On The Box This Week

Warning-TV Spoilers Ahead!

I love Adele while I seem to enjoy different tastes in music
Kate Bush, Fleetwood Mac, Sarah Brightman, Stevie Nicks, and Sam Smith to name a few
Adele is one of my favourites back in 2011 before Adele was a huge as she is now we has one of her songs as one of our Wedding songs
So when I knew there would be a one off special with Graham Norton I knew I had to watch
I loved this, listening to her amazing voice and doesn't she look fab the three year rest seems have agreed with her! It's hard to believe that Adele is still only 27 years old she can write songs that everyone can relate too.
What I really like about her is she is willing to laugh at herself too the sketch where she impersonates herself is very funny and her fans reaction is classic

We tuned into Nigella again this week to see
what tasty recipes she had this week
This week it was fish tacos, chocolate tart and chai muffins
We also learnt that Nigella doesn't like to get her hands dirty
and wears gloves for the sticky messy recipes
Now there seems to be some kind of up roar that maybe
this isn't the cleanest of things to do!
I have to be honest I have been doing this for years!
Doesn't seem to have done us any harm
as for Nigella's chia muffins might have to try giving them a go!

Glen is alive and I was wrong we found out before the mid season finale!
We found out what happened to Glen right at the start of the episode
(I try keep away from spoilers for TWD but I called it and said to the hubby way back when we thought the Glen was dead that I thought there was more to it. Hubby point blank said no Glen was dead. I love being right!)
Glen hid under the dumpster and it was Nicholas that was getting tore apart while on top of Glen. Glen then finds Enid who left Alexandria while the Wolves where attacking. She is kind of annoying character but don't they all start out like that in TWD?! Glen makes her come home with him even though she doesn't want to she even pulls a gun on him! In the end she sort of agrees to go with him
Back in Alexandria the dead are surrounding the walls. Morgan is still keeping a Wolf locked up in a house, Carol is getting more and more suspicious of him.
Rick teaches Jessie's son Ron how to use a gun, think this will come back to bite Rick and Carl on the arse. As I think Ron is not over Rick killing his Dad and Carl stealing his girlfriend! Just as Maggie sees a sign that Glen is alive (he released some green balloons) an old burn church collapses with the weight of walkers pushing against it, bringing the walls of Alexandria down
I enjoyed this episode and overall the first half of season six of The Walking Dead
wish we could of seen a little more of Daryl, Carol, Michonne and some of the new characters.
Looking forward to seeing the mid season finale next week think some serious stuff is going to go down!

On The Box This Week

Warning-TV Spoilers Ahead!

The last ever episode of Downton Abbey (besides this years Christmas special) was aired Sunday night. I am going to be honest I was disappointed with this extra long episode, everything that was dragged out over 90 minutes was solved in the last three minutes of the show! 

Mary was pinning for her race driver telling everyone she was fine, when she wasn't. Tom was getting very annoyed with her! Mary went back and forth the whole episode about if it would work with Henry when she wasn't being horrible to herself she was wrecking Edith's life! If Mary can't be happy then no one will! Edith's beau suddenly came into money, an estate and a title which if Edith would to marry him she would out rank Mary, of course the green eyed monster wasn't having any of this! So Mary let out Edith's secret about Marigold and soon Edith was left alone calling Mary what she was for most of this episode a "bitch"
Mary got her happy ending she finally agreed to marry Henry. They where married the next week with Edith forgiving her sister. Downstairs Mrs Pattmore's b&b wasn't going to plan and need some good publicity which the family where happy to give! Poor Thomas tried to take his own life after weeks of being picked on we knew this was building up. Luckily he was found in time, this storyline got about eight minutes of screen time it was so underused and underplayed in an episode that was extra long. Mr Moseley's finally got his happy ending too, as a teacher, his scene when he is telling the children education is for everyone was beautiful
Overall I am disappointed with the lack of good story lines this year. That boring hospital one when on for weeks for nothing. I would of liked to see more of the children this season. An actual storyline for Tom that hasn't got to do with him playing cupid for Mary! I am hoping that the Christmas episode really pulls it out of the bag. Baby for Anna and Bates, maybe one for Mary too, Cousin Isobel finally getting married, love interest for Tom, and please let Edith get her happy ever after! Maybe Marigold's Father will come back from the dead!
Favourite quotes of the week
"Your a Bitch"~
Edith to Mary (yes you can be a bit of a bitch Mary)
"I can't be a crash window again"~
Mary to Dowager
"A surprise is a surprise Mama and I'm sure we haven't seen the last one yet"
~ Robert to Dowager (Oh I hope we haven't see the last one yet!)

