Penny loves Pumpkin

Hi Guys!

This is just a random post but I'm feeling all type type type so here I am :) I've missed so many days with y'all! I can't believe I missed the whole of Summer and most of Autumn! Just going to update you on random bits of my amazingly boring life.

 I celebrated 100 days and 200 days at my 'new' job already.

My hair has grown out a bit (as you can see in the pic?). I'm on my way to missing two haircuts but that is due to a lack of time and not avoiding the hairdresser....not consciously anyway....I'm not too sure....

I am currently on Day 6 of Operation No Eyeliner. Which is me attempting to wear less eyeliner (because a naked eye isn't going to happen.) My mum says the amount I wear on a daily basis isn't 'appropriate'. It isn't the first time it's been mentioned but I decided to take it on board this time round. It makes getting ready in the morning quicker but I feel really exposed and fugly. Lets see how long I can keep this up for!

I'm conflicted over my eyebrow situation. I'm still growing them out but I'm bored.....I dunno.
 Brow routine post to come soon  ;)

As always, I'm loving A/W fashion. Breaking my coat/shoe ban last year has been an exhilarating experience. I think I might need to reinstate the ban in 2015. Penny Palace is not coping with the amount of stuff! I have also discovered jumpersh this year. I'll be sharing my Primark sweater season haul with you soon :)

I am in love with pumpkin.

I made my first ever pumpkin pie, inspired by my first ever pie at L's house many moons ago. Good stuff!

I had my first ever pumpkin spice late #psl from Starbucks with V and it was......ok. I prefer pie!

But then I discovered pumpkin spice frappucino with my mum and I love it. Sweetness and spice and all things nice mmmmmmmm

And that is it. Eyeliner, eyebrows, some clothes, coffee and some pie. My life!

xoxo

Recipe - Chocolate and banana brownies

Hi Guys!

I had some super duper over ripe bananas hanging around so decided to make chocolate and banana brownies. I used a brownie mix, but you could do this from scratch if you wanted. I'm a bad cook and I don't really like banana's but this was so easy and a great way to use up food that I would have just chucked in the bin. And even though this is by no way healthy it made me feel good to think I was getting some fruit into me. Does this count as one of my five a day? Do I care?

What I did:

Pre heated my oven according to the packet instructions

Greased a cake tin

Put my bananas in a bowl and mashed them. Truth be told they were so so ripe they came out the skin already mashed lol

I then dumped my dry brownie mix on top and gave it a good mix with a wooden spoon. As you can see from the picture, the mashed banana acts as a substitute for any water/oil you usually add. Cos I'm a greedy cow I did add vegetable oil anyway, but instead of 4 tablespoons I just added 1 1/2 to make it extra moist and glossy.

I then poured the gooey mix into the cake tray and popped it into the oven.

Once the time was done I took it out the oven and let it cool for about 20 seconds and then I ate it.

THE END. ENJOY!

Come dine with me - starter

The other day I had the urge to cook a 3 course meal Come Dine with Me style. After a bit of research I decided to make:

Starter:

Baba ganoush and mini lamb kofta's with flat bread

I felt really proud of myself, especially my toothpick kofta idea (because I didn't have skwers).

BUT holy christ the food was bad LOL It looked the way it wasn;t suppose to look, but the baba gaboush (aubergine paste thing) was too garlicy (my fault - didn't know the difference between a clove and a bulb!), and the kofta's were blaaaaaaaaand (recipes fault, not mine!!)

Pasta bake

Ok this is totally random but I felt really proud and so wanted to share.

I made a pasta bake for the first time ever and it was pretty amazing if I do say so myself.

Inspired/copied off my friend R's packed lunch:

Ingredients:

Pasta(!)

Pasta sauce (dolmio's spicy pepperoni)

onions, garlic, salt and pepper

garlic sausage and normal ham

spinach, mushrooms, yellow pepper

cheese and fake breadcrumbs

What I did:

• Cooked the pasta (boiled in water ya'll!)
• olive oil in a frying pan. onions and garlic. sizzle my bizzle.
• add the mushrooms and yellow peppers (I cut all my stuff small and square)
• fried it off
• once 'done', added sausage (ready cooked) and ham
  
• seasoning!

• Once pasta was cooked I added in a whole bag of spinach into the pot and within a few minutes the spinach was done
• I then drained the pasta/spinach pot
  
• I then chucked the pasta and spinach into the sausage mix
  
• Stir, stir, stir
• Season if necessary.
  

• Pre heat oven.
• Put half (or a bit) of the food in your oven dish
• Sprinkle with cheese and stir
• Put the other half in the dish
• Sprinkle with cheese and stir
• (that was enough for me, you can keep going if you have a massive oven dish)
• Sprinkle the top with cheese
  
• Sprinkle the cheese top with breadcrumbs
• (And I then sprinkle a bit more black pepper on the breadcrumbs)
• Put in oven

• I left it in the oven for.....I think 15-20 mins which was fine. I can't tell you the temp, I always just guess.

A great dish - easy (I did it!) and you can add any veggies you have in your fridge and if you are less of a pig then me, you can go easy on the cheese (or add none) and it's a pretty decent meal.

Let me know if you give this a try. And let me know if you have any other easy food things I can try.

:)