One pot cooks all - Easy healthy vegan meals

Sometimes I like to go super healthy and easy.

This is an easy meal to make and good to solve digestion / constipation issues.

You need a rice cooker.

And ingredients - brown rice, 

carrots, garlic, Japanese sweet potato, green leafy vegetables, herbs.

optional salmon belly.

Cooking time 30 minutes.

First you give the rice a rinse in water. Then you put one cup of it into the rice cooker. Its roughly one cup of rice per person. Add two and a half cups of water. 

Chop the garlic, carrot, and sweet potato into bite size pieces and add it in the rice cooker. Add a bit of fennel seeds if you like.

A slice of garlic helps increase your immunity, preventing colds/flus etc.. Don't add to much otherwise you'll reek.

Fennel helps digestion and prevents bloating.

Sweet potato helps digestion and prevents stomach cancer.

Carrots helps add natural sweetness and improved eye sight.

Brown rice has vastly more nutrition than white rice.

White rice is like white bread - very little nutrition, plenty of starch, plenty of sugar, practically zero roughage.  Eat white rice daily and you'll experience insulin problems which may lead to diabetes.

Add pepper and salt for taste.

Turn on the rice cooker. :)

 Once its finished you can add in some fresh (room temperature) salmon and the natural residual heat from the rice cooker will cook the salmon to perfection. If you do this - wait 5 minutes while the salmon naturally cooks in the cooker.

Dish and serve - I like to add baby spinanch leaves, rocket and chilli into the mix now. Don't forget to wash the green leafy vegetables ;)

I'm too tired to cook lamb chops low carbs recipe

I'm too tired to cook lamb chops low carbs recipe

January 17, 2012 at 12:23pm

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It was too hot and I was feeling too tired to cook dinner last night. But I felt I should still cook something otherwise I'd be waking up at 3am and devour junk food.

I had a small pack of lamb chops, 2 pieces, which I had just bought.

What I did was to put the lamb chops into a steel pot. rubbed it with a little cooking oil and pepper and sea salt with a metal spoon and threw it crushed garlic (well, in this case a couple of tablespoons from a small jar of garlic that I had in the back of my fridge), chopped a carrot to add inside and threw in some mushrooms and sprinkled it with dried chilli flakes. Total time that took me - 10 mins max.

Turned the fire to low heat. Covered the pot and went to watch TV for 30+ mins. Sprinkled Italian herbs and ground fennel and aniseed inside.

Came back, stirred it around. Covered the pot again and did Facebook for 20+ mins.

All done. Time to eat.

The key is to have the fire on low heat. And to cover the pot.

I'm starving I want to eat some bacone fettuccine

I'm starving I want to eat some bacone fettuccine

February 7, 2012 at 12:12am

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I was planning to make an omelet using bacon rashers and eggs - but as I was dry frying the bacon - the aroma made my mouth water and  made me think of bacon mushroom fettuccine. And so I gave into the thought and made that instead for dinner. And boy was it good. Or maybe I was just starving marvin. I only had breakfast and missed a proper lunch.

OK. what you need is:
Bacon rashers - the ones where they have cut off the skin bits.
White Aussie Mushrooms
Basil / Italian Herbs
Small Carrot
Asparagus - optional
A leafy vegetable like baby spinach
White Carbonara Sauce - use Dolminos.
San Remo Spinach Fettuccine - its the green color one
Pepper/Salt

I didn't use oil. Just turn the heat low - throw in the bacon - chopped up - and let it dry fry. The bacon already has a lot of oil in its fat.
Throw some white and black pepper inside
Because I'm Asian I added in chilli flakes as well.
Once it gets sizzling throw in the mushrooms, also cut up.
Throw in the end bits of the asparagus - cut up. Add the flower bits later on as they cook faster.
Chuck in the carrot which has been finely diced up. I find that the carrot gives a nice comparative texture with the mushrooms.

Meanwhile boil the spinach fettuccine - it takes about 15 minutes full boil to cook it.

Once done - add the fettuccine into the mix to cook and pour the sauce in and the leafy vege...

After 5 - 10 minutes you're done. Time to eat.

The bacon, mushroom and carbonara sauce with the fettuccine is a real killer combo.

Scone recipe 1

This is the first baking recipe I accomplished. I find it enjoyable to mix flour, milk, some dried fruit you have in the fridge together - and after 10 mins in the oven - you come up with something 10 times better.

You need 3 cups Self-raising flour

1 and a quarter cup of milk

80g of butter

and a bowl of dried fruit - in this case, dates.

1. I cut up the dates and left them to soak in the milk because they were a little too dry.
2. Mix the Flour with the butter by rubbing them together.
3. Heat the oven to 200C
4. Clear the Bench Top and sprinkle ordinary flour on it. Rub some of that on your hands to prevent the dough from sticking.
5. Mix the Buttered Flour with the Dates to form the dough - in the bowl.
6. Take it out and stretch or roll the dough out.
7. You can cut the scones out or I just tear them out and pat them to shape.
8. Put them on the baking tray and into the oven they go.
9. After 10 - 15 minutes they're done.
10. Don't leave them on the hot baking tray - place them on the serving plate.