My Winter Reading!!

Hey Guys!!!

If there is one thing I love doing during the Winter, other than stew, it has got to be curling up with a nice, warm blanket, a cup of tea and a really good book. I could read for hours and hours with a good book in hand and just go off into my own little world, while doing it.

So I thought I would show you what I am going to be reading over the Winter. I have just finished my Lord of the Rings Trilogy, so obviously now need something new to read and thankfully I have a lot of books that I still have yet to read. So I have decided my next reading goal is to complete The Hunger Games Trilogy, I had these as a Christmas present from a friend as she recommended them to me to read.

 

What I am going to do as well, each book that I finish I am going to do a little review on it so that if there is any of you that hasn't read them yet you can see if its worth reading. To be honest I have watched the film and thought the film was fantastic so hopefully the book is just as fantastic :D

 

 

If any of you readers have read it what did you think of the book?

 

 

Now as it doesn't really take me long to read a book, the review will probably be up next week so keep your eyes peeled for that post :D As for right now I am going to go and start the first book :D

 

 



Making Chicken Stew

Hey Guys!!!

So as you seen I made a beef stew the other week, well this week I decided to make a chicken stew. I used the exact same recipe but swapped the beef for chicken, which you can go to HERE.

To do it I fried the chicken off first, like I did with the beef and then chopped the carrots, swede, potatoes and parsnip up and put it all together in the slow cooker. I then added roughly 500ml of water along with 2 chicken OXO cubes and let it cook for 4 hours :D

After it cooked I must say it was absolutely delicious, it also smelt gorgeous to. Of course we had our 2 slices of bread along with haha but next time I do a stew I'm going to make home made bread :D

I hope you've enjoyed this post, I know I didn't go into much detail but I didn't want to feel I was repeating myself from the last post :D

Hope You've All Had A Good Weekend!!!! See You Soon xxx

Making Beef Stew!!!

Hey Guys!!!

So Winter has officially began in my eyes as I have made my very first stew of the season, as well as my very first stew ever :) Silly me can't seem to find the recipe I used but as soon as I do I will post it in this post :)

I thought that been as though Llewellyn was off work last night I would make a nice, delicious, beef stew. Also I wanted to actually use my slow cooker as it just sits on the counter top not getting used :)

So the vegetables I used for it was 3 carrots, 1 swede and 3 potatoes as you can see below in the picture :) Also I used 400g of stewing beef :)

First off I fried all 400g beef off, turning it brown so that it would cook a bit quicker :)

Once I had done that, I then peeled all the carrots and chopped them in to slices and put them in with the beef :)

I then peeled the potatoes and swede and chopped all them up and put that in with all the beef and carrots :)

Once all the vegetables had been added I then added two beef Oxo cubes and roughly 700ml of water, though you can put as much water in as you need :)

As soon as the water and the Oxo cubes mixed together it started to smell gorgeous, I did stir it round a bit so all the vegetables and beef was mixed together :) The recipe said it would take 8 hours to cook if on low, so I put it on high and it cooked in half the time :) while cooking though the whole flat smelt blooming gorgeous and every time I went in the kitchen I would smell it :)

So after a very long 4 hours it was finally done and I couldn't wait to dish it up into some lovely deep bowls and dip lots of bread in it and just enjoy the lovely warm feeling stew seems to give you :)

In review the recipe was a great one especially as I had never made one before, it was very easy to follow as it was explained in simple terms, though how more simple than chopping and frying can you get haha Eating it was delicious the vegetables were just the right softness and the juice was just the right thickness, well it wasn't to thick or to thin, all in all it was gorgeous :)

Do any of you think its the start of winter when you start making stew? Or is there any traditions that you have for the start of winter?

For me it is definitely the start of winter when you got the smell of stew floating around, some lovely Christmas scented candles burning, and a lovely warm blanket cuddled up with the husband. Also it means my birthday is on its way and so is Christmas :D

Well I Hope You Enjoyed This Post!!! Let Me Know If Any Of You Have Made Stew!!!

See You Soon!!!