Sweet Potato and Marshmallow Mushrooms

Yes, I went there.

I went all American on you and mixed vegetables and candy.

But it was soooo goooood!!!!

Ingredients:

200g Sweet potato

20g (1tbsp) Mallow Fluff 

(or Manuka if you want to keep it clean)

20g Oat Flour

15g Almond Flour 

10 Mini Marshmallows

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Pretty simple too, grab your sweet potatooo...

 

 And some Fluff 

(or Manuka if you're staying clean)

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Cook and mash the sweet potato and add a tablespoon of Fluff.

 

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Mix together then add about 20g of oat flour  

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Shape into teaspoon sized balls

 (I managed to get 10)

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Roll in almond flour to coat ...

and pop on a baking tray

 

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Put a mini marshmallow in the top

 (or you could roll the potato around it so it's in the centre.. 

but then it wouldn't be a mushroom, more of a doughnut) 

That one on the right was my tester... (ie: the one I get to eat ;) )

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Bung them in the oven for 10 minutes @ 180C

 

Haha (oven action shot)

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Et Voila!! 

Sweet potato Marshmallow Mushrooms!

Nutritional Bumf:

41 Calories

1g Protein

7g Carbs (2.8g of sugars)

0.9g Fat (0.09g of Sats)

Love Flash xXx

Chicken and Spinach Filo Pie

Pretty much completely fluked this recipe. I used no recipe and just chucked things in as I went along. But as usual, my luck prevailed and it turned out amazingly and my friends and my dad even had seconds!

Best part is... When I totted up exactly what Id used in it this morning and counted the macros it was even better!!
 Less than 190 Calories per slice, 20g of Protein, 13g of Carbs and 6g of Fat!

SCORE!   

So here's how it went....

Ingredients:

200g tub of Philidelphia Extra Light

2 Cubes of Frozen Chilli

2 Cubes of Frozen Corriander

Juice of 1 Lime

1 tsp Honey (I used Manuka 10+)

1 tsp Cumin

1tsp Nutmeg

1tsp Tumeric 

(Yeh I was just throwing anything in the cupboard in it!)

250g Bag of Fresh Spinach

6 Chicken Breasts

30g Sunblushed Tomatoes

30g Feta Cheese

5 Sheets of Filo Pastry 

1 Egg (for basting)

10g Sesame seeds (for sprinkling)

You'll also need one of two roasting bags and a spring form baking tin.

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Step 1

Pre-heat your oven to 180C

Add all the Philli, spices, and lime juice into a bowl.

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Step 2

Stir it together.

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Step 3

Wilt the spinach

And take a small amount (1/5) and chop it up to add to the cheese mix

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Step 4

Chop up the chicken into small pieces and add to the mixture.

Then add the mix to your roasting bag/s  so that they lay flat on a tray.

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Step 5

Bung them in the oven for 25 minutes.
Remove from the oven, and cut off a tiny corner of the bag (you don't want to lose ALL the juice) over the sink and allow most of the liquid to drain away.
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Step 6

Chop your tomatoes and feta.

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Step 7

Now, ashamedly I forgot to take a picture of the hardest part... Lining the tray with the filo pastry!! 
 My friend Demi came in and she was distracting me ;)  
So here's a Flamingo: 

Basically, you want to line the baking tray with a lot of filo overhanging the edge of the pan, so I put the first sheet up and down, the second left to right, and the third and forth layer criss-crossed. Baste each layer with some egg so it sticks, not too much.

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Step 8

Layer the chicken into the pan... 
(See what I mean about lots of overhanging filo pastry around the edges?) 

And top with your cheese and tomato

Then cover completely with the remaining spinach.

Voila!

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Step 9

Fold over the pastry that is overhanging the edge of the pan and crumple so that it looks messy.

Use the rest of the beaten egg to coat the top so that it goes nice and crispy and brown in the oven, and sprinkle on the sesame seeds.

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Step 10

Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes and serve straight away, or once it's cooled down.

