Valentines Baking | Blueberry Macarons

Happy Valentines day! 

If you follow my Instagram you'll have seen a piccy of mine and Craig's lovely macarons the other day! I thought I'd save this recipe for today so that if you have forgotten to buy your Valentine a present you can make some, or if you want to make a big batch and eat them all at once whilst watching chick flicks you can do that too!

I followed this recipe which  is the most straightforward one I could find but added blueberry to the butter icing and purple food colouring to make the look pretty!

I'll re-write the instructions under the pictures for you so you know what's going on step by step. Enjoy!

Recipe | Granola

Hello! How are you?I've got another recipe post for you today as my last one got quite a lot of attention! This one is inspired by Sammi from Beauty Crush, I love all the health videos she's been doing lately and all the pictures of her cooking that she puts on Instagram are amazing! She uploaded a video of her making banana nut granola on Youtube a while ago and I thought I'd give it a go! I adapted it a little bit and here it is! :) Hope you enjoy!

1. You will need: Oats (3 cups), honey/maple syrup (1/3 cup), oil (1/3 cup), nuts, raisins, cinnamon (1 tsp), nutmeg (1/4 tsp), salt (pinch).2. Add the oil to a mixing bowl, 3. Add 1/3 cup of honey, 4. Add the cinnamon, nutmeg and a pinch of salt, 5. Mix into a rather unattractive looking paste,6. Add the oats cup by cup and stir in, if you don't have enough oats the mixture will be too wet and if you have too may it will be too dry (add a tad more oil and honey).7. Add whatever kind of nuts you'd like, 8. Add raisins or any other kind of dried fruit you want in your granola,Bake in the oven at 200 C for 10 minutes, then mix/turn over and place back in the oven for another 10/15 mins and that's it!
Hope you liked this! Let me know if you make it yourself :)
Thanks for reading!
Georgia x
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Recipe | Spinach and Ricotta Haddock

Hey! I've got something a bit different for you today! :) 

My New Years resolution was to start trying to get more fruit and veg in my diet, I'm sure it's a very common one but I've noticed while being at uni I hardly eat any fruit and only a small bit of veg every week. So I've been doing this mostly by having salads for dinner and also snacking on fruit and greek yogurt instead of chocolate! And I've really got in to looking up recipes and trying out new meals, so I thought I'd try out one of my own and see how it goes down! This is quite filling because of the nuts and fish but it's only 300 calories :)

Ingredients

Haddock, Ricotta, Spinach, Rocket, Pepper, Tomato, Olives, Cashews, Salad Dressing.

Bake the haddock at 200 Celsius for 25 minutes (of follow the instructions on whatever pack you get!) 

When it's finished, take the haddock out of the packet, spread over one tablespoon of ricotta and sprinkle chopped spinach leaves on top and bake again for ten more minutes.

Chop up peppers, tomatoes, olives, cashews and whatever else you want to add! Mix together with rocket and spinach leaves and drizzle over your salad dressing. I used Sainsburys low fat honey and mustard! 

Get the haddock out of the oven and lay it on top of the salad and serve!

I hope you enjoyed this post, let me know if you want to see more!

Also let me know if you try it out!

Thanks for reading :)

Georgia x

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