Thursday, 4 October 2012

#ldnbloggermeet - the bloggers

 
With #ldnbloggermeet only days away I thought I would re-post the bloggers that will be attending so you can have a bit of a nose at each other's blogs before the day. I am really excited about the day and I am really looking forward to meeting you all. I haven't arranged any talks for the day so it will literally be a nice change to meet up, have a chat and meet the person behind the blog.
The meet is at the Warwick Pub between 1:30 and 4:30pm. More details about the meet is here.
As mentioned here, I only have a few weeks left in England so this will be my last blogger meet in a while but I'm pleased I've organised another before I leave.
 
@aysh_tmb
@laurenella_
@nicolapurkins
@SopheeWebb
@JulieLy15
@emma_oakers
@LauraHolt01
@BelPW
@MdemoiselleLala
@ChelseyPrentice
@rebeccalucyh
@Safira786
@monablogs
@FashionAndMe
@elle_croft
@MsDriftedSW
@LodzTBB

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

put some music in your food




I first had this meal at a family party. My uncle's family is from Jamaica and they have introduced us to a lot of Caribbean food. I was bought Levi Roots' cook book as a present. I have changed the ingredients and how it is cooked slightly but it is still delicious. The sauce is described as a 'gravy' because it is water based but it's full of flavour from the seasonings on the chicken.
 
Get the chicken ready at least half an hour (I usually give it a few hours) before you are going to start cooking to give the seasonings time to flavour the chicken:
  • Juice of one lemon
  • half a tea spoon of salt and half of pepper
  • two table spoons of Everyday Seasoning
  • two tea spoons of Chicken Seasoning
Add a little oil to a pan and start to cook the chicken. Once it is nearly done add the vegetables. I use 2 onions, 3 spring onions, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 peppers and a chili. Once this is all cooked, add a pint of water. Once the water has boiled, leave to simmer for roughly 15 minutes (I usually leave to simmer whilst the rice is cooking). The you're done.
 
I think the hardest thing about this meal is getting the Everyday Seasoning, but I have found that quite a few Sainsbury's have it in stock.



Sunday, 30 September 2012

we don't need colour when there is no light



I never know what to do on Sunday's. After a lie in, a must on a Sunday, I know I should be doing something productive but my laziness takes over. I usually lie in bed watching Man Vs Food and CSI Sunday then moan that I haven't done anything with my day. Today I decided to dye some hair lilac because I haven't done it in so long. When I go to Australia I am thinking of dying the whole thing because I've always wanted to.
 
I bought my lilac hair dye from Bee Unique and the colour is Mystic Heather. I got recommended the site by someone on twitter (I can't remember who, if it was you please let me know). I don't bleach my hair before, I put it straight on my blonde hair. On the site it says the colour should last between 2 to 6 weeks. For me it lasts only a few washes, but I don't mind that at all. I really like the colour.