Mexican Rice & Grilled Corn Mango Salsa

I recently started my first, post-uni job as a Nutritionist Marketeer, which is pretty exciting and why I've been a little quiet on here. This is also my first post since I had my university results, so now I'm officially a Nutritionist with a BSc (Hons)! I've just moved from Bournemouth where I was at uni to a new town, which I'm pleased to say is already starting to feel like home. Along with starting a new job, the last couple of weeks have entailed packing & unpacking along with a lot of trips up and down stairs with it all! So it's safe to say, after my first official full week of work I was definitely ready for the weekend, to fully unpack and actually do some cooking.

As a tradition of sorts, my mum helped me unpack Tuesday evening and we got Chinese food to help us along with this. On Wednesday I then had the left overs for dinner; this was a bit of a delayed process, as it took me 25 minutes to work out how to turn on my touch-operated electric hob and in the mean time I ate some cold Chinese chips to keep me going (I was so hungry by this point they didn't taste half as bad as I know they should have!). Once I managed to turn it on (more of a happy accident), I could then only figure out how to operate one ring, to the highest heat and had to switch it off at the wall afterwards. You'll be pleased to hear I managed to work it successfully for this recipe today and it's really not as complicated as it first seemed, but perhaps I was just too tired and hungry for my brain to work it out! The hot water also decided to cut out a few times, luckily it's summer and pretty warm, so the freezing cold showers didn't make the start of the day too bad! But the main thing is, I'm all moved in, everything's figured out and I'm absolutely thrilled with my new place & my new job.

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