cheesy smash scones

Gosh, I love a Saturday – the traffic to the blog spikes like crazy and we always get a swell of new people joining. Hello one and all, don’t forget to tell your friends. That was the deal. Don’t make me Princess Di you, I’ve got access to a Fiat Uno. You’ll find a link to all the recipes at the top of the page, together with an FAQ for new members of Slimming World and some other flim-flam.  Tonight’s recipe is for slimming world smash scones, and tomorrow’s Slimming World Classic is salt and pepper chicken, but we’ve jazzed it up just a smidge. The recipe that we found out was ‘fry chicken, add salt, add pepper’ which isn’t a recipe at all. Their other recipes included ‘elegant tannin slurp’ (boil kettle, add milk, add tea-bag). Knobbers. Maybe I made that bit up, you’re not the boss here.

Anyway, back to Ireland, where you may remember we were spending an awful amount of time driving around and being snotty about craft shops? Well rest assured that this continued unabated. But first, an observation. See, Paul and I have the type of marriage where we can openly discuss other good-looking men without one of us throwing a paddy and waving a pair of blunt scissors at the other’s cock, and as a result we were looking forward to seeing plenty of rough-hewn Irish farmer types with bushy beards and big soft eyes strutting around. Well, pfft. For a start, everyone was about 2ft tall. Seriously, they’d have blinded themselves if they’d pulled their socks up. Plus, weedy – apparently despite only having shops that sell Daniel O’Donnell tat and Guinness fiddle-faddle the men have found somewhere that sells those bloody awful Abercrombie and Fitch hoodies and tiny pin-leg jeans. THAT’S NOT MANLY. I even saw a man-bun (and you may remember how I feel about that) on someone serving diesel in the last petrol station before civilisation ended. I bet if we go back in a year there will be burgers in brioche buns and someone drinking out of a watering can. Pissheads. Scotland has the best blokes – then England, then Wales, then Ireland.

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That’s what we were expecting…

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That’s what we got. GOD-DAMN IT IRELAND.

We visited a chocolate factory. I say visited, Paul barely had time to register the words coming up on the turn-off sign before I had swerved the car across the road and into the car-park. I swear I was inside at the tasting station before he’d even unsuckered the sat-nav from the windscreen. MIND. It was a bit of a stretch to call it a chocolate factory, given it seemed to consist of a few lovely Irish ladies melting chocolate nips and scattering orange peel into it. That said, we still stocked up, ostensibly on gifts for our co-workers, but I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that we had one of the giant chocolate slabs open before we’d even pulled out of the car park. We rationalised it by thinking that, as we’d seemingly shored up Ireland’s deficit by buying so much chocolate, the decent thing to do would be to enjoy it. Plus, they’d been a bit stingy with the ‘free tasting’ considering the amount of money we’d spent – I can remember even now seeing Paul’s watery eyes and downturned mouth when she went to put away the tray of free chocolate.

We also visited the “Most Beautiful Cliffs in Kerry” – which I personally think lived right up to the name. It’s a strong, bold claim and we almost didn’t get to see it. Not because of bad weather, or the access being closed…no, because we were so full of chocolate that we drove straight past when we saw ‘only a five minute walk from the car-park’ on the side.  Isn’t that mortifyingly lazy? But I’ve been each and every person reading this has done something similar. I mean, it was just so warm in the car, and a cliff is a bloody cliff…right? We drove on for another ten minutes before we had to turn back around and go see the bloody cliffs, so ashamed were we by our own bloody laziness. Actually – glad we did, because look…

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Isn’t that amazing? Despite the two minute walk being more like a ten minute gentle stroll up a gradient that a marble would struggle picking up speed rolling down, it was more than worth it, even if Paul did struggle with the defibrillator at the end. My sense of injustice was piqued by the gypsy (genuinely, I’m not just being racist) who charged me €4 to park the car and gave us a ticket to view the cliffs, but I didn’t fancy arguing with someone who had colour-ordinated his brown change purse with his nicotine-lacquered teeth.

We visited an immeasurable number of beaches, and by god I’ll never forget them, not least because I’m still pouring out a good half of them onto my living room carpet at the end of the day. One afforded us the chance, thanks to a stern warning that we simply mustn’t go on the rocks (which we immediately did), to reinact that bit where old Jelly Belly Harold Bishop fell into the sea and Madge was left shouting HAAAAARULD at the crashing waves after she found his glasses in a rockpool. Remember that? Twochubbycubs do.

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Seriously, every day with us is full of nonsense like this. If we’re not re-enacting famous soap deaths – I’ve done Jim Robinson before, complete with quacks and a rolling orange, we’re yelling Titanic quotes at each other. Plus, we left behind some free advertising.

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Subtle, right? Here, one final thing. The cottage had an amazing cottage but clearly attracted the sort of people who were braggarts and fancydans when it came to their wine, to the point where each person staying had placed an empty bottle of their best wine on top of the kitchen cupboards (quite a task, given how high up they were – I had to really stretch and I’m tall enough to be continued). And oh lord, people had signed them too – and the names read like a Vegan’s Anonymous meeting, all Cressy and Johnathanial and suchlike. So, in the sense of causing mischief, we added our own. Can you spot it?

