June Snack Pick!

I wanted to share my discovery with you today as someone always on the lookout for new and exciting products. My snack pick for this month is Marks and Spencers Chocolate Coated Wasabi Peas!

I'm a huge wasabi pea fan and I'm also particularly excited by anything with a salty and sweet combo. The first thing I notice is how beautifully tempered the chocolate is, super shiny and tempting. The choice of dark chocolate means that a couple of peas is enough at a time - no binge eating here.

I'm not sure whether the wasabi element has been toned down or the chocolate counter acts the heat but it's missing a little bit of the usual wasabi kick... But the crunch from the pea mixed with the smooth dark chocolate more than makes up for it. It was a good balance of sweet and salty and I think this bag is going to last me for a couple of days! 

Halloween at the Wishart-Whites

Halloween is a weird one. I enjoy fancy dress, I enjoy holidays in general... But there is a very British part of me that think it is ridiculous and commercialized. This year we are living in a big family neighborhood,  so the prospect of trick or treaters was high. Rob and I unfortunately disagreed on how to deal with trick or treaters. Rob would rather scare the living daylights out of any approaching customers, whereas I would love to pander to little kids in cute costumes. I would never let my own children go trick or treating as I would ask myself 'Why should strangers be required to provide sweets for my children?!'. In any case, a holiday is a holiday and that means an excuse for including food in some way. So I cooked a menagerie of halloween treats, we turned out the lights and partook in a blu-ray viewing of Cabin in the Woods.

Firstly, I baked a batch of devil's food cake cupcakes. The recipe for which can be found here. To make them halloweeny, I scooped out a hole in the middle of the cake and filled it with chocolate buttercream. I then covered the cake in buttercream for frosting. I then crushed a packet of bourbon biscuits (or you could use oreos) and dipped the cakes into the mix. This created an earth like texture. Finally I stuck a gruesome but tasty worm in the top! 

Continuing the theme, I created a spooky halloween cocktail consisting of red grape juice, apple juice, ginger beer and black food colouring.

For the main course, we enjoyed a 'Cauldron Curry'! A scarily healthy take on the thai green curry with chicken and loads of green veggies. This was a Martha Stewart recipe that can be found here!