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lynzpower

D - Thai chicken green curry with veggies - I am either going to try the philli version or the milk and coconut essence version so it will be v low in syns as no coconut milk at all.

hi trixie

Would love to know more about this, coconut essence you say? I will have a look for this is this something in the baking aisle? Or a afro-carribbean thing?

Satay ( drool) its my fave, 2 of my most fave things ever,coconut and peanut butter- syn heaven when Ive made it pre SW :eek:

trixietoes

I found the recipe on Minimins. Apparently the coconut essence is hard to find and they suggested ebay... which is where I got it from - about 3.00 inc p&p for 2 little bottles.

If anyone wants the recipes...

Philli Version (4 people) (copied and pasted from minimins)

2 tsp Thai green curry paste
3 cloves garlic
1 inch fresh ginger
300ml vegetable stock
4 chicken breasts, sliced
1 small onion, finely sliced
Baby Sweetcorn diced
French beans diced
Mangetout sliced in half.
1 red pepper, diced
150 g Philadelphia Light
4 tblsp semi-skimmed milk

So I cooked the onion and garlic and chicken in frylite, added the vegetable's and herbs etc and poured over the vegetable stock, allowed to simmer. Cooked my rice, and when that was ready, took the curry off the heat, and stirred through the philidelphia. Served.

This worked out to be 2 syns per portion including the semi skimmed milk.

Its was DEVINE!!!! It was seriously YUM!!! We will be having this again!!



also.. from minimins.....re coconut essence...

'I haven't tried this yet, but I read a thread on another forum where people (one of them was actually Thai and says her family cannot tell the difference...) use soya milk + coconut essence instead of cocount milk. You can use this as a HEx A and not even count the syns'

so for this I'll use my normal Thai recipe and just substitute the coconut milk with the milk & essence concoction.

dizzyk

Ive just been out to the docs.....Its flipping freeeeeezing out there!!!!!! :eek:

nessie216

Morning All,

Yesterday Green day
B - Mango (frozen) with activia vanilla ff
L - pumpkin & butter bean risotto followed by cherries (frozen) with cherry muller light
D - 85g+42.5g Gammon (heb1 +3) with 2 eggs, wedges, cauliflower & broccoli cheesy bake made with quark & 6 extra light laughing trangles (hea1) & topped with 42g rf cheddar (hea2)
S - Magic stars (multipack 3.5?) Caramel options (2) chocolate eclair (1) Toffee hifi (heb2)

Total syns 9.5?

Today is a Green day
B - Mango (frozen) with activia vanilla ff
L - pumpkin & butter bean risotto followed by cherries (frozen) with cherry muller light
D - Pasta & Sauce (not sure which one so syns ?) (hea1 for milk) with added canelini beans & carrots, Quorn pepper steaks & garlic mushrooms topped with 42g r f cheddar (hea2)
S - Hifi bar (heb1), ryvita minis (heb2) funsize malteasers (5.5)

Total syns 5.5 + syns for pasta & sauce

Friday should be a green day (at Uni)
B - Banana & 2 alpen lights or hifi bar (heb1)
L - 2 choices (depending on cash & time) either
- Pasta & sauce (tesco value tomato & onion) with quorn sausages & beans etc.
OR
- Jacket potato & beans from uni canteen
D - Plain rice, chicken chow mein (7) & either sea spice chicken or grilled chicken with teriyaki sauce using the chicken as heb1 and (5)
S - Grapes, FF Vanilla Onken, coffee (hea1 for milk), 3 babybel light

Total syns 12

Question - the little cartons of milk used for tea & coffee in a cafe - can i take to be part of hea or how many syns? I have the millac maid half fat at work & run it through calc and came up free!?!?!

I swear i heard ages ago that these were syns! (i know the cream would be!)

