This is a very tasty thai dish that I absolutely love and I hope you will too.
You will need duck fillets, red chillies, shallots, garlic (only 2 cloves), red peppers and plum tomatoes.
For the sauce you will need lemon grass, cumin, galangal, nutmeg, lime leaves, thai basil, red curry paste, coconut milk and a lime. You will also need rice to soak up the tasty sauce.
- Steam rice
- Prepare red chillies, shallots, garlic, red peppers and plum tomatoes
- Cut duck into bite sized chunks
- Fry oil and red curry paste and cumin and nutmeg
- Add garlic and chillies
- Add peppers and shallots
- Add coconut milk. Bring to a boil.
- Add duck and 1/3 mug hot water
- Simmer for 15 minutes
- Add lemon grass and galangal
- Add lime leaves, basil and tomatoes
- Serve and Enjoy!
This dish is ridiculously tasty and pretty healthy. You just need to be organised enough to marinate the beef the day before.
You will need sirloin steak, mushrooms, mangetout, onion, clear honey, mustard, light soy sauce, sesame oil, white wine vinegar and dry sherry.
- Chop onion finely
- Add the onion to steak
- Add 2 tablespoons sherry, 3 tablespoons soy sauce and 1 tablespoon sesame oil. Season with pepper.
- Cover with clingfilm and put in fridge overnight
- The next day steam rice
- Chop mushrooms
- Wash and chop the ends off the mangetout
- Remove the steak from the marinade
- Fry on a high heat for 1-2 minutes on each side
- Leave to cool on a wire rack
- Remove the onions from the marinade and fry them
- Prepare the dressing. Mix together 3 tablespoons sunflower oil, 1.5 tablespoons white wine vinegar, 2.5 tablespoons mustard and 1 teaspoon honey.
- Put the fried onions in the dressing
- Fry mushrooms and mangetout in the marinade
- Mix these with the onions and dressing
- Slice the steak into fine strips
- Mix the steak with the mushrooms, mangetout and onions
- Serve with rice and enjoy!
A friend of mine cooked me this delicious dish recently. Yummm... I have simplified it a little bit to make it feel more achievable, for myself and for you.
You will need chicken breasts, feta cheese, sundried tomatoes, unsmoked bacon. I had mine with potatoes and rosemary, but it would work equally well with rice, pasta or salad.
- Chop the potatoes in quarters and put them in a pan with enough water to cover them
- Bring the pan to the boil
- Pre-heat the oven to 190 degrees C
- Cut the feta cheese and sundried tomatoes into chunks
- Stretch out the chicken breast
- Place the feta cheese and sundried tomatoes down the middle
- Wrap the chicken around the feta cheese and sundried tomatoes
- Wrap the bacon around the chicken
- After the potatoes have been boiling for 3 minutes, drain them and place them in an oven dish with some olive oil and rosemary
- Put them in the oven
- Put the bacon wrapped chicken in an oven dish in the oven for 30 minutes
- Serve and enjoy!
The frozen banana is a great tasty and easy dessert which tastes like icecream but is healthier.
The frozen grapes are a great alternative to icecubes for refreshing drinks with.
You will need a banana and some grapes.
- Peel the banana
- Put the banana in clingfilm
- Put the banana in the freezer
- Wash your grapes and remove the stalks
- Put the grapes in the freezer
- When you fancy a healthy dessert take the banana out of the fridge and enjoy!
- When you fancy a refreshing and fun drink get the grapes out of the freezer and pop them in your drink and enjoy!
A lecturer whilst I was studying biology taught me one of the most useful things I learnt at university - the perfect drink to cure a hangover.
You will need orange juice, sugar and salt. No, you do not need more alcohol, this would only help temporarily but you're basically in pain because you're dehydrated. The trick behind this drink is that it is isotonic. By that I mean the drink has the same salt concentration as your cells in your body and your blood. This drink will help the body to replace fluid and minerals it lost while drinking.
- Fill your pint glass with half a pint of orange juice
- Add a pinch of salt and a tablespoon of sugar
- Stir
- Add half a pint of cold water
- Enjoy! Hope you feel better soon and remember next time to drink a little less alcohol and a lot more water :o]
