Author: danaperry85

Cake Bites Recipe

Ready for coating in chocolate & decorating tomorrow.

175g self raising flour

175g caster sugar

175g butter

3 eggs

1tsp baking powder

1tsp vanilla extract

1 pinch salt

Beat everything together with a wooden spoon until just smooth, transfer to greased baking tins, bake for 45mins at 180•c/160•c fan/gas 4.

Remove from oven & leave to cool for 10mins, remove from tins & leave to cool fully on a wire rack.

Use a sharp, flat knife to cut off the tops, and set aside for a crunchy cake top stack snack.

Cut remaining cake into cubes, ready to coat in chocolate & decorate.

The Visitors Chair [Quick Stop]

Emma Sinclair, Lecturer- Early Years & Childhood Practice

freetoreflect.blogspot.com

•Do you have a favourite dinner?

Salmon with red onion & Asparagus

•Can you suggest any handy household tips?

Housework will always be there so do little & often. Set an alarm on your phone to focus a certain amount of time on housework then get outdoors for some fresh air.

•Do you have a favourite celebrity chef or home & lifestyle influencer?

I listen to Dr Rangan Chatterjee podcasts. His focus is on health & wellbeing – good food, sleep hygiene, being active outdoors & positive relationships

•What does home mean to you?

Being with my husband, my children & my dogs. Living close to nature.

•How do you like to spend time aside from home/family?

Being active in the outdoors with my husband & my friends – wild swimming, biking, walking & running

•Do you have a favourite desert?

Lime cheesecake

•Can you name one item you couldn’t live without?

Non-fiction books – I love to read about personal development, health & wellbeing

Thank you Emma! 🤎

Boiled Fruitcake Recipe

Makes 2 X 635g cakes

Fruit mix:

1/2 pt milk

113g sugar

227g butter

454g mixed fruit

2tsp mixed spice

Cake mix:

2 eggs

340g self raising flour

1tsp bicarbonate of soda

Boil up fruit mix, remove from heat then leave to cool for half an hour.

Pre-heat oven to 160•c/gas mark 3.

Add whisked eggs to fruit mix & mix well. Add flour & fold through.

Divide mixture between two tins & bake for 1hr 30mins.

Serve with butter.

The Visitors Chair [Quick Stop]

Eughine Dunnion [DJ Alkemy]

https://www.facebook.com/djalkemy/

•Do you have a favourite dinner?

Probably chicken quesadilla’s but I’ve been getting into Chinese style Beef n Broccoli lately.

•Can you suggest any handy household tips?

I’m one of the least domesticated people ever LOL. Ummm, I know it’s handy being bald??. If the shower plug thingy is ever clogged up, I’m not involved in the police lineup.

•Do you have a favourite celebrity chef or home & lifestyle influencer?

I don’t even know what a home & lifestyle influencer is lol….but I do like the chef Rick Stein. I used to like the guy who used to get blind drunk on wine while cooking too.

•What does home mean to you?

I think it’s the place where you are truly yourself. There’s no truer version of you than the one at home.

•How do you like to spend time aside from home/family?

Making music, listening to music, watching music documentaries. Basically, anything involving music.

•Do you have a favourite desert?

I have a huuuuuge sweet tooth. Probably why I don’t have many left. My favourite is probably peach and pineapple yoghurt.

•Can you name one item you couldn’t live without?

Probably obvious from one of the last answers but my headphones. I go to sleep listening to music and can’t sleep properly without them.

Thank you Eughine! 🤎

The Visitors Chair [quick stop]

Ann, a homemaker in Llandovery, Wales.

•Do you have a favourite dinner?

Roast beef dinner

•Can you suggest any handy household tips?

Get someone else to do it 😉 lol

•Do you have a favourite celebrity chef or home & lifestyle influencer?

Jamie Oliver

•What does home mean to you?

Family, comfort, safe place, security

•How do you like to spend time aside from home/family?

Reading, walk the dogs

•Do you have a favourite desert?

Custard slice

•Can you name one item you couldn’t live without?

Phone

Thank you Ann! 🤎

Midnight Snack Board

Tomato, pepper & caramelised onion hummus on crackers, with cocoa, cinnamon & peanut topped banana.

1 tomato, sliced & de-seeded into rings

1 handful rocket

1/4 red pepper, diced

2 tbsp caramelised hummus

Salt

Pepper

5 cream crackers

1/2 banana, sliced

1 pinch cocoa powder

1 pinch cinnamon

1 tbsp dry roasted peanuts

Spread hummus over crackers, to each add rocket, tomato ring, diced pepper, then season with salt & pepper.

Tomato, pepper & caramelised onion hummus on crackers, with cocoa, cinnamon & peanut topped banana.

Stack sliced banana, dust with cocoa powder & cinnamon, top with peanuts.