Salisbury Steak in Onion, Mushroom and Red Wine Gravy and Veggies

One of my all time favorite meals I was introduced to when I planted one's English feet upon Canadian soil was Salisbury Steak it was everything I loved .... MEAT and VEG,  Needless to say my eating habits have drastically changed since the day of Extremely well cooked dry ass meat and Mushy veg! I mean who knew that you could eat veggies that still had a bit of a crunch! 

Anywho I am getting very much off topic as per usual .... Back to Salisbury Steak!.

When starting this diet i was dreading the Low fat healthier versions of my favorite things this being one of them, but I was pleasantly surprised with this!

Here's what you need:

1 lb EXTRA LEAN ground beef (Mince Beef for the horrid lot oversea's)

2 Medium Onions

5 Decent sized Mushrooms

1 Egg

1/4 Cup Oat bran (Breadcrumbs if you are not Carb restricted)

1 teaspoon Minced Garlic

Salt and Pepper

1/3 Cup Red Wine

2 Cup Reduced Sodium Fat Free Beef stock

2 Teaspoon Cornstarch

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

What ever Veggies you feel like.

Here's what you do:

In a bowl mix Ground beef, 1 Onion(Diced), Garlic, 1 Egg, Oat Bran and Salt and Pepper once well mixed form into Burger patties.

Heat a high sided frying pan with a good splash of olive oil in the pan,  Once pan is hot add patties and cook once cooked take out of pan and put to the side.

Slice other onion and mushrooms and then fry them in the same pan you just cooked the patties in fry until browned and soft then add red wine and cook until wine is at a rolling boil then add beef stock.

In a glass mix corn starch with same amount of water (2 teaspoon) add to the gravy and cook until gravy thickens (If it gets to thick add water).

Once gravy is the thickness you want it add the patties back into the gravy and simmer for about 10 mins, while you get your plates and shit ready.

Serve with veggies and Demolish!

Salisbury Steak and Veggie's

Salsa Fresco, Feta and Spinach Stuffed Chicken Tits!

This was very Fecking tasty even if I do say so myself!
This is also a perfect recipe/meal for releasing aggression and you will have to beat the snot out of said chicken tit's with a pan.

Here's what your need:
Chicken Tit's (we used 2 as there is 2 of us eating)
2 Tomato's
1 Medium Purple Onion (Regular Onion is fine too)
1 Clove of Garlic
1/2 a Lime
Cilantro
Salt
Pepper
Feta Cheese (I used about 1/4 Cup)
 Fresh Parmesan Cheese (I used about 1/8 Cup. You can also use the powder)
Spinach.

This is what you do:

First things first make the salsa which is easy all you gotta do is dice the Tomato and Onion and mince the garlic add all those to a bowl and cover with the juice of half a lime, Crumble Feta into mixture and grate the Parmesan into this also. Mix well and let stand.

Now put the Chicken Tit's on a cutting board and cover with Plastic wrap (This is the part where things could get messy).
Once Chicken is covered pound the shit out of with a heavy object to flatten it (I use a frying pan).

Take flattened chicken and put some spinach on it and then some of the salsa mixture and then roll the chicken up hiding the spinach and salsa in the center,  Do this for all your Chicken.

Put rolled Chicken into an oven safe dish and cover with any left over salsa.

Bake uncovered at 375F or Gas Mark 5 until chicken is cooked.

Serve with a banging salad and Demolish!

Salsa Fresco, Feta and Spinach stuffed Chicken Tit's!

Spicy Veg Soup!

Lets this start post by saying how awesome soup is can we?,  I love soup of all kinds,  people are often shocked at how easy soup is to make so I am going to share with you a new one I made and I gotta say I thought it was #FUCKINGDELICIOUSNESS! although strangely Wifey didn't like it which is bizarre as she normally has very good taste I mean come on she did marry me FFS, However on this occasion i think her taste buds are being very badly behaved because as stated above I loved it!

Here goes!!

This is what you will need:

1 Cauliflower 

2 Crowns of Broccoli

3 Carrots

1 Medium onion

3 Celery Stalks

Garlic 

Chicken Stock

Veg Stock

Olive Oil

Salt 

Pepper

Chili Powder

This is what you do:

Cube up Onions, Carrots and Celery.  Mince Garlic Add of of those to a pan with a splash of Olive oil and cook until starting to soften then add chopped Broccoli and Cauliflower continue to cook for about 5 Min's then add Stock to cover all the veggies and then some,  Bring to the boil and add the amount of chili powder you want (I like mine Spicy) then add salt and pepper to taste and let the stock boil until veg is SOFT.  Remove from the heat and blend until smooth (I use a immersion blender) Once blended well stick it in a bowl and CHOW down (If you are one of those lucky assholes that can eat bread I would for sure have this with a big crusty roll)

Spicy Veg Soup

Old Spaghetti Factory ... mmmmm meatballs!

So for cheat day we had Tacofino for Lunch ( amazing as always!)

Then we hit the Royal BC Mueseem ... Not my cup of tea but because i adore my wife and she likes that kind of stuff i gladly went :D (It was utter shite!) however that being said I got to spend the entire day with my beautiful wife which was awesome!.

