Green Smoothie AF

You may look at this and think I've been extremely healthy today and I'm basically a Bonny Rebecca - Ella Grace Denton hybrid but really, I've ate almost a whole pizza, bar of chocolate, cake and chips today. Oh dear. So in order to counteract that (in my head anyway) I decided to make a greeeeen AF smoothie. And I know your all going to love it because I certainly did!

First off, Ingredients -

Half a Canary melon

Half a pineapple

2 kiwis

A handful of spinach

1 Large Banana

Half a lime

Method-

So obviously you have to chop all of this up, take the skin 

off, the cores out and chop them in to cube-ish 

pieces. Then throw it all in a blender

 and drink it up! Its not hard really I mean its just a

 smoothie. Haha :) Then I squeezed the lime over the 

top which made it super tangy and refreshing! 

So the whole green smoothie concept is relatively new to me and although I've seen them everywhere I've never actually tried one, and, this one tastes just the opposite to how I would expect. I was expecting the spinach to make it disgusting and bitter but its just the opposite! I actually like it! I think the banana and melon sweetened it up just enough. Usually I wouldn't expect melon to go into smoothie but I think it improved it massively! I wouldn't say this is a breakfast smoothie at all, its a bit too tangy for my taste buds in the morning anyway! Buuut, it works perfectly as a snack smoothie. I know I know calories calories but it tastes good and tricked you into thinking your healthy k? k. But really though, I'm going to try and be more healthy now Easter has passed because I want that beautiful model body (I can dream ok?). I will attempt to take you guys along with me :)

I just realised this layout looks just like GCSE English letter writing. Meh. I like it.

Thanks for reading today! 

What's your favourite smoothie?

Photo Diary - Afflecks, Ezra & Gil

 

Today I thought I would make a little photo diary of when I had a day out in Manchester. As usual, we go to Manchester, but, not so usually, we didn't go shopping! Woah. We just went and had a look around Afflecks and then looked around The Whitworth. We also stopped in at Ezra&Gil which, can I just say, was AMAZING. If your ever in Manchester you should totally stop off. It's literally hipster central up in there! After Manchester we went to the Trafford centre where I had a burrito and I'm nor gonna lie. I freaking LOVE burritos.

So that is it for today, sorry it was slightly short and probs boring but this one was kind of for me, I want to do more photo diaries so I can look back and remember these cute little days out! Haha, what a loser.  

See ya later, Isobel xoxo

Cheese, Tomato and Herb Spring Sharing Bread

So as its Easter Sunday and the spring has officially sprung I thought I would give you guys a nice idea for sharing bread to have for lunch or snack on it with family and friends! This recipes pretty simple and adaptable to taste and I would say its a perfect centrepiece for a family Easter snack! Haha :)

So first off, here are the Ingredients! 

Loaf of bread

Cheese

Spring onion

Mixed herbs

Garlic

Olive oil

Tomato Purree

So to make this tres grande bread, you first off need to cut it into cubes to almost the bottom, but making sure it's all still connected at the bottom. Then, slice the cheese super thin and stuff the cracks LOADS so that when it melts it will cover each little bit. Then mix the finely cut onion, garlic, mixed herbs and olive oil together and sprinkle it all over, so it falls down all of the cracks evenly. Then, the choice is yours, not that it wasn't up to now anyway, I mean this bread will be nice with pretty much whatever melts well with cheese so just go for it and experiment! I decided to add Tomato Puree to half of it and actually much preferred that half so I'd deffo recommend that! Then bake it on about a medium heat until the cheese is melted.You also have the option to fry the onion mix so it's cooked first but i actually kind of like the crunch! Then I'd recommend slicing the same cracks again to separate it up and then serve!

So there it is, some springy bread for you to share :)

Thanks for reading and if you try this, be sure to let me know! 

What's your favourite Easter snack food? 

The First Day of Spring

So as today is the official first day of spring, and the weather actually seconded that, my family and I decided to take a walk and have some springlike food to start it off! Its not often that the weather on the first day of spring is actually good but because it was today, and it was the first day of the year where we've been on a proper sunny walk. We also had some hot cross buns and banana pancakes. I mean really. How much more springy can you get?! 

Thanks for reading! I really appreciate all the comments and feedback I get as you are all amazingly nice! So keep them coming as it means I can go over to your blogs and I actually LOVE that!

What did you do today?  

The Best Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe in the World!

INGREDIENTS:

For the Cake:

225 g  unsalted butter, softened

250 g  caster sugar

4 medium eggs

Grated zest of 3 lemons

225 g  self-raising flour

For the drizzle topping:

Juice 2½ lemons

125 g  caster sugar

 METHOD:

So first, do the thing that you should always do, but I always forget to, turn the oven on. Preheat it to about 180/fan and get ready a big loaf tray by lining it with baking paper. Then mix the butter and sugar in a big bowl until it's pale, which in my case took for freakin ever even with an electric mixer. You might get lucky if you use stork but real butter takes soooo long to mix! Then mix the flour and eggs in parts, like add a bit of flour, mix, add a bit of egg, mix, and carry on till it's all done. I just recommend you do this so it doesn't curdle because that makes it lumpy. Once that's all mixed and smooth start to grate the zest of three lemons, well, I use three because I like it extremely lemony but if you don't you can probably take it down to one and have it still have the taste. Then just Pour it all in to the tray and bake it for about 50 mins, but at 45 check with a knife because it might be done by then. Whilst it's cooking squeeze the three lemons (again, you can cut it down if you want it less strong) and sive out the seeds and bits. Then mix in the sugar and leave it in the fridge until the cake is almost cool. Then pour the drizzle over the cake and let it settle in! Then you can eat it, which is obvs the best bit!

This recipe was developed over the past few tries of me making this, its kind of a mix of loads of recipes and my ideas. 

I had a bit when it was warm and I'm not going to lie, It was amazing. That's why I called it the best lemon drizzle cake in the world! I'm just about to eat my Sunday roast and then I will most likely have another piece! Haha. I'm actually kind of glad that I'm on this dechox because it reminded me of my favourite, non-chocolate cake and, although I am definitely missing chocolate, I would be ok with eating just this cake for the est of time!

Thanks for reading and if you decide to make this let me know what you think!

What's your favourite cake?