Keeks Visits - Edinburgh

I wouldn't say that I'm a huge traveller, sure I love to go on holiday, but a wanderer I am not. But as I've gotten older my need to explore has increased tenfold, it's like an itch that is begging to be scratched. As a child I was pretty content to sit on the beach with my bucket and spade but now to lay in the sun for 7 days sounds like an incredibly waste of time. I want to go places, do things, look, climb and delve into new interesting cities, which is why me and my travel buddy Nads decided to hop to Edinburgh for the weekend. 

For me Nads is a perfect travel partner, we both want to explore but also both know that Netflix and Deliveroo is by far the the best option when you're all explored out. We flew to Edinburgh on Friday evening and stayed in a lovely air b'n'b on William Street in the beautiful West End of the city. The buildings make you feel like you're stepping into a Charles Dickens novel, the streets were the right amount of both quiet and bustling enough and the air was fresh like actual fresh air. I loved the way that the town is so modern in so many ways but as you walk out of Urban Outfitters and look up you literally see Edinburgh castle in all of it's ye old glory. 

My favourite part about Edinburgh apart from the people who are so chirpy (and the nicest Uber drivers ever) was the food. Me and Nads love to eat and it's one of our personal quests to eat at as many different restaurants as possible across the Globe so we were going to relish the opportunity to taste as much as Edinburgh had to offer. I'm not gonna lie, most of our conquests came from my friend Liv's extremely handy guide so I would suggest you take a look at it immediately for a more in depth look at some seriously cool haunts. -> whatoliviadid.com

In the meantime here is the list of places we visits and LOVED 

Eating + Drinking

Milk

Good, fresh food with an instagrammable gluten-free cake display.

Urban Angels 

The best eggs benedict I'd had in a long time. Also Nads said it was the best granola she's ever had with "the perfect amount of yogurt and fruit" for you health nuts.

Panda and Sons

Unfortunately they didn't play Panda the whole time I was in there but the cocktails were on point and they bring you free popcorn to your table until you leave. 

Mary's Milk Bar

The ice cream here is beyooond. When we went there was a pop up free circus in the green across the road so we were spolit really.

Civerinos

Liv forced us to go here and eat the nutella calzone, FORCED us. Kidding, but she did tell us it was delicious and we believed her and she was completely right. 

Brew Lab

Yo, the coffee here is insane. I said to Nads it kind of felt like it made me a little euphoric, I'm not gonna lie. The cinnamon buns were also pure gold.

Bar Soba

Ok, so I have not a clue what the inside of one of these restaurants looks like because we totally Deliverooed this.'Twas a real treat though, I got the pad thai and am dribbling a little just thinking about it now. 

Touristing 

Life Story

...for the one off instaglam pieces.

Coco Chocolatier

... for the insanely good Scottish choc

Edinburgh Castle 

... for a non-shit history lesson

The Real Mary King's Close

... for underground roaming

I'll definitely be going back soon.

Hummingbird Bakery Sweet and Salty Chocolate Cake

Happy bank holiday weekend, guys! 

For me, baking cures in two ways.

One, the process itself is extremely therapeutic and two, you get to eat yummy cake after. Chocolate is the big daddy of cakes and in my opinion no one does them better than Hummingbird Bakery, so when I'm in need of a pick me up I always reach from my Cake Days bakery book. 

This time around I made the Sweet and Salty Chocolate Cake and luckily I found the recipe online to share with you guys! The only exception is that I topped mine with gold sprinkles instead of grated chocolate. This the recipe for the exact cake above and is a little more complex to make - 

Sweet and Salty Chocolate Cake

If your a total newbie baker then I'd suggest this one from BBC Recipes (be quick though because they're changing the recipe section soon!)

Easy Chocolate Cake 

Happy baking! 

My month of pescatarianism

(Disclaimer. I didn’t technically last a month, it was 28 days. Towards the end I got sick and my mum made me chicken soup so sue me.)

I’m not sure if this is my family, Jamaican families or just typical families but we base a lot of our dinners around meat. Meat, carbs and veg that is the formula that we stick to, but I find that cooking this way gets a little bit samey and unadventurous so for me the challenge was to think outside of the box and create meals that I probably wouldn’t have made before. I also thought by doing this, while it won’t be forever, in the long run it’d cut down the amount of meat I eat which could only be a good thing for my bowels. I did eat fish and seafood but I tried to make meals without them as much as possible. I learnt a lot about my eating habits throughout the month so I thought I’d share my observations with you.

