Category Archives: Family Favourites

Kedgeree

Family Favourites, Fish, Main Courses

IMG_0988 Ingredients for 2 people.
Half a cup of basmati rice pre-cooked.
One hard boiled egg, chopped.
Tablespoonful of chopped onion.
One smoked haddock cooked in microwave for 2 minutes.
Curry powder to taste, about a level teaspoonful.
Half a cup of frozen peas already thawed.
Two teaspoonfuls of vegetable oil and one of butter.

Method.
Heat oil and butter in non stick frying pan and cook onion until translucent. Add curry powder and stir in. Flake the fish and add with all other ingredients and heat through.

Our family favourite is to serve with mango chutney.

Katie’s Strawberry Milk Shake

Family Favourites

You will need
a large handful of raspberries
a large handful of strawberries
a squirt of strawberry dessert sauce
200ml of milk
2 scoops of vanilla ice cream
Method
1. Put all your ingredients into a blender.
2. Blend until smooth.
3. Taste and add more milk to taste.

For a healthier version replace the ice cream with 4-5 tablespoonfuls of vanilla yogurt and the dessert sauce with honey.

Katie’s Omelette

Family Favourites

You will need
1 egg
a splash of milk
a pinch of salt
pepper
toppings such as ham and cheese
Method
1. Whisk the egg with the milk, salt and pepper.
2. Heat your nonstick pan with a little oil.
3. While you wait, grate the cheese and cut up the ham into small squares.
4. Use a fish slice to gently push from the edge of the omelette to the middle, creating texture.
5. Sprinkle on the toppings.
6. Wait 30 seconds and fold in half.
7. Wait another 30 seconds before lifting your omelette out of the pan using the fish slice.

Vietnamese Salad Rolls

Family Favourites

This is a great addition to my 200 Kcal 5:2 recipes even though we can buy it at a well known Princes Street store.  IMG_0574Add an apple and that’s it up to the 200 Kcal mark. It has a lot of chewing and so feels like a good satisfying meal with bags of flavour which is often missing from diet meals.

Anna’s Carbonara for 6

Family Favourites, Holidays, Main Courses

Ingredients
Whole packet of spagetti, about 500gCarbonanna
150ml of double cream
3 medium eggs
50ml of milk
250g chopped smoked bacon
150g freshly grated parmesan
Method
1. Fry bacon in a splash of oil and set aside.
2. Whip eggs, cream and milk together then add half your parmesan and season with black pepper.
3. Boil spagetti for about 10 minutes until al dente.
4. Turn off heat and drain pasta saving half a cup of pasta water.
5. Return pasta to hot pan and quickly add the bacon, parmesan and egg mixture.
6. Add some of the pasta water if dish is a little thick.
7. Serve with even more freshly grated parmesan and pepper.
ENJOY!