I love halloumi! And I eat it with EVERYTHING!
It’s even better glazed and this works really well
Slice halloumi and soak in water
Dry carefully
Heat a drizzle of oil and fry it until golden, 2-3 minutes each side
Remove from heat and add juice of half a lime and 1tbsp honey (assuming you are doing 1 block of halloumi)
Enjoy in a burger or on a salad
I love avocados! And they are super healthy! This could go on the side of loads of dishes to add an extra one of your five a day.
Chop 2 avocados into 1cm chunks
Season with salt and pepper
Add the juice of 1 lime and mix
Add 2tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Set aside for the flavour to develop before eating!
I haven’t as such tried this yet, but seeing if I can make a lassi smoothie work with my macros on my diet… let’s see…
105g frozen mango
1 small banana
100ml almond milk
50g yoghurt
Cardamom
20g vanilla protein powder
Turmeric
Rose water
20g rolled oats
So, we are being much healthier in 2021! Body coach diet and a much healthier outlook. One of our absolute favourites, and all the family love these! Serve with a yummy salad!
Half a block of halloumi
Half a pepper
1 bread roll
Some basil leaves if poss
Mayonnaise
Fry the halloumi and griddle the peppers (we use George Foreman grill for the peppers)
I made these last night and they are YUMMY and so easy! Even I could make them! Admittedly, they would be harder if kneading by hand, that’s the bit I’m rubbish at, but this dough was so easy to work with by the time I touched it I had no issues!
The main thing here was the time it took, and getting the timings right so they would be as fresh as possible for the meal. So I’m including timings for them to be out of the oven at 6pm ready for tea soon after. Obviously alter to eat at a different time!
500g strong white bread flour
7g yeast
1tsp caster sugar
2tsp salt
1tsp sunflower/ vegetable oil
Milk to glaze
325ml warm water
3pm combine all ingredients except the milk in the bowl of your mixer. Mix up to a shaggy dough and leave for 10 mins
3.15 knead with dough hook for 5 mins
3.20 transfer to a new oiled bowl and leave for 1 hour or until doubled in size
4.20 tip onto a lightly floured surface and roll into a long sausage. Cut into 8. Roll each into a ball and place on a lightly floured tray
4.30 leave for 40 mins to 1 hour to prove under a wet tea towel
5.30 glaze with milk and bake for 25-30 mins at 230. When cooked they will be browned and sound hollow when you tap the base.
Original recipe from good food magazine this month
So, lockdown! You’d think I’d have more time to cook, and I did, but mainly I ate and struggled to find the energy to cook!!! But I did jump on the slow cooker fudge bandwagon a fair few times!! It is absolutely addictive, so easy, but unfortunately INCREDIBLY bad for you… so best find some friends to give it to rather than eat the lot yourself!
There are loads of slow cooker fudge recipes out there right now, and we’ve based ours on them. Early on we tried a dark chocolate version, and we’ve also tried a rainbow one (not personally, as if I’d find the patience to colour, pour, chill layers of fudge!!) and they’ve all been fab but this is definitely our absolute favourite. It’s SO SO good!!
500g white chocolate (Morissons do a value version and I just use that… 30p for 100g… you don’r need anything fancy!)
1 tin condensed milk (this became scarce at the end of lockdown- think because we were all making so much slow cooker fudge! Back in stock now!)
approx 100g lotus biscuit spread
small teaspoon butter
small teaspoon custard powder (we add this, don’t know how much it adds, it was Samantha’s idea so we just went with it)
About 100g crumbled lotus biscuits to add at the end
Put all ingredients except biscuits into your slow cooker and turn it on. Apparently lots of recipes say must be lid off but doesn’t seem to make loads of difference to us. I started on high, to speed up the melting then turned it down.
After about 15 mins, when it’s started melting, give it a good stir
In total cook for approx 1.5 hours, with a few stirs
Turn off the heat and crumble in the biscuits
Put in a lined cake tin and refrigerate for a good few hours
Once cold it will cut just like fudge. I recommend small pieces!!!
I love these! Always buy them and fry up for breakfast or lunch, but going to try making my own as so much cheaper!!
You can freeze leftover ones to reheat later
85g porridge oats
85g plain whole meal flour
1/2 tsp yeast
350ml water
Blitz oats and water with stick blender
Stir in flour and yeast
Cover and leave in fridge overnight or out for 2-3 hours, until bubbles appear
This makes 4… basically cook like pancakes, approx 2 mins each side
I make spaghetti Bolognese all the time and never follow a recipe so thought I’d try one. I’m just going to list the ingredients. It was loosely based on a recipe in good food but I was too cheap to buy some of the ingredients and too lazy to do the mince in the suggested way! I fried off the mince, drained it, and then fried the onions before adding all the rest in one go and cooking for maybe an hour or two… yummy!!
Chop the carrot and celery in food processor before adding so they are really small…
1kg mince (low fat or drain early on)
2 onions, diced
1 large carrot (didn’t have one!)
2 sticks celery
2 cans tomatoes
Glass of red wine
Dried rosemary
Dried oregano
Oxo cube
2 bay leaves
Sundried tomato paste (will start buying this, think it was good addition!)
Chopped and added nearer end (could vary these veg!)
2 peppers
2 courgettes
300g mushrooms
Made this to use up my Christmas pudding! Delicious! Will definitely make every year, everybody loves them!!!
All ingredients are swappable and approx… use what you have!!!
The original idea, and the one I’ve done for a few years, is based on nigella’s Christmas puddini bonbons, but this recipe is entirely my own!
350g leftover cooked Christmas pudding
150g biscuits (I used a layer of danish biscuits as we aren’t that keen on them… increase or decrease biscuits to make up the weight with whatever pudding you have left!
200g cheap dark chocolate
Large tablespoon butter…
Large squeeze golden syrup
Some dried cranberries (I bought these to jazz it up… you could omit these or put in some Christmas smarties or similar… don’t think it’s worth adding cherries or sultanas as these are in the pudding but you could!!
Maybe a small bit of alcohol… I didn’t, but might in future!
Melt chocolate with butter and golden syrup
Blend biscuits and pudding in blender. Actually, do this first as takes a while
Mix all together with any additional ingredients
Line a baking tray and push into it. Chill in fridge then cut up and enjoy!!
This idea intrigues me!! Definitely adds an extra dimension to the burgers!
Originally from good food
250g pouch of mixed grains
500g minced turkey
2 cloves garlic (crushed)
Coriander (ideally seeds, toasted and crushed… I will prob use normal)
4 tbsp harissa (I may reduce this down… think a little hot for kids!!)
Finely chopped parsley (will prob use dried)
Cook the grain according to packet instructions
When cool tip into a bowl and mix well with other ingredients
Chill so they don’t break up
I will probably oven these but you could fry them
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