Ready for Easter?

Hot cross porridge


One of the things that annoys me about blogs sometimes, is that a perfect recipe/idea comes up-but its too late. Take a lovely advent calander someone put online on the 5th December. they must have made it a week before and I could have used their ideas!! By no means am I saying this recipe is perfect, but its pretty yummy and the spices and rasins do make this taste rather hotcross bun like. These pictures show my beutiful arrangement of the fruit and nuts to look like a cross. Of course this isnt nessaccary, and once I added the milk it was ruinined :( but at least my pictures prove I tried. I think this would be a perfect good friday or easter breakfast. I have to say, my personal plans for easter morning invole chocolate!

Ingreadents
1/2 cup oats
1 cup milk
1/2 tsp mixed spice
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp raisins*golden if you have them!
1 tbsp sultanas
1 tbsp currents
small handful chopped nuts/seeds

Method

1. Mix the milk, spice and oats in a bowl.
2. top with the nuts and fruit-cross pattern optional.
3. Microwave for 2-3 mins
4. Sprinkle with a little more spice and enjoy!

To anyone in the UK..how are you holding up in the cold?! Where is our spring?

Apple and toasted seeds

Apple and toasted seeds
Yesterday was been such a lazy day for me! I spent the morning in my Pajamas, just making my lunch for today somehow took me 2 hours!! I have never bothered to toast seeds before. So when prepping my porridge last night, to combat my lazyness I tried it. I will do it again and again! It's really worth toasting them just for the smell. It really does bring out the flavor as well though, in particular sesame seeds which can be a little tasteless otherwise.
Sweet apple and a few raisins cut through the seeds bitter toastynes and make a nice balanced bowl.

Ingreadents

• 2 tbsp sunflower seeds
• 1 tbsp sesame seeds
• 1 apple
• 1 tbsp raisins
• 1/2 cup oats
• 1 cup milk

Method

1. Heat up a small frying pan (no need for oil!)
2. When hot add the seeds and stir, keep an eye on them as they go from plain to toasty very quickly!
3. Chop up the apple, mix in a bowl with raisins and oats.
4. Pour over the milk.
5. Top with seeds, mix or leave as a topping.
6. Microwave for 2-3 mins
7. Enjoy!

Thinking about it, I wasnt that lazy, I did go for a run, make my lunch for today; did 45 mins of revision; Make my mum some roasted butternut squash/sage toastys and wrote up 3 blog posts... Maybe I'll say nice and relaxed day instead?!