Well done to all loosers & good luck to those still left to WI x

bettyB_2

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

The thing I like about this thread is that you are welcome to come along and have a bit of a moan or feel free to ask silly questions or seek support when things go wrong. It is a friendly place and hopefully a safe spot for those who do not have the same level of support away from MSE.
So, thanks again for the support, it is appreciated!:T:T:T

agree

Flat_Eric wrote: »

What is your favourite pasta dish/recipe ? I quite like the idea of cooking some pasta and serving with roasted veg (peppers, onions, corgettes, mushrooms etc) with a tomato sauce base made up of Sainsburys Chopped Tomatoes with Chilli, garlic and onions. poured over the top. Mmmmmmm

that sounds lovely. My fave way is to make a really rich tomato sauce with onion and garlic and then add some balsamic vinegar and handfuls of fresh basil leaves.
Also, throw a few HM extra-lean meatballs in there! Lovely stuff!

wow trixie your curry looks great - I tend to use half a sachet of coconut cream, which I can usually work the syns out for and plan into my day. Never thought about adding cream cheese/philly to make it thicker tho - excellent idea! would quark work do you think?? Or yog / fromage fraise would do it I suppose.

i have worked out a fab new way to get some more free food and mixed my baked beans with tinned toms. I dont like cooked toms on their own but mixed with beans you can't really tell!! Also put some grated cheese on top and it became kind of pizza-ish!

EE today:
2xww toast (HEB) with 1/2 tin of toms and 1/2 tin of beans and 21g low fat cheddar (1/2 HEA)
tea with splash of milk (1 syn, cos I used about two 'splashes')
1 clementine
1 pear

HM potato and leek soup (with a few lentils thrown in to make it thick and seem creamier when blended)
1 clementine
1 banana

dinner will be Owl's stuffed chicken (I will use quark, garlic and mixed herbs) cooked with toms and mushrooms in the oven and served with pasta and greens, and 21g low fat cheese on top (other 1/2 HEA)
2 small pieces of garlic bread (no idea of the syns but will weigh it and check the cals then divide by 20 for a rough estimate)


cor that's a bit of a long list for me today!!

dizzyk

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

:grouphug:Aww, for all you meanies.

I am sorry on behalf of all the moaners or questioners or weak willed among us. The thing I like about this thread is that you are welcome to come along and have a bit of a moan or feel free to ask silly questions or seek support when things go wrong. It is a friendly place and hopefully a safe spot for those who do not have the same level of support away from MSE. We never know the battles people are facing outside here and sometimes that extra little bit of care and compassion from a perfect stranger can help someone keep going or be encouraged to get back up and on the wagon. I appreciate you guys and am sorry if I have been annoying, hopefully my blip is over, I am planning on having a week of being 100% on plan, my food diary is ready in my handbag to fill in. In 10 days I go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for 2 weeks to help out with a charity, I get the impression that when I am there I wont give two hoots about whether my muffin top shows in my trousers, hopefully will give me some perspective!

So, thanks again for the support, it is appreciated!:T:T:T

Are we still sat on top of the wagon ??

I meant to ask yesterday (but had a blonde day and forgot ) did I read a post from you that said you had made some scotch eggs for a group tasting?? if so would you have the recipe and syns please please pretty please .......:D

Also I was thinking.....you're going away doing charity work (very commendable ) but thats gonna be an Ideal place to be away from Asda and morrisons & the lure of Monster munch and other fairy food, so any muffin tops will probably disappear !!!!

lbnblbnb

Really interesting recipes on here today, thanks for the ideas.
Favourite pasta sauce:
I don't often do a sauce as such with pasta. I really dislike those jars of sauces (so sweet!) and it has put me off tomato sauces. When DH and I were at university we were shown a way of making a pasta dish by his sister. Put pasta on, steam/boil veg (spinach, brocolli, green beans, whatever you fancy really), then when the pasta is cooked mix it all up, add garlic and chilli and a bit of grated parmesan/cheddar/feta. We used to finish it off with way too much olive oil, but a little balsamic vinegar does the job. It became a regular meal when we were students with a green salad. Ironically when I looked through the River Cafe cookbooks a lot of their pasta dishes are very like this! Although my broccoli may not be an obscure Italian variety...
Another simple one I love is grated carrot and courgette, stirfried with garlic, add lemon juice and some lemon peel. Stir into pasta, grate some parmesan on top. The kids love this one. I use the food processor to coarsely grate the veg, really quick.
Liz x

nessie216

dizzyk wrote: »

