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Chuck the flour, sugar, butter and salt into the food processor  and blend until it has a sandy texture Gently beat the egg yolk and pour half into the top of the food processor on the slowest speed Add 1 tbsp of cold water to the mix and wait for it to combine – add the additional 1/2 tbsp if needed Store in the fridge for 1-2 hours Slice up the fruit and toss in a bowl with the brown sugar and balsamic vinegar Roll out onto a clean, floured surface until the width of a £1 coin. In the centre of the rolled out pastry add the ground almonds to the full areas which will be covered by the fruit. This is to soak up any juices and prevent the soggy bottom Spread the fruit evenly over the pastry – leave 1-1.5 inches of pastry free around the edges Fold the excess pastry over the fruit and pinch where needed to keep it together. but I also love mascarpone, oat cream, ice cream, custard etc.

Our own skin cells actually produce Hyaluronic Acid naturally in a bid to maintain moisture levels. Estée Lauder’s Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex II (ANR, to those in the know) ANR is primarily an anti-ageing product, but since it is lightweight in texture and tackles dryness, dullness and dehydration. It’s non-comedogenic, oil-free and fragrance-free formula makes it suitable for oily and sensitive skin too

More and more I enjoy it when I can see the texture of people’s skin, freckles, blemishes and frizzy hair. , I’ve been writing in my own corner of the internet for 6 years as a way to do something creative online. I spend most of my day stuck in an excel spreadsheet or writing reports which isn’t particularly glamorous I hate when people say EX-presso instead of espresso, I’m short, I get hangry, I love iced coffee and peanut butter.

For those of you who are new here… for 4.5 years I have been dating a lovely, hairy Irish man (affectionately known here as Irish) – for 3.5 of those years we were long distance with him up in the midlands and me down in London. At the start of April he dragged his butt down to London and we took the pretty huge step of moving in together in our own little one bed. We weighed up the pros and cons of living in a shared house, a studio, a 1 bed, a 2 bed,  a new property, a period property etc but in the end we opted to move into a new block of flats, mod cons, white and impersonal. Meanwhile one thing I’ve started to love doing is making Irish a weekly batch of gluten free granola so here are a few snaps –