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.