Ilchester Easter-themed cheeses - Wensleydale with chocolate and orange& Cheddar Cheese with blueberry hot cross bun flavour

Norseland, the UK's leading speciality cheese company and the manufacturers of the number one selling Ilchester® Cheese Advent Calendar, have launched two new Easter-themed cheeses in their Ilchester range. 

These are: 

Ilchester® Spiced Blueberry Hot Cross Bun Wheeler – a delicious cheddar cheese, blended with real blueberry pieces, orange peel, dark raisins and lightly spiced with cinnamon. 

Ilchester® Double Chocolate and Orange Wheeler – a rich and creamy Wensleydale combined with shards of milk and white chocolate as well as fruity orange pieces. 

These two products are available from 350 Asda stores from 18 March, so I got them as soon as they were launched.

They were in my fridge for a week until I was finally mentally ready to try these Easter cheeses.

I was not sure what to make of them.

A good cheese is moreish but they were neither good or bad.

Wensleydale was the better of the two because it just tasted like a strong chocolate and orange peel cheesecake made of 99% cheese.

The blueberry cheddar was not offensive but clearly it was sweet and savoury. 

Hartley's Cherry Jam

Hartleys Cherry jam is the best jar of jam but strangely I have never seen this in the UK but exported to other countries!!

This was a complete surprise as the jam was loaded with lots of whole plump cherries.

It's like a ratio of 70% cherries to Jam 🙂

As there were so many cherries I decided to add some to my bowl of oatmeal and made black cherry yoghurt milkshake with it.

It would definitely be delish with scones too.

Cadbury Limited edition crunchie dessert

 Cadbury's desserts are flawless, basically smooth delicious chocolate in dessert form.

Every now and then you will get limited editions with a side of something like crunchie, mini eggs etc.

I had the crunchie which was basically bits of honeycomb covered in chocolate.

New Biscakes at M&S Marks Spencers

 New biscakes at M&S.

I'm not sure if I'll like them but the cake part should be ok.

It reminds me of these weird cakes in Asia with crispy things and cornflakes in them.

Sainsburys Morello Cherry Pie review

Sainsburys Morello Cherry Pie was delicious and quite sweet with a bit of colouring I believe.

Pastry was quite thick.

Compared to M&S you get less whole Morello cherries because it is mixed with some cherry mince but still worthy of trying.

Morrisons Greek Pasta Salad review

 I'm not really a fan of the salad bar at Morrisons.

This time tried the Greek pasta salad which was a bit too sharp and heavy for my liking.

M&S Marks Spencers Scottish Kippers with butter

 According to The Guardian newspaper.

"Kippers were the quintessential British breakfast food — also enjoyed for high tea and supper — of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. They sold well until the 1970s when they fell out of favour with the advent of fast food which had greater appeal for younger diners."

Kippers are smoked herrings.

Interestingly North Americans have it for Breakfast as well.

I came across kipper on the menu once but regrettably didn't go in and have it because not many places serve it. 

Due to lockdown, it was even harder to try kipper but luckily Morrisons had kippers so I got some for breakfast.

Ideally, there should be some egg there was I decided to just have it with toast.

The kipper was the best I have tasted so far because the texture of the fish was soft and flakey and the bones were manageable.