A Night Of Over-Eating

Last night Maisie and I went round Charlotte's for dinner, as you know, I like to eat lots, so this was perfect because, once again, I ended up in pain and with a stitch from eating too much. Thank goodness I was wearing leggings. 

Char gave us sushi to start, I could live off sushi and I think that I could cope with being vegetarian if I got to eat sushi all of the time, but only if I was allowed fish sushi too.

 This picture makes me seriously want some sushi..

We had an enormous bowl of my favourite things in the whole world.

They're not a new discovery to me but Tesco sell frozen soy beans, and when these little babies are defrosted they taste exactly like edamame beans which is because edamame are basically young or baby soy beans! They're only £1.60 for all of these!!

I just defrost them by running them under hot water, sprinkle salt on, then scoff away!

For the main, we had cajun chicken with roasted veggies
We marinaded diced chicken breast in a cajun spice mix that we found in Char's cupboard, organised, then pan fried it until it was cooked.
For the veggies we cut up 3 carrots, 1 pepper and 2 red onions into chunks, drizzled in olive oil and seasoned, then popped them in an oven at 200 celcius for about 40 mins.

Whilst Maisie sorted out her pudding, I looked out of the window..
Charlotte has 49 ducks.
49.

Maisie did poached pears in spiced red wine, I'm going to recreate this soon, so I'll save the recipe, it was so so nice, and I don't even like pears but I loved them in this,. it would be the perfect wintery pudding because it tastes just like mulled wine!!

 

My offering was red velvet brownies, someone told me this week that they were the best brownies that they'd ever tasted. Woohoo!!

We also freezed three bananas, added 3 dessert spoonfuls of cocoa powder and 1 of peanut butter, blended them and had dairy free ice cream, we didn't have much of this because by now we were in pain!

We spent the rest of the evening sat talking in the bathroom (?!), going through Char's wardrobe (I needed to borrow some clothes) and even more talking, I'm going to miss them big time when I go to uni!

The Big 1-8

Yesterday I hit the big 1-8, and after my form's track record of celebrating birthdays, I wasn't sure what to expect.
The night before I had started churning out chocolate chew balls and sausage rolls in their masses ready for my form and my mum even made one of her specialities, brownies, complete with marshmallows and chocolate chips.

WARNING: FOOD PORN!

To start the day off I went out for breakfast to Crabtrees with my mummy and my godmother, Jill.

Crabtrees is the best café near me, their wedges are to die for! Sadly, I didn't get the chance to take a great deal of photos because I was so ravenous and over excited but all three of us went for smoked salmon with poached duck eggs on toast which had definatley been homemade.
It was incredible.
Ever since I can remember I have had an aversion to eggs, I don't mind it when I can't see them like in cakes but not any more!!

Both the meal and the company were the perfect way to start the day but I had bid my farewells and get off to school.

Our class have always organised joint presents, everyone puts in about £10 and gets the birthday girl a joint present, my class gave me such amazing presents, I mean just look at the card!

 

 

 

This is a cookie stamp, so before they jump into the oven I can make sure everyone knows they're homemade!

 

And obviously there were cheese pies...

 

I thought we were ordering pizzas for lunch, and I went to get them with I and M, but instead they drove me to the Suffolk Food Hall where the rest of my class and boyfriend were waiting, I don't think I've ever been so shocked, again I didn't get many photos at all because I was a little bit overwhelmed.

The week before M and I had had a mille-feuille and her lovely mum (who I've never met) made me this beautiful cake, layers of delicious puff pastry, sandwiched with cream and topped with berries and rosemary flowers, then surrounded by beautiful blossoms and sprigs of mint from their garden.

 

Outside the food hall is the most fantastic thing ever. A bouncy pillow.

After gorging ourselves silly we thought it best to work it off!

 

In the evening my boyfriend and mum cooked up a storm with some chicken satay, a delicious Jamie Oliver recipe that I must repost.
I wasn't allowed to do anything but arrange the lettuce, so here's my contribution.

 

Then it was time for cake!
I was literally so full, but you probably know by now that I can always manage some more!

I had the best birthday I've ever had, and today was my last day of school, as a little tribute to my lovely class I thought I'd include a couple of pictures of our day:

Yes, we did spend the day as chillis, there wasn't an actual reason why, and yes, one of our pranks was leaving dead mice we got from a pet food shop around the school, it wasn't my idea!