Lariath- Live a Little.

I have recently got into drinking green smoothies. Mostly due to the fact that I hardly used to eat any fruit and wanted to get some into my diet. If I'm getting fruit into my diet why not make the smoothie even more nutritional by adding some greens too? Adding greens to my smoothie was something I was very uncertain about because I thought that it would taste nasty, but surprisingly I actually like it. I like to drink my smoothies in a morning as my breakfast I guess (I don't generally eat breakfast). However I start work at 6am and using a blender at 5:30 in the morning would not be so pleasing to the neighbours, or my other half...To work around this I have recently started making my smoothie the day before, at a more reasonable time, and freeze it overnight. Then take the frozen smoothie to work, allow it to defrost and have a lovely cold smoothie a few hours later. (If you are going to freeze smoothies in glass jars do not fill the jar to the top, leave about a third sp...

I absolutely love sushi, it has to be one of my favourite foods, however it isn't cheap to buy and I like to eat a lot! I never wanted to try to make it as it looks like a long and fiddly process and I don't particularly like to cook for myself. I never endeavoured to make sushi until we decided to have a Japanese night at mine. Sushi was the starter. The longest part of making sushi is getting the rice right. It needs to be washed plenty of times and soaked for about an hour before even cooking it. The actual hands on making of sushi doesn't take that long, it's the preparation of the rice. I followed two recipes to make this sushi. I followed  This Recipe  to prepare the rice, it's very detailed and if followed correctly makes amazing rice. It takes a while but is definitely worth it. I followed the same recipe to make the Chu Maki (medium sized rolls, nori on the outside) however with different ingredients. I used carrot, cucumber, bell pepper and crab mea...

Recipe  Here I've made these a few times now, they are not the easiest cookies to make and they took me a long time. The first ones I made the cookies were massive! The end burger was too big to eat in one go. For these I used sesame seeds on top I quite like the look of using seeds rather than royal Iicing dots. The next time I made them a little smaller, these were a lot better. I eventually figured out how to make fondant cheese by hand. It took me ages but the burgers look so much better with the cheese than without. I did cheat and buy royal icing for the 'sauce' as I didn't have anything thin enough to apply the royal icing with. In the end everyone who received my burger cookies loved them so the effort was worth it. Enjoy this post?

A group of friends and I meet up every two weeks for a catch up and board game night. Every year we have a Christmas night and have a Secret Santa and mini buffet. This year I decided to make some cakes. They are vanilla cupcakes with buttercream icing, the recipe I used can be found  Here . I have used this recipe many times now and always get compliments, it hasn't failed me yet! I decided to do green buttercream icing to try to make the cupcakes look a bit like trees...not sure they do but i tried. I didn't have any green food colouring so I added some yellow to the buttercream and then added blue gradually to get the colour I wanted. (This took me ages as I didn't want to add too much blue and cause the colour to go awfully wrong). Eventually when I got a colour that I liked I piped the icing onto the cake. Now, I don't actually own a piping kit for icing so I had to DIY this by using This Method  it works and it's useful if you have no other means of ...

As it's nearly Halloween I though I'd share some horrific cupcakes that I made. They turned out to be more horrific than expected... These are Broken Glass cupcakes that I made a long time ago so excuse the terrible picture: So they looked more awesome than they do in the awful photo...well they did until the next day.... I was chuffed with my cakes because I didn't know how they would turn out and they looked pretty good, if I do say so myself. After making them I kept checking on them every hour to make sure the 'glass' was still stood upright etc. It was so I was extremely proud of my cakes. I came to look at the cakes the next day (the day I was giving them as a present to a friend) and the 'glass' had all bent over and turned white instead of clear and the fake blood was PINK! Now if you know me at all you know that I absolutely detest pink, so not only were my awesome cakes now not so awesome but they were pink....horrified. I was even too h...