Ham, leek and kidney bean salad

If you have ever visited Estonia, then you know we're fond of various chopped salads with mayonnaise and sour cream dressing. We're pretty proud of our potato salad, which requires hours of dedicated chopping and dicing and tends to be on many a birthday table.

I've offered you some recipes here on Nami-Nami that fit the category - potato and cucumber salad, potato and beet salad, for instance. This ham, leek and kidney bean salad fills into the same category of salads, though because of the ease of preparing the salad, I tend to think of this more like a midweek salad than buffet table table.

Serve with some good rye or crusty bread on the side.

Ham, leek and kidney bean salad
(Singi-oasalat)
Serves four to six

 

300 g cooked ham
ca 400 g canned red kidney beans (drained weight)
1 medium-sized leek, white and pale green part only
handful of fresh parsley

Dressing:
100 g good-quality mayonnaise
100-150 g sour cream or plain yoghurt
freshly ground black pepper or "lemon pepper"
sea salt, if needed

Cut the ham into neat small pieces - I like them about the same size as the beans. Cut the leek in half lengthwise, rinse and cut into 3-4 mm slices. Chop parsley.

Mix the dressing ingredients in a large bowl, fold in the salad ingredients.

Serve at once or keep in the fridge until ready to serve.

 

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Rose cake

Made this rose cake - my first ever - for our daughter's fourth birthday party last Saturday. I had come across these rose cakes on Pinterest on several occasion (see here or here) and really wanted to make one myself. I found piping the roses surprisingly easy and will happily undertake the process again.

A simple sponge cake (using 4 eggs), layered with lingonberry and apple jam as well as lemon-flavoured curd cheese cream, and topped with cranberry zefir (basically a type of Italian meringue; 3 egg whites and 300 g sugar is enough to frost the 26 cm cake).

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Gro Clock Review

My boys love to sleep, I can't moan  as ever since they were 8 weeks old they have slept through the night unless poorly, which is a good thing as I love my sleep too. However, when they're not at school and nursery they take ages to go to sleep on a night and they are up stupidly early on a morning, and when I say stupidly early I'm talking half past 5 - 6 am so by dinner time they are tired and cranky. The worst of the three boys is James and as hes the smallest at 3 he needs more sleep than his brothers but he is really good at fighting it. So just before Christmas when I was asked if I'd like to review a Gro Clock I didn't think twice.

In the box you will find the Gro Clock, power cable, story book and instruction manual.

The Gro Clock is really simple to set up as the instructions are really clearly set out. There are many features of the clock and they are all designed to make it easy for you to get a child into a routine of going to bed and waking at a "suitable" time. These features are:

• ​Glowing screen shows images of stars and sun to communicate 'sleep' and 'wake-up' time
• Includes fun bedtime story book
• Stars go out one-by-one during the night to show the passing of time
• Key-lock option
• Option to set two separate wake-up times (weekday/weekend or night-time/day-time nap)
• Adjustable screen brightness
• Silent operation
• Optional audible alarm feature
• Mains powered (adapter included)
• Suitable from age 2+ years
• Conforms to highest applicable British and European Standards

The first night we used the Gro Clock James thought it magical, we told him it was his special clock and that it was to help him know when it was time for him to go to sleep and when it was time for him to wake up again. I read him the enclosed storybook about Percy the Pig and all his friends and showed him that Percy had a clock just like him. We gave the moon and sun a name, we called them Monty Moon and Sonny Sun. I told him when Monty is out he has to got to bed and when Sonny is out he can get up. When it was time for James to go to bed each night  I pressed the button to activate the night mode. I had already set the clock so that it changes to the day mode at half past 7 in the morning. His normal bedtime is 7 pm, but has been known to still be awake at 10 / 11pm before now. It took him a couple of days to get used to the idea of what his clock was about but now he knows, it is second nature for him to go straight to sleep after his story.

During the night the clock will countdown the stars. This is a very clever idea because if you have a child that wakes up a lot during the night you can show them that it is still night time and show how many stars there are left until they can get up. As i mentioned before this isn't a problem for me as my boys do sleep, my problem was getting them into bed and then them not waking up really early on a morning.  

If your child takes a nap during the day you can also have a separate alarm set. This will show when a child needs to go to sleep for their nap and when they can wake up again. You can also use this second alarm as a weekend / holiday time so that your child wakes up slightly later in the morning. So we used this alarm to go off half an hour later (8 am) on a weekend and school holidays.

