe

Kelly’s of Cornwall Ice Cream Map

With the summer holidays approaching, Kelly’s of Cornwall has created an Ice Cream Excursion Map! Yes, a map that features ice cream parlours, cafes, hatches and recommended picturesque locations including Cornish woodlands and beautiful beaches across the county of Cornwall. To view and download the map, click here: http://www.kellysofcornwall.co.uk/ice-cream-map.

kelly of cornwall ice cream map kelly of cornwall ice cream map details

Edd Kimber’s Mixed Berry Traybake

From 8 – 13 July 2014, Jordans Cereals is unveiling ‘The Jordans Wildlife Garden’ at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. It has been created by award winning garden designer, Selina Botham, to reflect a long-term commitment from Jordans to the British countryside.

As part of the countryside celebrations, Jordans has enlisted the taste expertise of Great British Bake Off winner, Edd Kimber, to create a series of foraged food recipes inspired by The Jordans Wildlife Garden. The range of three exciting new recipes: Mixed Berry Traybake with Rosehip Syrup, Cherry Plum Crumble with Cobnuts and the Alpine Strawberry Fool.

Mixed Berry Traybake

Celebrate #MoonpigWimbledon with Lanson Champagne

Sadly, England are out of the World Cup. So now we can turn our attention to Wimbledon! Can Andy Murray do it again? Let’s tune in to find out.

We used to live in Southfields which was only a stones throw away from Wimbledon. There was always such a great atmosphere for the two weeks during Wimbledon. The massive queues even during the rain didn’t turn the fans away. We have been lucky with the British weather this week, with lots of glorious sunshine!

To celebrate this year’s Wimbledon, Moonpig have partnered with Official Champagne Supplier to The Championships, Lanson a small but scrummy and boozy range of Wimbledon themed gifts.

There are three gift sets to choose from:

wimbledon moonpig goodies

Wimbledon Champagne with Strawberries & Cream – £16

Chinese Roast Pork

Sometimes it is difficult to buy the Chinese food that I crave for.  So this year, I challenged myself to try cooking more Asian food.  I am an amateur at cooking but am keen to learn.  I took this recipe from Rasa Malaysian.  I was so pleased with the results!  Click here to see her recipe.

I bought the pork belly via the butcher as I could tell them the size of the pork I needed.  The bigger the better as it shrinks quite a lot.

chinese roast pork

Crispy Kartoffelpuffer (German Potato Pancakes)

To celebrate the World Cup, OXO asked if I would like to create a different cuisine of one of the 32 participating countries mouth-watering recipes for the World Cup Blogger Challenge. Without hesitation, I backed Germany to win and picked two utensils to cook two German dishes: 2.8L Stainless Steel Mixing Bowl and Potato Ricer. This recipe is inspired by a proper Kartoffelpuffer recipe (please see below) with a few additional ingredients.

crisps potato pancake recipe

FIFA World Cup #BigMatchPlanner

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Today is the FIFA World Cup! Mr C is so excited as he can watch hours and hours of football. Well, it is once every four years! This coming Sunday, we are hosting a Bird Eye Fish Finger party by Come Round. I love planning parties and have hosted many. I am no expert though!

Last week, we went to Tesco for our normal grocery shop and to buy some drinks for the World Cup! It is always very scary bringing Ms C and Mr K along! They were happily grabbing all sorts of snacks and chocolate! At the end of the shop, my basket is always full of junk food!

FIFA World Cup ball

Saturday Indian Takeaway Review

Weekend is always my day off from cooking and if we are not going out for dinner, it would be takeaway.  Recently, Anna from intheplayroom introduce me to this new website called takeaway.com.  You can read her review about her Afghanistan takeaway.

takeaway.com website

Shortbread Biscuits

Sweetheart sugar shortbread is a recipe I used from Cathryn Dresser’s book called Let’s Bake. I didn’t use a heart cookie cutter nor put sugar on the shortbread, hence it is named plain and simply Shortbread Biscuits.

shortbread biscuit how to make

The Half & Half-Term Games – Warburtons

As Commonwealth Games fever hits the UK – Warburtons and the Brownlee Brothers have teamed up to launch “The Half & Half-Term Games”.  The Commonwealth Games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, with over 11 days of competition from 23 July to 3 August 2014. Visit www.facebook.com/warburtons for daily Warburtons Half & Half-Term Games inspiration.

Warburtons Half Half

Chinese Spice Chicken Wings

This recipe is for Red Tractor #RTChallenge. This is my seventh recipe, Chinese Spice Chicken Wings, and my last post for using Red Tractor Assured ingredients they provided. Do check out the rest of my other recipes like Gressingham Duck with an oriental twist, salad with couscous, homemade pizza, rhubarb crumble, Chinese almond cookies and Chinese ABC soup!

Chinese Spice Chicken wings

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I'm Eileen, a proud mum of two teenagers (aged 18 and 16), my daughter is living with visual impairment. Since launching this blog in May 2012, we’ve continued to grow and evolve, sharing our family’s journey and passions.

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