It makes you a lot less lazy in the kitchen

Unless you’re content with just eating a mixed salad out of the bag, then you have to be a little bit more creative in the kitchen if you’re steering clear of meat. It’s so easy to just sling a bit of chicken in the oven and boil pasta and there’s your meal but I actually had to think about dinner without meat. I did a lot of pinteresting and flipping through recipe books to find interesting meals to cook.

You don’t eat a sh*tload of tofu

I’ve realised that I’m not a fan of tofu. I mean sure if it’s there I’ll eat it but I’m not, like, gonna crave it or anything. I had this preconceived notion that all veggies ate tofu in the same way non-veggies ate chicken but seriously it’s not true. It’s not an accompaniment to every meal, in fact I only ate it once the whole month and there’s still a packet in my fridge that I haven’t opened.

However, veggie sausages are so bomb

*angels sing* I think I could actually give up pork sausages for good. Veggie sausages gave me so much life this month, I got through packet after packet. I used them for all sorts, from Sunday roast to faux meatballs and spaghetti and will absolutely continue to use them all the time. Converted.

A lot of restaurants need to up their veggie options

For real, most places seriously lack nice veggie options that aren’t just salads, which isn’t fair at all – including McDonald’s! One lunchtime when I was working from home I was not in the mood to cook anything so I hopped in the car and went to the drive-thru to find that the only non-meat offering was filet-o-fish. So vom. I ended up with fries and an apple pie (which was delicious but that’s not the point).

Mildred’s is amazing.

A saviour for vegetarians and vegans alike this restaurant is bananas. Like, crazy good food. If someone told me that a vegetarian restaurant would be one of my favourite places to eat this year I would have been like “mmmkay mate! Sure.” But it was divine. I went to the King’s Cross branch and got the black bean burrito with sweet potatoes fries and I’m currently drooling onto the keyboard just thinking about it.

Keeks Bakes - Zesty Flapjacks with Berries and Ice Cream

Happy Easter you lovely lot! 

I hope you've had the best 4 day weekend ever and have eaten so so much chocolate. I've had the best time chilling with my family and celebrating my dad's birthday. 

When it comes to any kind of social gathering with my family, it always revolves around food. Always. Luckily this time round I was excused from the kitchen, my only task was to sort out the bun and cheese (literally slicing cheese and buttering bun) so I put my feet up and enjoyed all the eating. 

A few weeks back though I did have a lil throw around in the kitchen and put together something that was so delicious it was crazy to me that I'd never made it for dessert before. Basically, it's warm flapjacks with berries and ice cream. So flipping good and so flipping simples. 

I got the base ingredients from BBC Good Food and then added in a few ingredients.

250g Porridge Oats

125g Butter

125g Brown Sugar

2-3 tbsps Golden Syrup

Zest of one lemon

Juice of half an orange

I warmed up the berries when the flapjacks were a couple minutes off being ready and then served them hot from the oven (well , like 5 minutes cooling time so that you don't burn fingers or mouths) and then added a dollop of clotted ice cream. Also the best part is that left overs make an awesome snack the next day! Win. 

Here is the recipe xo

Fluffy Chocolate Chip Pancakes - Recipe

It's Shrove Tuesday! The best Tuesday of the entire year of course. If you're a long time blog follower of mine then you'll know how much I flipping love pancakes! They are the only breakfast I'd queue up for in the pouring rain outside The Breakfast Club for (this has happened more times than I'd like to admit). 

My chosen texture is fluffy American pancakes and there is only one recipe you need for the best homemade fluffy pancakes, it's my failsafe and I can (almost) do it with my eyes shut - this BBC recipe. They are fab plain with a little maple syrup or you can add in whatever you fancy. I've made them with blueberries, diced apple, mashed banana and on the occasion chocolate chunks. With the extras it's really up to you how much or little you add in. For these I added about 70g of chocolate chunks to the pancake batter and cooked them as normal. 

135g/4¾oz plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

½ tsp salt

2 tbsp caster sugar

130ml/4½fl oz milk

1 large egg, lightly beaten

2 tbsp melted butter (allowed to cool slightly) or olive oil, plus extra for cooking

70g of chocolate chunks or chips (which ever type of chocolate you fancy)

Simply sift your dry ingredients into a bowl and mix together. Melt your butter and allow to cool then mix in your milk and then beat in your egg. Bit by bit pour your wet ingredients into your dry ingredients. Don't whisk or beat, fold the mixture as you don't want it to lose the fluffiness. Then pour in any extras you want (like you chocolate chunks). Fry in a non-stick pan on a medium heat. THe trick to know when to turn it over is when the texture on the top starts to bubble.

