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Cook restaurant quality meals!

Each box comes with 4 recipe kits and 4 step-by-step recipe cards.

Following the recipes, you combine the kits with 4-6 items from your fridge or cupboard.

Then in just 20 minutes  you'll be enjoying a delicious meal for 2-4 people.

First from this box I cooked the Greek Halloumi Gyros. In this kit you get Gyros Blend, Fries Seasoning and Mint & Garlic Sauce.

I've linked the Greek Chicken Gyros for this dish as it follows the same recipe, the only thing that changes is instead of cooking the chicken as the first step, you marinate the halloumi and then cook alongside the fries.

Also, as you can see, I had the halloumi, while Skye had chicken as she doesn't like halloumi.

I really like this dish, it's full of flavour as well as being really light and refreshing.

Next from this box I cooked the Coronation Chickpea Pie. In this kit you get Garlic & Ginger Paste, Mango Spice Blend and Coronation Paste.

Heat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas Mark 6.

Prep the filling.

Make the sauce.

Assemble the pie.

Serve!

I wasn't really a fan of this dish as I'm not really a fan of chickpea's, the other flavours were nice but it just isn't a dish for me.

We've had the Coronation Chicken Pie before and I'm definitely more of a fan of the chicken pie.

I also served ours with what I call herby potatoes, which are new potatoes boiled, drained and then herbs and butter added.

Next from this box I cooked the Pad Thai. In this kit you get Pad Thai Paste, Tamarind and Thai Tomato Paste.

We always enjoy this dish, all the flavours work really well together. It's a dish I never get bored of.

Lastly from tis box I cooked the Sausage & Fennel Pasta. In this kit you get Chilli & Fennel Mix, Smoked Salt & Chive and Garlic Vegetable Stock.

Sadly this dish is no longer available. But the flavours were really nice an everything worked well together.

Each box is £11.78 or £9.99 if you click ship now, with your first box being a trial price of £3.

If you are interested in making your own Simply Cook subscription, then head over to the Simply Cook website, to check out more details as well as their big catalogue of dishes to make.

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BJ Alex Volume 3 - Book Review

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BJ Alex is a completed 19+ BL webtoon manhwa written and illustrated by Mingwa.

The series was published and serialized by Lezhin Comics. It was digitally published in Korean by Lezhin Comics from November 24, 2017 to August 7, 2020.

The series was officially published book format by Lezhin Entertainment from February 25, 2021 to December 31,2021. It was published in English from August 31, 2021 to October 19, 2022.

The series is available in 9 languages, Korea, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Polish.

Every night at 10pm, Dong Gyun shuts himself in his room, tissues at the ready, and tunes into his favourite live cam show hosted by the captivating Alex. To Dong Gyun, Alex isn't just another online performer - he's confident, uninhibited, and everything Dong Gyun secretly wishes he could be.

But one drunken night changes everything. After blacking out at a school networking event. Dong Gyun wakes up in an unfamiliar bed... beneath a shirtless stranger who looks exactly like the from his screen.

When fantasy collides with reality, Dong Gyun's carefully guarded world unravels - because facing Alex in the flesh might be far more than he ever bargained for.

Volume 3 continues where volume 2 left us, and we get to see Dong Gyun wanting to try new things with Jiwon and experiment more in the bedroom to find out what he likes and dislikes are. We see Jiwon let his jealousy get to him, taking it out on Dong Gyun.

We get to see more of Myungdae in this volume as we get to see more of BJ MD, and his pursuit of a new sub for his cam show. In his pursuit we see him meet with Dong Gyun, which again causes a misunderstanding with Jiwon, he again takes it out on Dong Gyun.

We get a little back story too of how MD originally met Chanwoo and how his interest in him began. We also get to see MD ask Chanwoo to be a part of his cam show as his sub, to which we already know that Chanwoo is into that kind of stuff.

Sadly Dong Gyun allows his feelings for Jiwon to take control in this volume by asking and setting up a date for them both, which eventually causes Jiwon to take a step back and re-establish boundaries with Dong Gyun, we also get a little peak into why Jiwon is the way he is when it comes to relationships.

While we see a little jealousy and a little bonding between DG & Jiwon, we still don't get much in character development from Jiwon.

Volume 3 really brings us more with the story, and by the end you can't help but wonder what Jiwon's backstory is and why he's the way he is. I also love that we get to see more of our side couple and how their relationship begins.

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Asian Pork Meatballs

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I'm going to share with you another Pinch of Nom recipe from their Everyday Light recipe book.

Ever since making meatballs from scratch a few years ago, I've never bought them in since. So when I came across this meatballs recipe, I knew I wanted to give it a try.

This recipe can be found in the Quick Meals section.

Let's get cooking!

Ingredients:

Meatballs:

500g 5%-fat pork mince

1 courgette, peeled and grated

1 carrot, peeled and grated

4 spring onions, trimmed and finely chopped

1 medium egg, beaten

1 tbsp garlic granules

1 tsp onion granules

1/2 tsp Chinese 5-spice

1 pork stock cube

sunflower oil

4 tbsp soy sauce

2 tsp Worcestershire sauce

1 tsp lime juice

sea salt& ground black pepper

Char Siu Ketchup:

250g passata

1 tbsp tomato puree

2 tbsp dark soy sauce

2 tsp Worcestershire sauce

1 tsp lime juice

1 tsp garlic granules

1 tsp granulated sweetener

1/2 tsp Chinese 5-spice

Start by pre-heating the oven to 220C/200C Fan/Gas Mark 7.

Put the pork mince, courgette, carrot and spring onions into a large bowl.

Add the egg, garlic granules, onion granules and Chinese 5-spice and crumble in the pork stock cube.

Mix well with clean hands until combined, then shape the pork mix into meatballs. The mixture will make about 16-20 x 2cm balls.

Add a little oil to a large frying pan and place over a medium heat. Cook the meatballs in batches. Once heated, carefully place half of the meatballs in the frying pan. Fry for 5 minutes before gently turning them and frying for a further 5 minutes..

Try not to touch the meatballs for the first 5 minutes of cooking as they will be fragile and will break apart.

When both batches are cooked place them into a roasting dish and pour over the soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce and lime juice an season with a little salt and pepper.

Place the roasting dish in the oven and cook for a further 10 minutes.

While the meatballs cook in the oven, add passata, tomato puree, dark soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, lime juice, garlic granules, granulated sweetener and Chinese 5-spice to a small saucepan. Season with salt and pepper and simmer over a medium-low heat for 10 miunutes.

Once everything is cooked, you can serve it all together or have the Char Siu ketchup as a dip with either a mixed side salad, spaghetti or an Asian twist with egg noodles.

You can also make it all in advance, allow to cool and freeze both the ketchup and meatballs separately.

This recipe serves 4, so it was perfect for me an Skye to have as a meal, while leaving me some extra to have for lunch at work.

The flavours were amazing, definitely had an Asian kick.

They were really easy to make and I'd happily make them again, even Skye seemed to be a fan of this dish.

If you're interested in any of Pinch of Nom's recipe's then you can buy the recipe books in all major supermarkets as well as online retailers Waterstones and Amazon.

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