This is the comfort food of the century! Filling, tasty, cheesy, warm, straight out of the oven – macaroni cheese is everything that you want from a lazy evening at home. In the past, my vegan macaroni cheeses have dried out in the oven and I’ve basically realised the trick is to make loads and…
James Corden’s Late Late Show: Highlights
So I am a massive fan of this show! I think they try really hard to be original and entertaining and James Corden does seem like a decent person. Most importantly, he is an excellent singer – so here are some of his most recent great moments…
VINYL IS BACK!
I’ve always loved playing records, often just for the fun of getting them all out of their sleeves and letting the sound fill the room, but I didn’t quite realise until I went into a big music shop today that you can buy recently released albums as records too and new record players! Vinyl is…
RECIPE: Roast Sweet Potato Spring Salad
Here is a wonderful salad recipe for spring, you’ve still got a touch of warming root vegetables but you have the lightness of salad greens to get you in the mood for summer. This salad is so easy to throw together, looks really tasty and has plenty of protein and fibre…
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Time for Music
And the quote for this week is: Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
MUSIC OF THE WEEK: Birdy, Bollywood
So this week is a mixture of soaring choruses and meaningful lyrics and some excellent Bollywood. Enjoy…
RECIPE: SUMMER SHARING BOARD
I was feeling quite uninspired about my lunch and was wondering how I could make it more appetising, when I realised that all my favourite salad bowls were dirty. However this spawned inspiration as I suddenly thought, wouldn’t it be nice to make a sharing board for everyone at home instead. I am so pleased…
ESSENTIAL OILS: Trying Them For the First Time
So after my morning dance class today, a friend of my dance instructor gave a talk on essential oils, where we got to try lots of different oils and she told us about how they’re made and how they can help people. I really didn’t know a thing about these oils before the talk, but…
MUSIC FOR FITNESS: RUNNING PLAYLIST
So this week I have created a new playlist which I am just in love with. We’ve had some lovely, sunny spring days, so I have added lots of uplifting songs that really remind me of summertime and the great outdoors. So have a listen and hopefully this will get you in the mood to…
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: MY FAVOURITE POEM
Okay so it’s not a short and snappy quote, but I really love this poem so much: Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on…