Enjoy! 

Cinnamon-Nut Baklava

Cravings are weird things, they creep up on you when you least expect it and make you do crazy things like rush to Sainsbury's and buy three rolls of filo pastry. 

The word craving is normally associated with pregnancy, granted, but I assure you this cooking creation was spawned from nothing but the empty longing in my stomach from a baklava-shaped food baby. I am not pregnant just perpetually guided by my increasing sweet tooth. 

Considering this was my first foray into pastry, I was pleased with the way it turned out. I followed this recipe from Natasha's Kitchen, only tweaking it slightly when I realised that I didn't have enough filo sheets so instead of layering 10/5/5/5/5/10 as suggested, I did 8/4/4/3/4/8 (this'll make sense soon enough).

The finished product was a bit less sticky than proper baklava and tasted a bit like apple strudel even though I didn't put any apple in there - I did enjoy it though, as did all the others that tasted it so I'd call that a result. 

Aubergine Cheese Bites

Working from home part time is the best thing ever but also the worst if you're an eater like me. 

Snacks. Errywhere.

So it's gotten to the point where I force myself to actually make snacks instead of eat crisps, cakes and biscuits. I mean, it still happens but a lot lot less because I make things such as these badboys. 

Basically these are great if you fancy pizza but you want to be somewhat healthy but are still of the opinion that cauliflower pizza ISN'T pizza (it's not). 

All you need is...

An Aubergine/Eggplant

2 tomatoes

1 onion

Sea salt

A handful of grated cheddar cheese

Black pepper

A drizzle of olive oil

They are super simple to make - first preheat the oven to 200c and slice the aubergine up into circles that are about 1cm wide. Then place them on a kitchen towel and sprinkle on some salt and allow the slices to dehydrate for about 10 minutes. 

Whilst they are dehydrating get to work chopping up the tomatoes and onion. They should be well diced. And if it's not already, grate the cheese and pop it into a separate bowl.

Place the aubergine slices onto a roasting tray and bake for 15 minutes.  While that's baking, fry down the chopped tomatoes and onions, sprinkle with a little sea salt and black pepper and then set aside. 

Once the aubergine slices are ready take them out and top with the tomatoes and onions and then sprinkle on a generous amount of cheese. Whack the oven up to 230c and cook for around 5 minutes, by which time the cheese should be lovely and melted and bubbly. 

Serve straight outta the oven.

Yum.

Keeks Bakes - Christmas Gingerbread Biscuits

Christmas baking - two of my most favourite things smushed together. Any excuse to make the sweet stuff, I'm all over it and gingerbread is the ultimate in Christmas confectionary for me. 

Sugar and spice combining to create a rich, warming treat, perfect with a cup of tea under a blanket in front of Elf or Home Alone. Mmmmmm. So having failed at gingerbread in the past I was determined to find a recipe that was simple but effective and that I did with this gem from the BBC (click the link for the method).

BBC Gingerbread Men Recipe

350g/12oz plain flour, plus extra for rolling out

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

2 tsp ground ginger

1 tsp ground cinnamon

125g/4½oz butter

175g/6oz light soft brown sugar

1 free-range egg

4 tbsp golden syrup

I only made a couple adjustments to make the perfect gingerbread for me. 

- After creating the dough I added a few sprinklings more plain flour as it was too wet to work with.

- The recipe states it makes 20 biscuits rolling the dough out to a 0.5 cm thickness - I rolled it out thinner (about half as thick) and therefore made almost twice as many. I made one batch at the stated thickness but the thinner ones had a beautiful crunch once cooled. 

This is an excellent recipe to do with kids. I decorated the biscuits with my niece Sienna, which was so fun and they were a big hit with the family and friends!

Let me know if you try them! 

New York, New York it's a Hell of a Town..

New York is my second favourite place in the world (behind London, obvs). Now I know this is a massive stereotype – oooohh I’m a journalist (cue SATC refs) and I blog and I like NYC what a revelation - but I do feel like as a well-travelled young gal I can make this statement. I loved it the 1^st and the 2^nd time I visited – but this time was by far my favourite. I headed out with my lovely mumma and my best friend, Nads (above), and whereas before I had always stayed around Times Square, this time we wanted a different scene so we opted for the Financial District, right near Battery Park. After staying here I wouldn’t ever opt to stay in hectic Midtown again. Don’t get me wrong it was still busy especially because the 9/11 Memorial was a short walk away but not overbearing people traffic central that is Times Square.

