Mum's 'green' soup

This looks like green slime from a swamp, so of course goes down well!

Ingredients

1 large potato cut into small dice with skin left on
1 medium leek, sliced
1 clove garlic, smashed
80g peas
1/2 tin chickpeas, rinsed
about 6-8 sprouts or 80g kale
1/2 tsp mixed herbs including thyme and oregano

method

Put everything into a saucepan and add 2 1/4 mugs water
Bring to the boil and simmer until everything is cooked - around 18 minutes
Allow to cool before blitzing to desired consitency

Choc chip cookies

ingredients

6 oz plain flour
3.5 oz coconut sugar
4 oz butter
around 60 gms sugar free milk chocolate

method

preheat oven to 150
cream the butter and coconut sugar together (you may need to break down some really hard lumps of coconut sugar, so be sure to check through!)
Add the flour and mix into a dough
Stir in the chocolate chips.
Put walnut sized balls onto a lightly greased baking sheet
Bake for 20 minutes (check 5 minutes before the end as coconut sugar can catch more quickly than refined caster sugar)
Cool on a wire rack

mini tarts

A great recipe for using up all those leftover things in the fridge. Don't throw anything away, not even a tablespoon of sweetcorn or the tiniest piece of chicken - they can all be used up in this recipe!

Ingredients

4oz plain flour
2 oz butter

Method

Rub the butter into the flour until it resembles breadcrumbs. Add around 2 tbsp water and mix into a dough.
Roll out and cut 12 rounds to fill a large fairy cake tin
Bake blind for 15 mins at 180

Fillings

You can choose whatever you like. Today I made coronation chicken and an 'all day breakfast' one:

Ingredients for coronoation chicken

leftover cooked chicken, cut into tiny chunks
curry powder to taste
Natural yogurt - enough to make the consistency of egg mayonnaise
a dash of cream if you wish

Method

Mix everything together well

Ingredients for 'all day breakfast'

1 small hard boiled egg
6 thin slices quorn pepperoni cut into tiny chunks
tablespoon sweetcorn
enough natural yogurt to coat

Mix everything together

To assemble

Spoon a generous couple of teaspoons of the mix into a pastry shell. I topped the coronation chicken with chives and the 'all day breakfast' with snipped chives.

Day 2

Breakfast

Cinnamon porrage
yogurt (with propbiotic and multi mineral supplement)
Blueberry puree
Cup of cranberry and orange tea

Lunch

Left over tuna pasta
ready salted hoola hoops

Day 1 of V's candida diet

Breakfast

1 large Stewed apple with cinnamon
around 100 gms Natural yogurt with probiotic powder and multi mineral liquid supplement
1/2 cup milk

Lunch

Carrs water table biscuits with butter and quorn pepperoni
pack salt 'n' shake crisps

Tea

Chicken curry and Fried rice
pumpkin seed ryvita


Curry

ingredients

1/2 tbsp oil
1 small onion, chopped
few pieces of yellow and orange pepper
left over cooked chicken
2 tbsp ketchup, watered so you can pour it easily
1/2 tbsp curry powder
garlic granules
3 tbsp natural yogurt

method

Fry the onion until beginning to soften
add the peppers and cook until soft
Add the cooked chicken and heat through
Add the curry powder and garlic - mix thoroughly and fry for a minute or two
Add the tomato ketchup and simmer while you cook some rice
Take off the heat, cool for a moment and stir through the yogurt

Served with basmatti rice and 2 pumpkin seed ryvita - makes 1 decent portion

Eve meal

Creamy tuna pasta

ingredients
 1 tbsp olive oil
1 small onion
few slices yellow and orange pepper, diced
garlic ggranules, thyme and oregano to taste
a small can tuna, drained
1/3 bottle passata
3 handful pasta shapes
3 tbsp cream
3 tbsp sweetcorn

Boil pasta and make the sauce:
Fry the onion, garlic, herbs and peppers until softened
Add tuna, passata, sweetcorn, bring to the boil then simmer until the pasta is cooked
Mixed everything together and stir in the cream

Makes 1 large portion for eating and 1 portion for leftover lunch