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White pizza margherita with crispy base
06Sep

White pizza margherita

My blogger friend Amanda gave me this idea to make a #dirtypizzaparty to get all of our guilty pleasures on top of one base (or two. or three). This pizza party is transatlantic btw so i had this 12″ margherita to myself. She reiterated the pizza had to have your favourite, guilty food as a topping. And loads of it. Consequently cheese, which means the topping is pure cheese with a touch of cherry tomatoes. Pizza for me is all about simplicity, the way to my heart is a thin crispy margherita, simple and crunchy. The base in my opinion can make or break a pizza. This challenge by Amanda push me outside of my comfort zone because I rarely make bread and have never made a pizza base before. No, correction – I have attempted it before but ti doesn’t even bear thinking about it. The shape on my white pizza base turned out very “rustic” but the texture was really amazing, when rolled to half an inch it bakes like heaven. White pizza margherita (makes 2 12” pizzas) for the base: 300g plain flour 7g dried active yeast 1 tsp salt 1 tbsp olive oil 200ml warm water 1.
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chicken noodle soup with kale
27Nov

Chicken noodle soup

I wished for the weather to be colder a month ago. It was too warm for October I said. This week the cold really hit me, back to wearing gloves just to get into my car in the car park. And it is not even snowing yet in the south of England, unlike the north, which means it is just drizzly, a wet cold with a mist that seems to get through to your bones regardless of how many layers of wool you got on. This is why people put weight on over christmas, it is not the turkey or the chocolates or the mulled wine, it is the constant search for comforting food that will warm up your insides. I have just the thing for you. And it will not add any extra pounds. Chicken noodle soup for one 1 chicken breast 1 tbsp of bouillon vegetable stock 1 tbsp of soy sauce 175g fine rice noodles (ready to work or 65g of raw noodles) 1 small carrot, cut into cubes 1/2 cup of frozen sweetcorn 1/2 cup of kale Handful of finely sliced spring onions 1. Boil water, add bouillon powder, soy sauce and cook chicken breast. After
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20Aug

Lime rice and chicken bowl

Recently I started to miss blogging again. You may or may not have noticed that I haven’t posted anything since May. The break started in a non-intentional after we came back from a long holiday and I found out my husband deleted all the pictures in the SD card, half of which I was planning to use for future posts. Some tears were shed and my motivation plummeted, “who cares anyway” “it’s not like I have a reader following”. Having a blog as a hobby brings me so much enjoyment but it also comes with loads of pressures as it can be expensive and seemly unrewarding. Social media is the biggest culprit when I felt it was a constant reminder of things you are not doing: Read more! Exercise more! Eat more Kale! Get more readers for your blog! The constant feeling of guilt for not doing these things stops you from enjoying the things you are actually doing. This week however something happened, I got given a huge marrow as a present and had to find creative ways to cook it. I decided to cook it with butter and corn and added it to my rice for lunch, as
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