Hello friends, I haven't been blogging for a while as my life as jolted to a stand still. A couple of things, important things have happened in my life recently and so I thought it was best to take a break, rest and think about life. You may not know but there is someone close to my heart who is not particularly very well at the moment and I've not had the time to blog. But I will be back soon and I thought I would let you know about my sudden non-appearance. I hope all is well Love Becky ox.
12 Ekim 2012 Cuma
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Hello friends, I haven't been blogging for a while as my life as jolted to a stand still. A couple of things, important things have happened in my life recently and so I thought it was best to take a break, rest and think about life. You may not know but there is someone close to my heart who is not particularly very well at the moment and I've not had the time to blog. But I will be back soon and I thought I would let you know about my sudden non-appearance. I hope all is well Love Becky ox.
Hello friends, I haven't been blogging for a while as my life as jolted to a stand still. A couple of things, important things have happened in my life recently and so I thought it was best to take a break, rest and think about life. You may not know but there is someone close to my heart who is not particularly very well at the moment and I've not had the time to blog. But I will be back soon and I thought I would let you know about my sudden non-appearance. I hope all is well Love Becky ox.
Recipe: Cute Biscuit Lollies
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Hey, I'm back, things have got slightly better and we have been relaxing down at the allotment, I have so much to share with you but for now enjoy this recipe. From my birthday I have a great recipe on how to make biscuit lollies that are super cute. The recipe is an adjustment of a Nigella Lawson recipe. They taste fantastic and look just like swirly lollies. So you could make them for a party or just to cheer someone up! Ingredients:175g unsalted butter / 200g Sugar / 2 Large eggs / 425g of plain flour / 1tsp of salt / 1 tsp of / baking powder / Pink IcingMaterials:Piping bag / circle cookie cutter / Lolly cooking sticks
{Preheat oven to 180c}
8. Take out of the oven, leave to cool then ice with pink icing in a swirly pattern.
There you have delightfully sweet lolly biscuits. I hope you've enjoyed this cute recipe which is great for parties and celebrations and I hope you enjoy that I'm back again. I have many sweet photos and adventures to share with you so I hope to see you soon. Love Becky ox
Hey, I'm back, things have got slightly better and we have been relaxing down at the allotment, I have so much to share with you but for now enjoy this recipe. From my birthday I have a great recipe on how to make biscuit lollies that are super cute. The recipe is an adjustment of a Nigella Lawson recipe. They taste fantastic and look just like swirly lollies. So you could make them for a party or just to cheer someone up! Ingredients:175g unsalted butter / 200g Sugar / 2 Large eggs / 425g of plain flour / 1tsp of salt / 1 tsp of / baking powder / Pink IcingMaterials:Piping bag / circle cookie cutter / Lolly cooking sticks{Preheat oven to 180c}
- 1.Cream butter and sugar together, then beat in eggs and vanilla. 2. In another bowl add together the flour, salt & baking powder. 3. Add to the wet ingredients. 4. If mixture is to sticky then add extra flour sparingly, then half, wrap both dough balls in cling film and leave in fridge for 1 hour. 5. Cover surface with flour and roll out doll to 0.5cm thickness, cut out circle shapes. 6. Line trays with greasproof paper and place the cookies on to them, place lolly sticks on top as shown below and cover the back with a little dough. 7. Place in oven for 8-12 mins.
8. Take out of the oven, leave to cool then ice with pink icing in a swirly pattern.There you have delightfully sweet lolly biscuits. I hope you've enjoyed this cute recipe which is great for parties and celebrations and I hope you enjoy that I'm back again. I have many sweet photos and adventures to share with you so I hope to see you soon. Love Becky ox
Adventures: Today is Calm :: & Fun
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For relaxation purposes we visited the allotment on Saturday which was a whole lot of fun. I took lots of photos, picked raspberries and flowers, drank hot chocolate and drew drawings under the plum tree. We even have a log which has become a makeshift coffee table & seat, it's so cute don't you think! 
I love being surrounded my flowers and greenery and capturing objects blowing in the wind as shown above in the picture. The lace looks like a dream and is actually used to keep birds off of the fruit, it's a pretty way to do so!
I have also recently became the owner of a beautiful Chinese umbrella with lovely paintings of colourful birds, I can't wait to use it in more photo shoots! This reminds we that in the summer my sister is walking The Great Wall Of China for charity, what a great sport she is!
I love drawing at the allotment and these are the results. My friend taught me how to draw cartoon eyes and ever since I've been practising drawings of comical women. My favourite is the 'Hippy' and the lady in the green square patterned top. I love drawing and I find this a great way to enhance my skills.
