Beauty: Harrods Estee Lauder Free Gift With Purchase

Estee Lauder is a brand I really love. I can't be without their Double Wear foundation and concealer. They are both the bees knees,  and I have more recently, been lusting after their new Advanced Night Repair PowerFoil Sheet Face Masks.

 The recent Estee Edit in collaboration with Kendall Jenner and Irene Kim, was just WOWZERS, and it really displayed just how innovative and timeless the brand is.  

 I always seek out free gifts with purchases. Everyone loves a freebie, and getting extra goodies for their hard-earned cash, and well this is one hum dinger. When you shop online at Harrods, and spend £75 on Estee Lauder products, you get this amazing free gift. 

Beauty: Mini Skincare Loves

So, mini products, they just the cutest huh? Beauty monthly subscription boxes, free gifts with purchases, and all that jazz doing the rounds around the beauty world - I end up just throwing them in a big box, and never really give them any attention.

So I have picked out the best of the best of the minis in my stash, and have finally give them the attention they most definitely deserve. 

Beauty: Zoella Le Fizz & Bath Latte Review

I was after a new range of bath goodies, and when the new Zoella range popped up on my timeline on Twitter like 50 million times,  I could not ignore the fact how bloomin delicious it all sounded. Anything that sounds and looks like food, well I am all over.  If you have been living under a rock, and don't know who Zoella is, she is the biggest beauty Youtuber in the UK, and has a legion of teenage fans, who I could imagine would have bought the whole collection as soon as it was released.

Food: Butternut Squash with a Bean Cassoulet, and a Creamy Pesto Dressing

The main attraction in this dish is the bean cassoulet. A really posh word for a stew type thing basically.

I have featured this bean cassoulet on the blog before recipe here if you fancy a nose.  This time around I added a small tin of chickpeas, to add a crunchy type texture to the dish.

I make a big batch most weeks, and freeze, I then add it to wraps, jacket spuds, rice etc. 

As I get older, yup am 30 now. I am enjoying more meat free dishes in my diet, and this is one of my favourites. Not particularly the right time of year for butternut squash, but ya know it's tasty, and thinking about it I eat it all year round, actually more so in the summer, as it is lighter, and less stodgier than potatoes.