Individual frittatatatas & Salad

These are super simple and went down REALLY well. They look cute & allow for fussy eaters.






Preheat oven 180°C

1 Broccoli head use zucchini or carrots or peas or....!!!
1 capsicum
2 slices ham
Microwave broccoli for 3mins, dice capsicum, dice ham.
Spray muffin trays full trays with vegies, & ham.

8 eggs
1t italian herbs
Salt & pepper
¼c water
pumpkin seeds
Whisk together poor into trays to about 4mm below rim.
Top with pumkin seeds
Bake till cooked

That's it! Make a salad while it cooks and serve

Carb option:
Mix 1 cup couscous with 1.5 cups hot chicken stock sit for a few minutes then stir. Add more boiling water if needed. Mix with the salad or serve on the side.

Chicken Hot Pot Thingee

Smells delicious while it's cooking, great warm filling meal for winter. Serve with noodles, rice or mashed potatoes if you want to.
Time=0
Turn oven to 180°
Quickly brown
500g chicken breast (or thighs)
Add
4 cloves garlic (crushed)
2 lemon grass stalks*
3T Soy Sauce
1T Fish Sauce
Transfer to a oven proof dish with lid then add
1-2c chicken stock
1-2 long red chillis (deseeded then sliced finely)
Place in the oven and cook for 25mins

Time=25mins
200g mushrooms (chopped)
2 spring onions (chopped)
Add to chicken return to oven for 10mins

Time=40mins
½ Cabbage Chopped
Microwave for 3mins on high add to chicken

Time =45mins
Serve

WW = approx 3pts per serve (alter the amount of chicken to adjust point count)

*lemon grass: to use, crush one end with the flat part of a knife, peel off the hard outerlayer then chop finely (or buy the stuff in the jar)

Moroccan Tomato Soup

This soup really is nyam nyam nyam, I was hesitant about serving it up as I have some fussy eaters, but they all LOVED it. Yes, even the lentils. {{{{Don't be scared of lentils!}}} really they're simple to use and a great source of protien and REALLY cheap! Try this soup.

Serves 8-12 (freezes well)

Time=0
Sauté in a large pot
4 cloves garlic (crushed)
2 onions (finely chopped)
Add
1t cumin
1t oregano
1t minced chillis from a jar
Mix through then add
2 tins Itailan tomatoes
1 cup tomatoe paste
1T Vegemite
2T brown sugar
1cup red lentils
Cook for 45mins (or until lentils are tender)

Time: 1hr
Stir through
1c of chopped corriander
Serve with a dollop of sour cream (if desired)

WW pts ~10pts for the whole pot

Pie Sammich

I couldn't cook dinner last night, cause of the storms in Auckland which left us without power... 20hours on we're still powerless!
So here's a (crazy) idea I got from someone. The pie sammich. Take a pie cover in sauce and sandwich between 2 slices of bread. I was sceptical about this 'delicacy', but it was actually pretty good! and tidy too -no messy pastry flakes

6/10 nyams

Chinese Chicken & Mango Salad

Nice light meal. The salad in this recipe was really yummy. The chicken was good too, but could of used a bit more flavour. If I made this again, I'd probably marinade the chicken in 2t honey, 2T vinegar, 4T soya, 5 spice & garlic for an hour before cooking.

Time=0
Chicken
2t sesame oil
8 drumsticks
In a big pot, quickly brown chicken in really hot seasame oil.
Add:
½ c chicken stock
2t honey
2t white wine vinegar
2T Soya sauce
1t Chinese 5 spice powder
6 cloves garlic (crushed)
½c water
Bring to the boil then simmer for 20mins or until chicken is cooked. You'll probably need to turn the pieces during cooking.
Time=30
Remove chicken to rest, throw in
1½c Mung Beans
Place beans on plate and arrange chicken on top.

Time=15
Mango salad
1 mango sliced thinly
2 spring onions chopped
½c chopped corriander (loosley packed)
100g snow peas (toped & tailed)
½ cucmber (sliced)
Cut all into sticks and assemble on plate. Squeeze over fresh
lime

Time = -3hrs (plan ahead or get store bought!)
Bread
I'm trying to eat less carbs atm but I didn't want mah boy to starve so I made him some fresh bread. Using the 'french' setting on the bread maker. It was good... apparently tasting a bit like scones.





Meal Without bread WW= 4.5pts without chicken skin or 7.5pts with
Bread = 1½pts per 48gm without butter!

