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Recipe: Cauliflower Cheese Soup - Perfect and delicious for a cold autumn or winter day. #Vegetarian

Cauliflower Cheese Soup

This is a lovely, filling soup, comforting and warm with some deep wintery flavours. Now the first part of the recipe where we roast the cauli is optional, but it really enhances the flavour of the soup, so only skip it if you really don't have time. 

I made my soup using my Instant Pot Pro Crisp, which is an air fryer and a pressure cooker (I really wanted to try it out since it's new and I had only used the air fryer part once), but it is totally possible using an oven an...

It's OFFICIAL LAUNCH DAY at Tales with Tasha - A Spine Tingling Ghost Story

OFFICIAL LAUNCH DAY
at Tales with Tasha

The mico!fiction countdown is complete and it's time for the first official long video on my new, narrated fiction YouTube channel:

Tales With Tasha

Ali works at the Chatham Historic Dockyards as a night security guard. He's new at it, but he likes it, and it suits his university schedule. There's only one rule that seems weird: Do not do rounds between 3 and 3:05am. It has to be a joke, right?

Come on over and enjoy the spine ting...

Tales with Tasha - New YouTube Channel is Live! Lots of lovely fic...

Tales with Tasha
New YouTube Channel Is Live!

It's finally time! I've had to put the launch off twice because of other things coming up, but it is finally ready to go. Drumroll please ...

💖My new narrated fiction YouTube channel, Tales with Tasha is live.💖

Timetable

We are starting today (Sat 23rd Oct) with a countdown of micro-fiction to the official launch, this Friday, 29th October. Every day there will be a new horror based short in honour of Halloween, building up to a longer, ghostl...

Recipe: Delicious & Healthy Instant Pot Potato, Garlic & Rosemary Soup #Vegetarian #Vegan #GlutenFree

Delicious & Healthy Instant Pot Potato, Garlic & Rosemary Soup

This is a lovely, hearty and healthy smooth soup that you can add crunchy things like croutons to, if that is what you like. Would also be lovely with nuts or pine nuts or roasted pumpkin seeds - anything like that. It uses coconut milk for some extra creaminess as a delicious alternative to cream or milk.

Now before you say, but I don't have an Instant Pot, never fear, you can make this on the stove top just as easily, except you'll p...

Recipe: Date, Oat & Walnut Bites - Chocolatey goodness without added refined sugar #GlutenFree

Date, Oat & Walnut Bites Chocolatey goodness without added refined sugar #GlutenFree 

So I am very much into reducing my refined sugar intake at the moment because it makes me feel better. I was eating far too much junk and it does not agree with me. Hence I went looking for healthier alternatives to make at home. There is an amazing channel on YouTube Schnelle Rezepte that has some absolutely yummy ones. This is one of their recipes, but I altered it a little, so this is my version...

Recipe - Delicious Focaccia with Perfect Texture

Recipe: Delicious Focaccia

So I made a focaccia this weekend that was utterly delicious and a lovely chewy texture, so I thought I'd share the recipe. It is based on this one by Kitchen and Craft on Youtube, but I changed is up a little, so here is my version. This vid is very good for technique though, very, very useful for all new to making focaccia, so definitely watch it. You may also prefer their recipe.

Ingredients

600g/4.5cups Strong Bread Flour1 sachet of fast action yeast (7g)450g warm wat...

Måneskin #WordSearch - Puzzle fun for #WordSearchWednesday #8

Måneskin - Word Search Fun #8

I am a simple soul and so have decided to share my love for this band and channel it into this week's word search Wednesday. 💖

Måneskin by Vanity Fair Italia

So if you haven't heard of Måneskin, you are probably not Eurovision fans or up with the latest trends on Spotify and Tik Tok. Måneskin is the Italian band that won ESC this year with their rock anthem Zitti E Buoni (Shut Up and Behave). I may, or may not have been listening to their current album Teat...

Assassin's Blood - Paranormal Action Adventure - #WordSearch fun #7

Assassin's Blood
Word Search Fun #7

Greetings lovely people and welcome to word search number 7. I apologise for being absent for the last couple of weeks - it's been a bit hectic here. But I am back today with Word Search Wednesday.

This week my puzzle is based off of my book Assassin's Blood, an exciting paranormal adventure with some romance thrown in to sweeten the deal. It is available for free for to all subscribers of the Wittegen Press Newsletter. The links to download it are in the final...

Mina's Children: The Legacy of Dracula - #WordWearch Fun no.6 #Paranormal

Mina's Children
Word Search

Greetings lovely people and puzzle fans. I must apologise for last week's lack of puzzle, but things were a little busy over this way.

This week the puzzle is based on my latest novella, Mina's Children: The Legacy of Dracula, an exciting paranormal adventure with vampires, werewolves and even secret agents. The book is entered into the Kindle Storyteller competition, hence it being exclusive to Amazon atm, and even clicks on the link above would really help me out. Ma...

Word Search Competition no.2 - Mina's Children: The Legacy of Dracula #WSComp2

Word Search Competition #2Mina's Children: The Legacy of Dracula

Welcome back to my blog for #WordSearchWednesday and this week is competition week. Thank you to everyone who entered my last competition and congratulations to the 2 winners. I very much hope they enjoy their book choices.

Prize

This month I am celebrating my new book Mina's Children: The Legacy of Dracula, and so this month's competition is to win an eBook copy of the book (or one of my other titles if you already h...