Tea and Sympatico

I'm really enjoying doing these mid week munchies posts and checking out what other bloggers taking part around the world are eating and buying too. Check out this link to find out more. Last week my purchases were all from my local super cheap discount store, Heron Foods. This week I've gone to the other end of the scale for my town of Glossop and am going to feature three purchases from our Marks and Spencers Food store. I'm also going to count this as my Halloween link up post. Check out this link to see Halloween related posts from other bloggers. I initially went in because I wanted to buy something Halloween related. We had been planning a Halloween get together this year but then Matt got a gig. So, instead we're doing something the week after with Bonfire night themed food. I couldn't resist this big bag of Vampire's Fangs though which are a salt and vinegar flavour maize based crisp. At £2 they are pricey but they are also part of a big 3 ...

I picked this spice blend up the other day reduced to 15p in Marks and Spencers Food! With cinnamon, ginger, juniper, nutmeg, black pepper and clementine oil you can see how it was sold as a Christmas blend. As I had all the store cupboard ingredients the natural choice was to make chocolate chip cookies. I think this would also be great with muffins and I'm thinking of using it in the pumpkin muffins from Post Punk Kitchen next which is one of my all time favourite muffin recipes. Ingredients - Makes 12 cookies 1 cup of plain flour 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder 1/4 teaspoon of salt 2 and 1/2 teaspoons of Christmas spice blend 1/2 cup of icing sugar 1/4 cup of soft brown sugar 1/2 cup of vegan margarine 100g (a bag) of dark chocolate chips Extra caster sugar for rolling the cookies in Method Heat the oven to 350F/ 180C/ Gas 4. Prepare a baking tray by greasing it or use a silpat silcone mat. In a bowl stir together the flour, baking powder, salt and s...