Why We Eat (Too Much) - recipes, menus, photos and ideas thread 1

[CatherineCawood]

Hi all WWETM'ers! Welcome to a thread for posting recipes/food plans/menus/photos and ideas.

If you want the general discussion on the book please go to this thread

Crispy chicken skin mmmm.

I live alone and often roast a chicken, then eat it for the next few days, so I detach and re crisp the skin in a hot pan with good salt. It.is.Devine.

Ok, so today I had

Mid morning: Big green salad with lettuce, spring onion, parsley and hard boiled egg, with my sort of home made blue cheese dressing

Lunch: Home made celery and blue cheese soup ( can you sense a theme going on here?) no bread.

Dinner will be the rest of the disappointing putty tasting rabbit stew, with lentils and greens.

I've also made an unseasonal sliced potato and onion bake, dotted with plenty of butter and with stock added, as I wanted to play with my new mandolin slicer ( yes with hand guard, otherwise I'd be in casualty already) That might not be ready in time for tonight ( I eat unfashionably early as I am up at dawn)

Strawberries/blueberries and Greek yog for pud.

I've been consciously drinking a lot of water and peeing for England!

Did the meatloaf “pizza” again tonight.

Beef mince mixed with an egg, dried oregano and seasoning. Pressed into a pie dish and roasted for 10 mins or so.

Then I piled on sliced tomatoes, spinach, green peppers, onions, garlic, olives and cheese and baked again until the cheese melted.

It doesn’t look beautiful, but it’s delicious.

Thanks @collywobble I've saved the recipe.

We had Morrocan Meatball Tagine with red rice, bulgar wheat and millet. Not sure if millet is acceptable?

I swapped the minced beef for minced lamb and the lamb stock for beef as thats what I happened to have.

DH said eww olives but wolfed it down. DS said it was average! How rude, it was utterly delicious 😋

I might have slightly overcooked it as I was also cooking a BNS risotto for veggie DD and watching the football!

Enough left over for lunch tomorrow.

Good luck with the putty dish @Words

Halloumi bake here for dinner.

Lunch was a bit of a fail but delish..had a whole meal wrap made into a quesadilla with spinach and cheese.

@Platterpuss

That halloumi bake looks awesome. Recipe?

Ooh nice! I have a friend coming for dinner on Saturday so might try the meatloaf or the tagine recipe. Possibly the latter as haven't done a tagine in yonks.

The putty stew was even more horrid second time round @catherinecawood - I literally couldn't eat it ( never happens!) so very glad I had the potato dish instead. That was really tasty:

One large potato, and one medium onion, sliced thinly ( use a device for best results and speed) and layer in a buttered casserole, dotting layers with butter and sprinkling s and p to each layer. Finish with layer potato, add a little chicken stock and bake in oven for one and a half to two hours until done. Add cheese on top to finish it if you like. You can use cream instead of stock , and for a good winter dish, cubes of roast ham or offcuts for a really filling and very cheap supper.

Halloumi bake:

Par boil new potatoes and bung into roasting tray.
Make dressing with lemon juice and basil and squeeze over potatoes. Roast for ten mins.
Add peppers, cherry toms and green beans, roast for 20 mins.
Add slices halloumi on top. Bake for ten.
Voila.

All those timings are rough as I never ever time things 😂😂

Spinach would be nice in there too

That sounds lovely thanks for the recipe.

Today's Menu

2 x boiled eggs
Asparsgus
Half a slice of Non UPF bread
Butter

Left over morrocan meatball tagine from last night. Will add some spinach salad on the side

Salmon and stir fry

And mine

Green salad with boiled egg and cheese, creamy blue cheese dressing
Celery and blue cheese soup ( one day I will have eaten all that blue cheese)
More green salad ( really craving it today) then Lamb chop with greens and potato bake from yesterday. Strawberries and blueberries with cream if still hungry

Now ideas needed, help! I have rhubarb. This would have gone into a crumble, but not now. I will cook it, but it needs sweetness- shall I try with just some honey? Any other ideas? I usually also add stem ginger but that's in syrup.

Honey is still just sugar really, so it's much of a muchness. I love rhubarb but can't grow it here, so I'm jealous.

