[Review] M&S Marks and Spencers Count on Us Ham & Mushroom Tagliatelle

At first I thought I had tried the Marks and Spencers Count on Us Ham & Mushroom Tagliatelle but it turns out that the one I tried before was the Marks and Spencers Ham & Mushroom Tagliatelle.

Review for Marks and Spencers Ham & Mushroom Tagliatelle
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Anyway, I decided to get it anyway to see what the difference as.
Visually I think you get less pasta but more of ham and mushrooms.
It was basically Italian pasta in a cream sauce with beechwood smoked ham and generous amounts of mushrooms.

Overall, it tasted the way I expected to in the sense that it was creamy but not that heavy with delicious chunks of pulled ham.

Morrisons Five Counties cheese

According to cheesewiki.com, Five Counties is a combination of five English cheeses: Cheddar, Cheshire, Derby, Double Gloucester and Red Leicester. The five types of cheese are combined in alternating layers alternated in layers of yellow/orange and white.

I don't know if my cheese had gone off but it was bitter.

Kimm and Miller hot chocolate mug melt (Chocolate bomb)

Chocolates bombs are trending at the moment.
They are bascially chocolate balls filled with marshmallows or candies that melt in hot milk releasing the candies.

This was my first ever chocolate bomb from Kimm and Miller so I contemplated whether to pour hot milk on it or put the chocolate bomb in hot milk.
In the end, I poured hot milk on it.
The chocolate melted and the marshmallows came out.
It was definitely worth it but it was hard filming it as well as taking photographs at the same time.

Anyway, I was quite surprised how sweet the hot chocolate was but the chocolate could have been stronger but overall recommended because it was not expensive.

Some countries don't have chocolate bombs for retail yet so you can only get them at hotels and expensive restaurants.

You will find lots of information online on how to make chocolate bombs and different chocolate bombs available like white chocolate, colourful chocolate bombs etc.

Fresh artichokes

Through my restaurant journey, I have always come accross canned artichokes which are found in salads, risotto, as a garnish or made into dips but I have never had it fresh.
Spotted them at the market so decided to get them.
I believe the ones I bought were the spiny artichokes, other artichokes you can get are the petit violet, white globe and purple globe.
https://www.homestratosphere.com/types-of-artichokes/
According to the photos online, these artichokes were not the freshest but since I don't often come accross them I had to try it.
You can either steam or boil the artichokes.
Steaming is probably better because boiling will probably take the flavours away.
Once it is cooked, you eat from the leaves to the middle by scraping the leaves in your mouth for the meat.
When you get to the centre, you scrape away the flowery bit in the middle and you're left with the artichoke heart, the bit where restauarnts use in their dishes.
Overall, I had the artichoke plain so I really enjoyed the nutty taste, however you can dip it with mayonnaise or something creamy.

Steamed Artichokes:

Boiled Artichokes:

The fuzzy choke which you do not eat!

It must be spooned out and you will be left with the artichoke heart.

Fresh artichokes from Marks and Spencer.

Purple artichokes:

[Review] Sainsburys Bakery Apple Pie

While I was at Sainsbury's, there was this reduced bakery apple pie for 29p hence I decided to try it.
It was a surprisingly good apple pie, the pastry might be a bit thick for some but I liked it and the apple filling was tart.

The apple pie was delicious with the M&S gastropub Madagascan vanilla custard.

The only gripe was that there was too much powdered sugar which made it too sweet as the custard was already sweet.