I managed to get 10 good slices out of this!

Serve with whatever you fancy. We had ours with an avocado and tuna mushy salad/dip/terrine... not really sure what to call it! But it was TASTY!!! I'll be getting that recipe up very sooooooon!


Love Flash xXx

What's that... Curry for less than 250 Calories?!?!

So... Mum says she wanted to make a vegetable curry for tea, this rings alarm bells in my head because my mum is incapable of making anything without saturating it in olive oil and salt 

(No offence mum but not exactly what I need right after the Christmas splurging!!)

So I offer to cook (not that I mind!)

 And the results were splendiferous if I do say so myself :)

Ingredients (read: whatever I found in the fridge) :

2 x Courgettes

1 x Large Carrot

1 x Onion

1 x Small Sweet Potato

2 x Parsnips

1 x Bell Pepper

1 x Broccoli

4 cloves of garlic

2 x Sticks of Celery

4 x Turkey Breast (570g)

500ml Chicken Stock

9 Dried Apricots

60g Raisins

2 tsp Coconut Oil.

1 tsp Tumeric

1 tsp Cayenne

 

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Step 1:

Chop up everything

 Even the Apricots ^^^

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Step 2

Chop the turkey into strips and fry in 1 tsp coconut oil and half of the chopped onion and 1 tsp hot chilli powder until the turkey gets some colour, then remove from the pot and set aside.

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Step 3

Fry the remaining onion with 1 tsp Coconut oil.

Add the Garlic, Chicken Stock, Celery, Pepper, Cayenne and Tumeric. 

Simmer for 5 mins. 

Its should now look like this....

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Step 4

Add the Carrot, Parsnips, Sweet Potato, Brocolli and the Turkey and give it a mix around to coat everything.

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Step 5

Finally add the two tins of Tomatoes and the courgette, Apricot and Raisins.

Simmer for 15 mins stirring occasionally. 

 

 

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Step 6

Cook some Quinoa, CousCous, Rice, Noodles...Whatever!

And serve with a dollop of Total Fage (or any low fat/low sugar yoghurt) 

and a sprinkle of coriander leaves.

 

 

 This recipe make about 7 portions. 

Nutritional values for the curry itself :

Per Serving - 221 Calories

19g Protein

26g Carbs

4g Fat

5g Fibre

Love Flash xXx

 

New York Style Food Porn

My life has been ever so slightly busy the past 4 months!!!

I have spent at least 3 weeks offshore per month since July and I cant remember what dry land looks like!! In the last 92 days, I have spent 7 in my own bed... How's that for crazy?! So when I do get some time at home there will be more healthy tastiness coming your way I promise :)

So until then:

I went to New York for the first time ever in September, with my cousin Jake who's a chef, and fellow foodlover. Now I normally live on a really healthy clean diet. but the sole purpose of this trip was to eat EVERYTHING in sight. We went for 5 days, Friday-Tuesday.

Jake and I rockin' our kilts!

I have never felt so disgusting and squidgy in my life...

Yet surprisingly proud of just how much I ate. Haha!

I wrote down everything I ate over the four days (What I ate... not 'we') and when you read it, you wont beleive me. But its true...

Here goes:

Friday: (Manchester-London Heathrow-New York)

2 Poached Eggs and Black Pudding on Toast - Breakfast

Rhubarb cake and a Latte - Brunch

Falafel Burger and Chips - Lunch

Glass of White Wine and a Passion Fruit Cocktail - Lunch

Chicken with Mash and Pasta - On the Plane

Chocolate Pudding - On the Plane

2 White Wines and and Orange Juice - On the Plane

Large Toblerone (100g bar) - On the Plane

Chicken Sandwich and a Breakaway Bar - On the Plane

5 Cosmopolitans - Dinner in NY

Whole Margerita and Chips - Dinner

3 Scoops of Ice Cream - Dinner

Saturday:

