Borrowed Recipe - Chocolate Cup Cakes

I just wanted to share this amazing recipe for all you Weight Watchers out there. This recipe comes from the site: Gina's Weight Watch Recipes.
I just had to share with this you.

Ingredients 1 dry box cake, any flavor 10 oz diet soda, any flavor 2 egg whites Baking spra

Method

Preheat oven according to box directions. Spray 9 x 13 pan.
Beat cake mix, diet soda and egg whites. Pour into pan.
Bake as directed on box, or until toothpick comes out clean when inserted.
Let cake cool about 10 minutes before cutting. Cut into 12 pieces. Top with fat free whipped cream if you wish.
You can also make cup cakes which would be only 1.75 points each!

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Vegetable Curry

Ingredients

• Red pepper, deseede and chopped
• Onion, sliced
• 120g green beans
• 1/2 small cauliflower, broken into florets
• 2 carrots, thinly sliced
• 2 celery sticks, sliced
• 900ml vegetable stock, made from water and two cubes
• 4 tbsp curry paste, choose your own type
• Salt and Pepper
  

Method

1. Boil the vegetables in the stock, then simmer, covered for about 10 minutes. The vegetables shouldn't be soft.
2. Drain the vegetables and add the curry paste, salt and pepper.
   
3. Serve with rice and Raita

This is SO easy and smells wonderful. For those looking for points, this serves 4 people and each serving is 3 1/2 points (that is served with 60g of basmati rice). I have made this in advance and popped it in the freezer for quick tasty teas when we need them!!!


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Raita

Ingredients

• 150 ml low fat natural yoghurt
• 5cm of cucumber, finely chopped
• tbsp chopped fresh mint

Method

1. Mix all ingredients together and chill.
2. Serve with your curries as a great accompaniment.

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Basic White Loaf

Ingredients 1 1/4 tsp yeast 550g (1 lb 4oz) white flour 2 tsp sugar 25g butter 1 1/2 tsp salt 360ml water

This was another cheat in the bread maker for me - for those with a machine I am not sure how the usage varies but this required the XL Loaf setting, with basic bake!!

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 210C/410F/Gas 6.
2. Place the yeast and milk into a large bowl and whisk together.
3. Add the flour and salt and mix with your hands to bring together as a soft, sticky dough.
4. Melt the butter and pour over. Mix this into the dough with your hands, then cover the bowl and leave to stand for ten minutes.
5. Grease your hands and a flat clean surface with olive oil. Remove the dough from the bowl and knead for ten seconds, then form the dough into a smooth round ball. Wipe the bowl clean and grease with olive oil, then return the dough ball to the bowl and leave for a further ten minutes.
6. Repeat this ten-second kneading and resting process every ten minutes twice, then leave the dough to rest for 30 minutes.
7. Grease a deep 12x19cm/5x8in loaf tin and dust with flour. Divide the dough into two equal pieces, shape into two balls and place side-by-side into the loaf tin. Cover with a cloth and leave to rise for one and a half hours, or until almost doubled in height.
8. Brush the top of the loaf with a little milk and place into the preheated oven to bake for 15 minutes, then reduce the heat to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and bake for a further 25-30 minutes, or until the top of the loaf is a shiny dark brown and the loaf has come away from the sides of the tin.
9. Remove from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack.
10. Incidentally use this recipe to make rolls by splitting the dough into balls and placing them on a greased baking tray before cooking!!!
    

Another FABULOUS loaf, this one was SO soft!!! Keep your laves in a bread bin if you have one or if, like us, you don't have a bread bin then wrap in some tin foil - keeps for ages!!

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Product Review - Panasonic SD - 254 Breadmaker

This is the breadmaker that we got as a wedding gift!! Thank you! I love this thing. I used to make bread, as there is NOTHING like the smell of fresh bread but it always took so long and there is just nowhere in our current house that was warm enough to leave the dough to rise. My bread making life has changed since getting this machine!!! Let's go through the basics. It is pretty much just a drum with a removalable pan where the bread is made. The lid lifts up so you can get it in and out! It essentially works like this: put in ingredients close lid select loaf size, bake type and crust colour. press go That's it! It IS as easy as that.

