Sweet chilli chicken and salad pitta's

Another healthy dinner today. It wasn't your normal "healthy", it was nom nom tasty. I'm thinking about making something like this for my lunch next week.

What you need:
2 Chicken breasts
2 tbsp of sweet chilli sauce
2tbsp of Soy sauce
1 Crushed garlic clove
Pinch of salt
Pitta breads
Choice of salad. I used, hot house lettuce, grated carrott, onion, sweetcorn, gherkins and coleslaw.
To make it even beastier, add some wedges

Marinade the diced chicken in the soy sauce, chilli sauce, garlic and salt for about 15 minutes.
Fry off the chicken, till brown and sticky.
Warm the pitta breads.
Fill the pitta's with salad and chicken. Serve with more chilli sauce or mayonnaise.

Easiest meal in the world to make.

Charlotte xXx

Teriyaki Beef and Vegetables- HEALTHY

Last night we had this. This is the simplest meal I've had in a while; but still full of taste and flavour.
All you need to make this is:

Rump steak
2 Red peppers
Teriyaki marinade
Onion
Garlic clove
Bunch of spring onions
Broccoli tips
Rice or noodles

Dice up the beef and marinade in the teriyaki sauce for 15 minutes.
Start cooking the rice/ noodles
Fry off the garlic and onion- then add the beef
Before serving, add the peppers, spring onions and broccoli to the frying pan.
Spoon a dollop of rice on the plate and top with the beef and Veg!

A nice healthy, simple meal for the midweek.

Charlotte xXx

Spicy Sausage Penne

Shrove Tuesday, and I didn't just eat pancakes! Haha. Tonights dinner was spicy sausage penne; a nice simple, straightforward midweek meal.
All you need is:

6 sausages
Tin of chopped tomatos
A red onion
2 Garlic cloves
1 red chilli
Glass of red wine
Pinch of caster sugar
Penne pasta

Cook the sausages in the oven for 20-25 minutes, remove and slice
Fry off the onion, chilli and garlic.
Add the sausages, red wine, tomatos and sugar, and cook for 20 minutes until the mixture has thickened
In the meantime, cook the penne pasta.
Serve a large dollop of sausage mix ontop of the pasta, and serve with parsley and parmesan.

This was perfect to sit and watch the BRITS to.

Charlotte xXx

Its finally....PANCAKE DAY

This is my favourite day of the year (excluding Easter Sunday).

I woke up this morning, slightly later than anticipated, and got the mixing bowl out. Today's breakfast was French pancakes. What a way to start the day....they sure kick the ass off weetabix!

Tonight, I'll be making American pancakes, with fruit. I'm sure they'll be the perfect dessert to follow my spicy sausage penne.

Better run really, dinner won't cook itself.

Laters
Charlotte xXx

Tropeiro- Brazilian Restaurant

Yesterday we went for our meal out. And i was not disappointed.

We went to Tropeiro in Chester; the basic idea is pay £19.95 and eat as much as you like.

We were given a plate, and shown the the vegetable area, where we loaded our plates up with spicy potato's, green beans, coleslaw, gherkins......the list goes on. Then every 5 minutes the chef comes round with a monster of a skewer loaded with meat. First up was sausages, then came the garlic coated lamb, then all the different beef cuts you could dream up. There was also chicken wrapped in bacon, pork cooked in blue cheese, hot 'n' spicy chicken wings. *Drool*


I personally think it is a mans dream. We were in there for well over an hour, eating constantly. By the time we went to get the bus home, we decided it was probably healthier to walk home- we didn't want death my overeating! ha

I would definitely recommend this place; its like a BBQ indoors! Amazing, and well worth the cash.

Charlotte xXx

Food this week

This week we have chosen the following for our dinners:

Sunday: Cherry tomato, brie and basil spaghetti
Monday: Out for dinner. Apparently we're going to a steak buffet! Yay
Tuesday: Spicy sausage penne
Wednesday: Sweet Chilli chicken pitta pockets and salad
Thursday: Teryaki coated steak, with rice, peppers and spring onions

This week we went to Tesco's for the food shop; David won some vouchers at work for there, so thought it made sense to shop there (Usually go to Morrisons).
All i can say is: I miss Morrisons! haha.

In terms of baking this week, i'll be making a nice batch of vanilla cupcakes- I'm only doing this so i can practice my icing skills! :-)

Think thats it this week, the most exciting thing will be our meal out on Monday

Charlotte xXx