- Ratatouille w/ Czech meatballs
- Plantain nachos topped w/ spicy carnitas, guacamole and soured cream
- Cuban chicken
- Salmon ceviche and roast beetroot and butter w/ feta
- Braai wors w/ slaw
- Thai spiced fish cakes w/ som tam salad
- Reuben rolls
This week’s menu
- Carnitas w/ lettuce wraps, guacamole and crème fraîche.
- Braai-spiced chicken drumsticks w/ coleslaw
- Leftover chicken, salad, cheese and coleslaw
- Roast lamb w/ garlic cauliflower mash and greens
- Aubergine stuffed w/ pork mince and peppers
- Hula meatballs w/ greens and oven-roast cauliflower-rice
- Lamb curry w/ coconut cauliflower-rice
This week’s menu
- Lamb curry with roast cauliflower
- Carnitas on baby gem lettuce with guacamole, salsa and sweet potato wedges
- Czech meatballs w/ leeks and mashed swede
- West African Chicken w/ cauliflower and broccoli
- Bobotie topped w/ sweet potato rosti, and steamed cauliflower leaves
- Leek lasagne
- Chicken and prawn gumbo
- Pork ribs w/ coleslaw and sweet potato wedges
Super-quick chocolate mousse
Melt 100g dark chocolate. Can be done in a microwave on medium for 2-3 mins, but remove before completely melted, then stir until smooth.
Stir in 200g cold fromage frais. Divide between (up to) 2 glasses and eat immediately!
West African Chicken (from WellFed2)
I really wanted to try this as it’s got a bit of spice and a little nut butter, so made me think of satay 🙂
Sadly my pictures do not look as pretty as this actually tastes, but I promise you it tastes amazing!
My favourite sausage dinner (adapted from Delicious Magazine)
This is a really nice way to eat aubergine as it goes super soft and creamy, so no nasty squeaky bits. Plus only needs a frying pan and a baking sheet to prepare. We have it between 2 with some broccoli on the side, but it’s meant to serve 4, so you only get half an aubergine and 1 sausage each. A green salad and the garlic bread as they suggest might work. I don’t add the breadcrumbs at the end, but use parmesan or a little mature cheddar instead.
MUST USE DECENT SAUSAGE!!! I get the Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference 70% pork in the 10 packs when they’re on special and split them up to freeze. You only need 4 sausages so does work out quite economical. I’ve been known to bung the rest of the pack of sausages on the baking tray too cook while this is roasting so I have cooked sausage in the fridge for frittatas etc. This week I used my own chorizo-style kofta sausages (from WellFed2) as they’ve been in the freezer a while.
Whole thing costs under £4.50 to make 🙂
http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/sausage-and-herb-stuffed-aubergines-recipe
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How to be a Domestic Goddess
Following a few weeks off, trying to adjust to an office-free existence, I finally got my backside in gear and invested a whole day in the kitchen. As a result, my freezer is now full to bursting and I have a whole month’s dinners planned!
Dinners:
2 x Lamb curry 2 x Pork cheek and chorizo carnitas 3 x West African Chicken stew 5 x beef and pork ragu 3 x Lamb bobotie 1kg Czech meatballs Jerk seasoned, shredded ham hock Bora bora fireballs (pork and pineapple meatballs) Grilled chicken thighs Spanish pork casserole Eisbein Farm shop beef meatballs
Sorted. I like to be ahead of the curve, but if I have to chop another onion any time soon I may go postal 🙂
Week Four
Breakfasts:
- Brunch @ Bosco
- Omelette
- Quasi huevos rancheros
Lunches:
- Sausages w/ sweet potato salad
- Tuna deli salad w/ eggs
- Mackerel, beetroot, green bean and egg salad
- Bora bora fireballs w/ celeriac slaw
Dinners:
- Haggis, mashed neeps and red wine gravy
- Pigs cheek in leek, mustard and cream sauce w/ savoy cabbage
- Pesto chicken w/ green beans (4 x chicken thigh)
- Kippers, spinach and poached eggs
- Czech meatballs w/ mashed swede and gravy
- White fish w/ pesto veg
- West African chicken w/ cauliflower rice
Week Three
Breakfast:
- Ham, spinach and poached eggs (Brunch – Bosco Lounge)
- Broccoli slaw omelette
- Sausage, bacon and egg (work canteen)
- Broccoli slaw omelette
- Kippers and scrambled eggs
Lunches:
- Chicken, bacon and avo club salad
- Grilled chicken w/ sweet potato salad and eggs
- Tuna deli salad w/ pickles
- Mackerel, beetroot, green bean and egg salad
- Tuna deli salad
Dinners:
- Chicken fajitas in lettuce wraps
- Bolognaise w/ sweet potato mash
- Meguez meatballs w/ aubergine gratin*
- West African chicken stew w/ sweet potato dauphonoise and red cabbage*
- Kippers on spinach w/ poached eggs
- Czech meatballs w/ cauliflower rice*
*ready meal in freezer
Low Carb, High Fat for ZAR40 / day?
@SamDunlop1 @jonnoproudfoot is your man. This is a priority as is LCHF on R40/day. Can it be done? Let’s try.
— Tim Noakes (@ProfTimNoakes) January 14, 2014
Interesting topic on Twitter from Prof. Tim Noakes this week. Can a LCHF diet be maintained on ZAR40 / day?
On today’s exchange rate, ZAR40 ≈ £2.25 ≈ $3.67
Not sure if this is based on an individual, buying food every couple of days or a family doing a weekly or bi-weekly supermarket shop taking advantage of economies of scale, and obviously I’ve not taken into account buying power in each country.
We average £40/ week on food shopping. This covers 3 meals a day for 2 adults so approx. £2.85 per person, per day. And that’s without really trying to cut costs; just shopping at the supermarket and shopping to a list, rather than picking up all the BOGOFs.
Our menu is varied and, even though it doesn’t often feature steak anymore, we eat good quality protein with each meal.
Does not include beer and wine, but of course we shun booze on our Paleo/ Primal diet don’t we…. 🙂