Skinny Topcorn

I'm a little bit addicted to popcorn.

In fact, I'm so addicted I had to stop writing halfway through this post to go and get some, and here's the proof:

It's my favourite snack, and before every lecture (and sometimes in the middle of lectures too) I make Leonnie come with me to the University cafe to get some.

Depending on what's on offer, she gets Sweet 'N' Salty or Salted, and I go a little off the beaten track and get Wasabi Glaze or Heat 'N' Sweet.

Touchdown cafe is the only place I can find that sells snack bags of nearly every flavour of Metcalfe's popcorn, apart from Sainsbury's, where I go to get my Heat 'N' Sweet fix in the form of a sharing bag- which certainly isn't for sharing.

And to top it off, for Valentine's Day this year I got given this:

A bulk box of 12 bags of Wasabi popcorn... Delish!

Amazon sells these babies too.

Salmon & Avocado Mash

The other night Faye and I found some salmon steaks in the freezer and decided to get cooking. 

This was so easy to make because all you do is pop the salmon in the oven and get cracking with the quinoa, which, by the way, is really quick to cook, speedier than rice and pasta!

I heard about avocado mash from Russell from SBC on Instagram, and considering that I love avocado,  and I love quinoa, it seemed like a match made in heaven.

I've made it several times and it's a tasty alternative to rice or pasta, because, frankly, I do get quite bored of those.

Two Salmon steaks

1 medium sized leek

Quinoa or Bulgar wheat, amount depending on portions

1 vegetable stock cube

1 clove of garlic

1 avocado

2 tsp lemon juice

Preheat the oven to 200C, and whilst you're waiting for it to heat up, chop your leeks into disks and pop half into the bottom of a little foil parcel, place the salmon on top and season with S&P.

Whilst the salmon is cooking away grab a pan of boiling water, add the stock cube and the quinoa or bulgar wheat,  I used a mixture of both, boil until fluffy, and drain using a sieve.

 Mash up your avocado so it's completely smooth, and mince or finely chop the garlic.

Add both the garlic and the avo into the quinoa, 

Squeeze in a bit of lemon juice and season.

It should go a slightly unappetising light green colour, but persevere, because it's really tasty.

After about 20 mins of the salmon being in the oven, take it out and check it. If it's done, all systems go,  pile it all on a plate.

  
I can't have dairy, Faye and Tilly had their suppers a little differently, they had their salmon cooked with a little cream cheese and served with what looked like the creamiest mash in the world, I didn't mind though because the avocado makes the quinoa taste so creamy that you wouldn't know it was dairy free.

Term 2 Catch-up

I'm a bad, bad, bad, bad blogger. I know.

My first term literally flew past, and now that I'm nearly in the middle of my second semester I thought I'd share some recent and not-so-recent pictures with you!

This beautiful girl is Leonnie, she's my PR partner in crime but sadly she doesn't actually live in Canterbury, she commutes from about 40 minutes away. 

She came down for a sleepover and put up with my pokey room one Monday night so we could have a night out together!

Two weeks ago Mum and I went to Yo Sushi in Westfield. If I'm honest, I'm not too keen on Westfield, unless you want to get up at ridiculous o'clock, it's usually crowded and people barge, you really have to have a pep talk with yourself and sharpen your elbows if you want to get anything done.

It's actually a smack bang half way point for Mum and I, between Suffolk and Canterbury making it perfect for lunch to eat my favourite cuisine ever.

These two, I will willingly admit are my two favourite boys in the world.

What a statement to make, but they are absolutely hilarious, and I'm just as good at them at poker, which is great

James // Lottie // Harry

I finally did it.
I had my first ever Dominos pizza, I know I'm a little bit late to the table but it's life changing, plus I can choose to have a pizza sans cheese.

Being able to order pizza from my bed and skip down to the door in my pyjamas to collect it from the delivery man wasn't really something I needed to get into

Let's hope this posting malarky becomes more of a regular thing xxx