Vegetarianism

About 3 months ago i started being vegetarian mainly after the horse meat scandal but also because i wanted to see what its like. Well there's one thing i would like to say about being a vegetarian. Its REALLY REALLY REALLY annoying, I mean no offence to anyone who is a vegetarian you may enjoy it but for me i found it hard as i grew up in a family which adored (and still does adore) meat i have lived having steak 2 times a month meat once a day. So when i became vegetarian i found it hard because i thought i could just eat the vegetarian meals i eat at the moment - Pasta, rissoto, pizza, baked potato ECT. But when i started i found it hard if i went into a Indian menu to find something i liked hence the Lets Try 05 (Vegetable Cauliflower curry).I started to struggle after a while as eating out was close to impossible and i wasn't trying new things which is why i didn't blog for a while. So after about a month and a half i gave up and started to eat meat again. 

Lets Try 05 (Vegetable Cauliflower curry)

So today i was trying vegetable curry which was a recipe that i found in the Jamie's 15 minute meals cookbook.
When i first tried it i found that it was a little mild but kept eating but finally as a person who likes things to have a kick gave up and added more spice which i found made it a LOT nicer
The original flavor was quite sweet and kind of boring in my opinion but as soon as i added spice i was brilliant it didn't taste too different but had a spicy after taste so with the spice it was good.

So without the spice it  only got 4/10
But with the spice it got 7/10 from me

Lets try 04 (Sweet n sour sauce)

So today's lets try is about sweet n sour sauce

and i was trying it on Thursday and i tried it with chicken

The flavor was different and sweet but not too sour 

I thought i was okay but not great

So overall sweet n sour sauce only got 5/10 from me

Lets try 03 (Mandarin segments)

So Today's lets try is about mandarin segments and a member of my family persuaded me to try them my first thoughts before it tried it were oh no its going to be sickly sweet
So when i finally tried it i was surprised but not really in a good way the segments weren't to sweet but the whole flavor tasted fake yet real so i didn't know what to think but the overall taste wasn't pleasant and i wasn't wanting more so it wasn't too nice

 

So in the end mandarin orange segments only got 5/10 from me

Easy Cooking 01 (Fairy cakes)

So Today i'm starting easy cooking which is when i cook something with my own recipe and show you the recipe and how it worked out.
So today i am doing Fairy cakes or Cup cakes and if you try this please comment on how it worked out.
I find that 100 grams will do 10 big cupcakes or 16 normal sized ones

You will need:

100g of Sugar
100g of butter (preferably stork)
100g of self raising flour
half a teaspoon of baking powder
2 eggs
A spatula
A Spoon
A electric mixer/wooden spoon
A bowl
A set of weights
Measuring spoons

Recipe;

1. Weigh out all of the ingredients
2. Take the sugar and butter and cream them together in a bowl using the electric mixer or wooden spoon
3. Add in the eggs, baking powder and self raising flour
4. Mix till smooth
5. Gently spoon the mixture into the cases, use the spatula to get it all in
6. Put the cupcake cases in the hot oven at 180 degrees
7. Leave until golden brown
8. Remove cupcakes from oven and leave to cool
9. When cooled cover in icing and leave icing to harden
10. Finally decorate as you wish

Conversion - 50g = 1 egg
So if you wanted 8 cupcakes you would use 50g of everything quarter of a teaspoon of baking powder and 1 egg

I hope this recipe works for you it does for me and i have been using it for years!

Lets try 02 (Orange juice)

So in today's lets try i will be trying ASDA's extra special orange juice which is quite odd for me as i generally will only drink Tropicana smooth. But when i tried it i was pleasantly surprised and would recommend it. The flavor was sharper than Tropicana but  it was still delicious.



So overall it got 9/10 from me

Lets try 01 (Tabasco Sauce)

So today i am starting lets try which is what happens when i try something completely new
So today i was trying Tabasco 
My first thoughts were help its spicy
Then it was suggested that i tried the smoky Tabasco
So i finally tried it with Chicken the smoky Tabasco tasted good with the chicken and wasn't as spicy as i thought so 7/10 from me
Then it was suggested that i tried the extra hot wow that one was good but really hot and i only tried a little bit also 7/10 from me
I also tried the standard Tabasco which was good as well so also 7/10



So overall Tabasco sauce got 7/10 from me!