Vege Stacks with herbed cream cheese

These little stacks look real good, they're easy and healthy. Bursting in colour & your 5 plus a day.
Low in fat & carbs
Good vegeterian meal or serve with meat! nyam nyam nyam

&hopefully it wont look too much like my MS Paint illustration :P

Time: 0
1 Eggplant
1½ Red Capsicum
½ Pumpkin

Fan bake 220°C
Slice eggplant cross ways into ~1.5cm fat circles.
De seed capsicum cut into fat strips.
Place on oven tray. Spray with olive oil.
Bake for 30mins, turning once.

Cut pumpkin into wedges, microwave for 9mins.

Time: 15mins
tub Cream Cheese (I used Philadelphia extra light)
2T Chives finely chopped
2T Parsley finely chopped
Mix together and set aside


Time: 25mins
Turn your roasting veges
Cut the skin off the microwaved pumpkin and mash it

3 Garlic Cloves
½ Red Onion
2 Tomatoes
2T balsamic vinegar
1t paprika
½c water

Chop garlic & onion put in a pot and sauté.
Dice tomatoes, add to pot with ¼c water, vinegar & paprika, simmer on low

Time: 40mins
Remove Veges from oven.
Place 4 biggest rounds back on the oven tray
Spread mashed pumpkin on each one
lay on capsicum strips (they can hang over the edge)
Spoon on herbed cream cheese
-- I sliced up the left over lamb from last night and added it here
Top with eggplant round
Return to the oven

If you have more than 8 slices of eggplant chop up the excess and throw it in with the tomatoes.

Check your tomato 'sauce' added more water if needed

(extra)
Left over roast potatoes
1T butter
Cube potatoes, sauté in butter, sprinkle with salt

Time: 50mins
Remove stacks from oven, place on plates. Top with tomato sauce. Serve with salad (I made lettuce and sunflower seed piles with no dressing)

Time: 1hr
Serve

Spicy Beef Hotpot

Super easy and healthy alternative to buying takeaway Indian at lunchtimes. Put it on before you start cooking dinner for the night and it'll be ready after you've cleared the table.
Not the prettiest dish, but definetly hearty and great for winter.

400g beef steak I used rump, you can use, topside or chuck (use sirloin or eye fillet if you're feeling flush!)
Spray oil
1 large onion diced
2 carrots chopped
1t Cumin seeds or powder
1t tumeric
1t dried Corriander
dash cayenne pepper (you can use 1t minced chillis & cracked pepper if u want)
1 small potato chopped
2c beef stock (I mixed it from powder)


Heat large pot till really hot, spray with oil. Brown beef (3-5mins) add onion & carrot, stirfry 1min). Add spices & stir through. Add rest of the ingredients. Bring to the boil then simmer for 1-2hours. Until the meat the carrots are soft and the meat crumbles in your mouth. Keep an eye on it, you may need to add extra water.

Serve with rice or bread if you need some carbs.

Roast Ba-ba

Good old Sunday roast (on a Friday). Perfect if you're home early and want to make a stella meal while not spending much time in the kitchen.


Time: 0hr
Lamb (I got a 1.5kg de-boned rolled lamb leg $12.95/kg)
3 cloves Garlic
Rosemary

Fan bake 160°C
Peel the garlic and cut in half length wise. Pierce the skin of the lamb in random places with a little knife and shove in a piece of garlic. Place in an oven bag, sprinkle with rosemary, tie up the bag place in a tray. Cook for about 15mins PLUS 35mins per .5kg (so 2hrs for this one)

Time: 1hr
Roast Potatoes (1 large or 1.5 medium per person)
Roast Pumpkin (1 wedge per person)
Oil (Canola)
Salt

Peel the potatoes and chop into chunks (try and get them a similar size). Chuck them in the microwave for 6mins on high. While they precook, put some oil into your roasting dish, up to you how much, I try to use only a couple of tablespoons and put in the oven to heat up (this is the key to getting crispy roast potatoes!). Throw in the potatoes and turn them in the oil.
Cut the pumpkin in half, scoop out the seeds, cut into fat wedges, cut wedges in half, microwave for 5mins on high, add to potato dish.
Cook for 30-40mins (if you want them faster microwave for longer)
Sprinkle with salt before serving

Time: 1hr 45min
Cabbage
Slice cabbage into strips place in microwave container with lid (or use glad wrap). Microwave for 4mins on high.

Time: 1hr 50min
Gravy
2Tbs flour
1cup beef stock (add 1t of powdered stock to a cup of water)
Poor 2Tbs of fat out of the lamb pan into a pot. Add 2Tbs of flour. Stir. Gradually add up to 1 cup of beef stock, keep stirring, till it's correct.

I suck at making gravy, so I usually have a 'just add boiling water' packet on standby!

Time: 2hrs
Serve

Bling'd out lamb is not 4 eatin!