The Style List

Stuff  I want out of this week's Stylist magazine;

- Maybelline big eyes mascara
- Dior Dream Skin (£££!)
- Bobbi Brown Ballet Pink nail polish
- Benefit POREfessional: Agent zero shine
- was a bit annoyed by their 'sell' of mangobikes.co.uk - a range of bicycles to coordinate w/yr wardrobe,, cuz that's all females care about, pretty colours
- badger biscuit tin @ oakroomshop.CO.UK (we've got some espresso cups by the same company )

Deal of the day

Ulp, on Friday the Amazon Kindle deal of the day was "Good as Dead" by Mark Billingham. On my 'to be read' pile I have the prior book in the series : "From the Dead" ... so, if I write about something on here it means it has to happen! So- next book (after "Fury" by GM Ford) will be From the Dead, then Good as Dead on my Kindle- promise!

Due for collection

Wouldn't you know it- the day after I go to the library, my reservation for "Tokyo ", by Mo Hayder becomes available! 😡

Items due for return 09/01

Thursday is Library day!

Today I had these due back:

I had got "Are you my mother?" (graphic novel) out for Jerry, he'd been asking if the library had "Fun Home" by the same author; at the time of checking they did not, but this caught my eye on the shelves instead.  He did not like it, oh well.

I also returned "Ms. Cupcake- The Naughtiest Vegan Cakes in town!", although technically this was not due until Monday.  I got this out aaages ago; in work they were having a Bake-Sale (one they gave us decent notice about), so I ran a search on the library catalogue for 'vegan' for some inspiration.  

I made two recipes from this: Red Velvet cupcakes, and the Bakewell Tart Cupcakes. They both had a similar- easy - method and produced tasty results. CONFESSION TIME: I'm not actually vegan, Jerry is, but I daydreamed about the Bakewell Tart cupcakes after they were all finished.  Raspberry plus Almond is one of my ultimate combinations!

I was sad to return this to the library, and would be happy to add this cookbook to my collection... if only it was a little cheaper on Amazon!    

New Year noodles

This was the recipe I followed yesterday.  We had a roast chicken for our Christmas dinner, and I made a stock w/the carcass.

The supermarket,  although open on New Year's Day didn't have half the ingredients:

- I just used instant noodles... which kindof went mushy as I added them first (not cooked separately), but then had to boil the soup quite a bit as it was very liquid-y
- No fresh ginger so I bought a ginger paste in a jar
- I didn't use a fresh chilli (my little girl was going to be eating it too,  but added a squirt of Flying Goose chilli sauce to my portion)
- No tamarind paste, and wasn't sure what to use as a substitute
- Skipped the fresh coriander to give it a more store-cupboard vibe
- And yes, we had frozen prawns

There's loads left!

 THAI CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP | Recipes | Nigella Lawson