It’s a hard life, being sent chocolate to review… but someone has to do it! With Valentine’s Day swiftly approaching, Treat Republic offered to send us a few treats from their extensive range of chocolate to sample.
It’s no secret that my favourite chocolate is the delicious milk chocolate from Hotel Chocolat. I adore their selector slabs, and James has to drag me in the opposite direction whenever we are within sight of the HC store in the city centre. I demand ask very nicely for Hotel Chocolat to be my edible treat each birthday and Christmas, and last year James even treated me to one of their advent calendars, which was delicious!
I have to admit, luxury is not the first word that comes to mind when I think about supermarket chocolate. I tend to only buy own brand chocolate if I am baking, and even then it’s quite rare.
I had to give up baking towards the end of my pregnancy, as my massive bump was getting in the way a bit! Now with Lydia starting to get into a routine, and my afternoons returning to being my “me time”, I’m getting my baking mojo back. I baked some of my cheese & bacon …
We had a rather busy (and very tiring) weekend, but it was full of good things. Here are a few of the things we got up to in the two days… Saturday morning we headed to a local NCT sale to pick up some bargains for Georgie & baby no 2. We didn’t see much …
I have been feeling in need of a chocolate fix lately and so when I tried Jo’s rocky road at a local NCT sale recently I was dying to whip up a batch to nibble at home. The recipe is based on one of Nigella Lawson’s creations and can be found on Jo’s foodie website. …
