Simon (Bolero's) Food Diary

[bulldogdaisy]

i grate the pepperami and throw it on, its lovely that way and easy to eat for my wee braces lol

Theres nothing like home made pizza, and its not that difficult to make. only takes 5 minutes to mix up and batter, leave for an hour or two, then another couple of minutes to roll out. The rest is just ingredient prep and actually cooking the thing.

Does sound good :0)

 

[bolero982]

Morning all. For once I'm not working overtime today, so I've got the day to do my own thing. Quite glad about that, as after ten weeks of constant overtime I think I've earned a day off!
Making pizza tonight. May or may not post pictures of it when I'm done (depends how lazy I'm feeling later lol). Thanks for the tips and encouragement Han. Really do appreciate it. I've got very lazy with my cooking, and it's nice to have something really enjoyable to get motivated over making. I'm hoping that 40g of mozarella will be enough, as I don't want it to be too points heavy...although looking I do have a few points to spare today, so shall see how that goes.
No idea for lunch though...will probably see what ASDA has when I go to buy the stuff.

Breakfast
WW Mini Roll - 2pp
WW Digestive Biscuits - 2pp

Lunch
Warburton's Square Wrap - 4pp
Haslet (4 slices) - 3pp
Ketchup (1 blob) - 1pp
Pot Noodle Beef & Tomato Flavour - 10pp

Dinner
Homemade Pizza - 30pp
- Wholemeal Bread Flour (200g) - 17pp
- Passata - 0pp
- Mushrooms - 0pp
- Pepperoni (32g) - 4pp
- Sweetcorn (50g) - 2pp
- ASDA Lighter Mozarella (134g) - 7pp
- Red Onion - 0pp

Snacks Etc.
- Special K Biscuit Moments Bar - 3pp

Daily Points Used: 55 of 59
Weeklies Used: 0 of 6

 

[hannata]

dont be forgetting the yeast lol

 

[bulldogdaisy]

Yup pics later please :0) enjoy your day and making the pizza :0)

 

[bolero982]

lol. Aye, that's points free apparantly...so forgot to add it to the list. Expect I'll be editing it all day as I think of new things to add to the topping. Will definately be adding onion now as well, and might shove on a bit of sweetcorn. Might also "borrow" a little of the chicken that's in the fridge...lolol

 

[Jaly]

Looks good You can buy "reduced fat mozzarella" and it isn't actually that much more expensive to save a few points Enjoy your day off, you deserve it! Not too sure about this morning's breakfast though, hmm Hope you have a lovely day!

 

[bulldogdaisy]

Looks good You can buy "reduced fat mozzarella" and it isn't actually that much more expensive to save a few points Enjoy your day off, you deserve it! Not too sure about this morning's breakfast though, hmm Hope you have a lovely day!

Haha I thought the same thing about breakfast but left it for you to comment ;0)

 

[bolero982]

Aye, my breakfast was a bit rubbish...was being rushed to get out the house to do some shopping. At least that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!

Ended up buying ASDA's lighter mozarella, so shall see how much I use. Otherwise I've got a recipe somewhere for a aubergine & mozarella bake. If there's some left over, I might make that for tomorrow.

 

[hannata]

lol. Aye, that's points free apparantly...so forgot to add it to the list. Expect I'll be editing it all day as I think of new things to add to the topping. Will definately be adding onion now as well, and might shove on a bit of sweetcorn. Might also "borrow" a little of the chicken that's in the fridge...lolol

Just as long as you remember to actually use it in the pizza!

Sent from my iPad using MiniMins

 

[bolero982]

Just as long as you remember to actually use it in the pizza!

You're clearly more than aware of my cooking "skills". Made bolognaise in cooking lessons at school once. Forgot to put in the tin of tomatoes...lol.

 

[bolero982]

Well that was great fun beating hell out of the pizza dough. I made it a bit too wet though, so had to add more flour...so it's using up more points than I was hoping (ending up using 17pp on the flour!), but still. Looks like it will be a nice one even using a whopping 30pp for the recipe.

 

[Jaly]

:O That's why I always stick to a wrap or a pitta for the base, only 4pp, haha! Hope you enjoy it!

 

[bulldogdaisy]

Opps about the base..hope you enjoy and don't forget the photo please ;0)

 

[bolero982]

Well that was delicious! The best part was the base, which had so much flavour...really blows buying a pizza out of the water. Very nom, and completely worth the points it cost...as well as being delicious, it was filling. I am well and truly stuffed. As promised, a picture of my lovely pizza.

Many thanks to Han for talking me into making it. Told me it was easy and worth making, and you were right. xx

 

[bulldogdaisy]

It does look delish and I'm glad you enjoyed it,sounds like you will be making it again soon ;0)

 

[bolero982]

Oh definately. Learnt a lot from making it this time, such as that I do with using more cheese & less topping. The topping had difficulty staying on, so think I overloaded it a bit.
Going to make a spicy one next time. Got a jar full of home-made pickled jalapenos (I had a chilli plant a couple of years ago, and it went mental...ended up with about 4 ton of chillis in a matter of weeks, so pickled them as there was no way I'd use them up), so that'd make for a nice topping I think.

 

[bulldogdaisy]

Cooking is a learning process for sure! Jalapeños are too strong for me! But that's good that you could pickle your own and you got plenty of use out of the plant!

 

[Jaly]

Looks delicious! Yum! and they're too strong for me too, i'm really not a spicy person

 

[moonwatcher]

I love jalapenos... and I belong to the school of thought that says if the topping doesn't fall off your pizza, then there isn't enough topping on there to start with!

 

[bolero982]

I love spicy...my curries aren't so much food as they are chemical warfare! Only ever been defeated once, and that was with a phall from the takeaway. God, that was hot! Was sure at the time that it disolved my lips.

Looking forward to work on Wednesday oddly. Not so much the work, but moreso that I went clothes shopping on Saturday and bought some lovely new work trousers. Was a thrill to go into Matalan and be able to buy off the peg...never been able to do that before!