Nigella is back on our screen's on Monday evenings with Simply Nigella.
We are a fan of her in our house although I wouldn't reach for her recipes all the time Jamie Oliver and Slimming World are our go to recipes. We have used her recipes Christmas ham in cola and rocky road bars have been made alot in our house. Hubby is a huge fan of her but for different reasons!
She seems to be a little more healthy this time around her recipes are not dripping with fat, sugar or cream. That said it is comfort food but of a different kind last week's noodle dish looked delicious and one I want to try in the coming weeks. This week the breakfast bars looked yummy, slimming world friendly and something I am going to make this weekend. 

This week's episode was quite like the calm before the storm
carrying on from episode three. Rick managed to get away from the RV surrounded by walkers but we are not shown how and the Alexandrians are cleaning up the mess made by the Wolves. All the while there seems to be a few hundred walkers just outside the walls.
Maggie is told that Glenn hasn't made it back (we are still unsure if Glenn is alive) which she then decides with Aaron's help to leave and find Glenn, in the end she doesn't leave but she confines in Aaron that she is pregnant. Deanna the once strong leader of Alexandrian seems to be walking around in a daze she seems to finally realise the horror of the world outside the walls.
Not much else happened in this episode besides the Rick and Jessie kiss which was building since last season. Also the walls of Alexandria seem to be bleeding?! Next week seems to be focused on Daryl, Sasha and Abe don't think we will find out about Glenn until the mid-season finale!

What We Got Up To This Month -October 2012

- Night out with Mam for her Birthday

- Family & Friends on a night out

- Paul & My Uncle Posers!

- Mammy Furey's Roast Pork

- Tea & My favourite magazines

- Remembering my brother Patrick RIP

- A glass of Red!

- Candles & A lovely bubble bath!

- Pretty Flowers

- Paul's yummy chilli chops

- Making a lovely roast chicken with help of Nigella & Gordon!

- A glass of Rose, candle and Downton Abbey perfect Sunday night!

- Tea & lunch

- Midnight snack!

- The Bakeoff & a glass of red!

- Reading Paul's favourite book and scaring the living daylights out of myself

- Father Paul & Sister Lisa dressed up for Halloween!

- Rocker Marty Happy 30th!

- Dressed up for Halloween

-Father Paul!!

- Reading a good book!

- Lovely Autumn.

Our Roast Chicken Recipe Help From Nigella & Gordon!

This is our recipe for a lovely roast chicken with a twist. Roast chicken with lovely roast leeks and mixed peppers. I saw the original recipe on Nigella Lawson's new show you can have a look at allot of her recipes here at
http://www.nigella.com/ we made a twist using some things from a Gordon Ramsay recipe which you can find here http://gordonramsaysrecipes.com/ So here is The Furey Follies take on a Nigella & Gordan roast chicken.

Ingredients you will need for this are: A good quality chicken we use a small chicken as there where only the two of us for dinner! Two mixed pepper any colour but we like yellow and red peppers, six cloves of garlic, chorizo, two large leeks, olive oil, salt and pepper. 

 Chop up the peppers & leeks put most in a large roasting tray with the chicken but keep some in a little bowl to stuff the chicken later.

Fry chorizo in pan for five minutes 

 Now stuff the chicken with the left over leeks,chorizo & peppers. 

Put the chorizo juice/oil over the chicken and put the rest of the chorizo in with the leeks and peppers with 3 cloves of garlic. Put in oven for an hour and 15 minutes at Gas mark 5 or 180c.

My Roast Potatoes with dried mixed herbs & 3 cloves of garlic put in oven for 40 minutes for lovely roast potatoes

The Chicken when cook and resting.

The finished result it was yummy....Bone Appetite

 Let me know if you try this and if you like it.



Love / Hate!

 Hate

 

* Timing a bus and it never coming - standing around a an hour on a bus that was meant to come 45 minutes ago. It really really annoys me!

 

* People who do nothing in work - while other people do everything...this really gets on my nerves and it happening allot at the moment.

 

* When people push past you at the bus stop when getting on the bus - this happened to me the other day I was the first person at the bus stop and yet the last person to get on the bus!

 

* When you feel rich when you get paid - but by the end of pay day your broke again!

 

* People with no manners - it costs nothing to be nice.

 

 

Love

 

 

 

* Having a nice bubble bath after a long day - I love this light a few candle, put some soft music on, run a bubble bath and relax!

 

* I am cooking and baking allot more - due to inspiration from Nigella Lawson and The Great British Bake off!

 

* Curling up on the sofa with the hubby after a long day!

 

* Maggie Smith In Downtown Abbey - Her lines are just pure magic!

 

* Sarah Brightman's new song Angel - It means so much to me already reminds me of my brother.

 

* Pukka Tea - I have just discovered this tea due to a lovely lady in work and I love it. Can't to discover all the different flavors.

 

What are you loving and hating this week?