teawithlemon
Hi, I'm Laura. I'm 27, single and live in Cardiff. I'm an eater, a cook, a blogger, and a soon-to-be UX designer. I love TV, movies, rollercoasters, and dinosaurs. I have a stegosaurus tattooed on my foot, and leaves on my hip. Chances are you'll find this blog full of fluffy baby animals, delicious cakes and random musings about my day. I also run and moderate:
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before, but I have another food blog where I post occasional longer articles and recipes.
This is my latest post where I talk about chain restaurants and defend them against some of the abuse they often get from other food bloggers.
I’d love for you guys to go and check it out!
Tiny foods!
I have to say, I’m getting kind of sick of seeing foods photographed in jars which would clearly be really difficult and impractical to eat out of a jar. Yes, I know that it looks ‘cute’ and ‘quirky’ but if you would have to tip the whole thing out to eat it, just take a picture of it in the damn bowl!
Not only is it really pointless taking a picture of food in a way you would never actually want to eat it, you’re not even being original because frankly how many goddamn foods in jars have you seen over the past few months?
Today I made roast chicken with duck fat roasted potatoes, roasted carrots, yorkshire puddings, black pudding stuffing, cauliflower cheese, peas and gravy. It was awesome. Dinner is going to be fat sandwiches made with all the leftovers. I’m thinking the yorkshire puddings will make an awesome ‘third slice of bread’ to put in the middle. I’m excited.
I’m completely obsessed with this teeny tiny food art by Shay Aaron. You can see a bunch more of them in this article.
How did I not know there was such a thing as this Lemon Festival?
Lemons AND sculptures made out of foodstuffs?
Hello paradise
609. Edam
I bought this cookbook in Greece of traditional Greek recipes, and when I was browsing through it the other week I found a recipe for a mac and cheese pie. Yes. You heard that right. Mac and cheese PIE. And on top of that it also included sausage. Mac and cheese + pastry + sausage. Of course I immediately thought that this sounded like the single best idea I’d ever heard and rushed to the store to buy the ingredients to make it for dinner.
To make a bit of a change from cheddar, I chose edam as the cheese. I thought that with the sausage and pastry, choosing a slightly milder, lighter cheese would probably be advisable. Edam still has enough of a cheesy flavour to make it good for a mac and cheese though.
Basically, to make the pie, you make a homemade cheese sauce and boil the pasta like you normally would for a mac and cheese. At the same time, grill the sausages. Slice them up when you’re done and mix the macaroni, cheese sauce and sausage together. Pile it all into an oven dish, cover the top with storebought puff pastry (get the all-butter stuff if you can find it, it’s so much better) and bake for like 20 minutes. Voila, awesomest dinner ever. As you can see I served mine with some green salad to try and pretend that it was the unhealthiest meal ever. But frankly when something tastes this good, who cares.
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A lot of the time I try to eat healthily. But then there are other times when I make this.
