December 23, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Food & Drink

Change A Little, Enjoy A Lot

Back at the end of January I mentioned I’d taken on a couple of challenges that I was going to talk about more later. The first of these was part of the Alpro “Change a little, enjoy a lot”. They challenged me to make some small changes to my breakfast, using their range of plant-based

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Food & Drink

National Bagel Day – 5 Ways With Bagels

Did you know today is National Bagel Day? Me either, but it is. The humble Bagel was invented in Poland around 400 years ago and in the UK we eat over 320 million of them a year. That’s a lot of Bagels. I think I generally contribute very little to UK Bagel mountain, but the

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Cocktails Food & Drink

Rhubarb Vodka Sour

I think it’s time for a Cocktail, don’t you? Today I have a super simple recipe for a delicious twist on a sour. Normally made with whisky, this one is made with a delicious flavoured vodka, so it’s a lot sweeter, but no less boozy! Back in mid November I wrote a round-up of pretty much

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Food & Drink

A Beginners Guide to Macros

For a long time when I started this blog I would complain frequently about how I had no idea how to manage my diet in conjunction with my high activity levels. NHS guides would assess my weight and direct me to a couch to 5k program (while I was training for a Half Marathon) and

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Cocktails Food & Drink

Festive Cocktails : Winter in Marrakech

Ho Ho HO! Yes, I have another Cocktail recipe for you today! This one isn’t of my own devising, but is instead a recipe sent to me by Opihr Spiced Gin. It’s called Winter in Marrakech. I can tell you that this one is disturbingly easy drinking for a cocktail with 3 shots of booze

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Cocktails Food & Drink

Festive Mince Pie Martini Cocktail Recipe

Oooh yeah. Christmas is coming and it’s time for Christmas Cocktails! I decided I wanted to make a cocktail that tasted as much like a mince pie as I possibly could. So I started to do some research. I found a few mince pie martini recipes. The first involved me making my own spiced sugar

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Food & Drink Recipes

Retro Chick Cooks: Cranberry and Maple Syrup Sweet Potatos

I told you I wasn’t going to give up on this recipe lark! After Octobers nicely seasonal Pumpkin Pasta recipe I’m back, with another seasonal recipe! This recipe for Cranberry and Maple Syrup Sweet Potatos is actually a side dish. I had mine with meatballs in a cream sauce, but it’s also a perfect dish

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Food & Drink Recipes

Retro Chick Cooks: Spiced Pumpkin & Chorizo Pasta

On Monday I promised you a leftover pumpkin recipe. And today here it is. A Pumpkin pasta recipe to be precise. Recipes are a bit of a new thing for me. I did start doing a few many years ago, but with Mr Chick working away a lot the meals I cooked just for myself

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Cocktails Food & Drink

Moshi Moshi Midori Cocktail Recipe

Right, so you’d THINK I’d be sick of Cocktails by now, right? About a month ago I got an email from Midori Melon Liquer offering to send me some Cocktail ingredients for a Japanese inspired cocktail. I thought it might be a fun thing to post during Cocktail Week. But then the box didn’t even

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