Lidl McEnnedy Apricot Cookie Dough

I haven't really tried cookie dough properly so when Lidl came out with these dinky cookie dough pots for American week I decided to give them a try.

There are four flavours: apricot, American style, Brownie and Cheesecake.

I got the apricot thinking it would be fruity but sadly it was too sweet.

As these are chilled products, I decided to put it in the freezer and strangely it tasted nicer.

To be honest, I would have probably been better off getting the American style to try first.

I find it really odd they don't have mint chocolate or pumpkin flavours.

Although the apricot was terrible, I was glad I tried the American style as well as the brownie.

The American style was basically plain cookie dough with chocolate chips.

The texture of this was really firm and hard and you could really taste the dough just like the soft pastry dough found in Chinese snowy mooncakes.

The Brownie texture was much softer and almost gooey and the taste was basically like rich chocolate without being too sweet.

Morrisons Cashew Drink

Cashew milk is the best non dairy milk which does not have any strange taste and Morrisons has it as well so used to make frappe.

Lidl McEnnedy Cinnamon Flavour Frappe

As a fan of American food, I was tempted by the Frappes by McEnedy which come in three flavours: cinnamon, double chocolate and white chocolate.

Ended up getting the cinnamon because the double chocolate is just going to be chocolate milkshake.

Sadly I found it too sweet and the cinnamon flavouring was rather artificial.

M&S Scottish Maple cured salmon pieces

Every time see these Scottish Maple cured salmon pieces, I have been holding back to buy because the Maple makes it sound sweet.

Anyway, finally tried it and it was not to my liking because it was sweet and just tastes like Salmon Jerky.

Finnebrogue Naked Without the Cluck! 2 No Chicken Kievs

The Finnebrogue Naked Without the Cluck! No Chicken Kievs were reduced so tried them.
They reheated well giving a nice crispy surface and the garlic filling was delicious, however the plant kiev texture was a bit firm and chewy.

Rating: 3/5

M&S Select Farms Purple Cauliflower

It's not the first time I have had purple cauliflower as along with yellow/orange, green and regular white cauliflower.

Anyway, Marks and Spencers had them too so I got some for pickling as well as for my dishes.

Overall, it was pretty and a pleasure to eat.

Below is a tricoloured cauliflower dish with cheese.

Aldi West Country Mature cheese & cracked black pepper scones and All butter chocolate scones

I was unaware my favourite makers of scones are doing scones for Aldi until JSR mentioned it.
Aldi has two new scones in the range: West Country Mature cheese & cracked black pepper scones and All butter chocolate scones.

Having had too much sweet stuff lately, I tried the cheese scone first.

As soon as you open the wrapper there is a lovely cheesy smell.

Each scone is uniformly shaped.

Tried one at room temperature on its own, moist and moreish without anything because it was really cheesy with an aromatic black pepper aftertaste.

The second scone was warmed and had butter spread on.

It was light and crumbly where the black pepper flavours came out even more.

Although it became a little drier warmed up, the butter makes up for it and I feel that just butter or marmite butter would definitely be the best pairing.

However if you warm them in the microwave wrapped in kitchen towel for 10 seconds they do not go dry.

Overall, I rate these as really delicious cheesy scones and the black pepper they used was a good one because you only see a few specks but it really comes through.

The next day I tried the all butter chocolate scones.

Aldi All butter chocolate scones:

Basically you can imagine them like a chocolate cake with a scone texture.

I tried then on their own and I liked the way you get proper chocolate without being cloyingly sweet because with some chocolate products you just get the sugar and no chocolateness.

Being traditional, I paired it with thick cream and it was delicious but ideally whipped cream/squirty cream will be ideal for scone!

Will post a photo later for the squirty cream because the lightness of whipped cream goes really well with the chocolate scone, best paired with the unsweetened whipped cream from M&S.

I wouldn't say the chocolate scone is that adventurous because some makers outside of UK are doing interesting flavours some good and some weird like Seasalt chocolate, Baileys biscoff, matcha mochi, sesame red bean.

As a fan of chocolate cherry I also paired it with my favourite Tescos cherry scone and they tasted really good together because the chocolate gets complimented by the sour cherries.

Aldi chocolate scone x Tescos Cherry scone