Lentil and the Mint

Sunday, 25 January 2015

Wahaca's Soft Baked Feta

If this baby comes out looking like hunk of emmental, a slice of applewood cheddar or a crumble of feta I would not be at all suprised. Cheese. I cannot get enough of it. On crackers, with apple slices, melted on toast.... yes please.... this is my latest fancy. It is taken from Wahaca Mexican Food at Home. If you have not been to Wahaca in London yet - do - it is lovely and fairly easy on the bank balance - lots of spice, tang and salsa and a favourite to meet my girlfriends in as it's platter sharing which I love. In the meantime try this at home - spicey, salty and zesty - just scoop it up with a crusty loaf.....

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4.

Drain and slice the feta and lay it out in an earthenware bowl wide enough to hold the

slices in a single layer.

Finely chop the garlic and the herbs, and roughly chop the chillies. Sprinkle them over the

feta with the lime juice and zest. Finally, pour over the extra virgin olive oil.

Bake for 10–15 minutes, until the cheese is soft and squidgy and smelling irresistible.

Thursday, 15 January 2015

Stunning Space

This is our awesome new book find. A stunning book on Space with bite size factual information a plenty yet so pretty you can feast with the eyes..... true, an investment read but in my book well worth it (no pun intended)....

Sunday, 11 January 2015

Snapshots

I know, the blog has been a barren land of late. I would apologise but it cannot be helped.... with the Christmas madness and our house reaching it's final stages (she said, ever hopeful) I have been otherwise engaged mostly doing terribly glamorous things like buying bath waste pipes or copper pipe cleaner. Still, here are some random snapshots of the past few weeks: a lovely yuletide on the shores of West Wittering, lots of trips to various parks to make the most of the lovely sunny weather and escape our rather cramped rental cottage (which is like living in a storage unit full of lighting, kitchen equipment, paint etc etc etc), my ever increasing belly and rather a lot of Spiderman paraphernalia...

playing records on my bed

bedtime please

pretty West Wittering

learning about estuaries

Christmas morning walkers

the pud

drilling for oil

festive fair

hide and seek - found you!

this park is blinking freezin'

Jason Orange circa 1993?!

Ronaldo

beauty in the everyday

yep, I can finally walk!

cheeky chops

nutkin

party popper wonder

silly Granny

tunnelling

amazing weather

Hurry up little lady - we cannot wait to meet you - 37 weeks......

it's spag bol what's not to smile about?

Phew. Father Christmas got a heads up the day before Xmas Eve that the only thing Lenny wanted was a Spiderman action figure.... (thank you Amazon Prime)

Spidey himself (amongst boxes and boxes and boxes of lighting....)

Stocking time

beautiful

Thursday, 18 December 2014

Snapshots

As I havent done a snapshots for a while this is a very random and long stretching collection of pics! The end of autumn, an ever growing preggo bump, the sun in Topsham, hanging in our tiny temporary home, out n' abooot the local fields and lastly our annual festive trip to Longleat. I have said it before, and I will say it again..... Longleat is AMAZING. Every year my eyes water when I pay for the tickets and I wonder if it is worth it - well, as always any doubts disappeared as soon as we drove through the gates! The animals had both my boys enthralled, they went on a train to see Father Christmas in his Winter Wonderland and this year they had a Festival of Light. It was the most magical, beautiful, spectacular installation of lights you have ever seen - it was like actually wondering through a fairyland dream...... I want to go again..... and again..... and again......