Thai Noodle Soup

This is a simple soup made from the left overs of my lime and lemongrass roast chicken.

Ingredients:

2 roasted onions

4 roasted garlic cloves

3 spring onions

1 hand full of sugar-snap peas

1 fresh red chilli

100g fresh ginger

5 small mushrooms

125g fresh rice noodles

100g chicken

1 pint of chicken stock (fresh or from cube)

(My stock was infused with lime and lemongrass from my lime & lemongrass roast chicken. If you are making this without having roasted the chicken then add the juice of 3 limes and crush the stems of 3 lemongrass shoots. The lemongrass shoots should be removed from the pan before eaten. You just want to allow the flavor to infuse the dish)

Step 1:

Fry off the onions, garlic, spring onions, mushrooms, chili and ginger in a small amount of oil.

Step 2:

Add the chicken. Iif uncooked then cube, add to the pan and cook off for 3-4 minutes. I used some from my roast chicken.

Step 3:

Add the stock, bring to the boil and add the noodles/ sugar-snap peas. Let this simmer for 2-3 minutes and your done!

6 Minute Soup

This 6 minute soup is so delicious that you will wonder why you ever buy soup in the supermarket at all!

Ingredients:

1 Large flat mushroom
1 onion
1 red chilli
1 hand full of sugar-snap peas
50g fresh ginger
Half a bag of microwave brown rice
Chicken stock cube (either shop bought or homemade)
1 pint of boiling water
Salt and pepper for seasoning
1 chicken breast diced (small)
Juice of 1 lime
2 cloves of garlic

Fry off the chicken in a little rice bran oil adding the chopped garlic, ginger, onion, mushroom and chilli. This should only take 4 minutes (ish) depending on the chicken. Just make sure that is fully cooked.

Add in the sugar-snap peas, rice, lime juice, water and stock cube. Bring to the boil and simmer for 2 minutes.

Enjoy!

Individual Ginger & Lime Cakes

This has been quite the week for baking. Banana muffins, blueberry muffins and now Ginger & Lime cakes!

I wasn’t too sure how these were going to turn out as I totally made the recipe up lol but I gotta say… They are amazing! Even if I do say so myself.

So easy easy to make, taste delicious and as always wheat & gluten free!

Ingredients:

225g rice flour
100g wheat free oats
1 heaped tbs of baking powder
2 tbs of honey
2 tbs rice bran oil (vegetable oil would be fine)
50g of chopped dried pineapple
3 tbs of dried ginger
80 – 100g of fresh ginger (grated)
1 egg
1/2 pint water
1 tbs of vanilla extract

For the frosting:

250g mascarpone
150g cream cheese
2 limes (juice and rind)
1 lemon (juice and rind)
3 tbs of sweetener (not essential)
Crystallised ginger (for decoration)

Step 1

Combine all the dry ingredients including the fresh ginger and pineapple. Then add the egg, oil and vanilla mixing until everything is combined.

Step 2

Add the water in stages. A little at first then keep adding until the mixture resembles a thick batter. The whole half pint may not be needed.

Step 3

Spoon into muffin cases or as I did here, I bought some square cardboard cake cups. It’s Easter and I was feeling fancy!

You wanna bake these for about 15 – 20 minutes on gas mark 4, 350 fahrenheit or 180 celsius.

Step 4

While these are baking mix together the cream cheese, mascarpone, juice of two limes, 1 lemon and the rind of both.

You can add sweetener or even icing sugar to sweeten it up but I haven’t and don’t think it’s essential.

Step 5

Once the cakes are cooked, remove from the oven and allow to cool.

Once cooled, lather with the frosting, grate over some lime rind and top with a piece of crystallised ginger!

Cuppa tea and your good to go!

Top 3 Weight Loss Tips.

Whenever people say to me ohh I hate being big or I want to loose weight, I tell them that there is a way in which they WILL loose weight without changing anything they eat. All they have to do is the three following things:

Eat Breakfast!

Breakfast is the single most important meal of the day. For some people this is really hard and I’m one of them people. The last thing I wanna do when I get up is eat straight away. But when you think about when your last meal was, it could be up to at least 12 hours ago so your body needs that fuel badly!

Eating breakfast will give you all the energy you need to kick start the day and if you eat the right things will leave you feeling fuller for longer. Porridge, berries and nuts are perfect. Served with honey and/ or natural yogurt will give you everything your body needs.

I’m training at the gym to get lean muscle and so want more protein. I leave fruit for snacks and eat 3 eggs scrambled every morning. This fills me up and packed with all the essential protein i need.

Drink More Water!

This one is a no brainer. People don’t drink enough water. Simply drinking a glass of water before every meal will help you reduce the amount of food you consume and therefor the amount of calories you are consuming.

Stop Eating Before Bed!

Your body needs time and energy to digest food properly. Going to bed on a full stomach may well provide you with the time but by eating food you are refueling, therefore giving your body energy when you don’t need it. It’s like fueling a fire when your trying to put it out!

Stop eating at least 3 hours before you go to bed.

If you cant be bothered to change your diet and hate exercise, doing these 3 simple things will have a positive effect on your weight!

Try it for a month or even two weeks… you WILL see results!

Cheats Chocolate Cheesecake

 

This is the single most simple wheat free dessert to make and tastes amazing! Simply mix 1 packet of Philadelphia with Cadbury’s Chocolate and a tub of mascarpone. I then used 4 tumblers in which i put some wheat free chocolate cake in the bottom, then a layer of the philly/ mascarpone mixture and garnished on top with some sliced strawberries! SO simple. yet so tasty!