Potato and vegetable bake.

 Potato and vegetable bake.

Ingredients:

1 tin of new potatoes

2 sliced peppers 

1 sliced onion

5 sprays of vegetable oil spray

2 tbsps. Of tomato purée 

1 tbsp of nutritional yeast 

1 tbsp each of paprika, dried parsley and mixed herbs

1/2 cup of water

Method:

1) Slice the peppers and onions and fry on the spray oil until lightly browned.

2) Meanwhile place tinned potatoes in a separate pot and warm through.

3) Add the paprika, parsley, mixed herbs and nutritional yeast to the pan and mix through.

4) Add the purée and the water and simmer for a few minutes. 

5) Add the potatoes, stir through and serve.

 Vegan and gluten free mug cake.

Ingredients:

2 tbsps. of gluten free self raising flour   

1 1/2 tbsps. of caster sugar

2 tsps. of cocoa powder

1/2 tsp of baking powder

3 sprays of vegetable spray oil

2 tbsps. of oat milk

Recipe:

Mix all of the above ingredients in a microwavable mug. Heat for 40 seconds and enjoy.

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Get to know me tag questions

Hi guys, I thought I would answer some get to know me questions that my friends have suggested to me for my blog and YouTube channel, which is all hail hailey. Hope you enjoy getting to know me.

1) Any siblings?
Yes I have two sisters and I am the middle child with a middle child complex to go with it.

2) Where do you live?
I am a born and bred Londoner.

3) What is your biggest fear?
Probably spiders and moths but pretty much anything that moves.

4) What do you do for a living?
I am an early years practitioner in a nursery.

5) Favourite book?
Some kind of wonderful by Giovanna Fletcher.

6) Favourite food?
Vegan and gluten free lasagne with vegan and gluten free garlic bread garlic bread.

7) Favourite restaurant?
None at this current time.

8) Any nicknames?
My name sometimes gets shortened to Hail or my nickname when I was little was Pebbles like Pebbles from the Flintstones as I used to be ginger and had a little ponytail.

9) Favourite hobbies?
Reading, writing and cooking/ baking, otherwise known as my happy place.

10) Do you have any pets?
Yes, I have a cat called Pepper, a dog called Kai and a family cat called Ruby.

11) Any pet peeves?
I can't stand queue jumping or bad manners.

12) What would you do if you won the lottery?
I would buy a house for my partner and myself, buy a house for my Mum, Dad and sisters, travel and go on a crazy shopping spree.

13) Favourite zoo animal?
Either an elephant or a giraffe, both are beautiful.

14)Favourite season?
Knitted jumpers, crisp golden leaves, pumpkin spice and hot chocolate it couldn't be anything other than Autumn.

15)Favourite subject at school?
Law or English.

16)Do you collect anything?
Not really just a few key rings and magnets from places I have visited.

17) Favourite flavour of ice cream?
Salted caramel or mint choc chip.

18) Favourite scents/ smells?
Vanilla, linen fresh and Autumn spiced candles, freshly baked bread and imperial leather or Dove soap.

19) Eye colour?
A mixture, some brown, some green and a little blue and yellow.

20) Scary movie or happy ending?
100 % happy ending.

21) What is your dream job?
To be a cookbook writer.

22) Favourite Disney movie?
Either Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King.

23) Most embarrassing moments?
One of the many times I have fallen over in public, blushing as I write.

24) Favourite ways to unwind?
A long hot soak, with scented candles and a face mask. Then a movie and some snacks.

25) Favourite YouTubers?
Hazel Maria Wood and Gemma Louise Miles.

26) What is your worst habit?
Interrupting and not listening.

27) What is your zodiac sign?
I am a Taurus and as stubborn as they come.

28) How tall are you?
Around 5 foot 5 and half or 5 foot 6 inches, I need to measure myself again.

29) Favourite drink?

Apple juice.

30) What is your longest relationship?
My current one of six years.

31) Early bird or night owl?
A little of both, but more recently a night owl.

32) Tea or coffee?
Tea, coffee is disgusting, a bold statement I know.

33) One food you refuse to eat?
Baked beans, even writing that was hard haha.

34) Left or right handed?
I am ambidextrous, but mainly use my right hand.

35) Favourite TV show?
The Tudors.

36) Any Tattoo's?
None so far.

37)Top three movies?
Bridget Jone's Diary, Titanic and Practical magic.

38) Favourite perfume?
Lovely by Sarah Jessica Parker.

39) Favourite holiday destination?
Lanzarote.

40) How many countries have you been too?
 Four, nowhere near enough.

41) How many children would you like to have?
Two or three,

42) If you had superpower, what would it be?
Invisibility.

43) Favourite colour?
All colours but white, grey and pink in particular.

44) Breakfast, lunch or dinner, which is your favourite meal?
Dinner.

45) If you could go back in time, which time would you go back too?
Either the Tudors or the fifties and sixties, when my Mum and Dad were born.

46) Favourite clothes shop?
Boohoo.

