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Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts

Easy Food | Peri Peri Chips

Ever since I ate at Toro's Steakhouse for the first time, I became somewhat addicted to the peri peri chips they do. I'd only need to be passing by to then stop and get some to take home. Every. Single. Time. Then I decided on giving it a go making them myself and so I did, Hurrah!

What you need:

- Nandos Peri Peri Sauce (I get mine from Asda or Tesco)
- Your favourite tomato ketchup (fellow addicts will know the difference lol)
- Plain chips - I oven bake mine with a dust of salt over
- Bowl and plate to cover it properly

Method:
Again, I normally only eyeball my measurements, theres no set amount that I do but for explanation purposes I'd say I use roughly 4 tablespoons of Ketchup and 3 tablespoons of Peri Peri sauce for about 3 handfuls of chips. But my pictures might explain better. You basically need enough to coat the chips well and need to put the sauces directly into whatever bowl you're using. Then mix the two sauces, chuck in your chips, cover with the plate and shake, shake, shake! When they're evenly coated you're done. It's best to do this while the chips are still hot so they absorb the sauce and it spreads easier. After I took the final picture of the chips I added more ketchup as they weren't quite right.



DIY Cinnamon Lip Scrub



You will need:Coconut oil, Sugar, Honey, Cinnamon, Almond oil (optional) and any small pot.

 The amount you'll use depends on the size of your pot but this is roughly the amounts I used, It's a nice amount to trial and then if you're happy you can make more or adjust the recipe according to your preferences. I took a tablespoon of sugar and coconut oil and mixed. Then added half a tablespoon of honey and a very small pinch of cinnamon and continued mixing until it was all well mixed together. If you wish to loosen the mixture a little more, add some almond oil as I did.

I try to use this scrub twice a week. To begin with, I wanted a scrub using any household ingredients and for flavouring the only thing I could think of was cinnamon. After having added the cinnamon I remembered watching Huda Beauty's clip here of how to plump your lips using cinnamon extract. Since I was using powdered cinnamon I didn't think it would do much in that sense however I felt slight tingling on my lips. Luckily, because of the small amount I had used it didn't really affect the size of my lips and the tingling fades pretty fast when I wash off the scrub anyway. I know people like to lick it off but I don't like the idea of possibly licking off dead skin as well.

I hope you liked this post. I look forward to doing another similar one, this time, probably of an alcohol-free Rose or Vanilla scented Body Scrub x