Sunday Supplements: FIRST EDITION!

Gizzi Erskine Skinny Weeks & Weekend Feasts // The Sugar Hit

 

Hello, my lovely loves. And welcome to the inaugural post in a new series on The Sugar Hit.

 

I give you; the Sunday Supplements!

 

For those unfamiliar with the term, it comes from ye olde traditional newspapers, wherein there would be a magazine or 5 included in the Sunday edition; aka the Sunday Supplement. This tome would include lighthearted topics like fashion reporting, music news, columns, short fiction, illustrations, you name it! So think of these weekly posts as the same sort of thing, a look outside the usual recipes and into the rest of the world of creativity out there. Each week will have a theme, but since this is the very first edition, we are starting out with simply PURE AWESOMENESS.

 

Gizzi Erskine Skinny Weeks & Weekend Feasts // The Sugar Hit

 

First of all, I’d like to draw your eye to this book, Gizzi Erskine’s Skinny Weeks and Weekend Feasts. This book is amazeballz. Seriously, I am actually obsessed with it. The first half of the book is a whole ton of recipes which are all perfect for during the week, when I cannot simply eat the meatball subs I desire every minute of the day – these are the “Skinny Weeks” recipes. Things like roasted duck noodle soup and Thai chicken satay rice bowls, but perfectly health conscious and low cal.  The second half of the book is full of kick-assingly gorgeous menus and recipes for the “Weekend Feasts” part of your life. My Epic Lamb Buns were inspired by this book – I can’t stop cooking from it. Love it.

 

You Only Live Twice Ian Fleming

 

This is what I’ve been reading this week, Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice, a 007 novel. I’ve been slowly working my way through the original Bonds on and off for about the past 6 years, in completely the wrong order. They are always magical. They are the perfect traveller’s books. There is something comforting about being on the road yourself, and reading about someone who is also off on an adventure, albeit a slightly more hazardous one than yours. They are fast paced, very 60s books, and I love them. If you’re after an action packed read, I can’t recommend this enough, I’d say it’s almost my favourite Bond so far. Did I mention that cover art? Come on!

 

 

This is what I can’t stop listening to this week. I love this band, the Arctic Monkeys. Don’t misunderstand, I will rock out equally hard to Beyonce or some old school Madonna. But underneath it all I will always be the black-jean wearing rock chick of my teenage years. Can’t stop, don’t want to stop! I watched the movie Almost Famous at a very formative time in my life, and that coupled with my Dad’s Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones and Beatles-heavy tastes, means that I am most appreciative of a little guitar music. Plus, I fangirl pretty hard over Alex Turner. That voice? Killer.

 

asos moto jackets

 

I am currently desperate for a blue motorcycle jacket. Here are three gorgeous examples from ASOS. Currently all out of my league price wise, but if the internet wasn’t partly invented so that I could perv on gorgeous clothes, then I don’t know what’s what.

 

And finally what has everyone brought to the crazy internet pot-luck this week, remembering our theme is PURE AWESOMENESS?

 

 

 And that’s how we do the Sunday Supplement!

Hope you liked it!

 

xx Sarah.

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