The Gro Clock has changed James' bedtime routine and has helped him to become a little bit calmer, less irritable during the day and overall a nicer child to have on a night time. I look forward to his bedtime as I know he won't be playing with toys until he falls asleep and I know he won't be up before the sun either.

You can purchase a Gro Clock from The Gro Company, it is priced at £29.99.

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3 things to do in Tel Aviv and 3 things to do in Jerusalem

Katrina (born in Tallinn) of The Gastronomical Me blog (written in London) dropped me an e-mail few days ago. I quote:

I'm flying to Israel tomorrow, for a week, will stay in Tel Aviv and Jeruselem and the Deadsea. I know you went there during summer through that social group. I've read a bit on your site already but if you were to pick say 3 places that surprised you the most, perhaps the places you don't think people are likely to discover just by wondering around, what would you recommend?

I had the pleasure of visiting Israel last June in the honorable company of David Lebovitz and Ms Marmite Lover as well as two lovely young American food writers. I haven't managed to blog nearly as much about the trip as I would have wanted, but here's my TOP 3 recommendations for both places. I have met Katrina on a couple of occasions, and think I have a vague idea of what would interest her - hope I'm not too wide off the mark, Katrina :D

JERUSALEM

1) Drinks and nibbles at the rooftop restaurant of the Mamilla Hotel. Wonderful views across the city during sunset, excellent modern Israeli food. We had nibbles there on the first night in town, just getting to know each other and our wonderful hosts Adi and Joanna (hi there!) and our packed itinerary.




(More Mamilla photos here)

2) A tour of the Mahane-Yehuda Market is a must - and I've actually managed to blog about that.


(More Mahane-Yehuda photos here)

I also think Katrina would enjoy a quick khatchapuri at the Georgian café Hatchapuria (5 HaShikma St, just outside the market). Here's their lovely Adjarian cheese khatchapuri with soft egg:



3) Hummus and falafels, mint tea, cardamom-spiced coffee, mutabbaq - all on Via Dolorosa. We popped into a hummusia somewhere between the seventh and eighth station. Excellent first hummus indeed! We then followed up the stairs and just on the right at the end of the last station, stopped for mutabbaq, the super sweet Arab filo pastry, mint tea and cardamom coffee.




Both photos by David Garb, one of the photographers on our tour

TEL AVIV

1) Haj Kahil is an Arab/Palestine restaurant in Jaffa, and the lunch we enjoyed there was probably one of the tastiest and most memorable during the trip full of really excellent food. The mezze table alone was ten points out of ten, a wonderful selection of fresh and delicious vegetable dishes.



Here's the waiter with the main course - just before our "argument" whether I should have a huge portion as I was eating for two (pregnant with bebe number three, remember :)) - his view; or whether I should only have a small portion of that beautiful 8-hour-lamb, as there was a good-sized baby taking up all that free space in my belly already - my idea:

David Lebovitz has written a beautiful post about that restaurant and I would definitely go back for a meal or two when in Israel again. This is my Number 1 recommendation for Israel!

2) Eyal Shani's The Salon only opens twice a week (Wednesday and Thursday), 8 Ma'avar Yabok, Nakhalat Yitzhak, Givataim, telephone 052-7035888. Apparently it's hard to secure a table and it's pretty pricey, and definitely not a place if you want a quiet place to enjoy a meal. But I trust Katrina would enjoy the rowdy and positively crazy atmosphere of the place. The food was delicious as well, of course :)

Eyal Shani in action.

3) A leisurely breakfast at Manta Ray at Alma Beach. The food was good, but I have especially fond memories of having breakfast at the relaxing seaside café - the vibe and the atmosphere were great.  


Remember - there six recommendations are posted here with a specific food-loving girl in mind - might not be the same places I'd suggest to a retired couple or a young family with three small kids :)

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Octonauts Sea Eels and Ladders Game

As a member of the Ravensburger Puzzle Club every month we get sent a puzzle to review.The first puzzle we were sent for 2013 is a something different to what we usually review. This month we have been sent the Octonauts Sea Eels and Ladders game.

Inside the box you will find the two sided game board, two dice (one is a normal dice with numbers on it, the other has colours), four player pieces, 6 sea creature counters and instruction booklet. The game board comes in 3 pieces and fits together like a jigsaw puzzle.

The games board is double, it has 2 different games for children to play. Octonauts Sea eels and ladders is a fun game designed for children aged 3 years old+ and can be played with 2-4 players. 