Thank you for reading and I hope to see you again as I have so much to share! I'm off now to bake nutty cookies, wish me luck! Becky ox
For relaxation purposes we visited the allotment on Saturday which was a whole lot of fun. I took lots of photos, picked raspberries and flowers, drank hot chocolate and drew drawings under the plum tree. We even have a log which has become a makeshift coffee table & seat, it's so cute don't you think! I love being surrounded my flowers and greenery and capturing objects blowing in the wind as shown above in the picture. The lace looks like a dream and is actually used to keep birds off of the fruit, it's a pretty way to do so!I have also recently became the owner of a beautiful Chinese umbrella with lovely paintings of colourful birds, I can't wait to use it in more photo shoots! This reminds we that in the summer my sister is walking The Great Wall Of China for charity, what a great sport she is!I love drawing at the allotment and these are the results. My friend taught me how to draw cartoon eyes and ever since I've been practising drawings of comical women. My favourite is the 'Hippy' and the lady in the green square patterned top. I love drawing and I find this a great way to enhance my skills.Thank you for reading and I hope to see you again as I have so much to share! I'm off now to bake nutty cookies, wish me luck! Becky ox
Instagram :: Pink Hair
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Woah, that's how I feel. Here are some pictures I took on instagram from my past week. I've dip dyed my hair pink, had fun with Sarah, Had my nails painted like cupcakes and sweated in the heat at a 'fun' park. My laptop has broke 'A silent tear' and will be blogging when I get a new one. I HATE electronics ¬_¬. Although I'm looking forward to going to my aunties tomorrow! No brother, fun with my aunt and a jacuzzi, I think if there is a god he has finally listened to me and has given me a break..wait, nope, mum just told me off...Have a fun summer and fingers crossed I will have a new laptop waiting on my desk soon. PEACE ox.
Woah, that's how I feel. Here are some pictures I took on instagram from my past week. I've dip dyed my hair pink, had fun with Sarah, Had my nails painted like cupcakes and sweated in the heat at a 'fun' park. My laptop has broke 'A silent tear' and will be blogging when I get a new one. I HATE electronics ¬_¬. Although I'm looking forward to going to my aunties tomorrow! No brother, fun with my aunt and a jacuzzi, I think if there is a god he has finally listened to me and has given me a break..wait, nope, mum just told me off...Have a fun summer and fingers crossed I will have a new laptop waiting on my desk soon. PEACE ox.Knitting :: With Julie!
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I love knitting but have never been properly taught how to knit. So I jumped at the chance when I visited my auntie in Suffolk. We woke up Friday morning and decided let's do some knitting today. I am no wiz at knitting but from what I learnt I think I did pretty well. Julie, 'that's my aunt's name if you haven't guessed', taught me how to do the basic knit as well as the purl knit and I finally learnt how to do several lines without having random holes where I'd forgot to knit one of the loops.
I love the whole concept of knitting and like a kitty cat I love balls of wool, I never knew you could get so many types of wool!
This is my aunt { this was the only picture I could get of her} and as you can probably see she is a champion at knitting! She knitted so fast I could barely see her hands moving. So I do hope one day I can knit as good as her.
{I love this photo as it's so light and cute}
My only knitting sticks are big fat ones as you can see up above and as I have an obsession with moustaches, when no one was looking I pretended I had a woolly moustache {that would be so cool} and snap a few photos of myself.
So there's an insight into my knitting adventures! Maybe one day I'll be able to knit a jumper, maybe that could be on my list of resolutions for 2013? He he, I'm so happy I can get back to blogging now as I had no working laptop and I literally can't wait to share all my other adventures with you! 
I love wool...
Peace xo.
I love knitting but have never been properly taught how to knit. So I jumped at the chance when I visited my auntie in Suffolk. We woke up Friday morning and decided let's do some knitting today. I am no wiz at knitting but from what I learnt I think I did pretty well. Julie, 'that's my aunt's name if you haven't guessed', taught me how to do the basic knit as well as the purl knit and I finally learnt how to do several lines without having random holes where I'd forgot to knit one of the loops.I love the whole concept of knitting and like a kitty cat I love balls of wool, I never knew you could get so many types of wool!This is my aunt { this was the only picture I could get of her} and as you can probably see she is a champion at knitting! She knitted so fast I could barely see her hands moving. So I do hope one day I can knit as good as her.{I love this photo as it's so light and cute}My only knitting sticks are big fat ones as you can see up above and as I have an obsession with moustaches, when no one was looking I pretended I had a woolly moustache {that would be so cool} and snap a few photos of myself.So there's an insight into my knitting adventures! Maybe one day I'll be able to knit a jumper, maybe that could be on my list of resolutions for 2013? He he, I'm so happy I can get back to blogging now as I had no working laptop and I literally can't wait to share all my other adventures with you! I love wool...Peace xo.
