Spicy Beef Jerky

As If I didn’t already LOVE my dehydrator, enough!

I decided to put it to the test and make some beef jerky. Now I absolutely love beef jerky, it’s one of my all time favourite snacks (and it’s super healthy!) But it really is soooooo expensive in the supermarkets here. Even more so in motorway service stations!!

It was beyond simple and I’m so pleased and slightly amazed by the results! Everyone who’s tried my first batch has said:

“Wow, that’s better than the packaged stuff!”

It’s not as chewy as the pre packaged stuff you can buy, so doesn’t taste like your fighting your way through the sole of an old shoe.

Ingredients:

(as usual, whatever I found in the cupboard)

∙A few drops of Tabasco sauce (to personal taste)

∙Worcestershire Sauce

∙Light Soy Sauce

∙Fillet Steak (obviously)

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Step 1

Slice thinly the steak into bite size pieces

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Step 2

Pour the marinade into a shallow dish

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Step 3

Layer the meat in the dish so that it’s only one layer if possible

 

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Step 4

Cover with cling film and get all the bubbles out so that the marinade gets the top of the jerky

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Step 5

Leave for at least 2 hours, overnight if possible in the fridge

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Step 6

Pat dry the steak with kitchen roll until all of the excess marinade is gone

 

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Step 7

Layer in the dehydrator, and set it to the lowest setting, (I used 40C) and leave for 24 hours

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Step 8

Congratulations. You now have Jerky.

 

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Love Flash xXx

Chocolate Fruit and Nut Bites

As promised, here are my chocolate fruit and nut nibbles!

These were, yet again, the product of one of my random:

 ‘What would happen if I....’ thoughts...

Basically I went into the cupboard to find something and was faced with about 15 packets of opened dried fruits and nuts so I decided to use them.

So... Ingredients:

5g each of:

-Sesame Seeds

-Pine Nuts

-Goji Berries

-Dried Sour Cherries

-Dried Blueberries

-Shelled Pistachios

10g each of:

-Walnut halves

-Desiccated Coconut

-Hazelnuts

-Flaked Almonds

-Raisins

1 Scoop of Chocolate Whey

1 pot of Dark chocolate Alpro Soya Yogurt

100g Fage 0% Total Yogurt

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Step 1

Chop up all your fruit and nuts

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Step 2

Mix your Whey, Fage and Alpro Soya together

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Step 3

Add the fruit and nut and mix again

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Step 4

Spoon into silicon moulds

 (conveniently I get 10 portions!)

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Step 5

Put into the freezer for 3-4 hours

(I of course, impatiently poked them every 30 minutes to see if they were ready yet, they look exactly the same as when I put them in!!!)

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Step 6

Pop out the moulds when they are hard.

Leave for 5 minutes before eating.

(If you can resist... my first one was a lollypop!)

Keep in the freezer for up to a week 

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And courtesy of My Fitness Pal here is the breakdown:

Love Flash xXx

Chocolate Protein Pancakes

In a word: NOM!

 I'm on a strict diet just now so my breakfast consists of: Whey protein, 50g Oats and 6 egg whites.

 Which I've been eating all separately since I've been offshore, but, now that I'm home... 

I thought I'd translate the above into pancakes and throw some fruit in for some vits and mins :)

So, below, we have:

1 Scoop of Chocolate Whey
30g Oat Flour

20g Mixed fruits

4 Egg Whites

100ml Water

I get about 10 pancakes outta this.

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Step 1:

 Mix the wet and Mix the dry

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Step 2: 

Mix both together

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Step 3: 

Make Pancakes! Duh

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Step 4: 

Admire my action shot 

(Yes I cook in my running gear...I was hungry)

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Step 5: 

Create a B-E-A-Utiful stack and top with: 

Bananas and Manuka

Or make like me the next day, and microwave some frozen berries and serve HOT!

The whole mix makes:

414 Calories

50g Carbs (21g of fruit sugars)

45g Protein

6g Fat (2g of Sats)

 

 You know you wanna ;)

Love Flash xXx