I can’t remember how I first stumbled across Top with Cinnamon (the blog) and Izy Hossack but I do remember it was a few months after I’d started my own blog back in 2012. I remember being completely blown away by her fabulous photography, gifs and mouthwatering food. I remember saying to Izy on Twitter…
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Mid-Autumn Festival Feast with Amoy
Mid-Autumn Festival or Chinese Moon Festival is the second most important festival after the Spring Festival to Chinese people. It is traditionally celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, usually in the period early September to early October and this year falls on 8th September. When the festival comes, people go…
Hippo-Potatomus Recipe
Hippo-Potatomus Recipe Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is out on Blu-ray and DVD 17th Feb and to celebrate I have a 3 DVDs to give away to 3 lucky readers. I can also share with you the specially created recipe for Hippo-Potatomus a great dish to make with the kids during half-term! The movie…
Simple Pork Fried Rice
Simple Pork Fried Rice is a great way to use up leftover roast pork and vegetables from your salad drawer. A quick and tasty midweek meal that will please the whole family. Chinese New Year Chinese New Year falls on 31 January this year and marks the start of 15 days of celebration. This year…
Easy Cheesy Chilli Cob
This no-knead, Easy Cheesy Chilli Cob is so quick and delicious you’ll be hooked once you’ve made it! It was Sunday morning and I just had the urge to make some flavoured bread to go with the soup we were going to have for dinner. It didn’t take me long to decided to make a…
Tomato, Red Onion & Coriander Salad
Tomato, Red Onion & Coriander Salad Sometimes less is more with food and this Tomato, Red Onion & Corainder Salad is certainly testament to that. I’ve not really been feeling the salad vibe recently with the weather being so atrocious but whenever we have curry I always make this salad as an accompaniment . If…
Coleslaw
I really wasn’t sure about blogging this as perhaps everyone knows how to make coleslaw. So maybe this post is more about reminding you how easy and cheap it is to make and far tastier than the stuff you can buy in the supermarket. There seem to be two types available, the one where the…
Vegetable Dhal Curry & Coriander Yogurt Dressing
Vegetable Dhal Curry is a mild, nutritious and delicious Indian dish which is enhanced with a garlicky Coriander Yogurt Dressing. The addition of fresh ginger, spices, tomatoes, potatoes, green bell pepper and peas or sweetcorn make this a healthy and tasty meal the whole family will love! What is Dhal (dal, dahl, daal)? Dal can…
Raspberry Vinaigrette + Oxo Giveaway
As eagle eyed viewers of my blog will have noticed, I am a big fan of my Oxo Good Grips Garlic Press. Hence when I discovered Oxo were on Twitter I was only too keen to let them know and offered to review any of their products. I was kindly sent the Oxo Good Grips…
Crispy Coated Roast Potatoes
Crispy Coated Roast Potatoes have a savoury semolina coating, making these potatoes super tasty and crispy! This is my version of a roast potato coating that can be bought from that supermarket that boasts “not just any……”. Why pay good money for something that costs just a few pennies to make at home I thought!…