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[bilsat]

My experimental first attempt at using scan bran in a cake!
From making the test one I have altered the recipe to this one.
I reduced the sweetener as it was too sweet , also I reduced the quantity of eggs to 1 as on the original cake it cooked and oozed out at the edges (if you look you can see it!), also next time I will put the carrots through a food chopper to reduce the size of the cut carrot!
Apart from that it is delicious and most has been eaten already!


Pete’s Scan Bran Carrot Cake


Syn free

Ingredients

5 scan bran
300g/3 medium size carrots
1 egg
3 Tbsp sweetener
½ tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp nutmeg
Pinch salt
Zest from 1 lemon

Method

Break the scan bran into a mixing bowl and add boiling water, a bit at a time to soften them, mash into a smooth mix.

Grate the peeled carrots, drain as much liquid out of them as possible, and then place in a towel and wring out any remaining liquid. Add to mixing bowl along with the egg, sweetener and spices & lemon zest, mix well.

Preheat the oven to 180c and prepare a loaf tin, line with greaseproof paper cut to fit, spray with fry light.

Place on the middle shelf for 30 mins, insert a metal skewer into the middle of the cake and when you pull it out and it comes out clean, the cake is done.

Remove from the tin and allow to cool on a wire rack.

Comments please!....

 

[bilsat]

Todays Dinner!...................


Pete’s Mushroom Risotto

Serves 2

Syn Free * (without chorizo)

Ingredients

150g Arborio rice
½ Ltr chicken stock
1 tsp “easy lazy” garlic
8 small mushrooms, cleaned & chopped into small pieces
1 stick celery, washed & chopped to small pieces
½ cupful of frozen peas
1 onion, chopped into small pieces
1 lemon
1 Tbsp of Worcester sauce
Parmesan cheese (out of your daily allowance)
* 4 chorizo sausage slices .5 Syn each/per person (optional)

Method

Boil a kettle and make ½ Ltr of chicken stock, using a chicken cube or use homemade stock.
Spray a large saucepan with Fry Light and cook the onions, garlic & celery, cook until transparent.
Add the rice and allow it to be coated by mixing all ingredients, cut the lemon and drizzle the juice over the rice and cook for 5 mins.

Using a ladle add 2 ladles of hot stock at a time, cook until all liquid has gone then repeat until ¾ stock has been used. Add peas, mushrooms & Worcester sauce and
* Chorizo slices if used.

When all stock has been used up grate parmesan cheese over the rice and put a lid on it and leave to steam. Serve on a hot bowl and have a side salad with it.

 

[pebbles67]

My experimental first attempt at using scan bran in a cake!
From making the test one I have altered the recipe to this one.
I reduced the sweetener as it was too sweet , also I reduced the quantity of eggs to 1 as on the original cake it cooked and oozed out at the edges (if you look you can see it!), also next time I will put the carrots through a food chopper to reduce the size of the cut carrot!
Apart from that it is delicious and most has been eaten already!


Pete’s Scan Bran Carrot Cake


Syn free

Ingredients

5 scan bran
300g/3 medium size carrots
1 egg
3 Tbsp sweetener
½ tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp nutmeg
Pinch salt
Zest from 1 lemon

Method

Break the scan bran into a mixing bowl and add boiling water, a bit at a time to soften them, mash into a smooth mix.

Grate the peeled carrots, drain as much liquid out of them as possible, and then place in a towel and wring out any remaining liquid. Add to mixing bowl along with the egg, sweetener and spices & lemon zest, mix well.

Preheat the oven to 180c and prepare a loaf tin, line with greaseproof paper cut to fit, spray with fry light.

Place on the middle shelf for 30 mins, insert a metal skewer into the middle of the cake and when you pull it out and it comes out clean, the cake is done.

Remove from the tin and allow to cool on a wire rack.

Comments please!....

Todays Dinner!...................


Pete’s Mushroom Risotto

Serves 2

Syn Free * (without chorizo)

Ingredients

150g Arborio rice
½ Ltr chicken stock
1 tsp “easy lazy” garlic
8 small mushrooms, cleaned & chopped into small pieces
1 stick celery, washed & chopped to small pieces
½ cupful of frozen peas
1 onion, chopped into small pieces
1 lemon
1 Tbsp of Worcester sauce
Parmesan cheese (out of your daily allowance)
* 4 chorizo sausage slices .5 Syn each/per person (optional)

Method

Boil a kettle and make ½ Ltr of chicken stock, using a chicken cube or use homemade stock.
Spray a large saucepan with Fry Light and cook the onions, garlic & celery, cook until transparent.
Add the rice and allow it to be coated by mixing all ingredients, cut the lemon and drizzle the juice over the rice and cook for 5 mins.

Using a ladle add 2 ladles of hot stock at a time, cook until all liquid has gone then repeat until ¾ stock has been used. Add peas, mushrooms & Worcester sauce and
* Chorizo slices if used.

When all stock has been used up grate parmesan cheese over the rice and put a lid on it and leave to steam. Serve on a hot bowl and have a side salad with it.

they both look yummy thanks - im off to the shops for carrots and mushrooms x

 

[Kia-Ora]

Pete I tried the egg custards but must've done something wrong cause they were like bakes scrambled egg!! The mixture was nice & sweet when it went in but the texture & taste wasn't v pleasant. I'm not the best cook so no doubt it's something I've done!!

