recipe / Georgina Does

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

A few weeks ago I was contacted by Quorn and asked if I would like to try out some of their products. I said I'd love to and a few days later a big box of products arrived. I'm going to be honest here, I, myself only got to try one of the products. That must say something for them, my brothers ate everything else so they must have enjoyed them! I was a little worried when I agreed to this that my family would reject it, we are big meat eaters so I wasn't sure if they were just going to shun them but I was surprised. I left them in the fridge to see if there were any takers and they started eating them - by choice! I think one of the reasons apart from the taste (which they would have had to like if they were going to carry on eating, they are really reaalllly picky) was how easy they were to prepare, they all came with easy cooking instructions and were near enough exactly the same as cooking regular meat.

As for the product that I got the taste, lucky me, they left me one! It was lovely and I'd happily eat it again. It was a pesto, mozzarella and fake chicken escalope. I seriously would not have noticed that it wasn't real chicken, the texture was the same. One thing I would say was the pesto in the escalope was very overpowering so I didn't get a great chance to have a real taste of the fake chicken. oh and I know the place looks empty haha that how I eat nowadays, I get my meat, or my not meat, in this case and I eat it with a can of sweet corn. The quorn website has some high protein recipe ideas so I should have really had a look at those first!

So to end this post I'm going to say, I'm shocked but Quorn at my house was a success!

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LIFESTYLE: Making Chocolates With Somthing Sweet

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Have you heard of Something Sweet Magazine? I love cooking but my skills only stretch as far as cupcake, so I was thinking about buying it to give me some ideas - And the TV adverts make it look so fun! Apparently my younger also brother asked my mum to buy it for him as well seeing as he is resident chef at our house hahah,

So what a lovely surprise when they got in touch and asked if I wanted to try making one of their recipes for myself. This lovely box of pretty pink goodies arrived the next morning!

Yesterday, my mum took me out for Chinese and a strawberry tart, its out new thing since we've moved haha so after coming home from that, I got started on my chocolate, sweet tooth much?

Each issue comes with a few free gifts. This one included a heart shaped chocolate mold, the gold foils for wrapping the chocolates and a box to put them in! So i went right ahead and started with the first recipe.

Its a pretty easy things to do and a super a fun way to spend the rest of the afternoon. I started by breaking up and melting the chocolate over a pan of hot water, the magazine said I needed a chocolate thermometer to temper it properly but I didn't have one of them so I guessed. I think I guessed pretty well because the chocolate came out alot shinier than I was expecting! I did three separate sets, melting dark, milk and white and then spooning it into the moulds, then had fun flicking all the different colours around. After that it was just a matter of smoothing it all over with my new palette knife and sticking them in the fridge until they hardened!

Whilst I was waiting, I read though the rest of the magazine, it has been designed in pretty pastel colours and was very informative. It contained around 4 or 5 recipes which each had easy step by step instructions, a clear list of what you need and lots of little tips and tricks. There were a few different sections, one called secret essentials which, this week, told me about different chocolate and sweets thermometers (LOL) and a master class section at the back all about the different types of chocolate and how to cook with them.

After twenty minutes, I popped the chocolate out of the mould which was a little harder that expected but I still enjoyed spending 15 minutes hitting the back of it with a spoon haha when they were out I followed the guide and wrapped them up as smoothly as possibly with the little gold foils. I really enjoyed this bit, it was quite therapeutic, like giving all the chocolate a little massive and straightening their creases and I was so happy with the end result.