Friday 21 March 2014

FEBRUARY FAVOURITES!

Friday 21 March 2014
Aloha, we just want to start this off with a little 'Sorry Note'. Sorry that we haven't posted is so long, and we're a little crap at posting regularly... One reason is that we have no inspiration at the moment, and another is that we wrote a really long 'January Favourites' post and then deleted it by accident, and that put us into really bad moods... So, we're sorry! Right, lets go with this post then! This is only going to me my (Amy) favourites as Megan can't think of any... It's a stretch to think of some for myself... haha!

GOSSIP GIRL! Oh my, this show rules my life, I live to watch this show, yeah, that's another reason we haven't posted in a while too... If you watch it I'm sure you'll let us off... For those of you who haven't watched it, here's a quick synopsis: Set on the upper east side (New York). There's a blog going around called Gossip Girl and it just follows a popular group of people in a school, nobody knows who the Gossip Girl is, and people can also send in anonymous secrets, it reveals many scandals. Okay, so that wasn't really a synopsis, just the first series... haha, I'm coming to the end of series three so far, and my favourite character is Chuck, hands down... Ed Westwick is just perfection, and Chuck is just an even better version!

Hartley's 10 Calorie Jelly - Jelly is just so good, and I never really think of it when I think of puddings though... Megan introduced this to me, as she has it at her house. The Strawberry and Kiwi version is only 4 calories and is still really flavoursome! I can't wait to go out for my friends birthday, as we're going to an All You Can Eat restaurant and they have jelly, I think I'm going to eat loads of it! YAY!

Instagram - I realise this is a bit of a weird favourite to have, but I have a Blackberry and can't use/ upload to it, so I tend to use Megan's Phone/ iPad to post, not as frequent as I would like though... I get really addicted to it and then when I leave her house I get withdrawal symptoms. I think you all should follow me on there, I've started using it more in the last half of February, my name is @amykxy I'm on private but I accept anyone that isn't from my school or family... haha. Also whilst we're on the 'social media' topic, I've just made a new Twitter: @amykxy you all should follow me on there too! Thanks!

MUSIC - Throughout February I managed to gain a whole other music taste, I seem to be becoming more and more into more 'edgier' groups like: Sleeping With Sirens, All Time Low, The Pretty Reckless, Pierce The Veil, Panic At The Disco!, You Me At Six, Bring Me The Horizon, Asking Alexandria, Falling In Reverse. I mean, I don't like these groups as much as One Direction in some aspects, I don't obsess over their members, well, apart from Taylor Momsen, but she is just utter perfection. I don't even know the members of half of these groups, I just really enjoy their music!

So they are all of my favourites of February, they're not really like the last few months but hey ho!

Amy

Wednesday 5 March 2014

JAM TARTS RECIPE!

Wednesday 5 March 2014
Aloha Beautiful people, we're going to try and do a 'baking post' every month! Is that a good idea? We LOVE baking, lets just say a lot... Haha. So today, we're going to show you our Jam Tart Recipe. This is really simple, especially when you're novices like us... and it only takes around half an hour all in all. You will need:

Jam (approximately one teaspoon per tartlet)
50g of sugar
255g of plain four
140g of marg or butter
6 tablespoons of water

This is for 12 tartlets (no tops). We doubled this recipe, and made extra pastry for toppers.

You then basically just do this:




Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 5
Sieve the flour into a mixing bowl and rub in the marg until it resembles fine breadcrumbs
add the water tablespoon by table spoon until it is a moist dough
Grease a cupcake tray and cut the pastry.
Put the jam into the pastry and add the toppers if you wish
Bake for 12-15 mins

Here are pictures!




So there's our Jam Tart recipe, let us know in the comments if you are going to have a go for yourselves, and if they were better than ours, they probably will be as we aren't too great... and very messy... haha. Also tell us what other things in future you want us to do, we'll try pretty much anything! 

Amy & Megan




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