Extra Lean Minced Beef Hash

Minced Beef Hash

Serves 4

 

6 simple ingredients, ready in half an hour tops, warming, filling, nutritious and low in fat (free from syns on slimming world and compatible with Rosemary Conelly's).

 

 

Lovely on a cold evening!

 

This meal provides, Vitamin K, Vitamin C, Protein, Carbohydrate and Fibre, amongst other vitamins and minerals.

 

 

Ingredients

 

• 2 white onions peeled and finely diced
• 450g extra lean minced beef (£2.79 at Lidl)
• 4oz Frozen Sliced Carrots (£1 for 750g at Co Op)
• 5 Fl oz Reduced Salt Beef Stock
• 5 'Twists' of Black Pepper
• 10oz White Potatoes Peeled and Diced

 

 

The Not-So Nitty Gritty Bit

 

 

1. First peel and dice the potatoes and onions. Put the potatoes on to boil along with the sliced carrots.
2. Fry the onions and as soon as they start to brown, add in the minced beef. When the mince begins to brown, add the stock.
3. After the potatoes and carrots have been boiling away for around 10 minutes, drain them and add to the minced beef, stock and onions. At this point, add in the 'twists' of black pepper.
4. Leave to simmer for 15 - 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

 

 

 







Black Peppered Chicken

 Black Peppered Chicken

 

with sweet corn and sweet potato wedges

 

 

Ingredients

• 3 chicken breasts
• freshly ground black pepper
• 9 tbsp. sweetcorn
• 1 large sweet potato
• drizzle of lemon juice

The Not-So Nitty Gritty

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees. Place the chicken breasts in the roasting tin, drizzle lemon juice over the chicken breasts and season with black pepper. Cover over with foil and place in the oven for around 40 - 50 minutes depending on weight (see packaging for details).
2. Peel the sweet potato and cut in half, half again and into 3's. Put in boiling water for 15 minutes.
3. Remove the sweet potato from the pot and drain. Place into a pan with hot oil and cook at 180 degrees for 15 minutes.
4. Boil the sweet corn for 3 minutes. Then serve all together.

What Little Monster Thought....


 Loved it very much! He did pull his face a bit at the chicken but he soon changed his mind and ate all of the chicken breast before the wedges and sweet corn! Mummy and Daddy loved it too! A sweet winter warmer. Relatively cheap to produce, around £5 with a left over chicken breast and the majority of a bag of sweet corn. The best Place I have found for frozen chicken is Aldi!  The sweet corn was £1 for a medium sized bag at Iceland and the sweet potato I picked up from Lidl for around 70p for a massive one. We didn't even eat all the wedges!

 

 

Next Time: A Poor Girl's Eaton Mess

 

Links:

• www.facebook.com/feedingforthefuture
• www.aldi.co.uk
• www.lidl.co.uk
• www.iceland.co.uk



Pumpkin Soup

Pumpkins

 

So, it's getting close to Halloween and there are loads of pumpkins on offer but what can you do apart from carve them? Make a soup for seasonal meal times!

Pumpkins provide 170% of your daily vitamin A needs and 15% of your vitamin C needs. Impressive per 100g really, especially as it only contains 26 calories.

Pumpkins are great for adding fibre, colour, texture, taste and variety to yours and your family's diet.

The recipe I am about to show you makes 4 servings or so and cost me around £3 as I bought a very small pumpkin.

 

 

 

Pumpkin Soup

 

 

Ingredients

 

• 250g Pumpkin Flesh
• 200g Peeled and chopped carrots
• 300ml Chicken/Vegetable Stock (chicken stock turns out better)
• 300ml Blue Top Milk
• 4 Twists of Freshly Ground Black Pepper

 

 

The Not-so Nitty Gritty

 

1. Carve the pumpkin and chopped/peel the carrots first as this bit takes the longest. Remove the top and bottom of the pumpkin first and remove the excess 'stringy' flesh and seeds. Seeds can be dried as used later on as snacks. Remove the outer skin of the pumpkin and cut the flesh into thumb-size chunks.
2. Add the carrots, thumb size pumpkin chunks, stock, milk and pepper to a large pot. Bring to the boil and remain on the boil for 20 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes. Reduce heat slightly and wait until the pumpkin and carrots are tender. This should take an extra 5 to 10 minutes.
3. Remove from the heat and allow to cool. Put in the food processor or blender until a smooth consistency is achieved.
4. Pour the soup out of the food processor and back in the pot to heat up, stirring well and serve!

 

 

It should go from this...

...to this....

...to this!

 

What Little Monster Made of it....

 

 

Well, first time with soup, didn't go as planned. The soup ended up the walls, over the toys, over me and the carpet ended up a new shade! But, He thoroughly enjoyed the bread dipped in the soup and was gobbled up quickly. We need soup practice!Very tasty and mummy and daddy really liked it too.

 

 

 

 

 



TTFN from Mummy's sleeping pumpkin!!!



Cheese & Onion Pie for the Family

Cheese, Onion & Potato Pie

 

The cheese melted instead of going crispy... I may have put too much on but I do love cheese.

 

 

This is so so so easy to make! As you can tell from the caption, mine didn't turn out as hoped but was still very enjoyable and Tyler's dad asked for second! This meal should take 45 minutes prep and cooking in all. It provides shed loads of calcium, vitamin D, carbohydrate, protein, vitamin C and fibre.

 

 

Ingredients

 

• 8oz Grated Cheese
• 6 Medium White Potatoes
• Quarter of a Grated Onion

 

The Not-so Nitty Gritty

 

1. Finely grate a quarter of an onion. Grating will stop the onion ruining the smooth texture and it releases the flavour so much better. Leave this to one side.
2. Peel the potatoes and cute them into quarters and boil for 30 minutes then drain and mash.
3. Grate the cheese and ass to the mash along with the onion and stir through thoroughly.
4. Pat the mash down firm into an oven proof dish and add slices of cheese to the top. It browns nicely (or should do) and gives the mushy main bit a crispy top. Add a slice of tomato for decoration if you wish. I didn't as I can't stand fresh tomatoes. Brown for 10-15 minutes. Allow to cool a little for that little mouth.
5. Serve with baked beans, sweet corn or carrots.

 

 

What Little Monster Thought of it....

 

 

Tyler and Mummy portions.

 





 



Tyler used his hands for this, much to my joy at cleaning him up afterwards. Ate most but did not seem keen, probably better for younger babies getting used to textures or older ones needing a filling meal after nursery or school. I love it and so does the other half, he wanted seconds the greedy bugger. Oh and Tyler is eating baked beans one by one at the minute so it did take forever.