So after the Kak (Slang for shite) we went to the Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner (I LOVE pasta).

My dinner as pictured below was amazing however Teena's Manicotti was the shits :( but again never the less it was a wonderful day!

It's CHEAT DAY!!! ... CAKE!!!

OK so let's not piss around ... Who doesn't like Cake? oooo I love a nice bit of cake!.

So after reading that first line of poetic genius i bet your thinking "What the feck is Diet about cake?" well here goes ... FECK ALL is diet about it and i fully blame two people for this lack of judgement and total disregard for ones diet... Samantha Mchugh and Daz Thornton (Barstards!) .... sorry i see i am going completely off track here ..i will explain i saw that Sam had posted a picture of the most delicious looking masterpiece of fatty floury chocolate goodness and then to top it off i awoke on Monday (Cheat Day) to see that Daz had posted a picture of a BEUATIFUL looking Victoria Sponge Cake ... what followed can only be described as a Hot Mess!.

I peel my self out of bed my hair looks like something you would see upon the head of one of the "Emu" (Or whatever the feck they are calling themselfs)  youngster types ... for those who are now completely lost .. i was trying to comically discribe the state of my hair ... it was a fecking mess!.

So with "Emu" hair and Superman fleecy pants i go all two fat ladies and start to pull out Bricks of butter and flour to create my heart stopping masterpiece you see below and now i will share the recipe with you.

P.s ... I would like it to go down on record that i did not eat this whole cake as much as i wish i could of! 

Here's what you need:

 

1 cup of flour

1 cup of room temp butter

1 cup of icing sugar

2 eggs at room temp

1/2 cup of milk at room temp

1 and 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder

1 teaspoon vanilla

Jam (I used mixed berry)

Butter cream (1/2 cup of butter 2cup of icing sugar and a splash of vanilla Mixed together)

Here's what you do:

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F

Sift flour baking powder

Cream together butter and sugar 

Whisk eggs add slowly to butter and sugar

Now add milk and flour mix bit by bit

add vanillia and mix

pour batter into a cake pan and bake for about 20 mins or until u poke it with a toothpick and the pick comes out clean.

Let cake cool.

Once cake is cooled slice in half and spread both sides with jam and butter cream then put back together dust with icing sugar and demolish!

Chicken Ragu Stylee

I wanted to make something quick, easy and flavorful for dinner and since Trollston wasn't going to be home until after 9 I wanted something on the lighter side aswell. I had been looking at pictures earlier in the day and came across a picture of a chicken dinner that my mom had made and it stayed on the brain for the day. So, I made a spin off version  of her masterpiece. .and let me tell ya it was a masterpiece to still be in my phone gallery lol! Our sunshine Diane McHugh across the pond might like this

What you need:
4 chicken pieces..I used boneless skinless.
1 medium onion diced
1 tomato diced
1 stalk of celery diced
1/2 yellow pepper and 1/2 red pepper diced
6 med mushrooms or 3 large ones sliced thin
1 small carrot diced
1 glob of minced garlic
1/2 cup of tomato sauce(not ketchup ) if you have some in the fridge
1 good size glob of chicken Better than Boullion chicken stock
Salt and pepper
Chili powder
Garlic plus

What you do:
Season chicken with salt and pepper,  chili powder and garlic plus and fry on medium heat with a dab of olive oil. Don't forget to Season the other raw side once you put it into the pan. Once both sides are seared add a splash of water to deglaze the pan the  add your diced veggies. I pulled the chicken up on the top of the veggies and let the veggies cook down on med heat. Put a lid on the pan for 10 to 15 min to cook the chicken through then turn the heat down and rest the lid half off to let the steam out so everything can reduce down to a nice thick Ragu.
When the sauce has very little moisture left you should be good to plate it up. A nice helping of the Ragu with chicken on top with some parmesan plained on top with a dollop of sour cream to smooth it out.
I was happy with how this turned out..it was packed with flavor and healthy.. for you lucky bastards that can carb it up..some nice crusty bread would be a nice accompaniment. Enjoy!

Homemade Chicken and Veggie Asian Styled Soup

I was pleasantly surprised at the yumminess i created here i gotta tell ya ... i stood by and looked at myself in modest amazement!

Here's what you need:
Chicken Tits
Onion
Celery
Garlic
Cashew nuts
Pepper
Carrots
Corn
Water chestnuts
Sugar snap peas
Mushrooms
Green beans

Broccoli

Beef and Chicken Stock

Asian salad dressing

Olive Oil
Salt and Pepper

Here's what you do:

In a pan heat up a good splash of olive oil,  Cube up chicken tits and set aside,  now is where you choose if u want chunky or sliced veg ... I like it chunky ;).  Chop Onions, Carrots and Celery put those into the pan with 1teaspon of minced garlic fry until starting to soften then add chicken cubes and fry until chicken is starting to brown add about 14 cup asian salad dressing and continue to cook,  once chicken and other veg is well coated add remaining veg and continue to fry for about 5 mins then add your stock and salt and pepper to taste and allow to simmer until your veg is the texture u like ... this is thebomb.com supper yum!