My new favourite food - Cauliflower Rice!

So I just wanted to dedicate a whole blog post to my new favourite food item - cauliflower rice! I discovered this about a year ago in a WeightWatchers magazine but only tried it a few months ago. Strictly speaking its not really 'rice' as such but it's usually eaten as a substitute for rice. 

(In the photo I've made myself a vegetable concoction with courgette, onion, carrots, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes and garlic and then I've teamed it with the cauliflower rice. This is such a nice hearty warming winter dish thats healthy and nutritious too!) 

To make this all you have to do is grate up raw cauliflower. It takes some time but if you have a food processor then you're laughing. (If you're doing it by hand then grate the outside of the florets first i.e. hold the stalk). You need about a 1/4 of a large cauliflower for 2 people. Once it's all grated then put it in a bowl (here I add a pinch of Maldon salt) and microwave it on full power for 2 minutes. Then it's done! Its fast, easy AND healthy! 

FYI all I did with the other vegetables was fry them in a teaspoon of olive oil and then after about 3-4 mins I added the chopped tomatoes and let it simmer for 5-10 mins while I made the cauliflower rice. 

Thanks so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed this blog post, 

Sophie xxx

Uni room advice! :)

Hey Guys!

So, if you watch my YouTube videos you will know that I recently moved back to uni and into a new house! (p.s. if you don’t watch my videos then please check them out :p). I ended up with the biggest room (woohoo) but sometimes I think bigger rooms can be harder to decorate than smaller ones! Anyway, my parents came up and helped me organise my room (and do a lot of the heavy lifting) and I thought I would share some of my ideas for decorating uni rooms!

1) Storage is a biggie!! I’ve found the more storage space the better – also, the more stuff you can put away, the tidier your room looks! The best ‘storage’ buy I’ve made was this Kilby bookcase from IKEA. It was £25 and holds so much stuff! I mainly needed it for my textbooks but I’ve tried to make it pretty with some candles, stuffed toys and fairy lights. ------>

2) Think practicality! In 1^st year I bought a chest of drawers as we hardly had any space for clothes and I’ve kept it with me. This year though my room already had drawers and rather than take up more floor space, I stacked the drawers on top of each other! They aren’t completely matching but I think it kind of works and putting a couple of photo frames on top makes it more homely! (I have blocked out the photos as there are multiple people in them that may not want themselves on the internet)

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3) Cleanliness! I love clear, clean surfaces so keep most of my stuff in drawers or on my bookcase so my desk and windowsill are pretty much clear. This makes it easier to wipe clean without having to move everything and also makes your room appear tidier when everything is packed away.

4) Home comforts! Whether it’s a rug, photo frames, stuffed toys or posters I think its important to make your room comforting and maybe a reminder of home too. My room has accents of red because that’s the theme of our living space at home J

Ok, so to make sure this post isn’t super duper long, I’m gonna stop there however check back again for the next post in this area (about bathroom storage). Thanks for reading – write in the comments if you have any hints or tips for anyone else 

Have a great day,

Sophie xx

Welcome to Sophie Spotlights!

Hey guys and welcome to my blog! I am REALLY looking forward to this as it's much more informal than YouTube and I can post on here quickly and easily without any lengthly editing or uploading! I've tried to keep the theme much the same as my YouTube channel and other social networking platforms and I hope that you like it! 

Thanks for reading, 
Sophie xx