SATURDAY MORNINGS ARE FOR DESSERTS

After a busy school week I like to create a chill and cosy Saturday morning so the kids can feel relaxed.

This morning I conjured up a made up apple pie recipe using some leftover apples (tossed with cinnamon, sugar, lime juice and flour) and puff pastry that was laying around in the fridge. 

I had made some chocolate coated dates filled with almond butter from a couple of days before and put those on the side. 

Both topped with milk and white chocolate hearts!

APPLE SPICE LATTE

It's already almost October, my favourite month. Partly due to delicious pumpkin spice lattes ...oh yeah!

However, recently, I saw apple spice latte on he menu and I thought I must search this!

I found and tried this recipe. There weren't many out there.

The apple spice syrup didn't end up having a syrupy texture as I imagined and I used a medium roast instant coffee as this is what I had on hand. Also had no whipped cream so my work was no match for store bought I am sure but it did satisfy my spicey coffee cravings!

I used this chai spice blend instead of the recommended apple pie spice since I am in the UK and the spices included didn't seem much different. I love the taste of this!

ONE PAN VEGGIE ROAST

Ingredients

3 potatoes

3 courgettes

5 small sweet peppers

1 aubergine

3 tomatoes

2 cloves of garlic

1 tspn salt

1/2 tspn black pepper

Lots of olive oil

Method

Preheat oven to 180c

Peel and chop all ingredients and add to roaster.

Mix with hands!

Put roaster in oven and cook for an hour at 180c.

Tip. 

Mix contents after half hour of cooking just to cook evenly.

Chop everything into very small pieces. This gives a nice texture to the roast.

HAVING TO SETTLE

I've spent the last 7 years moving. Moving house, moving countries, you name it. I'm 7 years older and I'm positively tired of it all. 

Not only tired, but being older and hopefully more wiser I believe I'm more confident. 

It feels unusual to be settled but I have made peace with it. By moving constantly I think I may have been searching for something to make me feel at peace where it didn't exist.

Life is what you make it after all.

KETO GARLIC BREAD

I made a keto garlic bread yesterday morning and it turned out pretty alright. I used this recipe but substituted the garlic powder with two fresh gloves of garlic and skipper the parmesan cheese coating. Also used a mild shredded cheddar melted on the stove instead of the mozarella and microwave.

Enjoy!

PALEO CUPCAKES, A MOUSSEY STAPLE

I despise long winded introductions to recipes so I've just attached the recipe and the finishes product to this blog post.

Enjoy x

CAREER FOMO (among other things)

Being a (young) mum has had many challenges but the thing I have found most challenging overall is  the Fear Of Missing Out, FOMO for short.

Whilst I am spending my days attending to every need and whim of my small children, I am pitifully aware of how my peers are getting on and upward in the career world. My degree, from which I graduated almost 6 years ago, is outdated, random and does not guarantee me any job in any sector. Together with the fact that I have literally no work experience, I find myself worrying daily about how I will enter the job sector after my children are all at school.

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A much later edit

The above bit of prose was a draft of blog post from two years ago.

I am pleased to inform you that I no longer worry about finding work once my children have grown. 

I moved back to my hometown which allowed me to emerge from my displacement anxiety. Honestly, I feel more settled now than I have at any other time in my life.

I've grown a little older and wiser and realised more so that I need to submit to fate and that it's actually convenient to do so. 

I have faith that when I need to find a job that I will. Because where theres a will, there's a way.

MOONLIGHT AND ROSES' DIRECTION

I have to actually type put a blog post on my phone for the first time in my life. The blogger platform has seemingly rejected safari as have so many others websites.

I blog because I need an outlet. Some sort of creative outlet to express all the wild and wonderful things going on in my mind.

For a long time I convinced myself that my blog should be some sort of professional, journalistic website, academic even.

Well, this limited my desire to actually write and keep it moving. I am a casual person. I don't have such professional writing desires. I only wish to write for myself for fun.

So I've concluded, on the spur of the moment, that I wish to write -casually- about whatever I wish.

Maybe, someone out there who chances upon my blog may be inspired as I am by so many other people's blogs and creative outlets...

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