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What’s for Dinner?

Whats for dinner?

Here is a really quick, totally delicious dinner that uses up all the leftover veggies in the fridge.

It tastes amazing and you make it from scratch. No jars of sauce, so you feel even healthier eating it!

Did I come up with this recipe all by myself?

No. I took it from Jamie Oliver, Jamies’s 30 Minute Meals to be precise.

As much as I love his recipes, this one has evolved to suit my family over time, so that’s the version i’m sharing with you.

So, Whats for dinner?Thai Veggie Curry.

( I realise that this is not the most amazing food photo you have ever seen. However, if you could smell it cooking you would forgive my lack of photo skills!)

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

2-3cm of ginger, peeled.

2 small red chillies ( adjust to suit you spice level!)

2 cloves of garlic, peeled.

4 dried lime leaves.

1/2 a jar of grilled peppers.

1 heaped tsp of tomato purée.

2 TBSP of soy sauce.

1 tsp sesame oil.

1 can of coconut milk.

Veggies of your choice – I use, mange tout, spring onions, green beans, mushrooms, red and yellow peppers, broccoli and asparagus.

Cashew nuts.

Rice of your choice. I used Jasmine infused Basmati.

Method:

Put the ginger, chilli, garlic, lime leaves, 1/2 the jar of peppers, tomato purée, soy sauce and sesame oil in a food processor. Blitz it into a paste.

I get the jars of peppers in Aldi . They are in their ‘Anti pasti’ section, which is above the pizza freezer (that’s assuming your Aldi is laid out the same as the one here) if you find them buy two jars – they don’t always have them.

Ok, put the paste that you’ve made into a large frying pan. Heat it gently and add all the vegetables. Cook gently for about 5 minutes, add the coconut milk. You might not need a whole can, it depends how much sauce you like. Let this gently simmer for another 10 minutes – until the vegetables are cooked but still crunchy.

Meanwhile, cook your rice. I have a rice cooker and my mum had a rice cooker so I have no idea how to cook rice without one! If you add a jasmine tea bag to the water it tastes delicious though.

And voila!

I suppose you could add chickpeas to the curry for protein – I usually just throw in a handful of cashew nuts in instead.

If you have all the ingredients in the larder this is super quick, cheap and delicious. Enjoy & let me know if you try it.

Felicia xx

26/07/2016 By felicia

In Craft

Lazy Sunday Afternoons… by Felicia.

Lazy Sunday Afternoons…

Its Sunday. Actually it is not completely lazy. I love Sunday mornings, my family are either up and out early for work or they sleep in. The house is quiet, even the dogs sleep in. I get up, stay in my P.J’s (that is most important for maximum enjoyment), make coffee and then spend at least an hour on Pinterest or YouTube….

Oh, the absolute luxury!!

I have an obsession with home renovation shows, I have recently realised that although I can’t get HGTV in Ireland I can watch ‘Fixer Uppers’ on YouTube to my hearts content!

I love Chip & Joanna Gaines, I want to build a farmhouse like theirs, I want to make houses pretty. They live in Texas so there is the added bonus of cowboy boots. (Another love of mine, always, even when they aren’t in fashion – much to the horror of my very stylish kids!)

If you look at my Pinterest boards you’ll find a fair amount of house related content, grey painted rooms & bathrooms that are just yum, there are also boots (in ‘My Style’) lots of rings and bracelets (in ‘It’s a Bling Thing’) and items of general gorgeousness. You can also see ‘Yes, I like Cleaning‘ – but that for another post. Its easy to see how my Sunday mornings just vanish.

But, I did go out and do a bit of a walk / run at Cardiac Hill – its called that for a reason, its not easy but having climbed up you get to run down which makes it all worth while. I didn’t take any photos today. I left the phone in the car. When I got back I was sweaty and red, no one wants to see that!