11 Ekim 2012 Perşembe
Whipped Chocolate Pudding: Retro Ad & Recipe
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I do so love these Retro Ads and Recipes. This is a Carnation Evaporated Milk Ad that appeared in Life Magazine April 26, 1963. Do you think Don Draper tried this? Maybe when he was still with Betty?
"The secret is Carnation...the milk you can whip like cream--and at 1/2 the cost." You might want to try real whipping cream in the recipe. Of course you have to have cake lying around... kind of like cake pops. You have to make or buy a cake to morph into another form. In this case: Whipped Chocolate Pudding.
"The secret is Carnation...the milk you can whip like cream--and at 1/2 the cost." You might want to try real whipping cream in the recipe. Of course you have to have cake lying around... kind of like cake pops. You have to make or buy a cake to morph into another form. In this case: Whipped Chocolate Pudding.
White Chocolate Cheesecake for WHITE CHOCOLATE DAY
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Today is White Chocolate Day. By definition, white chocolate is not actually chocolate.White chocolate doesn't contain any cocoa solids (chocolate liquor) and does not have 'chocolate' flavor. But I like the unique creamy flavor good white chocolate does have--of course that depends on the brand and that varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. (see below)
White chocolate contains cocoa butter, a product of the cocoa bean used to make chocolate. White chocolate used in baking and candy making is a blend of milk, cocoa butter, sugar and often vanilla. This is what you'll find in milk chocolate, except without the cocoa. If you are using white chocolate, make sure to buy the very best. Cheap white chocolate often has the cocoa butter replaced by vegetable fat. Check the ingredients on the package. It should have a cacao percentage just as other chocolate bars.
Examples of good white chocolate:
E. Guittard has 31% Cacao White Chocolate wafers. Great for baking (and eating)
Green & Black's uses cocoa butter, pressed directly from the crushed cocoa beans. They also use a blend of milk and Bourbon vanilla. Available in 3.5oz bars.
Askinosie has bean to bar white chocolate and uses goat's milk instead of cow's milk. The main ingredient in their white chocolate is 34% natural, non-deodorized cocoa butter. The cocoa butter is pressed in their factory, and they are the first small-batch chocolate maker to do this. After pressing theibeans to create the cocoa butter, they combine them with goat's milk powder and organic cane juice, and then craft it for days in their 85-year old German melanguer, making their white chocolate one of the only single origin white chocolates in the world. It has a very unique buttery/nutty flavor, less sweet than many other white chocolate.
Because it's comprised mainly of cocoa butter, white chocolate can be used in so many ways. Check past posts for White Chocolate Mashed Potatoes, White Chocolate Brownies, White Chocolate Coffee Cake, White Chocolate Truffles and a host of other white chocolate candies and baked goods.
My favorite White Chocolate Recipe, though, is for White Chocolate Cheesecake! Here's an easy recipe adapted from the Betty Crocker Cookbook. I changed the original graham cracker crust to a Chocolate Cookie Crust (see below)... much better, I think, but then I like chocolate.
WHITE CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE WITH CHOCOLATE COOKIE CRUST
Ingredients for Filling:
1 cup chopped white chocolate (make sure it's good white chocolate that's made with cocoa butter)
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
16 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 egg yolks
2 eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
Directions
1. Move oven rack to lowest position. Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease bottom and side of springform pan, 8 x 3 inches.
2. Prepare Chocolate Cookie Crust (see below). Baking 6-8 minutes and cooling.
3. Place chopped white chocolate in top of double boiler (or saucepan on top of another saucepan over simmering water). Heat over low heat, stirring frequently, until white chocolate is melted. Remove from saucepan.
4. Increase oven temperature to 475ºF.
5. Beat melted white chocolate, 3/4 cup sugar and flour in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until blended. Beat in cream cheese and egg yolks until smooth. Continue beating, adding eggs one at a time, then add sour cream until blended. Pour batter carefully into crust. Cover pan with aluminum foil.
6. Bake 20 minutes; remove foil. Reduce oven temperature to 300°F. Bake 1 hour. (If cheesecake browns too quickly, cover loosely with aluminum foil during last 30 minutes of baking.)
7. Turn off oven and leave cheesecake in oven 15 minutes. Cool on wire rack 15 minutes. Run metal spatula along side of cheesecake to loosen before and after refrigerating. Cover tightly and refrigerate at least 8 hours, but no longer than 5 days. Run metal spatula along side of cheesecake to loosen; remove side of pan. Place cheesecake on serving plate. Refrigerate if you plan to serve later.
I like my cheesecake unadorned, but you can always add fruit or chocolate sauce.