I like that the board has two different games, you can either play a simpler version with the coloured dice,or a harder game with the numbered dice. The boys liked playing both games but I think James preferred the coloured dice version (he won both times he played so maybe this was the reason) as with the numbered version he needed my help to count out his moves. Nathan liked both games too and made funny noises when he landed on the eels, ladders or the animals. Both games last 5 - 15 minutes depending on the number of players and how well their goes turn out. This is perfect for the boys as they never play with anything for more than 20 minutes at a time.

I think this game is a perfect addition to any Octonaut fans collection. You can buy the Sea Eels and Ladders Game from most good toy retailers priced around £10 but this will depend on the store where you make your purchase.

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Scottish food: Cock-a-Leekie soup

Originally posted in February 2007; fully updated in January 2013. 

Photo by Juta Kübarsepp for the January 2013 issue of Kodu ja Aed. Recipe and styling by Nami-Nami. The tablecloth is Estonian national tartan - the blue, black and white representing the Estonian flag, the red and golden representing Scotland's Rampant Lion. 

Tomorrow the friends of Scotland and all things Scottish across the world celebrate Robert Burns' birth anniversary, hosting or attending a Burns Supper. And any self-respecting Burns Supper begins with a proper Scottish soup - either Scotch Broth or Cock-a-Leekie. As the latter is a) considerably cheaper and b) considerably easier, and something that I've cooked over and over again. Amazingly, so few ingredients (a chicken, some leeks and some juicy prunes) can result in such a flavoursome soup.

Here's the recipe for a lovely and flavoursome cock-a-leekie. It started off as a recipe from Sue Lawrence's Scots Cooking: The Best Traditional and Contemporary Recipes (excellent book, by the way!), but I've tweaked both the amounts and the instructions, including the cooking method, considerably.

Cock-a-leekie
(Cock-a-leekie supp ehk šotlaste kana-porrusupp)
Serves 10 as a starter or 4 to 6 as a main course. 

1 chicken (1.5 kg)
3-4 large leeks (1 kg)
20 black peppercorns
1 bay leaf
about 2 litres water
20 juicy prunes, stoned and sliced
fresh parsley, chopped

Place the chicken in a large saucepan. Halve the leeks lengthwise, wash them well, then cut off the green parts. Chop these roughly and add to the pan with the peppercorns and bay leaf. Add the water - it should just cover the chicken. Season lightly with salt.
Bring slowly into the boil, skim off any scum that appears at the surface. Then cover and simmer for about 1.5-2 hours, until the chicken is cooked. Remove from the heat and let it cool.
Take out the chicken and remove the leeks, either with a slotted spoon or by draining the soup through a colander. Discard the cooked leeks. Remove the chicken flesh from the bones and chop into smaller pieces.
Chop the white part of the leeks, add to the pan with the prunes and chicken and bring to the boil again. Simmer for about 10 minutes, until the leeks are just done.
Season with plenty of salt and pepper and serve with chopped parsley on top.

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Snow Days Are Lots of Fun...

So by now I'm guessing that everyone has had at least a little bit of snow over the last week or so. Until last night we hadn't really had that much and the boys have nagged and nagged to play in the snow and it was a nuisance especially when trying to get the boys to school . So when they looked out of the window this morning and heard that school was closed for the day they were really happy and could finally build the snowmen that they have been eager to build.

I must admit though when I have no where else to be I don't mind a bit of the white stuff and it does look rather pretty. I just think its a shame that it came a month too late for Christmas. Oh well always Christmas 2013 to hope for :)

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Mathable Junior Game

Callum loves maths, I on the other hand hate it, I hated it in school and although I got a good grade in my exams I had to work really hard to get it. I really try to not let on to the boys how hard I used to find it and I suppose they are lucky that Matt really likes maths and will only be too happy to help them out with their homework when the times comes. Recently we were asked if we would like to review the Mathable Junior board game we were only to happy to help.

Mathable is aimed at children aged 5 - 9 years old. It is a 2 in 1 board game, it has a different game on each side of the board. The box contains the board, 60 number tiles, 4 tile holders and an instruction booklet.

