Chicken Curry Night

Monday night is always curry night, it's one of my favourite meals of the week. I need comfort food on a Monday and this fits the bill. It's a recipe from my parents and I use it religiously every week.

Ingredients:
350g roast chicken
3 sticks of celery
Half a white onion
300ml chicken stock
Handful of sultanas
1 tbsp mango chutney
1 tbsp Sharwoods curry powder
Tomato purée

350g dry weight rice (I'm carb back loading tonight!)

Method:
Chop the celery and throw into a hot pan with the roast chicken
Heat up the chicken stock
Chop the onion and add to the pan
Add the curry powder to the chicken and veg and stir around coating all the ingredients
Add the stock to the pan and turn up the heat
Add mango chutney and stir in well
Add tomato purée and again, stir in well
Add the sultanas and stir in
Put rice on to boil in a saucepan until at desired consistency
Dry off rice either in an oven or microwave, keep an eye on the curry to make sure it doesn't boil down too much
Serve!

The mountain I made looked like this, but yours doesn't have to be so large.

Steak!

It's true what they say - steak is such a treat, it's the world's best meat!

I grabbed this from my local butcher. It's better to go to the butcher, particularly when buying steak - because you can choose the thickness. I like my steaks fat!

I decided to have the steak with egg fried rice, broccoli and kale. It's a bit of an odd combo but has all the nutrients I need and tasted great.

Tuna Omelette

Another day, another omelette!

Today is a gym day so I'm looking for something a little lower on fat than last night's spectacular. I've decided to go for a tuna omelette. This may sound like an odd combination, but it actually works really well. It's even better with cheese, but then that raises the fat content.

Ingredients
A small knob of Kerrygold butter
Tinned tuna (I use John West no drain tuna in brine)
4 eggs

Method
Melt a small knob of butter in a pan
Add the tuna to the pan and fry until the colour fades
Beat the eggs in a bowl
Add to the tuna making sure all the tuna is well covered
Cook for 2 minutes
Place the pan under the grill until the egg sets

Serve and enjoy!

Spicy Beef Omelette

Tonight I went large!

Ingredients:
1lb mince
1 small red onion
1 small red pepper
Chilli powder
6 "very large" eggs
Mature cheddar

Method:
Brown mince in a deep pan
Chop onion and pepper, add to pan
Cook for 5-10 minutes allowing veg to soften
Whisk eggs in a bowl and grate desired amount of cheese
Add eggs to the Pan and allow the under side to cook
Add cheese and put under the grill until eggs set and cheese browns

This will look quite runny until you put it under the grill. Don't worry because it will all set and make a thick pizza like consistency.

Here's how mine turned out - it wasn't as pretty as the last time because I struggled to get it out of the pan in one piece. This was all down to the sheer size of the meal I had made.

Dust off the cobwebs, let's get this back up and running!

I haven't posted in a while, and this is bad.

This is bad because things have changed, my diet is evolving and it's not being logged. I want to share the weird and wonderful foods that I consume every day!

This week has been very poor for diet. I was away on a business trip and had to rely on Nando's for my only decent source of protein. Although, saying that, I also travelled prepared with a big bag of beef jerky that my flatmate brought back from Florida.

It's a good thing this week is ending, because I hate going off-track!

Today is Friday, which means I am fasting. It's the best time to do it for me because it's a non-gym day, and it's always nice to cook something big up on a Friday to break the fast.

Tonight will be no different. I plan on making a big, beefy, cheesey, spicy omelette. When I'm fasting I always like to write about food!

My planned ingredients are:
Eggs (How many depends entirely on how I feel later, but it will be at least 5)
1lb mince
Small red onion
Half a red pepper
Chilli powder
Mature cheddar

Method

1. Brown the mince in a deep frying pan on the hob (I use a sautee pan)
2. While the mince is browning, finely chop the onion and pepper and add to the pan
3. Add the chilli powder and stir in
4. While the above ingredients cook and soften, crack your eggs into a bowl and beat them (it's also a good idea to turn your grill on at this point)
5. Grate your desired amount of cheese
6. Pour the eggs into the pan making sure all ingredients get a good covering of egg
7. Sprinkle your omelette with cheese and season
8. Wait 30 seconds for the under side of the omelette to cook, then place your pan under the grill for the omelette to set and for the cheese to brown.

Last time I did this, my omelette looked like this:

 

It's really beautiful, isn't it?

Now, many people make meatzzas, which I think are great. However, I think that this omelette satisfies the pizza craving much more effectively. For me I think it's the shape, but also the consistency is a lot more pizza like than my meatzza attempts.

Needless to say this is a very high protein dish, and high on fat as well. This is why for me, it's best reserved to being a fast-breaker on a rest day. It's because of this that no ingredients high in carbohydrates have been added.

I'll be blogging later to share how tonight's omelette goes - the beauty of this is that like a pizza, the topping/filling ingredients are flexible and entirely up to you.