This particular model allows you to make three different sizes of loaf: Medium, Large and X Large. If you want to do smaller loaves or rolls there is a setting for just making the dough allowing you to then remove the dough and shape it yourself! It can cook various styles of bread: basic, french, italian, sandwich, gluten free, pizza and bake only. So far I have tried basic and sandwich, both have been excellent. The machine is also capable of making bread with ingredients, with this model you must add the ingredients yourself, but the unti beeps to let you know when it is time. The machine can be placed on a timer so, pop the ingredients in the machine before bed, set the timer, warm fresh bread ready for breakfast!! We have tried that and it works wonders, it was great to come down the stairs in the morning to the smell of freshly cooked bread!! The unit is also capable of making cakes although I have yet to try out this facility but no fear I shall let you know how it turns out. All in all I love this machine, and it is certainly a welcome addition to my kitchen toys!!!

Kiwi Detox

Ingredients 1 mango 4 kiwi 4 mint leaves 350ml pineapple juice

Method

1. Peel the mango and remove the stone. Slice the flesh into small cubes.
2. Peel the kiwi and slice.
3. Put the fruit, mint leaves and pineapple juice into a blender and blend until smooth.
   

This is really resfreshing. It makes two servings and in terms of weight watchers points it is 2 1/2 points per serving.

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Cheesy Mushrooms on Toast

While I am munching away on my lunch I shall share with you all a tasty recipe I created for my tea last night, sorry there is no photo but it smelled so good I was tucking in before I realised that I hadn't photoed it!!! For all the Weight Watchers out there, this works out at 4 1/2 points using a 1 point serving of cheese and a 2 point serving of bread (I cut mine kinda thick!) You can use as many mushrooms and garlic as you like, but you may have to up the cheese to fully coat them.)

Ingredients

• Mushrooms (I used four), sliced
• 30g of low fat soft cheese
• 1 rasher of bacon, fat removed and diced
• 1 clove of garlic, crushed and chopped
• 1 slice of crusty bread (I will be putting up a recipe for this next!)

Method

1. Use a couple of sprays of low fat oil.
2. Fry mushrooms and garlic until soft.
3. Add the bacon and continue to fry until cooked (cook it until it is how you like it, I prefer it just off crispy.
4. Toast your piece of bread.
5. Add the soft cheese to the mushrooms and keep on a low heat until the cheese is fully melted and the mushrooms are coated.
6. Put the mushrooms on the toast.
7. Munch!!

Tastes: AWESOME!!!!!

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Easy Vegetable Lasagne

Ingredients

• medium courgette, sliced
• 125g sweetcorn
• 1 red onion, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 2 red, green or yellow peppers, deseeded and sliced
• 350g passata
  
• 8 cherry tomatoes
• tsp Oregano
• 6 lasagne sheets
• 200g low fat soft cheese
• 100ml semi skimmed milk
• ground black pepper

Method

1. Preheat oven to 190oC/GM 5/Fan Oven 170oC.
2. Simmer courgette, corn, peppers, onions and garlic in a little boiling water for 5 minutes.
3. Drain well and stir in the passata, cherry tomatoes and oregano.
4. Spoon half the vegetables into a lasagne dish and cover with three lasagne sheets.
5. Repeat.
6. Beat together the soft cheese and the milk. Season and spread over the top sheets.
7. Bake for 25-30 minutes until golden and bubbling.

Really loved this, very tasty and only 3 points for all you weight watchers out there, so very healthy!!!! This recipe makes enough for 4 people, serve it with a nice green salad.

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Weight Watchers Watch This...

Well, with all the Weight Watching going on I just had to share this blog with you all
Gina's Weight Watcher's Recipes.
I LOVE the recipe's here and wonderfully there is always the weight watcher points value at the end of each recipe!! I will definately be trying some of them and I recommend that you take a gander! Go on! Eat yourselves skinny! LOL

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Tuna Pasta Bake

Ingredients 120g Pasta 1 onion, chopped 200ml skimmed milk, boiling 1 tbsp cornflour 70g peas 2 small tins of tuna 2 tbsp grated half fat cheddar 2 tbsp breadcrumbs Cherry Tomatoes, halved

Method

1. Cook pasta with the onion then drain and set aside.
2. Make white sauce by boiling the milk and adding the cornflour, keep stirring until thick and smooth.
3. Add the peas and tuna.
4. Mix in the cheese and the pasta and onion.
5. Transfer to an ovenproof dish and sprinkle with breadcrumbs, and parmesan (optional).
6. Top with cherry tomatoes and grill until golden and crispy.

This recipe tasted great!! The above is for 2 people (WW Points of 8 per serving) but we found that we didn't eat it all, so there is some left!! Excellent!!!!

