On another note, my hubby and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary yesterday. So Happy Anniversary sweetie! Love you more and more each and every day :)
Thursday 4 October 2012
October already?!
I can't believe it's October already.. the year is flying by and in 10 weeks our little jellybean will be joining our family! We're so excited I can't even begin to tell you!! Another exciting thing to mention is that next month my mum will be flying in from Vancouver to stay with us for a couple of months and to be here when baby arrives and to help out.. I just can't wait to see her!
On another note, my hubby and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary yesterday. So Happy Anniversary sweetie! Love you more and more each and every day :)
On another note, my hubby and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary yesterday. So Happy Anniversary sweetie! Love you more and more each and every day :)
Easy Chicken Korma
This is a really easy mid-week dish to make for the family! I'm not normally a Korma fan but this isn't super sweet / coconuty (if that's a word), it's really quite nice.. Hope you like it!
1.kg Chicken breast or mini breast fillets
1 heaped teaspoon of finely grated fresh ginger
2-3 cloves of garlic, minced
150g thick (plain) yogurt
1 dried red chilli (optional)
2 finely chopped onions
1 tbsp ghee or veg. oil
1 tbsp ground coriander
Pinch of ground black pepper
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp garam masala
75g creamed coconut
water
1 heaped teaspoon of finely grated fresh ginger
2-3 cloves of garlic, minced
150g thick (plain) yogurt
1 dried red chilli (optional)
2 finely chopped onions
1 tbsp ghee or veg. oil
1 tbsp ground coriander
Pinch of ground black pepper
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp garam masala
75g creamed coconut
water
salt, to taste
2 heaped tbsps ground almonds
finely chopped Coriander Leaves, to garnish
juice of 1/2 lemon (I haven't done this cause we never seem to have lemons in the house)
Instructions:
1. Cut the chicken breasts into bite sized chunks
2. Mix the chicken with the ginger, garlic and yogurt. Cover and marinade for as long as you can preferably overnight in the fridge.
3. Liquidise the chopped onion and red chillies, add a little water if you need to. blend until smooth.
4. Heat the ghee/oil in a pan.
5. Add the ground coriander, ground black pepper, turmeric and garam masala and stir fry for about 1-minute over a low heat.
6. Turn up the heat, add the onion and chilli paste and stir fry for 10-minutes.
7. Add the chicken and the marinade and continue to stir fry for another 10-minutes.
8. Add the creamed coconut and enough water to *just* cover the chicken and bring to the boil, stirring until the coconut is dissolved. Stir in the ground almonds.
9. Reduce heat to low, cover the pan and simmer until the chicken is tender (30-40 minutes).
10. Remove from heat, add lemon juice and salt to taste. Mix well. Sprinkle coriander for garnish.
2 heaped tbsps ground almonds
finely chopped Coriander Leaves, to garnish
juice of 1/2 lemon (I haven't done this cause we never seem to have lemons in the house)
Instructions:
1. Cut the chicken breasts into bite sized chunks
2. Mix the chicken with the ginger, garlic and yogurt. Cover and marinade for as long as you can preferably overnight in the fridge.
3. Liquidise the chopped onion and red chillies, add a little water if you need to. blend until smooth.
4. Heat the ghee/oil in a pan.
5. Add the ground coriander, ground black pepper, turmeric and garam masala and stir fry for about 1-minute over a low heat.
6. Turn up the heat, add the onion and chilli paste and stir fry for 10-minutes.
7. Add the chicken and the marinade and continue to stir fry for another 10-minutes.
8. Add the creamed coconut and enough water to *just* cover the chicken and bring to the boil, stirring until the coconut is dissolved. Stir in the ground almonds.
9. Reduce heat to low, cover the pan and simmer until the chicken is tender (30-40 minutes).
10. Remove from heat, add lemon juice and salt to taste. Mix well. Sprinkle coriander for garnish.
11. Boil up some basmati rice and some cauliflower if you like and it's all done!
(I found this recipe on Jamie's forum but have tweaked it slightly, I take no credit for coming up with it)
Enjoy!
Wednesday 12 September 2012
Free Fabulous Fonts!
I'm now planning on making a start on my Autumn & Halloween crafts for the home and I wanted some fancy fonts to use. As you know, the fonts that come with Microsoft are pretty lame, so with the help from the trusty internet, I found this fab blog with a ton of free fonts for any project such as scrapbooking, cardmaking, your own printables (see previous post), etc. You have to check them out.. I've included their blog button to the right of my page for easy access.. it's called kevinandamanda.com http://www.kevinandamanda.com/fonts/
I've installed their fonts and did a virus check and it's all clean, but still if your not sure I'd advise you not to download anything you aren't sure about. Please don't take my word as I don't want to be held responsible, lol. Their layout is super easy, just click on the font you like and it'll take you to download page where it downloads as a zip to your downloads folder (or wherever your downloads go) and then you just need to extract the zip files, install onto your computer and away you go!!
If you don't know how to install new fonts into Microsoft Word, this explains it all:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/install-a-new-font-on-your-computer-HA001094742.aspx
Enjoy :)
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| Kevin and Amanda's Free Fonts |
I've installed their fonts and did a virus check and it's all clean, but still if your not sure I'd advise you not to download anything you aren't sure about. Please don't take my word as I don't want to be held responsible, lol. Their layout is super easy, just click on the font you like and it'll take you to download page where it downloads as a zip to your downloads folder (or wherever your downloads go) and then you just need to extract the zip files, install onto your computer and away you go!!
If you don't know how to install new fonts into Microsoft Word, this explains it all:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/install-a-new-font-on-your-computer-HA001094742.aspx
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| Kevin and Amanda's Free Fonts |
Enjoy :)
Tuesday 11 September 2012
Free Autumn / Halloween Printables
After being on Pinterest for some time now I've been seeing a lot of Printables being pinned and had no idea what they were at first but after seeing what others are creating and how they are using them, I'm so into them now! In fact I'm in the process of creating my very own printable for Autumn. If it's any good I'll make a few more for Halloween and Christmas and even one for our little jellybean's arrival.
These FREE Printables or Subway Art (as some people call them) I have posted are the ones I have come across while getting ideas for my own and thought they are way too cute to not share.. The links are included to the original blog if you want to use any of these for your crafting needs. I will upload pics of what I create and for you to use if you like.. hope it turns out as well as these! Have fun :)
These FREE Printables or Subway Art (as some people call them) I have posted are the ones I have come across while getting ideas for my own and thought they are way too cute to not share.. The links are included to the original blog if you want to use any of these for your crafting needs. I will upload pics of what I create and for you to use if you like.. hope it turns out as well as these! Have fun :)
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| source The Diary of Daves Wife |
Thursday 30 August 2012
Wellies
Living in England a girl needs a good pair of Wellies.. I was having a look today online at some of the well known labels and found a few that I just had to share with you (not in any particular order). I can't decide on which one of these is my favourite, but let me know which is your favourite.
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| Joules |
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| Hunter Boots |
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| Cath Kidston |
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| Hunter Boots |
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| Joules |
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| Hunter Boots |
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| Hunter Boot - thought it was funny seeing wellies with heels |
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| Hunter Boot - thought it was funny seeing wellies with heels |
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| Cath Kidston |
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