It is noticeable that the game has similarities to a scrabble board, and the game is like an adaption of scrabble but instead of letter and words you have maths and numbers instead. The rules of the game are pretty simple and involve adding or subtracting two numbers next to each other on the board this will hopefully get you an answer which allows you to place one of your tiles. The number tiles go up to 20, so the game requires the child to be able to do addition and subtraction up to a total of 20. Callum finds this really easy and has since starting maths and Nathan is just starting to learn this so the game helped him so as his skills get better so will his game play. The boys really enjoyed playing the game and even James tried to join in even though he was getting in the way of the boys games. 

The game has an RRP of £14.99 and can be bought from most good toy and games retailers. There are also other games in the range suitable for older children and adults to play. Each product is designed to use logic, strategy and math skills to beat opponents and gain the highest score. For more information check out the Mathable website.

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Cauliflower rice

Have you eaten "cauliflower rice" before? Have you prepared it yourself? What's your favourite cauliflower "rice" recipe?

Kalyn wrote back in 2010 that she realised she's late to the cauliflower rice party. Imagine being then three more years late to the "cauli rice" party!!! I had seen the blog posts here and there, but didn't get around to trying this way of cooking cauliflower until now. We all liked it, and our 2-year old son really-really liked it, so we'll be definitely making this again.

I love cauliflower a lot (see the list of other cauliflower dishes here at Nami-Nami at the end of this post), but I admit this way of preparing cauliflower changes the flavour quite a lot. If I hadn't cooked it myself and someone had offered me a spoonful, I wouldn't have suggested cauliflower at first - texture-wise, it reminded me more of egg fried rice and not grated and fried cauliflower. Perhaps this is the way of introducing cauliflower to those people (men? kids?) who tend to be suspicious of cruciferous vegetables? Perhaps?

Here's my version of cauliflower rice. It's low in carbohydrates, high in fibre, suits vegan, gluten-free and Paleo diets - so a rather universal dish. Cheap as well!


 

Cauliflower rice
(Lillkapsariis)
Serves 4 as a side dish, can be easily halved or doubled




1 large head of cauliflower (about 700 grams)
1 tsp chilli flakes
2 large garlic clove, finely chopped
3-4 Tbsp rapeseed or olive oil
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
a large handful of fresh parsley, finely chopped

Rinse the cauliflower, drain. Shred finely, using the coarse side of your grater.
Heat the oil on a large frying pan over moderate heat.
Add the grated cauliflower, garlic and chilli flakes and fry the cauliflower for about 5 minutes, stirring regularly. Season generously, scatter the parsley on top and serve.

More cauliflower recipes @ Nami-Nami:
Cauliflower cheese with mustard
Cauliflower with creamy pepper and pesto sauce
Roasted cauliflower (over-baked cauliflower)
Roasted cauliflower with bacon and garlic
Spicy cauliflower with tomatoes and Cauliflower with egg and sage butter
Cauliflower with browned butter and breadcrumbs
Cauliflower with peas and cumin
Cauliflower mince and cheese with dill

Some other "cauliflower rice" recipes:
Cauliflower rice with celery and onion @ Elena's Pantry
Cauliflower Spanish rice @ A Veggie Venture
Cauliflower rice with fried onions and sumac @ Kalyn's Kitchen
Cilantro-lime cauliflower rice @ Big Red Kitchen
Paleo Dirty Rice @ Elena's Pantry
Cauliflower chicken fried "rice" @ Stephen Cooks

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Pan-Seared Oat-Crusted Salmon or Trout

Photo by Juta Kübarsepp for the January 2013 issue of Kodu ja Aed magazine. The tablecloth is Estonian national tartan - the blue, black and white representing the Estonian flag, the red and gold representing Scotland's Rampant Lion.

Burns Supper is nigh and it's a great opportunity to cook some Scottish recipes again. Here's a salmon with a crispy mustard and oat crust that's easy to make and yet festive enough for a good Burns Supper (if you're not serving haggis, that is). The Scots tend to cook herring this way, but sadly it's almost impossible to get fresh herring over here. Salty herring - whole or filleted - in brine is widely available, but fresh, no.

Luckily this method works brilliantly with other oily fish as well, especially salmon and trout. You can use filet from the tail-end (it's easier to cook), or use butterfly steaks, like I did.

Oat crusted fish 
(Kaerahelbepaneeringus kala)

one salmon or trout butterfly steak or filet per person
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
sharp Dijon mustard (or Põltsamaa, if you're in Estonia)
quick-cooking oats or coarse oatmeal
oil, for frying

Season the fish with salt and pepper, then smear lightly with some mustard (use too much mustard and your oats won't stick to the fish while you're frying). Dip the fish into oats. If you're using the skin-on fish filet, then just the flesh side, obviously.

