The perfect guacamole

I'm a bit of an avocado fiend... I love them. They're good for your skin and delicious.

I love guacamole but hate the store bought muck. So I put together a little recipe of how to make the best guacamole... ever. 

You will need:

-2 ripe avocados
-1 whole lemon
-Hot pepper sauce
-A potato masher
-A bowl

Take the skins off your avocados, pop them in a bowl and mash them up with a potato masher.

Once they are all mushed squeeze a whole lemon and put a heaped tbsp of hot sauce.

Voila! The perfect guac.

If you're tired of the store bought muck too, give this a try! It is healthier, tastier and really quick to do.

Sweet Trees by Rivera

I stumbled upon Sweet Trees by Rivera and thought i'd share it with you. The site sells what the title says, trees made of sweets.

Some of my favourites:

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The last option would be a great alternative for a typical easter egg and the rest could be given as presents or used for decoration/snacks at events.

Raspberry s'mores

Whenever i watch american films which have camping scenes in them there is always one reoccurring theme. When the day turned to night and the stars shone bright the characters would bring out their crackers and chocolate, roast some marshmallows then smush them all together to create, what looked like, a small piece of heaven. Every time i watch these scenes my eyes grow big and my mouth begins to water. I fancied something a little sweet to eat and guess what my first thought? Yep, s'mores. In an attempt to satisfy my sweet tooth but stay a little healthy i came up with an extremely tasty treat.

You will need:
8 Marshmallows
6 Raspberries
30g Chocolate
4 Digestive biscuits
A saucepan
A bowl

Half all the marshmallows, pop them on a tray and grill them for 20 seconds at most.

If you want solid chocolate in your s'mores ignore this step but I, personally, love a gooey filling. I achieve this by filling a saucepan with boiling and placing a bowl full with chocolate on top and stirring until it melts.

Grab a biscuit, 3 halved marshmallows, 3 raspberries then drizzle some chocolate stick three more halves of marshmallow on top then smush together with the final biscuit and VOILA! Raspberry s'mores!

Prep time- no prep.

Cooking time- 6-10 minutes

Serves- 2
                                                                            Try not to eat them too fast, haha!            

                                                                           

P.S. if anyone knows of anywhere to buy veggie marshmallows, please let Emily know. She will love you forever ...

BREAKFAST SMOOTHIE

Even though food is Talisa's speciality on this blog, I personally couldn't not share my easy to make breakfast smoothie, (perfect at any time of the day, not just breakfast!!)

I made it in around three minutes this morning, thats pretty decent if you ask me.
But before i tell you how to make it I better leave a rough description of ingredients.. oh and not forgetting, unless you're able to bash and beat frozen berries into a pulp using a rolling pin you also need an electric blender.

Ingredients:
(for one person)
1 banana
(around) 2-3 large table spoons of Greek Yoghurt - use healthy alternatives if you wish 
(around again) 2-3 handfuls of frozen summer berries
And a good few splashes of apple juice 

Ever so sorry the vague amounts of ingredients, but it's really up to you how much of each ingredient you put in, if you want the smoothie fruitier; add more berries and apple juice, sweeter; add another banana or creamier; add more yoghurt!

Banana

Step 1, add the banana in chopped chunks (easy for the blender)

Yoghurt and Apple Juice

Step 2, pour in the yoghurt and apple juice

Frozen Berries
Step 3, chuck in the frozen fruit

BLEND!!!

Step 4, JUST PRESS THAT BUTTON TILL THE TEXTURE IS SMOOTH,

*Add more apple juice if required, you want the texture to be that of a drink not melted ice cream. Also if you decide to use fresh fruit rather than frozen, I suggest adding a few cubes of ice to be able to serve at a cold temperature.

All together now, (cheeky instagram edit)

Finish with a handful of oats, specifically for breakfast 

                                                            And the finished product!



I hope you enjoy.

Love Becky
x

Low fat peanut butter ice-cream

I love ice-cream. My only problem with it is that it isn't very healthy and the fat free ones tend to taste like absolute muck. After experimenting in my kitchen for a few hours i came up with the perfect recipe: Low fat peanut butter ice-cream. Simple to make and so scrummy.

You will need:

3 bananas

3 tbsps Peanut butter 

A Food Processor

A scraping spatula (Not essential, a spoon does the job too)

Baking tray

Slice up your bananas.

Pop them all on a tray, cover with cling film and freeze them. I tend to freeze them overnight but anything past 7 hours will do. When they come out they should be rock hard. 

(TIP- when freezing the bananas make sure they're separated, it's easier to get them off the tray)

Chuck them all into your food processor.

Weeee watch them go!

When it reaches this stage it will seem for the next few minutes that nothing is happening- trust me, something is but it's just happening very slowly! The banana parts will start to stick to the side of the processor, just used your spatula/spoon to move it down next to the blade. (Make sure the processor is off every time you push the banana down of things could get very messy...)

Told you something would happen! You're left with this creaaaamy fat free goodness. Time to make it a little naughty, add your peanut butter and put the processor back on for 1 more minute.

Prep time- 7-12 hours

Cooking time- 6-10 minutes

Serves- approx. 4

Sit back and enjoy your guilt free ice-cream. Peanut butter isn't the only flavour you can have, when you get to the part where you add the peanut butter swap it for whatever tickles your fancy.  Some of my favourite flavours are:
Nutella - use 3 tbsp Nutella

Berry - use 1 cup of frozen berries

   

                                                                                                 Enjoy!
                                                                               
                                

Intro!

Salut!- c'est nous! Becky, Talisa and Emily... Founders of BEMSA- a cheeky mix of our names you may notice...
This is our first post, so we thought we'd briefly introduce ourselves and a little about what our blog will entail.
Firstly, here's a few photos of us to make you laugh, whether they will make you laugh or not is debatable, but they make us laugh......


So, a little about ourselves, Emily and Becky have been friends for like 10 years, ish, or there abouts and met at primary school where Emily first asked Becky if she wanted to play with her and her friends, to which Becky replied "No thanks, I have my own friends." And stormed away... So wasn't the most conventional starts to a friendship, but hey! ha, so anyway we became friends and remained friends throughout high school despite attending different schools. Then in about Year 9 Emily and Becky met Talisa... And hated her... She hated Emily and Becky, they hated her... Who really knows exactly why.... But anyway, under erm.. certain circumstances, probably best not to mention over the internet, Emily and Talisa became good friends and Becky in pursuit. And ever since, we've been BFFs

Our blog will be written by all three of us, each  post themed differently providing you with a wide variety of posts. There will be a likely theme in which each of us will write about, Talisa will focus on food and occasionally other topics such as beauty products, Emily will focus mainly on fashion news and icons and Becky will write about whatever she likes because she's a greedy poo ;)

So yes,
That's us, we hope you follow us and enjoy our blog

Love Talisa, Becky and Emily X