Muller Bliss Baileys Corner Yoghurt (Ocado) By @Cinabar

You can tell it is getting close to Christmas when all the luxury Baileys items start appearing in the shops. I picked these up along with a few other Baileys goodies, which I'll be writing about soon. I decided to have one of these Muller Bliss Baileys Corner Yoghurts as a lunchtime treat.

I opened the pot to find a whipped yoghurt section, with a sauce underneath and some Baileys and chocolate biscuit balls to mix in. I gave the yoghurt a try and found it very pleasant and sweet, but the flavour was much more like caramel than a proper hit of Baileys.

To be fair, it was lunchtime, so I wasn't necessarily looking for a strong alcohol flavour, but I did feel the taste could have been a little stronger. Other Baileys biscuits and treats I've tried usually have a much more identifiable flavour. This was more yoghurt and caramel, with just a hint of something resembling Irish cream.

It was still a nice yoghurt, just not quite the Baileys treat I was hoping for.

IKEA - Meat and not meat balls - and potato cakes! [@NLi10]

 As part of my trip to IKEA to buy spooky lanterns for Halloween (and still get no Trick Or Treat visits) we bought a big meal's worth of meatballs - and because of the veggies - non meat balls too!

HUVUDROLL red bags are meat - pork and beef mix - and these are the classic IKEA meatballs.

These are some mushed together vegetables pretending to be meatballs.  They'd be better as a side.

These are shredded potato pancakes - they are most awesome - a little fry and they are sorted.

This is the gravy that brings it all together - but - it required ingredients added to it to make it sing like in the IKEA café so we have saved it for later.

Potato cake goodness

With the veggie balls as a 'side'

With the goodness of the actual meatballs.

Forgot to buy the lingonberry jam, but cranberry works too - but we were at nannas so had no supplies.

Tastes as good as I remember, but I could have sworn that they were much bigger!  Maybe I'm just getting old.

Either way, a classic meal, and we still have the frozen IKEA pancakes to try another weekend.

Love Lane Red Alert IPA (Morrisons) By @SpectreUK

Happy Halloween, Everyone! May your night be full of cheerful screams, and your walls drip with the ruby red blood of India Pale Ale. That is not something I see often. A ruby red IPA. Unfortunately I haven’t seen walls dripping in beer since I was a barman, and don’t ask about the sticky carpet.

This 5% in volume Red Alert was brewed by Love Lane. The back of the can was most helpful. It was produced with dark, crystal, chocolate and wheat malts. It was hopped with Magnum, Idaho 7, Amarillo, and Mosiac hops. So, I’m expecting caramel, toffee and a little chocolate from the malts, and tropical fruits from the hops in the taste.

Red Alert is not a very scary sounding beer for Halloween. I’m a little disappointed to hear that it doesn’t have any rye added in the brewing to give it further redness. I guess with all those malt flavours, it probably doesn’t need any added spiciness.

Now all I have to do is choose what I’m going to eat for my dinner to drink my ruby red IPA with. I think fish and chips and a battered sausage from the local Chippy are in order. They shouldn’t take too long to deliver, so I can catch the final of the traitors.

On opening the can there was a woody caramel sweet aroma from the malts, and citrus tropical fruits from the hops. This Red Alert really is a ruby red coloured ale. Heavy with malts to begin with, those of toffee and caramel with a touch of chocolate. This was all before the zesty tropical fruity bitterness that kicked in, with a little woody pine into the aftertaste. Boo!

Wotsits Bag of Bones (Tesco) By @Cinabar

Can I start by saying Happy Halloween! I hope you are enjoying spooky season, whether you are going trick or treating for snacks or staying in to watch a seasonal film. We are staying in and snacking, and one of our choices is this great sharing crisp bag, Wotsits Bag of Bones.

The pieces are essentially cheese Wotsits, but this time they are shaped to look like various skeleton parts. There are skulls, bones and rib cages, and yes, the photo does show my attempt to make a little skeleton. Because although I look like a grown-up, I clearly am not!

The flavour and texture of these are interesting because they are cheese Wotsits, but they are somehow better. I can't explain why. They have the same cheesy flavour powder, but they just taste better! I think the different shapes add more crunch, and perhaps the unusual shapes trap the flavouring powder, making them a little more intense.

They are Wotsits with the volume turned up! It might all be in my head, but I'm convinced they are better. I would totally recommend these if you are looking for a last-minute sharing snack to enjoy during a Halloween film.

Wishing you a fab Halloween!

Kohinoor Mini Samosa - spooky spice [@NLi10]

 Happy Halloween weekend everyone! To celebrate lets review some Samosa...

Because the children ate all of the spooky choc lollipops we got from the Co-Op and said they were 'nice'.

We are left with the 2 out of 3 chilli power mini samosa- because wow are these too much for the kids.

Standard ingredients minus all the potato and peas that bulk out the fresh ones.

Lovely crispy pastry

oddly crispy interiors.  These are DRY

I mean a party might have these with tamarind sauce like the pros, but I'd originally thought I'd eat these in the cinema, and they are both too spicy and too dry for that.  Dipped in chutney (mango, mmmm) these are a delight, but solo they are a trial.

We love the sauces in this brand too so I suspected they'd be quality, but it's only a recommend to the hardcore fans.