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Grow Your Own Avocado Tree

If you love avocados as much as me you’ll be excited to know how fun and easy it is to grow your own avocado tree.

The best bit is it costs absolutely nothing and you can start growing your tree just after you’ve finished your next avocado! 

Whilst I have an Avoseedo which can be purchased for around £8 on Amazon you can achieve the very same results with just a few cocktail sticks and a fresh glass of water. 

1. First remove the seed, wash and set to dry for 24 hours.2. After a day drying use a sharp knife peel away the outer hard skin of the seed.3. Insert 3 to 4 cocktail sticks at an equal distances around the center of your seed around 1/3 from the bottom of the seed. The sticks will act as a prop so the seed won’t be fully submerged in to the water.If you have an Avoseedo, firmly press your seed into the grip and float on fresh water.4. Regularly change your water and be patient, mine took roughly 2 months to show any signs of movement (but apparently that is quite long).5. Once a firm root is established you can transfer your avocado to a pot. I used an ordinary potting soil which I use for my garden plants, compacting tightly around the roots and leaving the seed partially above soil.

My avocado now sits back in my brightly lit window but i’ll keep this updated with its progress.

If you have any questions about how you can grow your own avocado tree please do get in touch. I’d love to see photos of yours! 

Update: 10.05.2020

We re-planted our newly named Arnold the Avo as the compost had become so compact due to its heavy watering schedule.

Look at the roots system on that ?

If you’ve enjoyed this post and interested now about learning how to grow your very own pineapple tree, click here.

Fresh Dairy Icecream

Fancy a go at making your own summer cooler? It’s as easy as pie and surprisingly a lot tastier than store bought icecream. Plus, if you’ve ever studied a typical vanilla icecreams ingredients you’d be shocked by the amount of junk they pack in to a standard tub.

My recipe contains just 2 ingredients plus flavouring which can be as natural as you choose.

Ingredients

1 cup of condensed milk

2 cups of heavy whipping cream (the COOP do an amazing extra thick variety, but double cream works as a good substitute)

Flavouring to taste. We used vanilla paste and peppermint flavouring to make a creamy vanilla and a mint chocolate chip. Marshmallow fluff, strawberry jam and milk chocolate make delicious alternatives. For a healthier flavouring you could try frozen fruit, avocados or bananas.

Method

1. Simply whip up 2 cups of thick cream to form a firm texture which makes stiff peaks.

2. Add your condensed milk in small quantities, folding it into your thick cream.

3. Add flavouring to taste. My recipe suggests just a tablespoon of your chosen flavouring in a syrup form which is absolutely plenty and keeps your creamy icecream tasting natural, but Morgan tends to add another half for more of a stronger and intense flavour.

If you’re using fruit and natural flavourings we suggest half a cup to every 2 cups of cream.

4. Use a spoon to put your mixture into a freezer proof dish, tupaware container or empty icecream tub.

5. Freeze for a minimum of 4 hours, or if time allows over night.

Remove from freezer 20 minutes before serving to thaw to a softer manageable cream. 

6. Add your favourite toppings and enjoy. Your frozen icecream is best eaten within 4 days of being made.



I’d love to see your icecream creations, please send me any photographs of your artwork @Campuccinoskent on Facebook and Instagram.

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Why not treat the doggy in your home too, click here for our simple recipe.

Take care, Emily xxx

 

Peanut Butter Doggy Biscuits

Hello, me again!
I hope you’re all safe and well.

Today was the turn of the doggies in the household. Our dogs absolutely ‘woofed’ down these nutty creations from earlier. ?

Very simply made with just 4 ingredients which you’ve probably already got at the back of the cupboard.

1x cup of peanut butter (ideally 100% peanuts, however the unsalted kind is google approven to be safe for your pooches).
1x cup of milk
2x cups of wheat flour
1x tbl spoon of baking powder.

Mix each of the ingredients into one big bowl binding each into a firm dough mixture (We found it easier to not fear getting messy and to use our hands).
Roll the dough, cut your shapes and pop into a 180 degree oven for 10 minutes each side.
Allow to stand for a while before dishing up.
Best served with a bowl of fresh water and a belly rub! ???

Vanilla Sugar Cookies

Hello Everybody at home isolating!

I hope you’re all well and keeping safe. I wanted to share with you one of the nice recipes I found that we had a go at yesterday, making these really easy and very yummy vanilla cookies.

I thought you may like the recipe to have a go yourselves.

For the cookies you will need:
1x cup of butter (room temperature)
1x cup of granulated sugar
1x egg
3x cups of flour
2tsp x vanilla extract
2tsp x baking powder

For the frosting you will need:
1x egg white
1x cup of icing sugar
A variety of food colouring

Simply mix all of the ingredients together, starting with the butter and sugar. Once these are blended to a soft consistency add the remainder of the ingredients in the cookie list folding in the flour last in small quantities.

My biggest two tips come now. Turn your oven on so it’s piping hot and lay to rest your rolled dough in the fridge for half hour.
The chilled dough was alot easier to cut and held its shape better. The hotter the oven the quicker your dough will set before the butter melts and the dough spreads.

10-12 mins in the oven at 180 degrees. Cookies taste best when pale in colour so don’t wait for browning.

Allow a few hours to cool before you lift the cookies from baking sheet and a further few for the oil to dry before decorating.

If you do have a go, please come back here and share your pictures.

Take care everybody, Emily x x x

Dalgona Coffee

Add a little rainbow to your day ?
and make this very simple dalgona coffee with just 4 simple ingredients you’ll all have indoors!

Granulated coffee (just the type you buy in the supermarket)
Granulated sugar
Boiling water &
Cold milk plus ice if you prefer.

Very simply whisk together with just a fork in a bowl 2x tablespoons of coffee, 2x tablespoons of sugar and 2x tablespoons of boiling water. With enough whisking youll produce this firm foam which you literally just dollop ontop of your cold icy milk. I added some digestive crumbs because im a fatty ? but, chocolate flakes works well too!

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