Now its 3pm, Ireland are playing France and although I can hear it on TV I’m not really one for football (I am of the Guy Martin school of thought here). So I’m in the art room and have just finished making a necklace. It has taken me ages (being the digitally challenged sort that I am) but here it is in the making:

And finished:

So, that is my Sunday so far. At some stage I will take the dogs out but nothing more energetic than that. Sunday dinner is usually omelettes. Open the fridge and use the left over veggies and make omelette. There could possibly a glass of wine too ( who am I kidding, of course there will be wine!)

I hope your Sunday is as nice as mine. I hope you get to enjoy whatever it is you like doing.

Felicia xx

26/06/2016 By felicia

In Craft

Valentines Swap.

The lovely Aideen from Aideen’s swaps organised a swap for Valentines day and since I hadn’t joined in since Halloween I was delighted to take part.

My partner was Kay and today my gift arrived – look!

The box is full of little love themed die- cuts, as well as a tag book, card and chocolate! this photo doesn’t really do the metallic colours much justice – it really is gorgeous.

I had made a shadow box that held a heart and a valentine card which I sent with a bag of chocolates, I wish I had thought to send on some extra bits and pieces. I posted my gift on Monday and on Tuesday the post man knocked on the door and handed me back my own package…… An Post had delivered it to the senders address rather than the ‘To’ address….. sometimes the postal service is questionable!

This is what I made;

The heart is raised from the back of the box to give more dimension. The box is made from chipboard and covered with old book pages.

The card is super simple but I was pleased with it (in case you don’t know, i’m not the worlds best card maker)

It is so lovely to have a pretty package delivered to you,to unwrap it and see what someone has put time and effort into making for you. So thank you Kay and thanks Aideen for organising the swaps, I look forward to the next one!

F xx

12/02/2016 By felicia

In Blogging

Afternoon Tea Anyone?

Last Sunday Ebony and I went to Cork for the #Cloggers Afternoon Tea event.

#Cloggers is a Cork based blogging group (who kindly let us go even though we’re from Kerry) and they were holding this event in the Imperial Hotel (ver, ver nice hotel, gorgeous in fact!)

We set off early and magically got parking right outside the hotel. Now, this was when one of those strange little ‘it happened for a reason’ moments occurred. On the way up (we always say ‘up’ to Cork, when it is geographically down, I wonder why?)I had said that if we had time i’d like to go to Brown Thomas because I have a voucher to use and I had decided to spend it on skincare but didn’t know which ones (hello anti- ageing products!)
BUT, as we pulled into our usual multi storey car park we found it closed, it should have been open but perhaps someone was late for work, so as I said we found a spot on the street right outside the hotel. This meant I wouldn’t be passing Brown Thomas and decided to go after the event.

Once we got to the event we were surrounded by women who obviously knew what they were at. You didn’t have to ask what their blogs were about it was because they were all very glamorous and beautifully dressed – Beauty and Fashion bloggers for sure!

I immediately decided I was here as an impostor and at any minute my jeans, boots and I would be asked to leave. But do you know what? they were really friendly and welcoming and didn’t mind at all that I couldn’t tell my designers from my elbow. I would like to give particular thanks to Erin , Stephanie, Joyce and Cliona who were great company. Look at this, how delicious!

There were guest speakers who were all really interesting and spoke about their businesses and lives, one of those was Niamh from Holos. She spoke about her skin care range that is essential oil based, I liked the sound of it and she had two spot prizes to give away, one for relaxation and one for anti ageing. I was delighted to win one and even more delighted when the first winner chose the relaxation package (she was beautiful and had no need of the other package!) I was really happy with the prize and thought I would be picking up fewer products from Brown Thomas later…. little did I know.

Niamh from Holos.

By the time we were leaving we could hardly carry the amount of goodies we had been given! I won’t even try to list them as I will forget something but here is a small selection…..

Seriously, this doesn’t even cover the skincare products!

I was honestly blown away by the generosity of the gifts, needless to say I didn’t go shopping afterwards, and I won’t be going for some time.

Finally, these fabulous women Marie and Richael made the day possible, thank you again! I met lovely people, ate delicious treats and was inspired to continue blogging.

All in all it was a fantastic day!

F xx

04/02/2016 By felicia

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