Organising an Awesome Family Christmas Part 11 To-Do Jobs Around the Home Declutter and deep-clean the dining room or dining area this week. Christmas Prep Checklist Start a Black Friday Sales game plan. Online bargain sites and e-mail alerts allow Web-savvy shoppers to spot the best deals days before Black Friday. Plan next week’s shopping strategy as information comes to ...
How To Make Your Nail Polish Look Better For Longer Filing Alternating directions weakens the nail, making it more prone to breakage. It doesn’t matter which direction, but make sure you’re filing each nail either to the right or the left, never back and forth. Prep It’s all about the prep to make your nail polish look better. First, cleanse ...
Increased Taxes On High Fat & High Sugar Foods Will Help Improve Children’s Diets Increasing the tax on high fat and high sugar foods will help improve children’s diets. This is one of the recommendations from the British Psychological Society report ‘Changing behaviour: Childhood nutrition’ published this week. The recommendations are aimed at tackling the causes of poor diets in ...
Creamy Stilton Mushrooms on Toast Ingredients Chestnut mushrooms Brown bread Fresh basil Blue cheese (soft, Stilton or Gorgonzola) Double cream Garlic Mixed spices Olive oil Method Chop the mushrooms into quarters and place in a bowl. Add a small amount of olive oil, and some herbs of your choice – I like rosemary, garlic, thyme, coriander, fresh basil and a pinch ...
Deliciously Chewy, Nutty, Apple with Walnut Flapjack Ingredients 2 eating apples (unpeeled), cored, finely chopped 150g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing 150g light soft brown sugar 50g porridge oats 2 eggs 200g self-raising flour, sifted 50g walnuts, chopped Method Preheat the oven to 180°C, then grease the sides of a 9x12in baking tin with butter and line the base ...
Freezer Friendly: Super Easy Homemade Shortbread Makes 24 Biscuits Preparation Time: 5 mins Cooking Time: 30 mins Total Time: 35 mins Ingredients • 250 g salted butter, softened • 90 g icing sugar • 300g plain flour Method Preheat oven to 160C. Butter and line a 31.5 x 23.5 cm baking tray with baking paper and overhang it. Beat ...
Simple Ways To Make Your Skin More Radiant Appear More Awake Detract from tired eyes with a pop of bright lipstick, then curl your lashes to open up your eyes and apply a double helping of Benefit They’re Real! Beet Juice Try a beetroot-packed super-juice. It contains a high concentration of nitric oxide, which has an energising effect on your ...
Review & Giveaway: Christmas Baking With Mason Cash It’s that time of year again. Zesty tangerine, warming cinnamon and a hint of nutmeg… Mmm! And I can’t think of a better way of bringing the festive feeling into your kitchen, than baking with my favourite, Mason Cash. This week, we’ve been testing out their mixing bowl, batter bowl, pudding basin ...
Organising an Awesome Family Christmas Part 10 To-Do Jobs Around the Home Clean out the refrigerator. Make space for Christmas cooking by tossing expired bottles and jars. Clean out the freezer. Make room for Christmas baking and the results of a freezer cooking session. Clean out the pantry. Clean shelves and organize the survivors for efficient holiday cooking. Christmas Prep ...
We’ve Been Pouring Fizz Wrong This Whole Time… If you love fizzy wine anywhere near as much as we do, you might be as shocked as we were to discover that we’ve been pouring fizz all wrong – and it’s all to do with the way you hold your glass, apparently. If you’re one of those drinkers who holds their ...
Here’s Why We Need to be Reading Nutrition Labels Way More Carefully Food packaging has been displaying its nutrition information a lot more clearly than it previously did, now using a traffic light system to indicate whether a product is particularly high in fat, sugar, salt and more. And it’s proved really helpful in allowing shoppers to make a quick ...
Banish Winter Blues with Whisky Pudding Cake If you love the cozy, warming feeling of a hot toddy on a cold, winter night. This one is for you. Bake until golden brown and a little crisp on top, whilst the underneath is a rich, luscious pudding. Divine… Ingredients 40g plain flour Pinch salt 225l whole milk 75ml fresh lemon juice ...