French Onion Soup

Recently we've become a bit bored by our usual meal choices. We're also trying to eat much healthier (minimal bread, no fried food, less sweets) and sometimes find it difficult to cook something satisfying.

Whilst brainstorming we came up with onion soup and browsing recipes found that it was actually really simple (not to mention cheap) to make.

We used this recipe but substituted the sherry for white wine and Worcestershire sauce.

Instead of the suggested melted cheese option, we made an olive oil and fresh garlic toasted bread to go with it which paired perfectly. Warm, super tasty and much, much better than any soup you can buy.

I had worried that it might taste a bit "stock-y" when using an Oxo cube to make the stock but I was pleased to find it didn't at all.

Millionaire's Shortbread

This is one of my favourite sweet treats as it combines my love affair with caramel, chocolate and crumbly biscuit.

I made a batch of my own a couple of weeks ago for a picnic in Hyde Park with a friend and they went down a storm.

I don't think I've made shortbread from scratch before this so I was a little nervous as to how it would turn out but luckily it was fine - the perfect crumbly consistency.

I used a recipe similar to this but skipped the white chocolate on top (I figured they were sweet enough already). I also find that I tend to cut slightly smaller squares than the recipe suggests it yields but it just means they last a little bit longer.

Raw shortbread

Caramel

Mexicana

A couple of days ago, a very good friend of mine travelled to Mexico to study for a year. Although it's sad she's gone, it might give me a great excuse to travel to South America next year.

But in the mean time, in spirit of her new home, we decided to have a Mexican feast in the form of fajitas for dinner.

We simply fried chicken, red pepper and onion with a pre-bought seasoning mix, heated corn wraps and cut fresh avocado and parcelled it altogether with creme fraiche.