Heat the frying pan until hot over moderately high heat, then drizzle with oil. Add the fish and fry until crispy and golden brown on both sides (my butterfly steak needed about 3 minutes on one side and 2 on the other).

Serve with a sautéed spinach (on the photo) or kale or some mushy peas.

If you want  some dressing to go with it, then I recommend flavouring some creme fraiche with mustard, salt, pepper and finely chopped chives.

PS I've tagged the recipe as gluten-free, but you must use certified gluten-free oats and mustard then.

Other Scottish recipes suitable for Burns Supper:

Appetisers/canapés:
Red onion and whisky marmalade
Mini haggis tarts
Tattie scones

Starters:
Cock-a-leekie or chicken and leek soup with prunes

Main course:
Oat crusted fish

Dessert/pudding:
Cranachan or raspberries, cream and tipsy oats
Shortbread
Scottish lemon cake
Chocolate raspberry brownie

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Always Look on The Bright Side of Life (or try to anyway)

One of my closest friends says I have a negative outlook on life and always see the bad in everything. I honestly don't think this is the case at all, as I think I am a realist and never expect things to be better than they are and if something upsets me then I will dwell on it a little while before moving on.

So as its a new year I have a new resolution and to prove to my friend I can focus on the good. To do this I have a Jar. Now you may thing this is strange but there is a reason for my Jar. I intend to collect all the snippets of good news or good things that happen to myself. my family and our friends and put them in the jar. I intend to empty them out on new years eve so I can read them through and if she says I'm having one of my "moments" I can see how full my jar is and how many good points we've had so far. And so far we have FOUR good things and the year is still so young. I have a feeling this year is going to be good.

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A healthy start to your day: buttered apple oatmeal porridge

Photo by Juta Kübarsepp for the January 2013 issue of Kodu ja Aed magazine; plate, mug and bowls by Estonian ceramic artist Marion Isabelle Varik of BlueDesign.

How many of you included "have a proper and healthy breakfast every day" among your New Year resolutions?

I did. In the morning chaos of getting three kids out of bed and dressed and ready, I often end up having breakfast consisting of just a cup of coffee and perhaps a tiny piece of leftover cake or a small tub of yoghurt. Yet that's never enough, and I feel sluggish and peckish by mid-morning already. I know a hot cereal (especially oatmeal) would be the best choice, but I don't really want the basic oatmeal porridge first thing in the morning.

I need to pimp up my porridge, so to say.

There's a great Scottish company, Stoats, that began serving freshly cooked oatmeal porridge at the music festivals and farmer's markets back in 2004, and became a huge success. One of the items on their menu both at the Edinburgh Farmers' Market and at their Meadows porridge bar was Cranachan porridge, or oatmeal served with raspberries, cream and toasted oats. I LOVED that one (there's a recipe on their website!), and this opened my eyes to the possibilities of different and delicious oatmeal. Here's a different "pimped up" porridge, served with buttered spiced apples - just as lovely and delicious.

Oatmeal porridge with buttered apples
(Kaerahelbepuder praetud õuntega)
Serves 3-4

Oatmeal:
250 ml water (1 cup)
250 ml milk (1 cup)
250 ml old-fashioned rolled oats (1 cup)
1-2 Tbsp sugar (optional)
1 tsp vanilla sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
a pinch of grated nutmeg
a pinch of salt

Mix all ingredients in a heavy saucepan and bring into a simmer. Simmer gently over moderately low heat for 7-8 minutes, stirring regularly, until cooked.

Buttered apples:
2 large crisp apples (Granny Smith, Antonovka)
2 Tbsp butter
0.5 tsp ground cinnamon
a pinch of grated nutmeg
2 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice

Peel and core the apples, cut into thin wedges. Heat butter on a small frying pan, add apples and sauté gently for a few minutes. Season with cinnamon and nutmeg and continue frying for another 5-6 minutes over a low heat, until apples are nicely soft, but not mushy! Drizzle lemon juice on top, heat through.

Spoon the buttered apples over the oatmeal and serve immediately.

