Pizza the Action!

Lockdown 2.0 has made me refocus on my healthy eating and given a set time that I’ll be working from home and able to manage what and when I eat so I'm challenging myself to be better and make mor einteresting food choices

I’ve found that I’m eating lunch at my desk which is fine but I need to take the time to have something filling and still tasty but it can’t take long to prep so for the past could of days I’ve had a pizza on a wrap with a huge salad to keep me going until dinner

Low syn beef, pepper & onion pizza!

My latest favourite is beef with peppers, mushrooms and onions, I cut everything and pan fry it first so it’s piping hot when it goes under the grill, that way I’m just melting the cheese not cooking the toppings as it literally takes two or three minutes

The top tips for this would be:

• Grill one side of your wrap to make a solid ‘pizza’ base
• Pre-cook your toppings so they’re warm
• Use a micro grater for your cheese, you end up with a LOT of cheese from a small block
• Add herbs or spices.  I love to sprinkle my pizza with crushed chilli flakes and Italian herbs

My salad is always ready when the pizza goes under the grill so I’m set for my meal.  At the moment I’m adding different textures and flavours with edamame beans, lentils, corn, heritage tomatoes and peppers with a selection of lettuce leaves but you can have whatever you like, the key is to make it look as good as it tastes!

If you want to try your own pizza on a wrap the how to guide is here

Kathy xx

Syn Free Seafood Crustless Quiche with Pasta

This syn free crustless quiche is something different and always makes me think of the phrase ‘if it swims it slims’!  I may be taking that to the extreme with cheese and pasta but it is syn free all the same and a really easy, versatile go to meal

 

You can use fish, veggies, you can even use meatballs and whatever veggies you have in the house.  It’s very forgiving, mix them together, season well and cook.  It doesn’t get much easier.  The only thing you must do is make sure the dish you cook the quiche in does not have a removeable base!!!  

If you want to make the syn free salmon & prawn crustless quiche the recipe is here

Enjoy!

Kathy xx

 

Steak and Blue Cheese Wrap

I seem to get into a rut every so often with what I eat, cooking the same things over and over so I’ve set myself a challenge to try think of new, tasty meals that are quick to make

When I lived in America, one of my favourite salads was steak and blue cheese so I’ve made it into a delicious wrap for lunch by using thin slices of  roast beef and pan frying red onions and baby peppers with frylite until they’re starting to brown and putting the meat in, making sure it’s all lovely and golden before popping on a HEB wrap and sprinkling with just a little blue cheese from my HEA to make a syn free wrap

It’s a bit like a philly cheese steak without the sauce but absolutely packed full of flavour and perfect for lunch.

Just a different idea and super quick and easy although I may have overfilled the wrap!!!

Enjoy!
Kathy xx

Syn Free Chicken Burrito Style Wraps

These syn free wraps are great for using up leftover chicken and rice, as with a lot of the things I cook the recipe is forgiving and you can pretty much use any chicken and rice and make they as spicy (or not) as you like

 

The key is the base layer of passata so they don’t stick to the dish, apart from that it’s pretty much whatever you like

For me they make a great light lunch and I’ll have two if it’s a main meal but the extra wrap has to be synned.  You can of course have one wrap with extra filling on the side as that’s syn free

If you’d like to try my syn free chicken burrito style wraps the recipe is here

Enjoy!
Kathy xx

Chicken Stir Fry with Lime and Ginger

Anyone who knows me knows I do not love my veggies and I can often eat food without rather than force down a salad but oddly I love a good stir fry.  My Dad makes the best stir fry out there but he sadly doesn’t live in my house so today I was brave and made my own

I share this only because it shows exactly what 25 minutes and using stuff from the fridge can give you. 

This is a chicken breast, the veggies from my fridge, lots of fresh ginger, lime juice and oyster sauce.  Now had I left it there it would have been syn free but I did add a few cashew nuts so they need counting but it’s worth it.

There's no right or wrong with this meal, if you have any meat and veggies this is such a great way to use them, if you'd like to give it a go the ingredients and method I used for this syn free (apart from the optonal cashew nuts) are here

Time to raid the fridge!

Enjoy

Kathy xx

 

Mini Pizza on Wraps

 I usually make pizzas with the large Weight Watcher wraps as they’re a HEB but this time I decided to try two smaller wraps as I thought it would be more crispy and I’m right, definitely keep a better crunch especially in the middle

 

 

These mini pizzas were topped with syn free spicy chicken, red onion, sweetcorn and cheese served with a syn free salad with my favourite edamamme beans…absolutely perfect and doesn't feel like I'm missing out on pizza!

If you’d like to try them the Slimming World friendly pizza recipe is here, just substitute your two small wraps for the single large

Enjoy!
Kathy xx

Bacon Wrapped Cod with Roasted Veggies

Instead of bringing me the salmon I ordered, the supermarket brought cod the other day so I decided it would be a good opportunity to try something different.  I love a tray bake, they’re so easy and the lack of washing up is absolutely a winner for me so that was that.

The only thing with tray bakes is quite often things need different cooking times, which isn’t a big deal, just pop a timer on, add as you need and forget again – it’s really easy and this is syn free – double bonus

You can pretty much use whatever veggies you have to hand, the concept is the same but this is what I had plus I had a fennel that I’d no idea what to do with to try.  It’s really good with fish and roasted has a very subtle almost aniseed flavour but it’s not overpowering.  Absolutely worth a try

This meal is syn free

If you’d like to try it the recipe is here

Enjoy!

Kathy xx

Vegan Salted Caramel Chickpea Blondies

These vegan chickpea salted caramel blondies are absolutely amazing.  They're not Slimming World friendly but sometimes that's ok, they're healthy and vegan if you swap the honey out, vegetarian if you don't

This recipe is a strange on for my list, it’s not slimming world and unlike me it’s vegan or vegetarian depending whether you use or substitute the honey BUT it’s a chickpea brownie which caught my interest, well a blondie which is a brownie without the brown!

I created a salted caramel flavour as personally I love it.  You could do almond or vanilla, whatever you liked but I can’t tell you how delicious these are exactly as I made them

Vegan salted caramel chickpea blondies

You have to put to one side in your mind that these are made from chickpeas, I promise you that you’d never know this wasn’t a ‘proper’ brownie.  It’s moist and squidgy, absolutely full of flavour and had I not made them I would’ve sworn black was blue they were made by Nigella herself

But they are far more calorific than anything I usually make.  As a guesstimate I would say they’re 150 calories a slice which is about 7 or 8 syns so will kill a Slimming World day but if you want to make vegan brownies for yourself or a friend who is vegan please, please try these as you won’t be sorry. 

The recipe for vegan chickpea blondies is here

Enjoy

Kathy xx