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Garden Vegetable Soup

Ingredients 2 Medium Carrots Small onion 2 gralic cloves, crushed 500ml vegetable stock 100g dwarf beans 1 tbsp tomato puree 1/2 tsp dried basil 1/2 tsp dried oregano 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 courgette, diced

Method

1. Spray a saucepan with low fat cooking spray, heat.
2. Saute the carrot, onion and garlic over a low heat until softened, about 5 minutes.
3. Add stock, beans, tomato puree, basil, oregano and salt.
4. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for about 15 minutes or until beans are tender.
5. Stir in courgette and heat for 3-4 minutes.
6. Serve hot.

So we are starting the whole dieting thing, as is most of the UK I reckon!!! So I am trying the Weight Wathers thing so I shall let you know the Weight Watchers points on things I make (if I know them) for anyone else who may be interested. This is ZERO point soup!!! Yes, eat as much as you like people!!!

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Milk Loaf

	Ingredients 1 tsp Yeast 475g Strong White Flour 1 1/2 tsp sugar 25g Butter 1 1/4 tsp Salt 340ml milk

Method

This is a bit of a cheat as I have a Bread Machine (thank you wedding gift list!!). But the ingredients are the same if you are making the bread by hand.

1. Preheat the oven to 210C/410F/Gas 6.
2. Place the yeast and milk into a large bowl and whisk together.
3. Add the flour and salt and mix with your hands to bring together as a soft, sticky dough.
4. Melt the butter and pour over. Mix this into the dough with your hands, then cover the bowl and leave to stand for ten minutes.
5. Grease your hands and a flat clean surface with olive oil. Remove the dough from the bowl and knead for ten seconds, then form the dough into a smooth round ball. Wipe the bowl clean and grease with olive oil, then return the dough ball to the bowl and leave for a further ten minutes.
6. Repeat this ten-second kneading and resting process every ten minutes twice, then leave the dough to rest for 30 minutes.
7. Grease a deep 12x19cm/5x8in loaf tin and dust with flour. Divide the dough into two equal pieces, shape into two balls and place side-by-side into the loaf tin. Cover with a cloth and leave to rise for one and a half hours, or until almost doubled in height.
8. Brush the top of the loaf with a little milk and place into the preheated oven to bake for 15 minutes, then reduce the heat to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and bake for a further 25-30 minutes, or until the top of the loaf is a shiny dark brown and the loaf has come away from the sides of the tin.
9. Remove from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack.
   

So we are getting healthy, what better way than making your own bread. I have been playing with my new bread machine, still getting the hang of it!! I have perfected the standard loaf now I am trying something new with this. It isn't as rounded as I expected but it was sure yummy!!! I love the steam coming off it, this is FRESH bread!!!

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Raspberry And Blueberry Roll

Ingredients 30g cocoa powder 40g self-raising flour , plus extra for dusting 1/2 tsp baking powder 3 large eggs 50g caster sugar Icing Sugar for dusting Filling 1 punnet raspberries 1 Punnet blueberries 142ml double cream

Method

1. Heat the oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Line a 15x20cm swiss roll tin with baking parchment, butter and dust with cocoa.
2. Sift the flour, baking powder and cocoa into a bowl. Beat the eggs and caster sugar with an electric mixer until thick, pale and trebled in volume, about 8 minutes. Fold in the flour mix with a large metal spoon - the less air you squash the better, so do this carefully but quickly. Pour into the tin, tipping the tin as your pour so the batter is even. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until firm to the touch.
3. Cool the sponge for 2 minutes then turn it out onto a piece of baking parchment dusted with caster sugar. Peel off the lining paper and roll the sponge up using the paper underneath. It may crack a bit but don't worry. Cool.
4. Whisk the double cream until it is stiff.
5. Gently unroll the sponge and dot the raspberries and blueberries over then cover with the cream. Spread out gently. Reroll the roulade as tightly as you can, using the paper to help you, without squashing out the filling.
6. Dust the top with the icing sugar. Use a few of the reaspberries and blueberries to decorate.

I know I said that all the posts would be healthy from now on but I had to just slip this great pudding into the mix!! It is so light all your guests will have room! And they will definately be after seconds!!

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So Very Very Long!!

I am sorry! It has been so long since I last posted and I had so many amazing plans for the Christmas period! But then I came down with a Respritory Infection and haven't been well so no cooking :( I have got a recipe that I made for New Year's (and my birthday) which I will share with you tomorrow!!

This year we have got some healthy recipes appearing. Yes it is that time of year again when we all go off on diets!! And by gum do I need to!! Well, I am hoping to find some great recipes that mean you can enjoy your food while still getting into that healthy lifestyle!! Remember, it is easier to stick to a diet if you don't deny yourself some pleasures so treat yourself occassionally, just don't go over board!!

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