Saturday Round Up and Chorizo Fest

Up nice and early this morning for double exercise class Urban Rebound and Step. Love getting in two early Saturday morning exercise classes, which means I hit the Green day on my fitbit by half seven this evening! Lunch was a wholemeal thin with rocket and the chorizo I made yesterday the flavour had developed, but not as much as when I had some with salad and cauliflower couscous for dinner this evening! Nice and spicy now! Definitely making this again, free, spicy and delicious!!

Having a nice glass of wine which I just noticed is sat on my Slim For Life book!

Easy Oven Baked Cauliflower Couscous - Speed + Free

Love this recipe great hot or cold or could be used as cauliflower rice with a curry! I was lazy and bought the Tesco ready grated cauliflower, chopped some onions, chilies and parsley and mixed with the cauliflower. I added garlic granules and paprika and mixed it in. Put in an ovenproof dish and spray with Frylight. Bake for 10 minutes on max and then stir when it's browned on top. Turn the oven down to about 220 degrees and bake for another 10 minutes. Stir and place back in the oven for another 10 minutes. I was happy with mine after 30 minutes, but you can do for longer if you'd like it browner! I've cooked up a shed load so will freeze some for another day.

Weigh in and Slimming World Burger Fest

Tonight was weigh in, managed to stay the same which is 1lb under target. Plan is to weigh in around 2lb below most of the time giving me 5lb to play up with! I currently weigh 8st 13lb 

Last two evenings dinners have been burgers! I love a burger! Sunday was a Slimming World Iceland quarter pounder with bacon and laughing cow light blue cheese for 1 1/2 syns! These are great in a burger! With salad and cauliflower couscous. As usual a couple of Syns of mayonnaise, wholemeal thin for HEXB!

Tonight was the Thai Chicken burger. Managed to squeeze a bit of speed food in there! Syns for mayonnaise, wholemeal thin for HEXB.

Slimming World Chicken Kebabs

Tonight's dinner was Fajita chicken kebabs mad with Schwartz Fajita seasoning with salad and cauliflower couscous. I baked the cauliflower couscous in the oven as I like a bit of colour on it and seasoned it with parsley chilli and garlic, with a bit of schwartz jerk seasoning.

Slimming World / Iceland Thai Chicken Burgers

Much much more impressed with the Thai burgers than this mornings sausages! Really nice flavour, not too spicy and delicious! With salad and cauliflower couscous.

Slimming World Gala Pie

I've been wanting to try this one for a while, finally got around to it!

Gala Pie and salad with roast butternut squash and cauliflower couscous.

Ingredients

500g 5% Pork Mince

Ham (or bacon with the fat trimmed)

4 Boiled Eggs

1 Raw Egg

6 Sage Leaves

1 Heaped tsp Mustard Powder

1/2 tsp garlic salt

Splash of Worcester Sauce

Dried Herbs

Mash the mince really well and mix with the chopped sage, mustard powder, garlic salt and Worcester Sauce. Add the raw egg and mix again. Make sure it's as smooth as you can get it.

Line a loaf tin with baking paper and then with the ham or bacon.

Put about a third of the mix in the bottom of the tin and place the eggs on top.

Cover the eggs with the remaining mix and fold the ham or bacon over the top. I added extra ham across the top layer.

Cover the tin with foil and bake in the oven at 180 degrees for an hour.

After an hour remove the foil, spray with Frylight and sprinkle over some dried herbs, bake for a further 20 minutes or until browned.

Remove from the oven and lift out of the tin with the baking paper to drain any liquid. I placed mine in the sink and cut a hole in the bottom of the baking paper.

Re-line the loaf tin with new paper and return to the tin upside down to brown the bottom. I placed the relined tin over the top of the pie and used a spatula to help get it in. 

Bake for a further 10 minutes to brown the bottom.

Remove from the oven and cool.

Cauliflower Couscous / Rice

One of my favourites at the moment is cauliflower couscous or sometimes called cauliflower rice! Guess it depends how you cook it, what you put in it and what you eat it with! Today it's cauliflower couscous! I fried in frylight some onion garlic chillies peppers and courgettes with the cauliflower and added salt pepper and flat leaf parsley! It doesn't brown brilliantly so I toast it under the grill to get some colour on it! Going to have it later with an Iceland Slimmimg World Thai burger and butternut squash and salad!