I was planning on vlogging a bit while I was out there but honestly I just keep forgetting to get my camera out and then when I did I just felt super awks – so major kudos to vloggers that do it erryday. So instead I thought I’d put together a little post on my favourite spots from my short trip to The Big Apple.

The High Line

If you're up for a casual park stroll through the busy city then I'd definitely recommend The High Line. We got on at the start in the Meatpacking District (outside the Whitney Museum) and came down around W 29th Street. Up there you get to literally walk between buildings up high and there are cute food trucks to grab eats.

Brunch at Sarabeth’s

Manhattanites do brunch the way that I wish I could brunch every single day. The earlier you head out the better as places get very packed (so technically breakfast?). Brunch at Sarabeth's on Greenwich St was one of the best meals I had in the City. I opted for the Lemon and Ricotta Pancakes and a side of sausage and was in brunch heaven, plus who doesn't love $4 bottomless coffee. 

The best slice EVER @ New York Suprema Pizza

After walking The High Line we were in serious need of refuelling so when we stumbled on this pizza place we decided to check it out. I have two simply requirements for trying new restaurants -

1. Must have a good hygiene rating 

2. Must at least have one person eating in there

This place met both, and the lure of the smell of melted cheese was overwhelming. The base was thin and cripsy and the cheese was perfection. One slice was bigger than my face and cost less than $5 can I get an AMEN.

Brooklyn Bridge

On our first day there we went for a walk around the area and inadvertently ended up on Brooklyn Bridge (which is another reason why I loved the Financial District) it's such a lovely walk and although we didn't walk the whole way (my Mum started feeling a bit sick 'cos of the height and water underneath, bless her) it was fun and offered gorge views of the city and beyond. 

Brooklyn in general tbh

Ah Brooklyn, home to kids so cool they'd make Shoreditchers look stuffy and so many coffee shops you'll fail to leave without being off your face on caffeine. Firstly, Brooklyn is pretty huge (espesh when compared to Manhattan) so if you want to explore there I'd say take an afternoon, pick an area and wander. We wanted to visit Williamsburg and Downtown Brooklyn, but settled on the Burg in the end. We got the Subway (the only transport that makes you appreciate London's tube system) from Downtown Manhattan to Marcy Ave, Williamsburg but you can walk across Williamsburg Bridge or get the ferry. The tour of Brooklyn started with a stroll through the streets browsing vintage shops and street stalls (best ones are along Metropolitan Ave and the surrounding streets) and got coffee at Toby's Estate, which was literally the best vanilla latte I have ever had. The pic above was taken at The Post Office where we stopped for a breakfast burrito and free wifi - two of lives best offering. 

Whole Foods

Where I discovered that Peanut Butter Pretzels are a thing and subsequently lost my sh*t. The one on 7th Ave is huge and the cashier didn't even laugh at me that much when I asked him "excuse me, where are your nuts?". 

Battery Park

Our Hotel overlooked the Hudson River and you literally just walked across the road and were in Battery Park. It’s just such a scenic setting and the views of Jersey at night are beyond.

The Lazy Girl's Guide to Being Healthy

Make your own iced frappe

I’m such a sucker for take out coffee. The oodles of choice, the various sizes, the sheer convenience… everything, well almost everything. What I’m not a fan of? The way it’s drilling a hole in my bank account. So I’ve cut back on the amount of Costa, Starbucks and Caffe Nero coffee I consume, after all I can make it at home and work for a lot lot less. But you know what you can’t make at home? Those delicious ice coffee frappes… *drools onto keyboard*

The other day on my self-designated lunchbreak whilst working from home it was pissing down way too much to leave the house, but I really fancied an ice frappe but not enough to venture outside, obvs. So I thought how hard can it really be to whip one up at home? Turns out it’s not. In fact it’s super easy. Simply throw the following ingredients into a blender or Nutribullet et voila!

Coffee – two teaspoons of strong instant coffee

Sugar – two teaspoon

A dash of cinnamon

Cocoa powder – one teaspoon

Mix the above with 1/2 cup of milk prior to blending.

Fill your blender with a cup of ice, then pour in the coffee mix and blitz until smooth!

