Strawberry Cheesecake Buns- Fdblogger Friends
A little while back, I guest posted on 'Andrew in the Kitchen' as part of Andrew's #fdbloggerfriends series. You can find the post here: Chocolate Banana Caramel Cupcakes
As part of the series, Andrew is now guest posting here! Read on to find out more about Andrew and his blog, and to get the recipe for his Strawberry Cheesecake Buns.
Background
As you can probably tell from my blog name, my name is Andrew and I blog about lots of food topics that grind my gears as well as post recipes at least once a week. I have very recently just turned 18 so while most 18 year olds spend the summer partying and drinking, I�m spending it posting on my food blog. But obviously university beckons next year and if all goes to plan, I will be starting a maths degree at Nottingham.
In the future, I would love a career in food but while the book deals and the Bake Off appearance aren�t looking promising, teaching is what I would love to do. I specialise in baking rather than cooking; I love the precision and idea that you can take very basic and cheap ingredients of flour, sugar, eggs and fat and combine them to make biscuits or a cake. But I am a very frugal cook; I believe you can make great meals on a budget. And I am one of those who eats food a month past its best before date because I can�t stand to see it thrown away in the packet!
Why did you start a blog?
I don�t particularly know why I started my blog; I thought it would be a fun thing to do when I started it over 3 years ago. There was a period of time where I left it for a while but it was when I did my GCSE coursework on The Great British Bake Off that I really started getting into it. I have always wanted a career in food � a cookbook in my own name, a slot on This Morning or Sunday Brunch cooking one of my recipes � so I guess this was my way of trying to get that job!
How has food shaped my life?
I�ve been around food all of my life; my parents have a Chinese takeaway and I have been working there solidly since the age of 15 out of necessity. But the one thing I have never wanted to do is work in a restaurant; seeing the amount of hours and stress that goes into running a smooth ship is enough to put you off! I myself have had to lead the kitchen while everyone else is cooking frantically and it�s not fun. But being passionate about food from a young age � and coming from a culture where food is everything � it�s not hard to see why I am so into food now!
Last meal
If there was one thing I had to eat for my last meal, it would have to be chicken nuggets. I know that sounds awfully strange for a food blogger but it�s the fact that it's so bad for me that it�s just why I love them so much. The only caveat is that I need McDonalds curry sauce. Apologies for the dirtiness!
Item I always order in restaurants
Coleslaw. Homemade coleslaw is so different to the shopbought version and although I don�t make it often, it really is so much better homemade. My recipe for coleslaw is coated in mayonnaise still but it is not as creamy as shopbought versions and it has a lot of wholegrain mustard which adds a lot of punch and bite so if I see something comes with coleslaw, I�m ordering it!
5 facts about me
1 * When I was 2 years old, I apparently shaved off my right eyebrow
2 * I have been taking Zumba classes for around 4 years now � I haven�t done it for a while due to exams but I hope to get back to it soon
3 * I applied for Bake Off this year � but didn�t get any further than the application form
4 * I have baked 2 dessert buffets for 120 people as part of our school�s Charity Week in the past 2 years
5 * At AS-Level, I did better in further maths than I did in maths...
Favourite Posts
I am definitely a baker, so writing about baking is what I do often on my blog. But actually my favourite posts are the posts where I just write pretty freely about what I think about a food related issue � whether that�s �Should cooking be compulsory for secondary school students under 18� or whether healthy eating is a food trend, I just love to write freely and openly about what I truly think with no inhibitions. I do passionately believe that all students in the education system should have compulsory cooking lessons; I left school knowing how to cook simply because I have been brought up in a food-driven environment but I also have many friends that struggle to cook and I know they wouldn�t be able to make healthy meals for themselves.
Another post which I am really proud of is my Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies. I made around 300 of these for my school�s open evening � even though I left, I couldn�t resist another opportunity to promote my blog as well as bake literally the day after my last exam � and they went down a storm! I had many parents say they would make them over the weekend but whether they did is another story! Anyways these are crunchy around the edges and soft and chewy in the middle, as the perfect cookie should be!
One of my other favourite posts is my Chocolate Macarons with Chocolate Ganache. Macarons are notoriously difficult to make and using this recipe, I made my best ever batch of macarons with the signature foot and hardly any cracking. The recipe was from John Whaite and is a good base to practice your macaron making with because I reduced the quantities down to just 1 egg white so you don�t have to worry about wastage!
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