Homemade Deep Pan Pizza How To

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Hi guys! A little mid-week mealtime post to whet your appetite, this time in the form of AMAZING homemade deep pan pizza! We made it all from scratch, including a tasty tomato sauce and of course the dough. It's a fairly easy one too, although things CAN get messy, as you'll see in the photos...

Credit for this recipe mainly goes to J, who mixed, kneaded and stretched a storm throughout!

Saturday Style Sessions - Popped to the Shops

Hi guys! My first week of the new role is COMPLETE! Steep learning curve but it's fun so far. I have to wear lots of trousers though and horrible safety shoes and no jewellery and I feel unlady-like eurgh. Luckily, that means one thing: shopping is required! This weekend I came up to Leicester to see J and we went out searching for tops that would look nice with work trousers and also general basics. We were only semi-successful but below are my finds! It's definitely turning autumnal here now but today was just about warm enough to still go out without a coat or jacket (alsowewereinsideallday...). I am still loving this bargain top from Jaeger and have worn it so much already.

Top from Jaeger, Gap Premium Skinny Jeans, trusty Converse, necklace from Accessorize and DKNY dream bag.

Exploring Adventures at the Seaside

I spent my first day living by the seaside exploring. I should have been unpacking. But it will only be sunny for so many days now that we are heading into winter so I gave myself consent to forget the bags and boxes still stacked up in my room and to head out and see where I ended up. So that's what I did. I drove a little bit and then saw a sign saying 'Beaches', so that's where I headed. And quite a beach it was.

I have known I am moving down to the coast for a while and yet only today, with my feet in the sand and the noise of the waves, did I realise that I'm pretty lucky really, to have been forced to come and live in such a beautiful part of the country.

Saturday STRESS Sessions - No Style, Just Stress.

Hi guys!

Today I officially moved house. And it was the Day From Hell. I was a hot, sweaty mess all day from cleaning, packing, loading the car, driving in a boiling hot car that doesn't have air conditioning and then unloading a car. Oh and I made a CRACKING first impression with my new housemate by locking myself outside with my phone, keys, handbag all inside, then having to bang on the doors and windows like a maniac until he heard and came to see which particular axe murderer was trying to get in to see my panic-stricken red face mumbling words like "So sorry", "You must think I'm a madwoman", "Thanksthanksthanks". His comment - "Yeh you need to have your keys on you". How To Make Friends with Your Flatmates #101: FAIL.

So anyway. What I'm trying to say is that today there was sadly no style in my life whatsoever but I have at least accomplished a successful move on my own involving a 200 mile drive, and to my amazement, also fitted all most of my life possessions in a Toyota Yaris (the old version, with the teeny boot).

I am completely exhausted and my room looks like a disaster zone so will leave it at that for now - hopefully I can make up for my sorry excuse for a blog post as soooon as possible!

Thanks for reading! JAM x

p.s. If I don't write beforehand, on Monday I officially embark on my life for the next 6 months in a food manufacturing environment, wearing a hairnet and steel-capped boots and maybe even a high-vis jacket and hard hat. We might be entering whole new meanings for the word 'style'!

Breakfast for Dinner

Tonight the flat is empty. I have a beanbag to sit on. No table or chairs or bed or sofa or ANYTHING. This week is going to interesting to say the least! Anyway, I am also on a using-up-the-food mission before I go and tonight was inspired by a phenomenon which I'm sure is an American thing - Breakfast for Dinner.

What's the phrase - "it's all in the presentation"??!! It looks horrendous, I'm not proud.

I have read various tweets, read blogs and watched vlogs of people across the pond cooking up eggs and bacon and sausages and waffles in the evening and when I looked in the freezer and found some veggie sausages that needed eating, along with eggs in the fridge and wholemeal English muffins in the cupboard, I knew it was my time to experience this concept!

Saturday Style Sessions - Moisturise, Moisturise, Moisturise.

Hi guys! Today's Saturday Style Session is inspired by the fact that this week in the UK, the temperature plummeted and we were all immediately reminded that winter is on its way, and with that comes not only coats, scarves and chai lattes but also moisturising. Big time.

Sunny holidays & UV rays excluded, I tend to find that winter does a lot more daily damage to my skin than summer. The cold and wind dries out my face and I get cracks in the corner of my mouth. To prevent this nastiness, I thought I'd let you know the top 5 things I look for in my face creams and which I use and love.