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Christmas is upon us, which means lots of festive food consumption is underway! For many of us, I think it has been for a couple of months already, as seasonal products seem to enter stores earlier and earlier these days.
If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram then you may have seen a few weeks ago that I was asked to be a founding member for the new Dr Oetker We Bake community. It’s kind of a cross between Instagram and an online baking club! You can upload photos of your bakes to the community to share with other members, check out others bakes, and also join in community and personal challenges where you can win some amazing prizes!
It’s definitely that time of the year right now, where I’m eating a lot of soups. Sometimes I will just open a tin for convenience (though not very often these days, as most have syns with following Slimming World) but I don’t think there’s any soup better than home made soup. The smell of it bubbling away on the hob, and the delicious flavours we can create depending on our mood.
I know it’s kind of not exactly the weather for smoothies any more, but that doesn’t stop Jacob asking for them! So I thought a smoothie would be the perfect first recipe to try in the High Power Blender that I have been sent from the Panasonic Kitchen. The great thing about this coconut and mango smoothie recipe in this blender is that you can just chuck all the ingredients in, press the smoothie programme, and off you go. No need to pulse or anything to break ingredients up, as it does it all for you. Coconut milk is a perfect …
I love my slow cooker, and especially in autumn and winter, it comes out a lot. One of my favourite one-pot meals to cook in there is a chilli. It’s usually a beef chilli, but I decided to make a veggie one this time using the beans I received in my September Degustabox. I added a variety of tinned beans to make a 5 bean chilli – it’s syn free on Slimming World too, and makes a great EESP meal 🙂 This one is fairly hot, but you could use mild chilli powder instead, or halve the amount of hot …