Practical & Pretty Kitchen Wall Storage

Hi honeys
I'm sorry I've been gone so long. In addition to the usual rush of the season, extra hours at work & trying to do the every day chores, we've been doing a sort of mini renovation on our kitchen. 

Much needed and so, so long overdue, I LOVE our kitchen now. It's far more "user friendly" I have a little more storage, can't ever have enough of that in a kitchen, don't you agree? Best of all is that it just seems to "flow" now in ways that it just didn't before. I promise I'll share all in a soon to be written post :)

In addition to installing an additional worktop & cabinet, along with the neatest, coolest, most incredibly useful little trolley I've ever seen, we've set up new systems for everyday annoyances like where to store things that get used all day long & that we have lots of.  Like anti bacterial surface wipes, micro fibre cloths and tea towels.

We have lots of tea towels and micro fibre cloths.  I use them all the time and I wanted to store them where I could easily "grab & go" and where it was equally easy to quickly put them away once washed & dried.

We also tend to buy our anti bacterial wipes in bulk (usually a box of six packs) so we needed a place to store them, but also to be able to grab a fresh pack when needed.

During a recent trip to my own little happy place :) Ikea, we bought metal mesh baskets from the Algot range and the smaller of the wall uprights that they connect to.  The wall uprights are fastened to the wall and there is a huge range of attachments for them, from the mesh baskets we bought, to mirrors, shelves and hooks to hang bags, scarves etc from.

Individual Shortcake Biscuit, Caramel, Banana & Chocolate Desserts 😋

Disclaimer: I haven't been paid to promote any products, just wanted to share my latest little kitchen experiments x

 

Hi honeys,
You know those little ramekins? Those adorable little stoneware (or glass) dishes intended for individual servings of anything from baked savouries, side dishes and even desserts :) Well I recently bought a set of lovely little stoneware red & white ramekins and the first thing I made in them was this......

These were a breeze to put together, they took no time at all and they can be chilling in the fridge all ready for an after dinner or movie watching marathon treat 😊  So, grab your ramekins honeys and get ready to make something awesome 😋

Individual Shortcake Biscuit, Caramel, Banana & Chocolate Desserts 😋

Ingredients:

Note: You'll need one small ramekin dish (or a pretty glass) per person 

1 pack of shortcake biscuits

100g butter or margarine

1 (397g) can of ready to serve caramel

Sliced bananas (one banana per two ramekins/glasses)

Dark chocolate to melt for topping

Directions:

1. Place shortcake biscuits into your food processor and blend until they resemble fine breadcrumbs (or place your biscuits inside a ziplock bag, seal and roll with a rolling pin until crumbled.)  

2. Melt your butter/margarine and then carefully add to a bowl with your crushed biscuits and mix until thoroughly combined.

3. Divide your crumbled biscuits mixture between your ramekins, to create the base of your dessert.  Take them to the fridge and chill for 30 minutes (or longer if you can.)

4. Divide your caramel among the ramekin dishes, spreading it evenly over your biscuit layer. 

In case you'd like to try making caramel honeys, it's super easy and you can find the ingredients (and directions) in my Scottish Caramel Shortbread Tray Bake recipe.  

5. Slice your bananas and lay slices across the caramel in each of the ramekin dishes.

6. Melt your chocolate and pour generously across the top of the bananas.... yum!

7. Chill for around 20 to 30 minutes, longer if possible.  In the photograph I decorated with slices of dried candied banana but you could also use chocolate sprinkles or mini chocolate flakes.

8. Enjoy!  

Hubby adored this yummy treat, which made me really happy because I made it for him as part of a special dinner for his birthday 💖

I so hope you've all had a great weekend honeys, do stay warm and have fun if you're celebrating the fast approaching holidays. I can't believe it's less than 4 weeks till we're into another new year! Till next time dear ones, sending heaps of hugs xx

Super Easy Spaghetti Lattice Pie!

Hi honeys
I hope you've had a great week :)  Do you remember the recipe for Scottish Caramel Shortbread I posted recently? A childhood favourite from my school days it seemed to be quite popular so I thought I'd share another little glimpse into a 1970s Scottish Primary School "dinner school."

This is such an incredibly easy dish to make and you can be certain that kids, from 1 to 100 will adore it :) You'll also probably have the ingredients in your kitchen already, and kids will love being able to help with the lattice topping too :)