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Cinammon French Toast May 27, 2009

Posted by Val in Breakfast.
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Woke up to find the boiler not working! Yes again! Frustration doesn’t begin to describe how I feel.

Anyhu…moving on, spent last night watching food programs (yes insomnia is cruel..but watching someone cook some yummy food is even worse..sigh). So I saw a recipe for Banana French Toast..which made me seriously drool and promised myself to make some in the morning. But errm, I kinda forgot I don’t have any bananas, so ordinary French Toast would have to do..jazzed up with a bit of cinnamon.

Ingredients: (Serves one)

  • 1 egg
  • splash of milk
  • drop of vanilla essence
  • cinnamon
  • bread (I used whole meal bread)
  • Pinch of sugar

French Toast

To make:

  • Beat the egg together with the other ingredients.
  • Place bread on a plate.
  • Pour the egg mix all over the bread and wait for the bread to absorb the liquid, turning it frequently.
  • Pour a little oil (I used sunflower, but I’ve seen people make this with butter or margarine or whatever oil rocks your boat) on a pan and fry the soaked bread at low heat.
  • Plate up, drizzle some honey if you wish…and enjoy!

Toast

Had my toast with Ketepa tea…sigh! Comfort breakfast indeed.

Playlist:

  • Caught up- Musiq ft Aaries
  • Rightness- Jill Scott
  • I got you babe- UB40
  • Can’t take my eyes off you- Lauryn Hill

Smoothie to beat the Monday blues April 27, 2009

Posted by Val in Smoothie.
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Cold grey weather, rain and hailstones…yuck! So here’s a bright and sunny smoothie. (Ok it is bright and sunny to me)

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Ingredients: (Serves 1)

  • 1 orange
  • 1 pear
  • small handful of grapes
  • 1 small tub of apricot yoghurt ( I thought that using apricots and natural yoghurt would be yummy..hmm shall try sometime)

Playlist:

Boyfriend No. 2 (remix)- Pleasure P. ft Ludacris

Roasted chicken breast with pancetta, leeks and thyme April 25, 2009

Posted by Val in Chicken.
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I got this recipe from Jamie’s site (I adore this man why lie).  Earlier this week I was watching “Come Dine with Me” and one of the participants prepared a pasta dish with pancetta and it looked so yummy! So I decided to make a pancetta dish this weekend. This chicken recipe is simple, and you can substitute a lot of things and add on whatever spices and vegetables you fancy.

Here’s the actual recipe:

  • Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas 6.
  • Put 1 chicken breast, skin removed, in a bowl.
  • Trim and wash a large leek, remove the outer leaves, then slice it into 0.5cm/¼ inch pieces. Add these to the bowl with the leaves of a few sprigs of fresh thyme, a good glug of olive oil, small knob of butter, a pinch of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper and a small swig of white wine and toss together.
  • Place your leek and flavourings from the bowl into the tray, then wrap the chicken breast in 6 or 7 slices of pancetta. This will not only flavour the chicken but also protect it while it cooks.
  • Drizzle with olive oil, place a couple of whole thyme sprigs on top and cook in the middle of the oven for 25 to 35 minutes.

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Mixing the cut up vegetables, sprinkling on some black pepper, salt and olive oil.

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Chicken wrapped up in the pancetta and placed on top of the vegetables. I poured the marinade ontop and drizzled a little olive oil, black pepper and thyme.

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Yummy! The chicken, baked veg and salad.

Val’s twist:

  • I marinaded the chicken before-hand with a mix of garlic, ginger, juices of lemon and lime, lemon zest, sweet thai chilli, soy sauce, black pepper and rosemary. It smelled quite nice. ( I rarely cook chicken without squeezing at least a lemon on it..the smell of raw meat does NOT appeal to me in the least!)
  • I added some carrots, mushrooms, chives and coriander to the leek mixture. (Truth be told, I needed to use up these vegetables ama I’d totally forget about them and they’d end up getting spoilt).
  • When cooking I omitted the butter. (It def makes it taste divine..but this is me who is trying to avoid the extra calories..
  • You can substitute the pancetta for normal bacon, ham, whatever you like…
  • Had a simple green salad on the side (cucumber, tomatoes and salad leaves)

Playlist:

  • My old piano- Diana Ross
  • Last night a DJ saved my life- Indeep

Hi! (waving furiously) April 25, 2009

Posted by Val in Smoothie.
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So I finally decided to start my food blog..yeiii!

I’m loving this sunshine..seriously loving it (Even though I’m stuck indoors studying…blargh, the sun makes everything more enjoyable yes?)

So I decided to make a smoothie in the afternoon. Then I can pretend I’m on a beach in Tunisia sipping on some cocktail and basking in the sun.

Pineapple and Pear Smoothie

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So simple to make..and still yummy.

  1. Cut up a pineapple and pear into pieces and throw in a blender.
  2. Wooosh!!
  3. Pour into a glass and enjoy!
  4. N/B: You can add ice cubes when blending if you want the smoothie to be cooler.

Playlist:

Come close to me (remix)- Common ft Pharell, Erykah Badu and Q-Tip