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Haha, I’ve never drank blue WKD in my life, I don’t think. It’s like wearing Lynx, once you’ve actually had sex, it should be beneath you. Anyway. I tell you what’s below me? My feet. My feet which aren’t cheesy. But I tell you what IS cheesy? These Smash scones! Yeah alright, that was a shit link, so sue me, it’s late. LOOK AT THEM.

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Before I get started, let me just put this in here.

TWEAK

Yes, this is definitely a tweak. If you don’t tweak, just skip on. If you’re comfortable tweaking, crack on! These are delicious and perfect to make as a snack. Not sure what tweaking is? My previous rant explains it…click here for that (lots of people seem to really enjoy that article…!)

to make cheesy smash scones, you’ll need:

100g of plain Smash, 2 eggs, 300g of low-fat cottage cheese (make sure you get the syn free cottage cheese, I use the Tesco low fat version), 30g of hard extra strong cheese, chopped chives (we have them growing in the garden – for goodness sake, get yourself a pot, bit of compost and one of the growing pots from Tesco for a quid, they almost grow themselves), paprika for the top, garlic salt.

to make cheesy smash scones, you should:

nothing to this one – you blend the egg and cottage cheese together with a hand-blender, add the Smash, cheese, chives and garlic and shape into a dough. It should feel dry and not very sticky, you can always work a bit more Smash in. You don’t actually need to blend the egg and cottage cheese first, but I like it smooth. Shape it into whatever shape you want, drop them into a frylighted oven tray, sprinkle with paprika and cook for 25 minutes on 190 degrees (check on them after 15 minutes).

Done!

ENJOY.

J

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42 thoughts on “cheesy smash scones

  1. I have laughed so much reading your blog it’s hilarious and so well written thank goodness my hubby is deaf and wearing headphones watching his film or I’m sure he would have had me committed I was tittering away to myself i couldn’t stop I loved it made my night thank you so much xx

  2. Loving your blogs and recipes I’m a struggler with diets because I love chocolate but I’m getting there slowly, I also just finishes reading your book about your honeymoon I loved it it was fab well done xx

    • You bloody have your chocolate! It’s not about complete restriction, it’s having a bit of what you fancy – otherwise what’s the point? Just measure, syn and take your time!

      Glad you like the book 😀 X

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  4. This is the first time I’ve read your blog and it’s bloody hilarious! I’m hooked. As an aside I use the cheese scones with my soup instead of using up my bread allowance. Thanks for making me laugh out loud. Xx

  5. Hi, I’ve just come across your page and have found your wit and honesty hilarious. Looking forward to trying out your recipes. I can’t seem to find a link to follow your blog or sign up, can you please send me a link. Thanks so much for cheering up a thoroughly dull and miserable driech morning x

    • Hi! Our subscribe box was missing – it’s now available, so if you don’t mind nipping back and signing up as we’re not allowed to add anyone manually for spam reasons! Booo! And thank you for the lovely words!

  6. We have plenty of rugged strapping farmers in Ireland, they’re busy farming, not hanging around for tourists to drool over! I know, I married one. Your recipes are top notch, thanks for sharing them 🙂

  7. Well I don’t care if they are a tweak they sound lush……and as I need to buy a bag of smash to use on scotch eggs I may as well make these as well.
    I love your blogs and always have a laugh. It must be a Geordie thing, but to be fair I am not a Geordie as we live in Durham, dead posh as owt us 😉

      • i expect i will be bottom of your pile as i live between Bristol and Bath. i am just saying you can make bacon flavoured ones too with the bacon mash and i break little bits off cooked streaky and add that also 1 teaspoon of tomato ketchup they are very tasty i have one with a sald and fill it with salad its lovely

    • When I visited Southern Ireland it became a game of who can spot a tall man, never happened……and where are the houses with blinds…there are not any, all have net curtains……..Northern Ireland cheaper and men somewhat taller…..

  8. Thank fuck for a tasty scone! I was beginning to think I’d joined some Money type cult thing! “Mavis made this delicious meal with squark 1/2 a weetabix and 4sprays of fry light”. It ain’t delicious Mavis. It’s barely edible! Love your rants and recipes xxx

  9. Just eating a couple of the scones hot with a load of veg and some of your excellent hummus. I was missing some ideas for savoury sun free snacks so top job. Loving the blog and all the recipes

      • Just made a tray full, eating one still piping hot from the oven. Brill. We have used your recipes for all our main meals this week. Thanks a lot

  10. Hi love reading your blog absolutely hilarious. Look up the recipe just so i can read the blogs. Oh i enjoy your recipes as well. Keep up the good work x

  11. Made these for lunch and they came out beautifully. I used onion and chive cottage cheese and made 8 scones from the mixture. I used mine to make bacon sandwiches but next time I’m going to put smoked salmon in as a filling, with a little soured cream or frontage frais. Thanks for a great recipe cubs!

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