Adding wine always enhances food especially meat and seafood.
Shaoxing wine is one of them used in black bean dishes which is why the black bean chicken at M&S is so delicious hence the reason I got the Marks and Spencers Shaoxing wine.
It was a bargain as well because other supermarkets sell 150ml for £3.
As well as regular bacon, these crispy bacons strips are sinfully delicious and addictive.
They are crispy and salty which make them great on salads, sandwiches and eating them just like that.
Although I don't really shop at Lidl, I do like their dark chocolate Easter range especially the dark chocolate and mint.
If you are a regular shopper at Lidl, you will know that every now and then they will have a TASTE OF AMERICA going on in the store with Mcennedy products like pizza, corndog, fast food etc.
Milkshake is one of them, in 2016 they had so many flavours like apple pie, blueberry muffin and chocolate and in 2018 there was Bourbon Vanilla milkshake costing 49p.
This year, they had sour cherry and cranberry milkshake which I had to try as a cherry lover.
I don't know if anyone still remembers but Asda used to have thick milk shakes just like this in the 80s to 90s.
They were delicious back then especially the chocolate.
Since Lidl has a similar thing for their American food week, I decided to give it a go.
Planned to get the chocolate and cherry but cherry was the only one left and without a lid.
Frankly it was horrible, the cherry was artificial and smelled like refreshers fizzy sweets mixed with medicinal cherry dioralyte [the stuff you drink for tummy upsets].
As a sour cherry flavour, it lacked tartness if at all any.
It didn't bring me memories of asda but it certainly made me remember refreshers and dioralyte!!
Even though I didn't like it I would buy a different flavour because I think the artificial cherry flavour killed it more than anything else.
The Marks and Spencers chicken doughnut dippers were part of the party collection launched by M&S last Christmas.
Since they were still around in Feb 2021, I decided to pair them with McCains Smiles.
The doughnut dippers comes with a sachet of BBQ sauce and waffle sprinkles.
After putting them in the oven for the specified time, the doughnut dippers were ready.
The doughnut coating was crisp and light while the chicken inside was moist and soft.
Dipping the doughnut in the bbq sauce was a match made in heaven because the BBQ sauce was thick and smokey with a nice tartness.
I didn't bother with the sprinkles though because I am not a fan of crumbs but overall these are worth trying.
The gooseberries that you normally see are green and tart however when they are ripe they become sweet and red.
Battenberg or Battenburg is a light sponge cake with different sections held together with jam. The cake is covered in marzipan and, when cut in cross section, displays a distinctive two-by-two check pattern alternately coloured pink and yellow. The large chequered patterns on emergency vehicles in the UK are officially referred to as Battenburg markings because of their resemblance to the cake.
Charles Nevin wrote in The Independent: “Battenberg cake is exemplarily British. The first cake was baked in 1884 to celebrate Prince Louis of Battenberg marrying Princess Victoria, Queen Victoria’s granddaughter and
Prince Philip’s grandmother.” Food historian Ivan Day refuted the royal connection, and states the simplification of the four-panelled cake occurred when “large industrial bakers such as Lyons” got in on the battenberg game – “I suppose a four-panel battenburg [a common 19th-century spelling] is much easier to make on a production line”.
Bakers construct Battenberg cakes by baking yellow and pink sponge-cakes separately, and then cutting and combining the pieces in a chequered pattern. The cake is held together by apricot jam and covered with marzipan.
QUOTED FROM WIKI.
Modern batt by Mr Kiplings