I meant to ask yesterday (but had a blonde day and forgot ) did I read a post from you that said you had made some scotch eggs for a group tasting?? if so would you have the recipe and syns please please pretty please .......:D

I use the smash recipe which is free on green & EE

Cook eggs & cool
Cook some smash (slightly thicker than normal) allow to cool
Cover eggs in smash
Roll in dry couscous
Bake in oven until golden

I find the couscous is slightly too crunchy so whilst still hot i put in a airtight container to 'steam'

I spose you could use cooked couscous instead

Or you can use low syn sausages & roll in scan bran which you would have to syn the sausages & scan bran (1 syn per slice)

Hope this helps!

dizzyk

Thanks for the recipe nessie, I'l give the smashy ones a go today as Ive got all the ingredients in x


Im all happy and excited :j:j Ive just heard from Leeds hospital and Im getting my special hearing aids sorted at the hearing & balance centre on the 14th Its going to make such a difference!!!! whoop whoop Bionic woman :rotfl:

Sian_the_Green

dizzyk wrote: »

I meant to ask yesterday (but had a blonde day and forgot ) did I read a post from you that said you had made some scotch eggs for a group tasting?? if so would you have the recipe and syns please please pretty please .......:D

Still on the wagon, indeed. Just had some soup with some ham on top and yogurt and oats (1 syn) and a chopped nectarine, yummy. I have a diet vimto for later!

Scotch eggs were really simple. Boil your eggs as usual until hard boiled and then put back into the pan with cold water so you don't get the nasty grey line around the yolk.
Get some healthy living sausages and split them and take out the sausage meat, using a normal sized egg and normal sized sausages I would say it would take about 1 1/2 sausages per egg.
Wet your hands then spread the sausage meat all around the egg, this is a little messy! It should be about 1/2 a cm thick all over the egg. I have heard that rolling the egg in some flour first will help it stick, up to you!
When your eggs are all covered in sausage meat, roll in some crushed scan bran (1 crushed in a plastic bag with a rolling pin should do 4 eggs) to lightly coat (you can use crushed cornflakes if you are doing a non-wheat option)
Bake on a non-stick tray at about 200 degrees for about 20 mins. Slice into quarters when cool to take to your taster or do what I did and whack it on a plate and eat it hot!

Not so much a recipe as a random list of things I did, sorry, not one for weighing and measuring. Syns will depend on your sausages, if you get the low syn ones you get a lot for your "money"
HTH

nessie216 wrote: »

I use the smash recipe which is free on green & EE

Cook eggs & cool
Cook some smash (slightly thicker than normal) allow to cool
Cover eggs in smash
Roll in dry couscous
Bake in oven until golden

I find the couscous is slightly too crunchy so whilst still hot i put in a airtight container to 'steam'

I spose you could use cooked couscous instead

Interesting, good for a vegetarian option, will have to try this. I love a good egg, they are really filling, easy to transport once cooked and lovely with a little bit of salt, mmm...

When I had some friends around for their breakfast I put a couple of layers of wafer thin ham in each cup of a muffin tin then made some little patties of extra lean mince and pressed inside and baked them in the oven inside to make a little "quiche" then I added some beaten egg to the top and baked again, may try something like this for the taster with some low fat sausages or using tomatoes perhaps instead of the meat.

My favourite pasta recipe is cooking up chopped onion, diced courgette and chopped bacon with lots of chilli and then stirring into pasta, delish!