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I was a bit off last week. Shaky, sore throat. I felt awful. My mate made me the most delicious secret recipe Bulgarian chicken soup and I swear it made me better over night. Naturally I asked for the recipe and was promptly denied. Apparently her dead grandmother would haunt us both until the end of our days if she gave up the family recipe. Trying to avoid the wrath of a smoted Bulgarian old lady ghost, I went f Read the rest!

Sponsored by Allen’s Cheekies Lollies. Firstly, my agent is awesome. She’s Irish. We’re in love. A few weeks ago she was all, hey you like lollies right? And I was all. Yes. Yes I do. Seriously I’m like a freaking twelve-year-old. Ice cream and with topping and sprinkles? Yes. Jelly lollies with some kind of delicious soft centre? Yes. Strawberry milkshakes? Yes. Fancy french cake with gold Read the rest!

I recently went to a meeting and there was a strange-looking snack on the table. It looked like a squashed muffin biscuit. I was intrigued. Turns out they were raspberry lemon sugar glazed muffin tops and one of the ladies in the office has special pans to make them. They were AWESOME so naturally the second I got home I hit up ebay to find some of these magical pans.  I bought mine from this ebay seller but I Read the rest!

This post is sponsored by Nuffnang and Arnotts. If you’ve been reading Smaggle for a while you’ll know I’m a long time carbohydrate avoider. I don’t scream and run at the sight of a hamburger but in general pasta, rice and bread are sometimes foods in my diet rather than daily staples. I’ve long been a fan of the old Cruskit as a sneaky lower carb vehicle for protein so I was delighte Read the rest!

Since I discovered cauliflower rice a few weeks ago I’ve been eating it like a theoretical Alsatian eating Bridget Jone’s face. Seriously this shit is bananas. One of my favourite recipes of all time is this Pesto and Chicken Quinoa dish and I make it all the time. Well that was until the internet made me feel bad about eating quinoa and now I’m confused. I digress, anyway I generally try to keep Read the rest!

Carbs don’t make me feel good, so I rarely eat them. Sometimes though when I’ve had a rough day, I just want a bowl of something warm, filling and delicious. A friend of mine recently told me that you can make ‘rice’ out of cauliflower.  I was like bitch, please. That’s so not a thing. She dared me to try it. Oh my. It’s quite the life changer. I threw together a quick chicken Read the rest!

A few months ago Mr Smaggle and I were at a family wedding. Much to my delight the bride and groom bypassed traditional cake and went with a profiterole croquembouche*. It was like a party in my mouth that only really cool people were invited to. Mr Smaggle watched me eat it and then asked me the most heart breaking question in the world. ‘What does profiterole taste like???‘.  My boyfriend makes me s Read the rest!

My brother’s delightful significant other gave me a gluten free recipe book for Christmas from Sally Wise  which is friggin’ fantastic. It has all kinds of things like pastry recipes that do simple substitutions of regular flour for GF flour and not that bullshit of adding secret powders from the mountains of Himalayan tribesmen like other GF cookbooks. I was doing a little experimenting over the hol Read the rest!

Sponsored by Appletiser.  I get sent lots of pitches for sponsored posts and advertorials and some of them are seriously laughable. I got a pitch for a baby safety seat just last Friday. I’ve got to stop hanging out with mummy bloggers. They’re ruining my reputation. When the Appletiser crew contacted me to participate in their Get Your Sparkle On campaign (and giveaway!) by sharing my 5 rules that I l Read the rest!

This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. Just a little break from my India series to bring you a few recipes and a giveaway. I have another delicious giveaway for you petals, but first let us all talk about how busy we are. All of us. Sometimes we all like to sit around playing the ‘I’m more busy than you.’ game but generally speaking we’re all pretty much run off our feet. I sometimes find myse Read the rest!