I would just use the least amount of sugar I could bear (I like it tart anyway), cook it up and freeze in small portions to be eaten sparingly, with yoghurt or cream. If you're going to the gym and walking a lot, you can afford to have a bit of sugar.

Re Proper Greek yoghurt. I've found the Co-op do a good one ( Ingredients:Milk ) .

Worth bearing in mind now that Total have gone over to the dark side. ( why??? Used to love that stuff)

I doubt the sum total of rhubarb + a bit of sugar is any more sugar than you'd be getting by eating sweeter fruits.

Breakfast: Sliced avocado with freshly squeezed lemon juice, black pepper and crispy bacon.

Good plan! It's not home grown, but from the market - bought some without thinking!
I am growing tomatoes this year and hoping for a healthy crop.

And yes, I bet you're right LBL, re the sugar in sweeter fruits being similar. I like my rhubarb quite tart too, so maybe not quite the faux pas I was thinking !

Now ideas needed, help! I have rhubarb. This would have gone into a crumble, but not now. I will cook it, but it needs sweetness- shall I try with just some honey?

I stewed a huge amount of rhubarb the other day (probably about 15-20 sticks) and managed to only add 3tbs of honey to take the edge off the tartness. I wanted to have as little sugar as possible, so just kept tasting until I had just enough to make it tasty.

I froze most of it and the rest is in the fridge - I add a couple of spoonfuls with Greek yoghurt or on my porridge in the morning.

I reckon it made the equivalent of about 6 or 7 jam jars, so 3tbs of honey across that amount is minimal.

Now ideas needed, help! I have rhubarb. This would have gone into a crumble, but not now. I will cook it, but it needs sweetness- shall I try with just some honey? Any other ideas? I usually also add stem ginger but that's in syrup.
I had this dilemma the other week. Crumble is usually my go to dessert for rhubarb.
I ended up stewing it with less sugar than usual, and making a fool with it (just whipped cream, egg white and a little greek yogurt). It was delicious in the warm weather we had that week. A hot crumble and custard would probably be more appropriate now (although no idea how to make that without flour and yet more sugar).

I figure the benefits of rhubarb - antioxidants, vitamin K and fibre- outweigh the sugar you need to add to it! And it is delicious

B - Porridge
L - Egg fried rice (didn't fancy a salad!)
D - Leftover chicken, potatoes and salad

PS I've also got some rhubarb but I'm an odd one - I love anything sour! I will have it stewed with greek yoghurt on the side. It does tone down the sourness a little.

I’ve been stewing rhubarb from the garden with maybe a couple of teaspoons of sugar. It doesn’t taste overly sweet so I think it’s fine. I’ve also been adding to Greek yoghurt and making fools.

Perhaps you could sprinkle a carb free crunchy topping over it ... can’t think what. Maybe a Keto friendly granola recipe?

Had my usual lunch today - rolled oats with a small handful of nuts and seeds (mostly flax and chia), greek yoghurt and a spoonful of raspberries.

I don't eat breakfast, and having the same lunch every day means I only have to plan our evening meals. Keeps it simple. I never seem to get bored of the oats and yoghurt, thankfully.

I also had a celery stick and a bit of peanut butter (the 100% peanut kind).

Dinner will be a sardine salad -- tinned sardines (in olive oil), lettuce, tomato, olives, onions, green peppers.

I'll have a square of 85% chocolate afterwards.

I'm trying to make my salads and vegetable servings high on the green leafy stuff, as that has the most omega 3. It's so tempting to have heaps of tomato, but looking into it they actually have a relatively poor ratio for a vegetable.

Carbs-wise, my oats are around 35g, all the rest today will come from fruit, vegetables and the chocolate. I could probably have a few more carbs as I did a workout this morning, but I really want to get this last couple of kilos off.

Today's food has been / will be:
Breakfast - Indian scrambled eggs with avocado
Lunch - broccoli and cheddar soup, greek yoghurt with blueberries
Dinner- chicken teriyaki stir-fry (pak choi, peppers etc - the teriyaki sauce does contain sugar), rice
Pudding if hungry - berries and cream or satsuma
Snack - gin