Genuinely, it’s that easy!

Chocolate Banana Smoothie

Sometimes there’s nothing you want more than a shot of sugar right to the soul. But sometimes you also try to hold back from ramming everything sweet down your neck - so when I’m trying to be good I make this sweet saviour.

Ok, let me preface this by saying THIS IS NOT “HEALTHY”, it’s just not as fatty as eating a bar of chocolate and just as delicious in my opinion. The best bit about this is that it’s super simple to make… four ingredients, one blender, BOOM.

You’ll need

1 ripe banana

½ tablespoon vanilla ice cream (you can sub this out if you want it to be less calorific)

1 cup of milk (can use soy, almond, hazelnut etc)

½ tablespoon cacao powder

Bung all of these ingredients in your blender and whizz until smooth.

Enjoy!

Keeks' Coconut Crumble

Crumble is kind of the perfect summer dessert isn't it? It's light and fruity and is perfect with ice cream.

The only problem I have with crumble is that I've just never really liked it... It's just a bit... Boring. A bit of warm apple with sprinkly stuff on top, why have that when sticky toffee is on the menu?

But feeling summery and inspired at the weekend after decided that my contribution to Sunday dinner would be dessert I thought 'hey why not give this crumble thingy a whirl' I had all the typical things one would need for a crumble and some basic crumble making knowledge and so I did from scratch with no recipe. I got a lil' inventive and flip did it taste great! Even my mum said so and she is basically the Mumma Joyce of kitchen judgement. So hear is the ingredients and recipe if you want to try it for yourself. 

Bear in mind that I subbed butter for coconut oil, but you can totally switch it back in for the top, the finished result just won't have as coconutty a taste.

Keeks' Coconut Crumble

For the fruit

3 apples (I just used coxes apples because I didn't have cooking apples but a mix of both would be nice too)

2 hard pears 

2 handfuls of blueberries

1 tablespoon of Virgin coconut oil 

1 teaspoon cinnamon 

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 

1/4 cup soft brown sugar 




For the crumble

1/4 cup of plain flour 

1 cup of oats 

1/2 cup of coconut flour

1/2 cup soft brown sugar

A dash of vanilla essence 

1/2 cup of Virgin coconut oil

- Preheat the oven - set to 180c

- Peel the apples and pears and remove their cores, then slice them up length ways. Put the slices into a bowl with the blueberries.

- Heat the coconut oil in a frying pan. Once the oil has melted and begun to sizzle add the fruit a bit at a time then sprinkle on the sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir gently to coat the fruit. 

- Once all the fruit has a brown/caramelised coating, put it into the oven dish and set aside for a moment. 

- Add the second lot of coconut oil to the pan and then once the oil is hot add the second lot of sugar. Stir gently to melt the sugar and then add in the vanilla essence.

- Add your plain flour, coconut flour and oats to a mixing bowl and combine with a wooden spoon.

- Pour your coconut oil mixture into the dry ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon. Once this has cooled use your hands to mix and form the crumbly texture. 

- Sprinkle the crumble evenly on top of the fruit and pop in the oven. Cook for 30 minutes or until the top is golden brown. 

- Serve immediately with ice cream (or custard if you're weird). 

Healthy cookies!

You know when you really really want cookies? Like when the craving encompasses your soul and you have to have some? Yeah I had that the other day. BUT I was in a 'can't eat anything bad' kind of funk, that I was determined to not break - so I improvised and made these healthy (read - not unhealthy) cookies with no flour, sugar or butter. It can be done!

To make these little nuggets of heaven you'll need 

60g coconut flour 

1/4 cup coconut oil, melted

1/4 cup agave nectar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

1 teaspoon of almond butter

2 eggs

Dark chocolate chips (a generous handful is about right)

There isn't really a method for this. Just preheat the oven to 180c, then literally just bung everything into a mixing bowl and need until all the ingredients are well-blended and you have yourself a nice dough. If you haven't and it's too soggy, add some more coconut flour. Roll them into balls, place on a lined baking tray then gently flatten them and stuff them into the oven. They need about 10-12 minutes but use your judgement if they need a bit longer or less time!

Enjoy!

Honestly, you definitely have time for breakfast

I wake up at 5:30 every weekday and I always eat breakfast. In fact last week I was so knackered I decided to skip breakfast and have a bit more time in bed. But because my brain was awake, programmed to be alert from that time and I couldn't drift back to sleep and then my lack of breakfast just affected the rest of my day, I just felt out of sorts. That's when it dawned on me - my body prefers food the sleep. 


Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day if I have time to enjoy it. If I have plans to go out for brekkie I get WAY more excited about the food than I do with dinner - and I'm happy for the rest of the day. Even if it is a quick 5:30am rush job I have to eat breakfast, it's the meal that I see makes the most different to my mood for the whole day, so even if it's a bad bowl of crunchy nut (I use to have this all the time but now it's a 'I can't be arsed' occurrence) I try to always have something. So if you're stuck on how to incorporate a good brekkie into your morning routine, here are some tips I follow. 

Don't try the impossible

Unless you are some kind of magician you will not be able to whip up restaurant quality eggs Benedict in 15 minutes so don't waste your time. Toast things, chop, blend... Just don't try to cook. You'll just get frustrated and that's no way to start your day!

... But don't underestimate yourself either

Thinking that you only have time for a breakfast biscuit is acknowledging defeat. You'll be surprised by what you can whip up in 15 minutes (just not eggs benedict, guys). For example, porridge on the stove. My mum isn't big on microwaves so I grew up with the notion that things must be cooked on the stove and microwaves are simply for heating things up conveniently, so when my bestie, Nads, told me she COOKED her porridge in the microwave, my tiny mind was blown. Anyway, 15 minutes, that's plenty of time to cook porridge the regular way AND eat it! 

Dream about breakfast.

Literally, guys, not even joking here. It's bit like how I start thinking about lunchtime at circa 10am, but it actually does work. As I rest my head on my pillow at night my final thought is usually, 'porridge or fruit 'n' yogurt?!' And then I probably fall into a deep Greek yogurt related dream that I will never know about because they are wiped out by further dreams throughout the night involving post-apocalyptic worlds and me publicly mortified in various states of undress. 

If you really haven't got time, there are healthy grab and go options 

Again, you do have other options besides that breakfast biscuit bar (that is just a biscuit if we are honest to ourselves, people). If you don't have time to prepare and eat a healthy breakfast before stepping out, places like Pret have some great options. I love love love their Bircher pot - it's a healthy mixture of yogurt, seeds, nuts and fruit. And it tastes delicious so it's all winning here my friends.

If you're not hungry, think about your dinner sitch.

Eating too much, too late will probably have you waking up feeling a bit bloated and not in the mood for breakfast which will disrupt your meals for the rest of the day. If this happens too regularly you'll start an unhealthy pattern. Try and eat dinner as early as possible especially if you've diving face first into a plate of carby goodness!



If you give these tips a try I promise making breakfast a part of your morning routine will be a piece of pie! 

Keeks' Jerk Roast Chicken with Lemon and Herbs

Having Jamaican parents means that jerk chicken is a basically a birth right, but being British-born means I have grown up knowing there are few things better than a roast on a Sunday. So I thought why not incorporate both to make the daddy of all roasts? 

What you need

1 whole organic chicken

1 lemon

Mixed dried herbs

Sea salt

Pepper

3 cloves of garlic 

Olive oil

Jerk seasoning (I love the Tropical Sun offering)

Firstly, preheat your oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Then take a chopping board, cut the lemon in half and squeeze into a small bowl, putting the other half to the side. Chop the garlic and add to the bowl. Add in the salt and pepper and then scoop in a tablespoon of the jerk seasoning - mix together with a spoon; it should be a paste consistency. Then drizzle in some of the olive oil and mix in the herbs.

You're now ready to jerk. Jerking is a super easy way to inject even more flavour into chicken. Most people think that 'jerk ' is just the spice you coat the meat in but jerk also refers to the piercing the meat and filling it with the seasoning to make it as flavoursome as possible. To jerk to the chicken, take a small sharp knife and pierce in a few random places, then stuff your seasoning into each hole, making sure the pieces of garlic are all used up. Drizzle a little more olive oil into the remainder of the seasoning in the bowl and then pour onto the chicken and rub in. Cover in foil, place in a roasting tray and cook for 1 hour 20 minutes. 

While the chicken is cooking slice two circles from the remainder of the lemon. Then when it's time, take the chicken out and pour out the juices into a saucepan, which you can set aside for gravy. Unwrap the foil, place the slices of lemon on top and squeeze the remaining part of the lemon over the chicken. Place back into the oven with the foil unwrapped and allow to brown for a further 20 minutes (turn the temp up slightly if necessary).

Let it rest and then serve.