Come Dine With Me | Iced Lemon Mousse

 So here we have it, the third and final installment of my Come Dine With Me menu!

Following on from my prawn bruschettas (here) and lamb tagine (here), I made iced lemon mousses for the dessert.

Now this has to be the easiest thing you could possibly make for dessert...it was literally so simple, and went down an absolute treat! Really can't go wrong!

Ingredients:

• 300g jar lemon curd
• Zest 1 lemon
• 300ml pot double cream
• 25g lemon shortbreads or biscuits

(Serves 6)

1. Put 2/3s of the lemon curd into a large bowl with the zest and cream and beat until it holds its shape

2. Dribble over the rest of the lemon curd and divide between 6 small pots/glasses, marbling the curd as you go

3. Freeze for 30-40 minutes

4. Top with crumbs and serve

This was taken before I realised I forgot the biscuit crumbs...oops

How easy is that!?

The full recipe can be found on the Good Food website here



What are some of your favourite desserts to make?

Do you have any good recipes?

Do you enjoy reading recipe posts?



Dennis looking all handsome for the evening!

 Thanks for reading,

Jo xo





Come Dine With Me | Lemony Prawn Bruschettas

A few weeks back, three of my friends and I decided to do our own little Come Dine With Me before we all scooted off back to uni (or to Italy in Ivy's case).

Now an amazing cook I definitely am not. But seeing as my meal went down pretty well (and the recipes were pretty straight forward), I thought I would do a few recipe posts on what I made!

So this first post is the recipe for the starter, lemony prawn bruschettas.

Ingredients:

• 4 baguette slices
• 1 tsp olive oil
• 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
• 1 chilli, deseeded and thinly sliced
• 200g raw prawns
• Juice of 1 lemon
• Small bunch of chopped coriander leaves
• 2 handfuls of rocket

(serves 2)

1. Toast the bread and keep warm

2. Heat the oil in a wok and cook the garlic and chilli until sizzling

3. Add the prawns and cook until pink

4. Remove from the heat, and add the lemon juice and coriander

5. Season and serve

Pretty simple, right?

The only thing I did differently was using cooked prawns and just heating them up in the pan...however I would recommend sticking to using raw prawns, as I ended up not heating mine enough and they were a bit cold!

But other than that it was a nice, simple starter

The full recipe can be found on the Good Food website here.

Will you be giving this a go?
Have you got any nice, simple starters recipes?


Thanks for reading,
Jo xo

N-Spa Lemon Souffle Shower and Bath Gel

So it turns out that N-Spa products definitely do not scrimp on the scent side of things.

Their lemon souffle bath and shower gel is definitely not for the faint-hearted. When I started writing this post I just could not put my finger on what the smell reminded me of. Halfway down I realised it was lemon curd...this stuff smells exactly like lemon curd!

Is it a sickly smell? Yes.

Is it a good sickly smell? Hell yes.

Although it may smell overpowering in the bottle, once you are dried off it turns into a much more bearable, soft lemon scent that is much more forgiving on the nose.

And I don't know if it's just me, but I find that lemon products just make your skin feel so clean. This is one of those shower gels that gives you that really fresh feeling, if that makes sense?

Packaging wise I love the bottle: plain, simple, and clean.

Well, at least I did.

I didn't think I had bought this that long ago but the packaging has since changed. It's based on the same idea of simplicity, just with a bit more colour. It's still nice, neat packaging that is easy on the eye.

Now admittedly it doesn't create the best lather in the world, but it is sufficient. And I will forgive it for this because of the rest of its general all-rounded awesomeness.

N-Spa products can be purchased at ASDA stores across the country or online.

The lemon souffle shower and bath gel is not currently listed on the website, but can be bought in store for just £3 for a huge 500ml bottle.

Other scents available from the N-Spa range include Pink Grapefruit, Raspberry,  Shea butter and Mint.

There is also currently an offer on of two of these products for £4, which includes their body butters, body mists and shower scrubs, so if you want to try some of these products out now is the time!

Next on my list are the body butters!

Have you tried out anything from the N-Spa range?

Will you be taking advantage of the 2 for £4 offer?

Thanks for reading,

Jo x