How to stop your work from unravelling

Here is a neat little trick: use a mini peg through the loop of your unfinished crochet and attach it to the edge. This way you can travel about with your crochet and not have to worry about it unravelling.  Easy!

High energy/low carb breakfast

Here is a great recipe for a tasty and low carbohydrate breaky, and the best part is it's super quick & easy to make;

Ingredients:

Spray of frylight 

2 eggs

1 banana

1/2 tsp honey (optional)

Blitz all of the ingredients together in a bender

Then I sprayed a little frylight into a pan over medium heat and poured a small amount of the mixture into disc shapes - the mixture is quite runny so smaller, skinny cakes are better 

Cook for about 2 minutes then place under a grill until the pancakes are golden. You can try to flip them but as they are quite flimsy this can lead to a few disasters (of which I had a few!)

Serve with some tasty fresh berries :)

Feel Good Friday

Here's today's feel good post pals :). Enjoy your weekend I'm off out tonight but it really is stay in and wear your pyjamas weather! 

Apple & Cranberry Crumble

Today's task with little mister Pj was baking, or to be more exact - Apple & Cranberry Crumble Baking.  Yum!

You will need:

3 Large Bramley Apples

50g Dried Cranberries* 

3 tbsp water

1 Cinnemon Stick

125g Demerara Sugar

150g Plain Flour

1 tbsp Ground Nutmeg

75g Softened Butter

* Cranberries can be optional or you could try raisins or other dried fruits :)

This should feed about 6 people.

First you will need to put the oven on to heat @ 180C 

1- Peel & dice the apples into 1 to 2cm squares, place in a bowl of water during preparation to keep them from going brown.

2 - Place chopped apples, dried cranberries, Cinnemon stick, 50g of the sugar and water into a pan & put over a medium heat until the apples are soft and mushy (about 10 mins).

3 - Whilst the apple mix is heating time to make the crumble topping! :)

Place the soft butter, nutmeg, flour and another 50g of the sugar into a mixing bowl and use your fingers to crumble the mixture until it resembles breadcrumbs.

4 - Now place the stewed apples into a deep oven proof dish (in the pictures I used several smaller dishes as the lil cuz wanted to share the crumble around the family :>) - don't forget to remover the Cinnemon stick!  After the apples sprinkle generously with the crumble topping and the left over 25g of sugar.

5 - Now place in the oven for 30 minutes. :)

Serve warm from the oven with ice cream or custard...

...yummy!

English and Proud!

Just showing my patriotic side and wishing everyone and great Saint George's Day... A cup of tea for all! ;)

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Jo

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A good day :) :) :)

If there's a better way to get some paper work done than sitting out side in the sun I can't think of one!  Our beautiful cherry blossom tree is in full bloom and the pup has stolen the seat next to me to sit and enjoy the rays. I'm still full of chocolate from yesterday and the first ladybird I've seen this year just landed on my shoe!  Over all a good bank holiday Monday, hope everyone else out there is feeling as blissful :)