Happy new year to the extraordinarily fab people reading this!! Long time no see, eh? Since my last blog post all those many months ago I have visited seven countries, moved in to the house of fun with my favourite gal pals (minus you, Ellen), made new friends and lost one and embarked upon my most intense academic year yet. It's been a wild five months. I don't usually go in for all the stuff that comes with the start of our next rotation around the sun like resolutions yada yada but the latter half of 2014 has been... I'm going do it, feel free to shoot me for what I am about to type... a ROLLER COASTER (hahahaha my sincerest apologies) to say the least so I figured a little reflection wouldn't go amiss. I'm not gonna share my resolutions with you cos they are super duper lame for the most part BUT one of them is to BLOG MORE. In addition to scrawling what I want out of this year in my notebook, and in order to avoid beating myself up come the end of 2015 I also decorated a jar in which I will put bits and pieces, photographs, journal entry type things etc that represent achievements and all the good, exciting, lovely things that happen that quite often get overlooked because lets face it most of us are prone to dwelling on the negative things! This way I can feel warm and fuzzy when I empty the contents of the jar a year from now even if I can't check all the things off my list of resolutions! I can't take credit for the idea though, ta v much BuzzFeed!
I decided for my first post of 2015 I wanted something fruity, maybe even zesty, rather than chocolatey or spicy. I wanted to move away from flavours associated with the holidays. I also wanted to try something I had never done before; like pairing fruit and herbs in a baked good which I know is doable cos ya know Top With Cinnamon's BEST EVER chocolate chip cookies have basil in em and Local Milk sticks herbs in her baked goods left right and centre! (each of those four words takes you to a different sweet recipe with a herb cameo)
