This
post is brought to you by Coles
You know I am a bit of a junkie right?
A magazine junkie that is – sheesh *shaking
head*
I spend far too much money on having magazines
delivered to my letterbox and then they sit on my desk unwrapped and untouched,
because God forbid NO ONE is allowed to turn a page of my magazines before me.
They pretty much then sit there until I have time to sit down and read them….. Which
is like NEVER!
Home Beautiful, Real Living, Frankie,
Inside Out, House and Garden, Fete…. I have no shame, and clearly I have no
self control either.
I have even started buying foodie mags lately because bahahahaha I have
discovered that I actually kinda like
cooking. (But that’s just between you and me and the rest of the internet OK!
The hubby DOES NOT need to know!)
The thing that annoys me about foodie mags
is; they always make those recipes seem so easy, which I can tell you is NOT
always the case. I also hate the way you have to haul your ass to some bloody
providore in a little back street of France to get some of the ingredients.
I mean really?
I’d happily go to France and explore the
back streets, but to grab a bottle of something or other I need to make a bunch
of tired and cranky kids their dinner?
Ummmm NO!
Part of the joy of my role as an ‘Everyday
voice of Mums for Coles’, is getting my hands on the Coles Magazine before it
lands in stores.
Talk about feeding my fetish for untouched
pages.
Not only is the new look Coles Magazine
free… yes FREE, it is packed to the brim with recipes that are even Sonia foolproof …for the most part
anyway. It has tips to take the hard work out of feeding the family, decadent
ideas for entertaining friends… and a load of tricks to make your life easy…er.
Oh, and did I mention Curtis is in it? Anyone else crushing on Curtis like I am
right now?
God help me if I ever get to meet him… I would
be a drooling incoherent mess!
Anyways, as you can probably figure out for
yourself by all the foodie pics in this post, that I decided to road test some of
the recipes in the November magazine… Sonia
Style. Basically this means these recipes need to be
foolproof to get my tick of approval.
As an everyday mum’s voice of Coles, I have
an obligation to be honest with you guys about anything I endorse on this blog,
so I wanted to see if their recipes really are as easy and as good as they make
them out to be.
I spent the afternoon cooking the
Pineapple, Lime and Coconut cake, the Honey & Ginger chicken & Wombok
Salad and the Adults only Grapefruit and Lime Gin cocktails – all of which you
can find the recipes for in the Coles Magazine November Issue.
And you know what? They are totally scoff worthy and are actually as easy to make as they
claim to be … even after *ahem* a few too many tastings of the Gin cocktails.
The only issue I had was that I had no idea
what Wombok was, and so I felt like a bit of an ass wondering around the fruit
and veg section asking everyone and anyone “Wombok? Have you seen a Wombok?”
Turns out it is a Chinese cabbage. Who
knew!
The kids scoffed down everything I cooked
(after they picked the shallot off the chicken). The hubby was looking at me
with a whole new form of appreciation, and the cake… OMG THE CAKE.
The cake was
to die for and was gone by dawn, which although it made me feel very smug and
virtuous, I am pretty sure there is supposed to be some kind of moderation
thing going on or something.
Whatever.
I’m claiming it as a win.
Just an FYI, you can actually download the
Coles Magazine app to your iPad and it has a voice activated cook mode with
an in built-timer to make cooking easier.
Fancy shmancy!
Now I can look like I actually know what I
am doing in the kitchen for a change.
What about you – Are you a magazine
Junkie?
Do you ever actually attempt any of
the recipes in magazines?
What’s your success rate?