Chocolate Cookie Crust:
Ingredients
30 chocolate wafers (to yield about 1-1/2 cups crumbs)
5 tablespoons sweet butter, melted and slightly cooled
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
Directions
1. Put cookies in food processor; process until finely ground.
2. Transfer crumbs to mixing bowl; combine crumbs, butter, salt, and vanilla; stir until crumbs are moistened.
3. Press mixture evenly across the bottom of a 9-inch spring form pan and all the way up the sides of the pan; pack tightly so crust is even and compacted.
4. Bake in 350° oven for 6-8 minutes or until crisp.
5. Let cool completely before filling.
Today is White Chocolate Day. By definition, white chocolate is not actually chocolate.White chocolate doesn't contain any cocoa solids (chocolate liquor) and does not have 'chocolate' flavor. But I like the unique creamy flavor good white chocolate does have--of course that depends on the brand and that varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. (see below)White chocolate contains cocoa butter, a product of the cocoa bean used to make chocolate. White chocolate used in baking and candy making is a blend of milk, cocoa butter, sugar and often vanilla. This is what you'll find in milk chocolate, except without the cocoa. If you are using white chocolate, make sure to buy the very best. Cheap white chocolate often has the cocoa butter replaced by vegetable fat. Check the ingredients on the package. It should have a cacao percentage just as other chocolate bars.
Examples of good white chocolate:
E. Guittard has 31% Cacao White Chocolate wafers. Great for baking (and eating)
Green & Black's uses cocoa butter, pressed directly from the crushed cocoa beans. They also use a blend of milk and Bourbon vanilla. Available in 3.5oz bars.
Askinosie has bean to bar white chocolate and uses goat's milk instead of cow's milk. The main ingredient in their white chocolate is 34% natural, non-deodorized cocoa butter. The cocoa butter is pressed in their factory, and they are the first small-batch chocolate maker to do this. After pressing theibeans to create the cocoa butter, they combine them with goat's milk powder and organic cane juice, and then craft it for days in their 85-year old German melanguer, making their white chocolate one of the only single origin white chocolates in the world. It has a very unique buttery/nutty flavor, less sweet than many other white chocolate.
Because it's comprised mainly of cocoa butter, white chocolate can be used in so many ways. Check past posts for White Chocolate Mashed Potatoes, White Chocolate Brownies, White Chocolate Coffee Cake, White Chocolate Truffles and a host of other white chocolate candies and baked goods.
My favorite White Chocolate Recipe, though, is for White Chocolate Cheesecake! Here's an easy recipe adapted from the Betty Crocker Cookbook. I changed the original graham cracker crust to a Chocolate Cookie Crust (see below)... much better, I think, but then I like chocolate.
WHITE CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE WITH CHOCOLATE COOKIE CRUST
Ingredients for Filling:
1 cup chopped white chocolate (make sure it's good white chocolate that's made with cocoa butter)
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour16 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 egg yolks
2 eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
Directions
1. Move oven rack to lowest position. Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease bottom and side of springform pan, 8 x 3 inches.
2. Prepare Chocolate Cookie Crust (see below). Baking 6-8 minutes and cooling.
3. Place chopped white chocolate in top of double boiler (or saucepan on top of another saucepan over simmering water). Heat over low heat, stirring frequently, until white chocolate is melted. Remove from saucepan.
4. Increase oven temperature to 475ºF.
5. Beat melted white chocolate, 3/4 cup sugar and flour in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until blended. Beat in cream cheese and egg yolks until smooth. Continue beating, adding eggs one at a time, then add sour cream until blended. Pour batter carefully into crust. Cover pan with aluminum foil.
6. Bake 20 minutes; remove foil. Reduce oven temperature to 300°F. Bake 1 hour. (If cheesecake browns too quickly, cover loosely with aluminum foil during last 30 minutes of baking.)
7. Turn off oven and leave cheesecake in oven 15 minutes. Cool on wire rack 15 minutes. Run metal spatula along side of cheesecake to loosen before and after refrigerating. Cover tightly and refrigerate at least 8 hours, but no longer than 5 days. Run metal spatula along side of cheesecake to loosen; remove side of pan. Place cheesecake on serving plate. Refrigerate if you plan to serve later.
I like my cheesecake unadorned, but you can always add fruit or chocolate sauce.
Chocolate Cookie Crust:
Ingredients
30 chocolate wafers (to yield about 1-1/2 cups crumbs)
5 tablespoons sweet butter, melted and slightly cooled
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
Directions
1. Put cookies in food processor; process until finely ground.
2. Transfer crumbs to mixing bowl; combine crumbs, butter, salt, and vanilla; stir until crumbs are moistened.
3. Press mixture evenly across the bottom of a 9-inch spring form pan and all the way up the sides of the pan; pack tightly so crust is even and compacted.
4. Bake in 350° oven for 6-8 minutes or until crisp.
5. Let cool completely before filling.
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