Need more oatmeal inspiration? Check out these recipes:
Oatmeal with peanut butter @ Nami-Nami
Oatmeal with banana and maple syrup @ Nami-Nami
Oatmeal with grated apple @ 80 Breakfasts
Savoury oatmeal with Parmesan cheese @  80 Breakfasts
Steel-cut oats with Muscovado glazed bacon @ 80 Breakfasts
Christmas oatmeal @ 80 Breakfasts
Oatmeal basics @ Kitchen Parade
Peanut butter oatmeal @ Kalyn's Kitchen
Brown sugar roasted fig oatmeal @ Joy the Baker
Whipped banana oatmeal @ Kath Eats Real Food
English porridge and Vanilla bean oatmeal @ Amateur Gourmet
Heavenly oat bran porridge @ Lottie and Doof via The Kitchn
Slow-cooker spiced porridge @ The Kitchn
Chai porridge oats with rhubarb @ Not Quite Nigella

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Canapés with mustard-lemon-dill butter and beets

Here's one of the appetizers from our New Year's Eve menu -  a tangy mustard-lemon-dill butter on a slice of dark rye bread, garnished with my old favourite, beetroot. A very Scandinavian flavour combination, it's a great all-year appetizer that packs a lot of character (read: not the ideal accompaniment to your glass of fine champagne, but would go well with some more rustic beverages). The recipe is adapted from the British food magazine's BBC Good Food, more specifically their 2004 Vegetarian Christmas supplement. I made it quite a few times back in Edinburgh, but forgot all about it once I moved back home. But somebody left a comment on my Estonian site after making this canapé - and loving it - and I immediately new it'll be on our festive buffét table soon.

Rye bread canapés with mustard-dill butter and shredded beets
(Tilli-peedikanapeed)
12 to 24, depending on the size of the appetizers

Lemon, mustard and dill butter:
100 g butter, softened
2 Tbsp finely chopped fresh dill
2 Tbsp grainy mustard
finely grated zest of 1 small lemon
salt to taste

To serve and garnish:
6 slices of dark rye bread
100 grams of cooked beets, shredded or julienned

Make the compound butter - mix butter, dill, mustard and lemon zest until combined, season to taste with some salt, if necessary.

Cut each bread slice into small triangles or squares or rounds. Spread with compound butter.

Garnish with shredded or julienned cooked beets and some dill fronds, if you like.

Serve immediately or cover and keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

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Burping Burt Guessing Game

Burping Burt is awesome. I can't actually describe him any other way and I'm sure my boys would agree, they love him too. He is the most disgusting vile monster, yet also the most adorable and cutest monster ever. He is most definitely a boys toy and has no manners what so ever. he burps, farts, sneezes, hiccups and snores when his tummy is pressed.

Burping Burt is suitable for children aged 4 and over and for 2 or more players. The game contains 1 x Burping Burt, 24 x cards and 1 x rule sheet.

To get the game started the 24 cards are shared between the players, each player takes it in turn to press Burt's tummy, if he makes a noise that corresponds to a card in your hand you can put the card down in the middle and then the next player takes their turn, if however Burt snores you have to pick up a card from the middle. The game ends when one of the players has no cards left.

We really enjoyed playing Burping Burt and can't recommend him enough, he is extremely entertaining with his grossness and had us all in stitches, and as a game is around 20 minutes long, he won't bore younger players either.

Burt is priced around £14.99 and is available to buy from retailers like Amazon and Argos.

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Now That's What I Call Music Trivia Quiz Game

I am a huge fan of music, it is one of my great loves in life, I wouldn't say I have a particular taste and you will find anything from UB40 to Take That, Queen to Elvis Presley, Madness to Pink and Adele and of course there is a few Now albums lurking amongst them too. So when I was asked if I would like to review the Now That's What I Call Music Trivia Quiz I jumped at the chance.

This is a fast moving trivia game, it is made up of multiple choice pop music questions from Girls Aloud to Bananarama ( I know a few of my friends will be thinking who??)

The aim of the game is to get 3 picture cards, the person who gets 3 is the winner. You have to answer the questions to stay in the round, the game has a great twist in the form of steal questions, these can change the game in an instant.

The box contains over 400 questions and has questions that range from the 80's until now so who knows what you maybe asked. If your good with your music trivia you will be an ace at this game, As my music taste is pretty varied I was the winner on many occasions, this game was also a hit with my family and friends during our get togethers over the Christmas period. However if your not very good with your music knowledge the questions are multiple choice so you can have a guess at the answer.

The Now That's What I Call Music Trivia Game is suitable for 2 or more players aged 12 years +, it is priced around £8.99 depending on the retailer where you buy it.

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