Ginger pineapple Pork

I found a recipe on another blog that looked really tasty so I thought i'd give it ago. Well I have to give him meat sometimes.

It was really easy to make and it was delicious

I'm off out tonight with work to the Indian tiffin room  for a belated birthday celebration. 

National Pizza Day

Happy 

NATIONAL PIZZA DAY

9TH FEBRUARY 2018

On National Pizza Day, Foodism will celebrate the iconic Italian dish, the diversity of styles on offer and the creators behind one of the world’s most famous and much-loved dishes

We will be having pizza for dinner tonight. I have made it a few times now so feel i'me a dab hand at it. ;))

53, Fifty Three

Thought I would share my lovely flowers with you.

I love Tulips!

And I got a new cook book.

Carrying on from trying out a new recipe that I posted about a few weeks ago. I have decided that I am going to try 53 new recipes |I have already tried a couple.

1 being the Caramel chicken that was lovely 

2 being the Ginger shaking beef Courtesy of Jamie Oliver. 

3 Tomorrow  we are having Davina's sugar free Provencal beef casserole. It's in the oven cooking at the moment. I always think casseroles and stews taste much better the next day. 

We are having baked spuds today because I have coleslaw that needs using by tomorrow. And it's easy for me to take to work. 

Sunday Dinner sweet potato lasagna

Because I was working today I made a start on the dinner this morning at 06:00 before I went to work.I thought it would marinate all day before I was ready to use it.

I bought the sweet potato lasagna sheets last week and forgot about them. We had peppers and mushrooms in the fridge. So a cheep and cheerful dinner using ingredients we had in.

06:30

!7:00 I forgot to take a picture before I cut into it. I have to say it was delicious and will definitely make it again 


I am off out tomorrow night. Not sure whats for dinner yet.

Frugal food

We have managed to eat out of the cupboards and the freezer all week this week.

I did a small shop in Mr T's for fresh ingredients and used what we had to make our dinners.

Saturday it was Fillet tower burgers

Sunday Sausage mash cabbage and onion gravy

Monday Gourmet fish cakes with new potatoes and minted peas.

Tuesday Geoff took me out for dinner which was nice.

 Wednesday Spag bol

Thursday slow cooker chicken in cider with veg.

Friday  homemade pizza. I forgot to take pics of our other meals.

I will have a good luck in the freezer and cupboard tomorrow  and meal plan for next week. It's also pay day on Monday so I usually go shopping. But I can't park on our road from Monday until Friday and I am not lugging the shopping up the road. I will have to do it next weekend. That should make for interesting dinners.

Frugal living/ eating

We have a well stocked freezer that I want to run down so I can batch cook and fill with a months worth of dinners. That's how long I think my kitchen diner will be out of action.When the builders eventually start work.

The drains are an ongoing saga. I won't know if there fixed until it rains.  :(

I made fillet tower burgers for dinner last night. Tonight will be Sausage and vegetables out of the freezer. There is lots of soup in there for work lunches. The problem is I can't resist the yellow stickers on things especially meat which is quite expensive. Although we eat a lot of vegetarian dishes, my daughters vegetarian. Geoff does like a roast dinner. 

Two ingredient pizza dough

Dinner tonight was  home made Pizza using two ingredients flour and yogurt for the dough.

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today's dinner

Today's dinner was frittata, bacon and beans. The frittaa was lovely and just what was needed after a night shift dinner.

I got the idea from here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5232269/Best-diets-2018-revealed.html

The frittata had onion, red pepper, sweetcorn, peas and broccoli in it and was really filling.

Cooking new Recipes

Today's Recipe is sweet and sour chicken from slimming world. Not only am I trying to save money, add some variety to our diets I am also trying to lose some weight.I am going to buy a women magazine tomorrow  and use the free voucher to rejoin slimming world.


https://www.slimmingworld.co.uk/recipes/sweet-and-sour-chicken.aspx

Here it is cooking. It was really nice.

I am on a night shift tonight so will have a look during the night at the recipes on SW.

2018 cooking challenge

Yeahhhhh  i'm back online. What a faff that was they bought me a new laptop yesterday and blow me too cut a long story short it was broke. We had to take it back and get a new one. I have a shiny new blue one. 

Enough of that... Any one up for challenge. 


Now despite all my good intentions I have added  another 3 cook books to my already huge 

collection. On top of this I am subscribed to yumly and pintrest  I would love to say that all these additions mean a constantly changing and varied diet........

..........no i like looking at the pictures then heading to the kitchen to cook a chilli or a spag bol 

So enough is enough and there is no better time of year to start changing this habit. 

For me I will choose one 'new to me' recipe every week from one of my many resources and hopefully over time expand my current menu. Any one wanna join in? no pressure just a bit of fun 


And hopefully loose some weight along the way.

Homemade slow roast tomatoes

I have been busy making these today. They taste amazing and they are so cheap to make.

Slow roast tomatoes recipe

Ingredients

12 medium to large vine tomatoes
3 cloves of garlic
2 tbsp of sea salt crystals
3 sprigs of thyme
50-100 ml of olive oil

Method

1. Start by slicing your tomatoes straight down the centre, then cut each half into
wedges, making sure they are all the same size. Repeat with all the tomatoes and
place on a tray with the skin down and the middle of the tomatoes facing up.
2. Drizzle your olive oil all over, sprinkle the salt over, roughly chop the garlic and sprinkle
over, then pull the leaves off the thyme and spread over the tomatoes.
3. Place the tray in an oven on the lowest heat possible gas mark 1 (100C). Allow to dry
out slowly - they should take about 5-6 hours. Keep checking every hour, you don't
want them to completely dry out so they're crispy, they need to be slightly flexible.
4. Once dried out. You can put them in a jar and cover them in olive oil, put the lid on
and you can keep in the fridge for up to a month.

 I also had a go at Rolo pretzels they are delicious!

Weekly round up

I bought these lovely glasses for a £1.00 and these bigger ones for 50p
 
I made Jamies pizza in 30 minutes surprising easy and it was delicious! I am trying to blog on my phone which is proving a bit difficult.