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The 'Here's what I had for dinner last night' thread - Part I
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A staple in the iwantmydinner household: creamy chorizo and red pesto pasta. Everything from Aldi, a super cheap and tasty dinner. Plenty leftover for my lón mór tomorrow as well
Sidebar: I love the Aldi wholewheat pasta, particularly the penne. What are yer favourite pasta brands/types?0 -
Been absolutely broke this week. Using leftovers and stuff from the store cupboard, I've been able to put together four days' dinners for four people for about €12.00.
Meatball pizza tonight. The meatballs you buy in Aldi/Lidl are absolutely delicious sliced up and put on pizza. I recommend you try it!
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Marty McFly wrote: »Sorry for the terrible pics
For lunch a meatza basically a pizza made with a turkey mince base, and Chorizo, pepperoni and ham as toppings.
Made a Meatza myself a few weeks back with Minced beef for the base. It was soooo good. I purposely didnt make another because I ate the whole thing in one day nearly and it had a serious amount of food in/on it!
Great for low-carb-diet and a craving for pizza!0 -
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HungryJoey wrote: »Made a Meatza myself a few weeks back with Minced beef for the base. It was soooo good. I purposely didnt make another because I ate the whole thing in one day nearly and it had a serious amount of food in/on it!
Great for low-carb-diet and a craving for pizza!
Yeh I generally make it about once every two weeks using 500g of turkey mince for the base alone so it is a good feed..
I generally eat very little carbs aswell well simple carbs anyway mostly eat complex carbs if I'm having any.
Your one does look delicious nearly drooling looking at the screen. 0 -
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I've been living on it for the last few nights haha... hats off to Loire for mentioning it. You can pretty much use chicken + sauce + whatever else you want and it's gold. Pancetta/'bacon bits' do actually work great which I tried tonight - was a bit cautious but I make a salad (see below) quite commonly with similar ingredients (minus mushrooms or egg, can't see them working in this hot meal) so thought it was worth a go. Just throw them in with the chicken for the last 3-4 minutes to go crispy and remove with the chicken when you put the tomato in. According to a guy I know who dropped 100lbs+ in a matter of months, it's also as "godly" in terms of nutrition, with a few adjustments.
An aside, but something that might be of interest to regulars in this thread... those 'ceramic, wipe-to-clean' pans that have been dominating the infomercial nonsense actually are all they are advertised t be. You can even cook eggs or chicken with no oil, but I usually prefer a splash for flavour.
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--My awesome salad
No real measurements, so imagine this as filling a lunchbox:
About 1/3 of the lunchbox/bowl with pasta (I usually go withpenne/sprialli), boiled then ran under water to go cold. Add about 2tsp pesto, then get a fistful of nuts (I use peanuts, work great), crushed with the back of a wooden spoon and mixed in as well.
1-2 chicken fillets, grilled or baked or whatever whole, and shredded. Amazed I never knew how to make shredded meats, it's really easy! Just let it chill, stick a fork in one side, gently brush another for along it width-ways until you can see the fibres, then tear down more aggressively. Clear the fork every now and then because it gets clotted in there. Also removing the skin makes it easier, if possible. Mix this into the pasta.
Get some lettuce/rocket/spinach - of whatever green **** you prefer, I like those three most. Put a 'bed' of it on top of the pasta/chicken.
2-3 rashers (won't work for the Americans as well, with your fatty bacon ). Cut it into really thin strips length-ways, then hold them all together in strips and cut into tiny, tiny pieces. Or buy it in bits already, but you tend to pay more and I am a bit paranoid that they use the ****tiest meat for that stuff. Then set the pan to top heat on the hottest ring, add some oil, leave it until some smoke is coming up and ass the bacon bits, always stirring. Only cook for about 2-3 mins, it should be good and crispy, with some bits a little brown. Drain on kitchen paper, and sprinkle over the top.
Get some cherry tomatoes (they need to be ripe!), cut in half and put over the top again. You can dive standard tomatoes if you prefer, but I prefer cherry tomatoes.
This final bit is love-it-or-hate-it: 1-2 poached eggs (soft boiled works the same if you can do them... I can't
). They are really easy to do, funny enough - just needs a little preparation. Get the smallest pot in the house, fill it about 10% with vinegar, then another 40% with boiling water. Get a bowl and fill it with some ice-cubes and water (or pop it in the freezer at the very start of cooking, if no ice-cubes). Get about 6-pieces of kitchen paper and layer. Crack an egg into a tiny cup of some sort, and stir the f*** out of the water/vinegar in the pot at medium/high heat in one direction. When you get a 'whirlpool' in the middle of the pot, quickly pop in the egg (the smaller the pot, the more concentrated the whirlpool) - aim for the middle, so it clumps together. The whirlpool will whip the white around the yolk to keep it soft, and the vinegar will make it coagulate and hold together. No vinegar is the main reason people are perplexed as to why their attempts at poached eggs they wind up with gloopy white water, it's crucial. Leave in for about 4 minutes, carefully move to the ice-water for 1-2 minutes to stop it from cooking internally, then on the paper to drain the water, and then on to the very top of everything else. Only poach one at a time!!
In total:
Pasta/pesto/(pea)nut/shredded chicken mix, topped with...
Salad/lettuce/spinach mix, topped with...
Chopped cherry tomatoes and tiny crispy bacon bits, (optionally) topped with...
Poached egg.
It is unreal with some Caesar dressing, but if that's not in line with your diet the egg yolk also oozes out as a kind of sauce and works surprisingly well with everything else. Doesn't take too much to fill, but I don't have a big appetite at all and have gone through nearly 2kg of this at once before without being too hungry beforehand!
--His 'healthy adjustments'
10g pesto: 40 calories, 0.4g protein, 0.9g carbs, 3.8g fat
100g chicken breast: 112 cals, 23.6g pro, 0g carbs, 1.9g fat
30g (dry weight) penne: 107 cals, 3.6g pro, 21.6g carbs, 0.5g fat
10g peanuts: 60 cals, 2.6g pro, 1g carbs, 4.8g fat
80g iceberg lettuce: 10 cals, 0.6g protein, 1.5g carbs, 0.2g fat
1 medium salad tomato: 16 cals, 0.6g pro, 2.5g carbs, 0.2g fat
50g ham: 53 calories, 7.9g protein, 0.5g carbs, 2g fat
poached egg: 80 cals, 6.5g protein, 0.6g carbs, 5g fat
30g low cal caesar dressing: 18 cals, 0.4g protein, 2.8g carbs, 0.4g fat
496 calories, 46.2g protein, 31.4g carbohydrates, 18.8g fat
48% protein, 33% carbs, 19% fat
- Makes for a VERY appealing way to lose weight for those sick of eating really drab, boring stuff (I naturally have the metabolism of a 14 year old crack-head, but I love trying new things, so feel a bit bad for those who need to limit myself - d'mother being an example who dropped 4 stone in 6 months recently in her 50s, she eats this regularly).0 -
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