1st
May 2014
A cup
of coffee with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent! And you don’t
NEED cake ;-)
Finally
got my mojo back in the kitchen yesterday, it’s been a while I have to
admit. I nipped to Asda on morning to
get me some veggies, that makes a huge difference when deciding to cook, having
some ingredients to do it with! I’m not
big on lots of fancy ingredients, I want quick and easy as I’m busy in the
week. I found a bag on Bulgur Wheat in
the cupboard which I’d bought back in January when Simple Start was launched,
it’s on the list so I thought I’ll try that, don’t know what to do with it but
hey, let’s go! I never did of course, January
was busy and I never got round to it until yesterday and oh my word I can’t
believe what I’ve been missing out on, I’ve been trying to get wholewheat couscous
all this time and bulgur wheat is just as good.
Waitrose have the couscous by the way, or they will when they restock, I
bought the shelf on Monday, I’d spent the morning decoupaging (sticking bits of
paper on furniture) a rocking chair using Winnie the Pooh book photos before I
went shopping. I wondered why the
assistant in the shop kept looking at me, then eventually she pointed at my bum
and said, “you’ve got something stuck on you!”
I pulled off what was a piece of the paper from the book, looked at her
and said “Oh it’s Winnie the Pooh!” well her face was a picture as you can
imagine!
Anyway
I’m deviating, back to the kitchen and the bulgur wheat – go get yourself a
bag, really easy to cook, cheap meal and Filling and Healthy. I added a chicken Bovril cube to some boiling
water put some bulgur wheat in a jug, covered it in the water and left for half
hour, it’s that easy. This was the meal
I made;
And this
is how I made it;
Stuffed peppers with breaded cheesy mushrooms.
Bulgur
Wheat (60g uncooked dried mixture is 5pp)
Chicken
stock cube
Veggies
of choice, diced.
3
mushrooms per person
10g
cheese of choice per mushroom (1pp per 10g)
1 Egg (did
6 mushrooms) (2pp)
2 slice
Homemade breadcrumbs using low calorie brown bread (made 6 mushrooms) (3pp)
Add a chicken stock cube (i used bovril) to boiling water
and cover bulgur wheat, leave for half hour. Probably do this at the beginning,
although I warmed it through in microwave.
Remove stalks from mushrooms and dice small like this;
Put 1pp of cheese in each mushroom, I used St Agur blue
cheese (10g = 1pp) and that's a cheese triangle split between the other two
(was experimenting).
Beat an egg in one dish and put homemade F&H
breadcrumbs in another and cover the mushrooms in egg, then in breadcrumbs.
Also cut lid of pepper to roast. Spray everything with WW oil spray and put in
oven for about half hour, I used gas mark 6.
Use whatever veg you fancy, dice and stir fry with a bit
of WW spray oil.
Mix vegetables into bulgur wheat.
Absolutely delicious! If you were to add garlic to the mushrooms they’d be
like the garlic
mushrooms you get as a starter in a restaurant only not deep
fat fried!
On Filling & Healthy the only thing to ProPoint is
the cheese, the oil spray can come out of your daily oil allowance, if you’re
ProPointing to work out how much bulgur wheat you use, I made too much had the
rest for tea so I’m guessing 60g per person is plenty which would make the dish
10pp thereabouts, well worth it.
Right 1st of May and a busy day ahead, five
months into the year already, that’s scary how quick life is moving by, good
job I’m enjoying it!
Have a great day BeYOUtiful, Eat Gorgeous and take care
of you because you’re important too. xx
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