Instant Chocolate Mousse - Nigella Lawson

Instant Chocolate Mousse - Nigella Lawson

These tasted delicious! Also because of the mini marshmallows they do not need to set in the fridge. Just 20 minutes (if that) at room temperature and we're done.

PS: The actual recipe can be found here

Happy Cooking :)

xo

Leftovers - Book of Elsa

Leftovers - Book of Elsa 

leftovers aren't used in my recipes so much as that for me they are a way of life. Living without tubs, bowls and plates of cling covered delights ready to eat at a moments notice doesn't just make good financial sense it also makes perfect sense because even though I love food and adore cooking; some days even I can't face the hob and believe me there is nothing one despises more than cooking because one has to. Cooking out of pure greed is my idea of heaven, baking as a way to bond with family and friends even better but somehow when time and other commitments come into play (which is most days) I buckle. 

Hence leftovers...Below is a photograph of some tomato salad I had after a party that got spruced up with an avocado and eggs but honestly it is a case of whatever happens to be in the fridge goes, there are 365 days a year and we have to eat. Snobbery has no place here. 

XO

My Love Is Like To Ice, And I To Fire - Edmund Spenser

My love is like to ice, and I to fire:

How comes it then that this her cold so great

Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, 

But harder grows the more I her entreat?

Or how comes it that my exceeding heat

Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold,

But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,

And feel my flames augmented manifold?

What more miraculous thing may be told, 

That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice,

And ice, which is congeal's with senseless cold,

Should kindle fire by wonderful device?

Such is the power of love in gentle mind,

That it can alter all the course of kind.

Why Christmas Is The Worst Time Of Year - Book of Elsa

Why Christmas Is The Worst Time Of Year 

This time of year is hard for me, I don't like Christmas. It only means one thing: spending long periods of time in an enclosed space with Family.

I love my family, I do. Honest. But I've realised after 24 years that I don't like them very much when we are all together. They start to grate at me, my mother constant criticisms, my father asking what am I doing with my life. I don't know is still the answer by the way. And my sisters, well they know how to push my buttons in ways that come 10 pm Christmas Eve all I want for Christmas is to go HOME. sod the presents. 

I would like to add that this is not the familys' fault. The problem lies with me. I've come to realise that I am not a people person and try as I might all other people do is rub me up the wrong way (after awhile).

It wasn't all bad though: watching my nephews open their presents on Christmas morning was pure joy. For that and other small nuggets of happiness dished out throughout the Christmas period and because my mother will never forgive if I don't attend I shall try again next year which I'm told is the spirit of the holidays.

Book of Elsa  

xoxo

My Favourite Brownie Recipe - Book Of Elsa

My Favourite Brownie Recipe 

Made brownies to take over to my mums' on Christmas Eve and this is my favourite recipe. Ever.

By the way you can find the actual recipe here.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 

XO