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Quick Salsa Recipe

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So, you picked up the nachos, got the chili cooking and even boiled up some rice… but oh no! You forgot to pick up a jar of salsa! What to do! Well, I’m sure you have these simple store cupboard and weekly shop items to make a tasty 5 minute salsa fresca!

 Quick Salsa Recipe

What you’ll need (to serve 3 people):

2 Ripe medium sized tomatoes
3 Spring onions (or more/less to taste)
A tablespoon of chopped jalapeno peppers (the pickled kind)
A handful of coriander
A splash of lime juice (fresh is best)
Chopped/minced garlic (to taste)
Your favourite tomato based hot sauce
Salt & Pepper

It’s super easy to make, too. Chop up the tomatoes, spring onions and coriander, combine them in a bowl with the rest of the ingredients and voila! a tasty salsa fresca for all!

Alongside this you might want to serve a deliciously easy guacamole. Here’s what you’ll need:

1/2 ripe Avocados (like, squidgy!)
3 spring onions
Chopped jalepenos (it’s always best to use regular unpickled chillis, but they’re not always to hand so these will do!)
Chopped/minced garlic (to taste)
handful of corriander
splash of lime juice
and if you want, although not entirely neccessary, you can throw in 1 chopped up fresh tomato. Also for a smoother texture you can add a couple of spoon fulls of sour cream.
Salt & pepper to taste

Mash up the avocado coarsley, add the chopped up spring onions. Combine with all the other ingredients, and that’s it. Enjoy!

Recipe – Cinder Toffee

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Woah guys we just made this monster of a batch of Cinder Toffee, it’s really something you should try. And super easy to boot! Following a recipe by the Goddess herself, Nigella Lawson Recipe – Cinder Toffee, this recipe is so super fun to make. I’d even say it would be great to do with kids… if it didn’t involve magma hot liquid sugar…

 Recipe – Cinder Toffee

For a batch the size that we made, which by weight is probably very little, but by volume would fill a large 1kg quality street/celebrations/rose’s tin (you know, the kind you get around this time of year!), here’s what you need to do:

Ingredients

400g of Caster sugar
8 Table spoons (or 1/2 cup, 125ml) of Golden syrup
2 Table spoons of Bicarbonate of Soda

The process of making the cinder toffee is simple.

Start off by putting your sugar and syrup in a heavy based saucepan (make sure you use an oversized one!), mix these together as best you can (it doesn’t really work when it’s cold, so it’s best to keep mixing throughout the simmering).

Place over a lowish heat, everything will melt into a lava type substance that bubbles and boils… don’t freakin’ touch this.

Ok, so when it’s all lovely and golden (think… autumn) turn off the heat.

Put the bicarb in and whisk it.

Ready? READY? It turns into a f**king sugar monster. Yeh, see now why I told you to use a huge pan? We did’t the first time we made this, resulting in loads of fun :/

Righto, now you should pour this into either a greased up tin (again, you may need a big big sized one, or two.. just have a couple ready incase).

Now leave it 1 hour-ish or until it’s gone cold and hard.

Take it out and bash it up a bit, making super sticky hands but gorgeous lumps of cindery goodness. Voila!

 Recipe – Cinder Toffee

Cinder toffee block snapped in half, how cool does this look?

 Recipe – Cinder Toffee