Cake!!!!!

Sponge, Chocolate, fruit, birthday, Christmas, wedding, tea, jam, coconut, butterfly, velvet, devils food, marbled, cheese, fairy, muffin, tiffin, parkin, scone, Genoa, Madeira, coffee, almond, apple, upside down, etc.

How would you like your recipe included in my next charity book,

All I need is your recipe, including ingredients and method, as a comment, a facebook message or a twitter DM.

Once the book is compiled there will be a nice launch including cake.

I will keep you all updated as to the progress, so look through your notes and scraps of paper with your favourite recipe's on and share them.

yum.....

Salad Days!!

Soup or Salad?

Soup or Salad is the question I ask my partner each evening, that are our choices for lunch the next day and will be for the next 12 months.

So far I have lost 6lb so I am now 18st. My target is in 12 months time I will be 12 stone. This equates to 1/2 stone per month loss which is quite achievable. I will not get as boring as to blog each lb lost, but will let you know the major milestones.

This week I have mainly been eating Salad, ham salad, fish salad, egg salad chicken salad. etc.

Today was my favourite so far, chicken and grape Salad, yum.
Take 1/2 bag salad leaves,
1/4 cucumber sliced,
1/2 green pepper sliced,
20 grapes.
place in a lidded lunch box.
mix 5ml olive oil and 10ml balsamic vinegar, pour over the salad, place the lid on and give it a good shake.
Then add 2 slices of thick sliced roast chicken.
And enjoy.....

Tomorrow....Soup!
2 onions,
1/4 swede
2 leeks
4 carrots
4 potato's
10ml cooking oil
1 1/2 pints veg stock.
season to taste.

Dice veg finely,
first add onions and start to lightly brown, then swede and carrot, keep stirring as you don't want the veg to burn just colour, then add the potato's and leek, fry for 2 more minutes add the stock, cover and cook for 20 minutes.
The soup can be served 3 ways.
1 as a broth with the whole pieces of veg with a stock sauce.
2 as a thicker soup, by using a potato masher to break up the  veg.
3 as a thick soup by blending the veg together.

Whilst I have been diligently eating my way through fields of greens. I have been creating some very yummy treats. 2 old fashioned favourites.

1st bread pudding. I baked a large bread pudding with banana and sultana's.

2nd, a chocolate tiffin,

I had completed a punishing aerobics class and had made chicken and veg for tea. I then found myself stood over the hob, stirring a pot of melted chocolate and adding fruit and biscuits.

It was hard but I managed to make it without eating any of it. !!

oh and the recipe's for these will be in my forth coming cookery book. !!!

(pictures this week were from Internet not my camera)