Cranberry Feta Roll ups

This is so simple to make and so tasty. This is perfect to have ready and take out should someone stop by during the holidays. 

You need:

1 (170 g) package dried sweetened cranberries
1 (250 g) container cream cheese spread
1 cup crumbled feta cheese
1/4 cup chopped scallions
4 large flour tortillas or 4 large wheat flour tortillas

What you need to do:

1. Mix up the cranberries, cream cheest spread, feta cheese and scallions.  Mix then very well and make sure you get a lovely mix of colour out through them.
2. Take out your tortilla,
3. Spread the mixture from step one all over.  Don’t spread too thinly as you want to make sure it is thick enough.
4. You should have enough mix to make the 4 tortillas above
5. Next roll your wrap, wrap it up in plastic so as to keep the wrap roll shape.
6. Pop in the fridge for approximately one hour.
7. After an hour or whenever you need it – take it out and cut in to 12 slices.

You can serve this as it is or perhaps a little salad with it.  You can keep this in the fridge for up to two days.  No longer remember you have fresh ingredients in there.

Odlums Brown Scones - Baking made simple!

I have always loved baking and cooking shows.  I love how easy they make it look to bake and make something fantastic.  Being between jobs aka unemployed I decided now was as good a time as ever to try and bake something.  Having absolutely no baking utensils I decided to start off slowly and make some easy bake scones. 

Easy bake scones I hear you say, crazy but it was a packet and you just added water.  Yes, that simple.   But having only ever made chocolate rice krispies buns from school days I figured starting easy was the best way to go.    And now, I have found a passion and a hobby that I am actually quite good at. 

Ok so I have started off really slowly by making scones from a packet.  But I can’t believe how easy it and how much I loved baking so much.  So much so I made an apple tart recently.    I will blog about that another time, but for now I will tell you how my brown scones worked out and how easy they are to make.

I bought a packet of Odlums Brown Scone Mix in my local tesco supermarket and read the simple easy instructions.  Just add water! 

I put the mix in a bowl and added the water and knead the scone mix until it was dough. I rolled it out and as I didn’t have a cookie cutter I used a knife to divide up the mix.  I used my hands to round off the dough in to a scone shape.  Popped in the over for 15 minutes and badddaa boom – I made scones that turned out pretty darn good.  Take a look here at my results.

I know this was an easy start but it gave the pride and knowledge to know that I can do it.  It gave me the pride to know that I can start a new hobby at 35 and be good at it. 

Look at how fantastic they turned out!  Yes I had already taken one to sample from this little bundle of loveliness. For those wondering I worked out that there is 6 ProPoints per scone.

 

Obviously being on weight watchers I am being careful about what I am going to bake and cook – but I hope to find some fantastic recipes to share here on my blog and hopefully make a nice little recipe book to share with you all.

What do you like to bake?  Do you have anything easy to recommend that I can try?  Link me up in the comments.

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