47) Countries you would like to visit?
Jamaica, Barbados, Hawaii, Turkey, Cyprus, different parts of America and loads more.

48) Favourite flower?
Either a white rose or a daffodil.

49) Which four celebrities, alive or dead would you invite to a dinner party?
Emmaline Pankhurst, Sandra Bullock, tom Hanks and David Attenborough.

50) And finally, why did I start my blog/ YouTube channel.
Firstly, it felt like the right time as lockdown allowed me the time to start it and I finally felt confident enough to do it. I struggle with anxiety and low self esteem so I said to myself now you have some new found confidence from somewhere, use it and so here we are.

Love and kisses Hailey.

Baking essential equipment

Hi guys, hope you are all doing well. Today I thought I would share with you some of my top baking equipment. If you are like me and love to bake then these are the essentials I think you will need to begin to make your cakes look a little more professional.

So first up is a turntable which is so useful if you are trying to decorate your cakes in a more professional manner. I would also recommend using measuring cups and spoons to help you to create perfect bakes every time.

Next up I would recommend some scales and a timer. Baking is a science and again this will help you to create perfect bakes.

I would also recommend some basic baking utensils such as an ice cream scoop to help measure out your cake batter, a whisk and some wooden spoons, a measuring jug and some palette knives to help decorate the outside of your cakes.

A few more essentials are cupcake and muffin cases, cake boards, biscuit and cookie cutters, a rolling pin, a cooling rolling pin for rolling out fondant, a cake slicer and some piping bags.

Finally are your baking trays. To begin with I would start with a loaf tin, a round springform tin and a cupcake/ muffin tray.

 

Patatas Bravas Recipe.

Ingredients

This is my take on the classic Spanish dish.

For the potatoes

1) 6 white potatoes, cubed.

2) Spray oil if you have, if not vegetable oil will do.

3) 1 tsp of dried parsley.

4) Half a tsp each of paprika, onion powder and garlic powder.

5) Salt and pepper to taste.   

For the sauce

1) 500ml jar or carton of passata.

2) 1 tbsp ketchup.

3) Half a tsp each of garlic powder, onion powder, paprika and a dash of mild chilli powder.

Recipe

1) Firstly, pre heat your oven to 190° fan/ 375° fahrenheit. Cube your potatoes, leaving the skin on, into small cubes and place them in a baking tray.

2) Next add in the dried parsely, paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper and a couple of squirts of your spray oil or roughly 1 tbsp of vegetable oil and mix well to coat all of the potatoes.

3) Place in the oven for around 40 minutes, the potaoes should be nice and crispy and soft on the inside. If they are getting done too quick, turn the oven down.

4) When the potatoes are roughly 10 minutes away from the finish time, start making the sauce. Add your passata to a large saucepan and add in the other ingredients listed above. Stir with a wooden spoon and heat on a low heat for around 10 minutes.

5) Finally take the potatoes from the oven and add the sauce. Mix gently to combine and serve straight from the oven.  

I also added in a pepper and onion to my sauce mix, so you can definitely be creative with this recipe.

Welcome to my lifestyle blog, all hail hailey.

Welcome to my blog, Spice, sugar and salt. Hi guys this is my first blog post. It is a little info about me so you guys can get to know me a little better. I hope you enjoy your first read, love and hugs, Hails xoxo.

Hello everyone my name is Hailey and first of all I would like to thank you for visiting my blog. Whether you have searched for something that links to my blog or have just stumbled across it, I am so pleased to have you here. My blog will include recipe gluten free and vegan recipes posts, gluten free tips and help, gluten free products and anything involving food. I am over the moon to have a little corner of the web that is mine so I can write till my hearts content.

I thought my first post should be to introduce myself to you all as that is what we would do in a non virtual world. I thought I would do this using some quick facts about me. Hope you enjoy reading and I hope to see you back for my next post :)

Get to know me

1. I am 26 years old, soon to be 27 on May 12th.
2. I was born and bred in London and I love my city.
3. I currently live at home with my Mum, Dad, two sisters and the family cat Ruby, but I am looking for a new flat with my boyfriend Ashley.
4. My boyfriend and I have two pets that live with him, a cat called Pepper and a dog called Kai.
5. I am obsessed with coca cola and pretty much any fizzy drink but drinking water is a struggle.
6. My favourite foods in the world are vegan lasagne, vegan pizza and veggie enchiladas all vegan and gluten free versions of course.
7. I prefer Autumn and Winter to Spring and Summer.
8. Some of my favourite movies are 'The Titanic', 'The Notebook', 'Sweet Home Alabama' and 'Practical magic'.
9. Some of the hobbies I enjoy the most are writing, reading, baking and coming up with new recipes. I love visiting the cinema, trying new places to eat out and like being outdoors. I am a little bit obsessed with YouTube and am one of those people who will be on there till 3 am some mornings watching random videos about giraffes.
10. Finally I am the queen of procrastinating and that is why it has taken me so long to start this blog. Now I have started it, I declare that my procrastinating days are behind me, well I hope so. :)

I will be uploading a new post every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Hope to see you back here soon.