Pasta Bake attempt no.1

I had never made pasta bake before. It is def one of the of easiest things to make but I made some anyway for a carb overload.

I first roasted off some veg including peppers, onions, butternut squash, courgettes and I can't remember what else. I also boiled some broccoli. I may of put other stuff in but I can't remember.

Cheese and bread crumbs on top and voillla! I put it under the grill for a minute to and made a lovellllyyy cheese layer.

What I ate in Paris

We decided to have out lunch on the boat ride along the Seine. I had some pretty shitty roll. They have no sauce or nothing in them.

When we were up at the Eiffel tower we went to get dinner. We walked and walked by many restaurnts all with similar menus. They all had foie gras and shit on it so we didn't wanna eat there. We finally found a place that did pizza and pasta etc. They gave us an english menu that was highly entertaining. It had items on it such as 'Soup has the onion browned' and dishes with 'the coriander and the parsley'. There was other hilarious stuff.

Mini donuts and mini chocolate croissants.

Ok this looks a little dodge. It was originally a waffle with ice cream and chocolate sauce on top but Alisha didn't want the end of her brownie and ice cream so she dumped it on top of mine. Was pretty good. It is from hagen dazzzzz. We sat in a park and ate.

What Jesse and Alisha got from Hagen Dazz. Raspberry sorbet is good.

As are Raspberry meringues. This is to delish. Wish I bought one.

One morning we got breakfast in a bakery down the road and went and ate it in the Luxembourg gardens. Fatty Breakfast.

I got a chocolate croissant and a brioche thing, I think.

AND some delish pizza. Pizza for breakfast is something I should do every morning.

Jesse and I got some Lemon and Raspberry Sorbet one night. Lemon was to Lemon but raspberry was good.

Ice cream selections.

We ate in Milanos the first night in St.Germaine. It was amazing. Beyond delish. We around 30 dough balls between us. Carbolicious.

This was mozzarella bread. It was so moist and doughy.

I just got pasta and sauce but it was some of the best sauce I have ever had.

Another Bakery!

I got a cookie thing that prettty much just tasted like butter. Jesse got a chocolate filled eclaire. And alisha, a choc cross.

nom

We ate in some bar place down from our hotel. We met one of the nicer french people there.

They got omletes.

I got a baguette with just salad. Pretty boring.

We ate plenty of other stuff too!

Go to Paris!

Nut loaf attempt no.2 and Raspberry muffins.

I gave the nut loaf another go today and it was successful and tasted great. I would call it more of a vegetable loaf though!
I wanted it to have loads of flavor.
I roasted some peppers, cherry tomatoes and sweet potato to add to it. I fried onions, brocolli and mushrooms in cumin, paprika and other stuff. I can't remember to be honest. Added honey, parsley, pine nuts, some cashew nuts and some soya nuts. Cheese on top! Too bad it was only me for dinner tonight, tomorrow's dinner for everyone else it is then!




I made muffins and they were goooood! I wanted chocolate chip ones but had no chocolate so I used raspberries instead. I used a cornucopia recipe so thumbs up for cornicopia.




No one is home tonight so it's just Lola and I. No one is around either to hangout with also. Booo. I'm to bored right now. Tomorrow I hope to go to the market in the park, Yumm.

I am going to Paris on Monday! & staying here!

Nut loaf attempt no.1

So I decided to try make a nut loaf yesterday. I followed a recipe I found online but didn't really stick to it but it gave me direction in how to make one
I put peppers, onions, sweet potato, mushrooms, sun dried tomatoes, cashew nuts, pine nuts in.
It cooked real well and the texture was great but wasn't great on flavor. So next time I'm gonna make it extremely tasty and put all sorts in to make it high on taste. I'm thinking putting mashed sweet potato with honey into the mixture, broccoli, chills, cumin and some herbs and shit. Oh chick peas tooo!




Itsa bagel lunches in dunloire are still class.


As are chocolate crepes..


I got kelkin's chocolate covered soya beans the other day thinking were chocolate covered peanuts . They were lovely but have nothing on chocolate covered raisins <3. You think all this shit is alright to eat and healthy but it is far from it. The amount of calories in these healthy alternatives. Tesco do a big bag of chocolate covered raisins for 99c, bargin!

Boojum mex in town is a place I am dying to try, Hi jessse come with meee. Shakes also!

I want to make muffins soon. Like whoppper ones. A lot of recipes I look at they make little muffins that are pretty much just cupcakes in a muffin case. The cornucopia cookbook has a recipe for some and in the pictures they are huge.
The best muffins are from BB's. So good. Then again Avoca do the best carrot cake muffins going.

Online days

I hate days like this. Consisting of staying in all day and pretty much spending it online. To lazy to do anything else but eat biscuits. Movies in the park this weekend but the rain clouds have come :(

I have been listening to this song all day

Best Summer Discovery

My mum arrived home yesterday with some fake beef vegi burgers. I was a bit reluctant at first but I grilled them up and put it in a bun with salad, letteuce and tomato plus ketchup and salad cream. And jesus christ it was amazing. It tasted just like summer bbqs all those years ago. 1.49 for like 4 of them, cheapo.



I want to have a vegi bbq.

Summer Cakes

Normal sponge cake with raspberries in it and Melted white chocolate. I decided to put chocolate in it and hope for the best. It came out lovely and made it soo moist!



My small collection of cook books!

Back Baking!

So I'm off for summer now so this means I have time to bake. yayy.
I am going to fill you in with all my recent culinary encounters!

The first things I made were Banana cake cupcakes

Will be making again!

Yesterday I was going to Rachel's bday party all the way in Nass. I offered to make her a bday cake and to make her lots of cupcakes as her present.
She wanted me to make her a double layered brownie cake. With icing in top and in the middle. I had originally attempted to write Happy Birthday with m&ms, but that failed so I just covered it in m&ms. I had to use normal sugar to make this opposed to a finer caster sugar. So it made it extremely chewy and lovely because the sugar like crystallizes and shit.


I also made Raspberry cupcakes with raspberry icing and White choc chips on top and some with just blue icing.
The icing failed and didn't stay all thick so that sucked. I need to prefect icing making.
I did however get these sweet cupcake boxes in Kitchen compliments in town. Only 2 euro each!






This took me 4 hours, how I don't know. What's up diabetes? The amount of sugar used in the making of all this. I had to carry this all around town for an hour. My arms were like jelly. I wish I bumped into someone I know so I could feed them cupcakes.

what else.
Pizza hut wannabe italian pizza. Don't get it, it's shit and goes cold straight away cause its so thin.

Do however get this. A whopper cookie. Nommm. Also from Pizza Hut.
The counter, Dundrum. Eaten here a couple of times the past few weeks as an alternative to Nandos. Bit Meh. The vegi burger I am not that into but I love the restaurants ethics and structure. You are given a sheet and you tick off all the topping, sauces, cheese you want. I got the vegi burger in a form of a salad though. They do sweet potato chips which are amazing. And the best chocolate milkshake!
All their meat is sourced locally and is certified to be raised and killed humanly as well as being anti biotic and hormone free. I liked that a lot. If it is true, I don't know. Oh all their eggs are free range too.

Just a typical toastie.
I tried to make a curry the other night. No matter how hard I try to make a nice one that has loads of taste, I fail at it. I have now given up. I CAN'T MAKE CURRIES.

Toast with Chocolate spread and Marshmellow fluff. Oh so goood.


I have been loving corn on the cob so much recently. Homemade stuffing too. I love stuffing soooo much. Beast of a dinner I had one night.



I started a vegetable garden a few weeks back and it's going so well.