Sunday, 9 November 2008

Mincemeat couscous cake!




Mincemeat (the fruit one not the meat one) cous cous cake

4oz cous cous

x3 eggs
x4 tablespoons sweetener
X2 teaspoons of mixed spice
2 heaped tablespoons mincemeat
juice from 1 lemon

Heat the oven to 180, soak the cous cous in boiling water (normally use double the height of cous cous) add the sweetener, mixed spice and lemon juice with the water, stir and wait for it to soak in.Add the mincemeatqhisk the eggs then add them too and mix well.Pour into a greased loaf tin and bake for 40 mins

The whole cake is only 2 sins on a green day!!!



x6 celery sticks


about 400g potatoes


x2 veg stock in 1pint hot water.


Cut up all potaoes and celery sticks.Pop all in the veg stock for about 45 mins or until soft.Put in food blender and serve!!!


Thursday, 2 October 2008

Weetabix (fruit) cake

IMAGE COMING SOON!!!

Serves 12/Syns per serving
3.5 on both choices.

Ingredients:-
2 weetabix
113g/4oz sultanas
142ml/5floz skimmed milk
142ml/5floz water
113g/4oz self raising flour
1 teaspoon mixed spice
14g/1/2 oz artificial sweetner (the lady that did ours used more sweetner not sure how much tho sorry)
1 egg beaten

Method

preheat oven to 180C, 350F or gas mark 4
put weetabix and sultanas in a bowl, pour milk and water over the top and leave to soak up the liquid
Stir in the flour mixed spice sweetner and beaton egg.
Spoon mixture into a 454g (1lb) lined/nonstick loaf tin and back in the pre heated oven for 1 3/4 hours until cooked.

cool on a wire rack before serving and cut into 12 pieces.

Weetabix Chocolate Cake

Well this is lovely with a cuppa.
I miss my chocolate fix like anything and last night we had a taster session at SW and a girl made the chocolate cake from the SW website.
This is an adaption of it as I really need chocolate today and dont have bran flakes in.

28 syns for the lot (thanks to the guys who worked this out for me I had it at 34.5, I am crap at maths) so worked it out as 3.5 syns per slice.

x5 weetabix (16 syns)
x6 heaped tsp of highlights (12 syns)
250ml boiling water
2 eggs
half a cup of sweetner.

Break the weetabix up and add the hot water.
Add the rest of the ingredients and mix till non lumpy and then pop in the microwave in a microwavable dish and serve into 8 pieces.

yum! its so choclaty that even I the queen of chocolate only needed one piece for a chocolate fix.

Monday, 29 September 2008

YUMMY DESERT



I am sure loads of people do this desert but I am going to pop it here anyway!

I am a pig and have it every night but hey why not its full of SS foods and delicious!!!

All you need is fruit like I use Blueberries, blackberries, strawberries and Banana all cut up then bunged into a bowl and cover and mix with Vanilla muller light!!

YUM YUM! AND NO SYNS WHATSOEVER!!! if the fruit is a bit raw adda tincy bit of splendula.

Hot tomato Chilli Lime sauce with Chicken from SW website



Syns per serving for two. 1.5 on origional (minus chips) and Free on green.

Ingredients:-

1 can of chopped tomatoes, two large chopped tomatoes, 1/2 fresh chilli deseed and finely chopped, 3 chopped spring onions, hand full of chipped parsley, 1/2 tsp cayenne, 1tsp salt, 1/4 tbs pepper and lime.

Combine all the ingredients expect the lemon and refridgerate for an hour to set the flavours. To serve:- Heat through in a saucepan and put in the juice of the lime.

Serve with chicken and free chips.

YUMMY! This isnt my typical type of food as I aint keen on hot stuff but I love this and so does the other half!

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Lovely tomato pasta sauce


This sauce is one that I have been doing since I started to cook at about 14 and I never get tired of it.
Its so simple to make and you can freeze it too.

Ingredients:-
Onion x2
Garlic Cloves x3
Tinned Tomatoes
Fresh tomatoes
Mushrooms one tin chopped
2 red green or yellow peppers.
Sweetner
tobasco Sauce (x4 drops)
x5 drops worcestor sauce
Frylight
FOOD BLENDER!

Frylight the chopped onions, and garlic together. Whilst doing this heat the tinned tomatoes in a saucepan, once the onions are grown pour in and add to the heated pan. Then Cut up the peppers lengthways, and frylight these till brown ish and then add to the rest of the ingredients to the pan apart from the sweetner. Keep cooking for about 10 - 15 mins and add x2 tbp sweetner and keep cooking.
Let it cool down and then bumg in a blender.

Serve.

Serve with Pasta and cheese from your HEX's.

YUM YUM YUM! and a lovely meal heated up too!
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