4 Pancakes, 3 Rashers of Crispy Bacon and Maple Syrup - Breakfast

1 Packet of Rolos - Snack

1 'Homer Simpson' style Doughnut from Dunkin' Donuts! - Snack

Watermelon Smoothie - Lunch

Giant Pizza Pretzel - Lunch

Oreo Ice Lolly - Lunch

Tuna Tartare Tacos - 2nd Lunch

Lamb Sliders - 2nd Lunch

1 Margerita Cocktail - 2nd Lunch

3 Scoops of Ben and Jerrys

Bourbon Cocktail - Dinner

Jalepeno Cocktail - Dinner

Bottle of Red Wine - Dinner

Fois Gras - Dinner

Steak Tartare - Dinner

Crepes Suzette - Dinner

Sunday:

Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice - Breakfast

2 Eggs benedict with Smoked Salmon on a Bagel - Breakfast

3 Deep Fried Oreos - Snack

1 Chocolate Brownie - Snack

1 Walnut cookie/Brownie thing - Snack

Reeses Cheesecake - Lunch

Glass of White Wine - Lunch

1 Chocolate Pasty - Lunch

1 Pineapple Pastry - Lunch

1 Meatball/1 Canelloni/1 Giant Pasta Shell - Snack

Prosecco Cocktail - (The Start of our Food-then-Drink Crawl)

Fro-Yo with Chocolate and Coconut Sprinkles

 Hotdog

Mango Daqueri

Tuna Taco 

'Cotton Candy' Cocktail

Passion Fruit Cosmo

Prosecco Cocktail

Bratwust and Saurkraut - (We Stumbled into Oktoberfest!)

Oktoberfest Beer

Watermelon and Mint Cocktail

Giant Slice of Vegetable Pizza

Orange Cocktail

Bowl of Salted Nuts

2 Shots of Schnapps

Cheeseburger.

Monday:

Cookcie Ice Cream - Breakfast

Chocolate Brownie - Breakfast

Wallfe and Ice Cream - Snack

1/2 Pulled Pork Sub - Lunch

1/2 Chicken Sandwich - Lunch

Caesar Salad - Lunch

Fries - Lunch

White Wine - Lunch

Cucumber and Lime Cocktail

3 Mini Cupcakes - Snack

Mozzarella and tomato Salad - Dinner

1 Whole Pizza - Dinner

Glass of Prosecco - Dinner

Bottle of Red Wine - Dinner

Cream and Chocolate Pastry - Dinner

3 Scoops Ice Cream - Dinner

Tuesday:

Toberone - Pre Breakfast

Eggs Benedict with Bacon and Crispy Fried Potatoes - Breakfast

Cookie

Corned Beef Sandwich and Fries - Lunch

Glass of White Wine - Lunch

A Cinamon Swirl Pastry - Airport Snack

A Choco-Caramel Latte - Airport Snack

Pasta and Meatballs - Airport Dinner (our flight was delayed)

2 Glasses of Red wine (Still Delayed)

1 Doughnut (Flight Cancelled)

1 Glass of White Wine (Cancelled Flight!)

Wednesday: (Finally managed to get a flight home!!)

Roast Vegetable Ommlette - Breakfast

Orange Juice - Breakfast

Chilli Nachos - Lunch

THEN WE GOT ON THE PLANBE HOME AND i COULD STOP EATING!!!!

I dont even want to know how many calories I ate over those 4 days! But, so you dont have to... here's a sample of my food porn: Enjoy!!

Flash x

Eating My New York Style Reeses Cheesecake

My Cookie Ice Cream

'Homer Simpson' Style Dunkin' Donut

Eggs Benedict with Bacon and Crispy Potatoes

Falafel Burger with Mozza and Roasted Peppers

Lamb Sliders

Pasta with Meatballs

Roasted Vegetable Omlette

Deep Fried Battered Oreo

Oreo Ice Lolly

Pancakes, Bacon and Maple Syrup

Pizza

More Pizza (I was extremely drunk here!)

MOAR PIZZA!

Tuna Tartare Tacos

Frozen Yog, Mine is the Choco/Coconut one