 

[bilsat]

Hi Kieragh1515.
Did you place them in a tray with hot water half way up the side from a kettle?
Did you cook for exactly 30 mins at the stated temperature?

I have made these now about 8 times and as long as you stick to the recipe they should come out ok!
Good luck!

 

[bilsat]

Petes SW Chips.......................


Pete’s Oven Baked Chips


Serves 4
Ingredients
1 large potato per person, cut into chips
Schwartz “spicy season-all” seasoning

Method
Preheat the oven to 170c

Cut the unpeeled potatoes into chips.

Sprinkle the chips with the seasoning until they are covered, place on an oven tray sprayed with Fry Light and cook for 10 mins, turning after 10 mins, turn again after a further 10 mins, until golden in colour (usually 30 mins in total)

I enjoyed them with a "big breakfast"

 

[Kitteh]

How do you do your eggs pete?

 

[pjplatts]

Tonight dinner was chicken & leek pie!! Out of march/april slimming world mag

Was very very nice x

 

[Jo*]

I have not got the mag is there a chance you could copy if its not too long please. It looks gorgeous.

 

[pjplatts]

Let me know if u can't read it & I will copy it out tomorrow for u x

 

[Honeyoc]

SNACK
4 ryvita sesame (B) 1/2 pot cottage cheese with pineapple (1.5)
Sliced apple

LUNCH
Linguine with h'made watercress pesto (1/2A parmesan, 1/2B olive oil)
Crunchy veg salad with sweetcorn

DINNER
Pan fried salmon
Rosemary roasted butternut squash and sautéed green beans and pattypan squash

Dessert - Pavlova! 2% Greek yogurt (0.5) mixed with 1t honey (1) and strawberries on top of a meringue (2.5)

 

[bilsat]

Hi Kitteh.
Here is the egg custard recipe...........................


Pete’s Baked Egg Custards 3



Serves 6
Free if you use your Milk as Hea


Ingredients


3 Large Eggs
400mL skimmed Milk
(From your daily allowance)
4 Heaped Tbsp sweetener
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Nutmeg

Method

Preheat the oven, set at 150c.
Warm the milk, whisk the eggs, vanilla & sweetener.
Pour the warm milk onto the eggs mixture, stirring as you go.
Pour into ramekins and sprinkle with nutmeg.

Use a tin with a wire tray inside, place the ramekins on it and fill the tin with boiling water until it is halfway up the ramekins.

Place on the middle shelf of the oven for 30 mins or until they are set.
Remove from the oven and leave on the tray until cool then transfer to the fridge to chill.

Enjoy.

 

[Kitteh]

ooh i meant your eggs in the pic, were they poached? sorry should have been clearer.. xx

 

[Honeyoc]

Breakfast: Poached eggs on steamed asparagus. I also had a piece of toast but munched through it before I took the pic lol

Desserty dinner: French toast with ricotta, honey and fruit!

 

[bilsat]

Home recipe for jamaican rice & peas, still not as good as I was expecting, any ideas?..............


Pete’s Jamaican Rice and Peas

Serves 4
Ingredients


1 400g tin of red kidney beans
1 medium onion, chopped
1 spring onion , crushed
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 teaspoon dried thyme
200mL low fat coconut milk
water (or chicken or vegetable broth)
1 scotch bonnet chilli
1 cup long grained brown rice
Salt and pepper to taste

Method

Rinse beans and leave to drain.
Heat a large saucepan sprayed with Fry Light. Add onions and garlic and cook, stirring, until soft. Add the thyme, the beans and the coconut milk plus water to make up 4 cupful, and simmer, covered, for ten minutes. Add the rice and bring to a boil. Place the chilli on top. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 30-40 minutes or until all of the moisture has been absorbed by the rice. Remove the scotch bonnet chilli.
Serve with chicken.



last nights supper, big breakfast.......

 

[Jo*]

Let me know if u can't read it & I will copy it out tomorrow for u x

Thanks I can read it fine xx

 

[icebaby]

Lemon mousse meringue and White chocolate *divine*

7syns but that can be reduced depending on how much chocolate/meringue you have

Sent from my iPhone using MiniMins

 

[Laura_carlburgess]

Lemon mousse meringue and White chocolate *divine*

7syns but that can be reduced depending on how much chocolate/meringue you have

Sent from my iPhone using MiniMins

How did u make this? Looks yummy x

 

[icebaby]

How did u make this? Looks yummy x

It's M&S count on us lemon mousse, meringue, and then I grated white chocolate on it. I also have a biscuit in that picture as I was being extra naughty, but I usually only have the mousse meringue and chocolate

 

[Honeyoc]

Made a chicken noodle soup from scratch for lunch. With homemade chicken stock and everything!! Yeah, not going to happen very often lol, but it did taste a million times better! It was a particularly proud moment because I made it using ingredients that would have ended up in the bin, leftover roast chicken carcass and the broken scraps in a pasta packet!

Dinner was a butternut squash, chickpea and spinach stew with lemon coriander couscous and roasted veggies