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Recipe: Beer-battered Celeriac "Fish" for Fish & Chips

Lately, I've been enjoying Julien Solomita's Aries Kitchen, where he attempts trending recipes or makes vegan versions of dishes. The celery root fish and chips caught my attention, so here's my take on the "Fish" part of the fish and chips. This recipe is combined between recipes from Julien Solomita  and  Sauce Stache . I found it annoying that they didn't have a recipe written out to refer back to, so I made a document combining both recipes to my taste and substituting one ingredient: kelp granules. As a meat-eater, I thought this recipe was fun to try but real fish still wins. Just duck into your local fish and chip shop to takeaway and you don't even have to clean up the grease on your stove top. Beer-battered Celeriac "Fish" Cooking the celeriac I chose to omit putting any other seasoning at this step because I thought it was a bit redundant putting nori, and I didn't have kelp granules. You may add it to the seas...

Perfume: Miss Dior (Cherie)

It's been roughly 15 years since the first release of Miss Dior Cherie. It was one of the first fragrances I wanted, and favoured by people like Sarah from Clothesencounters and Elle Fowler of AllThatGlitters21. Despite its reformulations and changes over the years, Miss Dior (Cherie) will always have a special place in my heart. The first rendition of Miss Dior Cherie promised caramel popcorn, beautifully sweet for someone in their youth. I never really caught whiff of popcorn, but certainly the sweetness of caramel. I was thrown off on initial sniff because I was so used to the scents my mother enjoyed from Dior's range: Poison and Dune. It was also not quite as grown-up and sophisticated as J'adore, which may have been best suited for someone in their 30s. Soap and Glory's Clean On Me and The Righteous Butter range is similar to this formulation of Miss Dior Cherie and I used to enjoy layering them together. I had to say farewell to my bottle (having finished ...