January 2011
16 posts
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Making Zucchini, Chilli and Mint Pizza
Here’s the second recipe of the weekend. I guess you can say the house inhabitants ate very well today.
Zucchini, Chilli and Mint Pizza:
[ 2 large flatbreads or 4 small ones + olive oil + 2 zucchini + 1 garlic clove + 1 red chilli + Mozarella cheese + A handful of mint leaves]
If you can’t get your hands on some flatbreads, I’m also posting up a recipe for pizza dough below....
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Making Griddle Scones
I wasn’t planning to cook at all this weekend. The week had been a tiring one what with all the going through old lecture materials and studying new ones. Truth be told I would’ve been content to just sleep in and eat bowls of instant noodles for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But then I remembered that next week is going to be even more hectic and I probably wouldn’t get the...
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Making Sticky Garlic Wings
Not exactly under 300 calories, but I believe that one deserves a break once in a while, especially after a really, really long day. This recipe is taken from Chef John’s Foodwishes.com.
I won’t give you the recipe here but I’ll put up a link to the video and the recipe on Chef John’s site.
The Video link
Recipe on Foodwishes.com
Alterations that I did:
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Cocoa for Karina
I’ve long promised Karina that I’ll send her a package but never got around or had the chance to do it. I finally got the time to do it recently, and in the midst of excitement, I made the wrong assumption that it was winter in Melbourne (because it’s winter in Qatar). Then I realized she’s in the southern hemisphere and it’s blazing hot summer there. But I’ve...
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Making Zucchini Fritters
Serve these babies with a dip of yoghurt and coriander and you won’t believe that it’s a healthier take on the regular deep fried fritters. Recipe taken fom BBC GoodFood.
Zucchini Fritters:
[ 2 medium sized zucchini + 2 tablespoons self raising flour + 25g of Parmesan Cheese, finely grated + 1 tablespoon olive oil ]
Grate the zucchini. Combine zucchini, flour, parmesan and shaped...
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Making Balsamic Asparagus on Toast
Continuing with food posts that are <300 cals, this one takes literrally 10 minutes to make. There are only…*counts fingers* 5 ingredients in this and it makes for an awesome breakfast or brunch. Recipe from BBC GoodFood’s
Balsamic Asparagus on Toast:
[20 stalks asparagus + 1 tablespoon unsalted butter + 2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar + 4 slices of brown bread + shavings of...
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Making Sloppy Joes
I’ve been on a hunt for recipes under 300 calories to share with you guys since most of our NY resolutions probably contained promises to eat healthier or work out more. So what better way to start than with a take on a cafeteria classic?
Base recipe taken from AllRecipes, with a few tweaks here and there.
Sloppy Joes: (Serves 6)
[450g lean ground beef + 40g chopped onion + 35g chopped...
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Making Berry Swirl Cheesecake
It is definite that to make a perfect cheesecake you’ll need two things. Cream cheese (doh!) and a springform tin. But it just so happens that neither are within my reach. Cream cheese is nowhere to be found in this place. I don’t know what it is with the shortage of cheese products around here (if you remembered my last post, I also couldn’t get my hands on fresh mozarella),...
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Making Grilled Caprese Sandwich
A fellow foodie and I once talked about how awesome it would to be to stuff Caprese salad (Fresh tomatoes, basil and mozarella drizzled with olive oil and sometimes balsamic vinegar) between two slabs of bread to make a sandwich. He then came up with the idea of stuffing it between two slices of bruschetta, hence this recipe.
I’ve held back from making this sandwich because there’s...
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Making Chocolate-Banana Flapjacks
Breakfast is supposedly the most important meal of the day. But many people don’t have the knack for making something nutritious in the allocated time between getting up, taking a shower and flying out the door. So most of us resorted to boxed cereals and power bars (the healthy kind; fruit loops doesn’t count!) which, in my humble opinion, is pretty much like eating a piece of...
