Wednesday, January 30, 2013 | By: Sinead Finnegan

Instragram Catch Up

     This week was a week filled with attempts at healthy eating. Which to me, means filling the plate with vegetables and boxes of salad are particularly cheap.
     So general theme of week was FILL THE PLATE WITH ALL THE SALAD.

Veggie Burgers, salad with carrots and hummus 
     These are from Holland and Barrett, they are made from soy protein and look somewhat disgusting dehydrated straight from the packet. But once you add water, leave them soak it up and gently grill them, they turn into perfectly delicious veggie burgers.

Spaghetti Bolognese
     Bolognese with chunky veg looks slightly ridiculous covered in salad. I probably should start using side plates... Garlic bread with salad, topped with bolognese and covered with cheese is just too good to pass up for pretty pictures. 

Parmesan Chicken Salad
     Baked Parmesan chicken is so easy to do. Dip chicken in melted butter, roll in Parmesan cheese, season and bake for 25 minutes. Add to salad, smother in your favourite dressing and you've got yourself a low carb dinner.

Cheese stuffed chicken with more cheese

     Favourite dish of the week! It's a fillet of chicken, stuffed with Philadelphia and wrapped in parma ham, served with a baked camembert, salad and greens. The baked camembert you can buy in Aldi, and you should go buy it because it is awesome. I do love all the gooey cheese.

     Next week I'm looking for more interesting vegetable sides than salad, and more low carb ideas. Suggestions? 
Monday, November 12, 2012 | By: Sinead Finnegan

Giant Oreo Birthday Cake

     This is a Londoner recipe.


     I wanted something with a bit of a wow factor for Joe's birthday on Sunday. I think it ticks all the boxes for keeping your little brother happy.
     Giant. Tick.
     Chocolate. Tick.
     Loaded with cookies. Tick.

     What can go wrong?

Ingredients

2 packs Betty Crocker Devil's Food Cake Mix
140 ml Vegetable Oil
500 ml water
6 medium eggs
2 packets oreo cookies
200 g softened butter
400 g icing sugar
3 tbsp cold milk
1 lemon
Betty Crocker Chocolate Icing

Method

Make two devil's food cakes following the instructions on the packs
While these are cooking, smash your oreos to pieces (not crumbs)
Cream together your butter and icing sugar
Once combined, add the milk and juice of half a lemon
Gently stir in the oreos. If you are too rough at this point the oreos will turn the mixture to a grey colour
Once your cakes are cooled and trimmed, layer the oreo mixture on top of one
Sandwich them together
Cover in chocolate icing

Sunday, November 11, 2012 | By: Sinead Finnegan

Kit Kat Lasagne

     This was one of the many silly ideas making it's way through Facebook and twitter. It was too ridiculous not to try.


     Kit Kats, what I would guess is marshmallow fluff, smarties or M&Ms and mini marshmallows. Definitely an intrigue or disgust kind of dish. 

     My version: 


     A tamed version. Quite a bit less messy but keeping to the overall idea.

To make this you need: 
     18 Kit Kats
     Multipack of boxes of mini-Smarties
     Marshmallows
     White Cake Covering Chocolate or any not overly sweet white chocolate
      One Loaf Tin

Layer the bottom of the tin with Kit Kats, cover with Smarties, pour on melted white chocolate, add another layer of Kit Kats and Smarties, pour on melted marshmallows, add a layer of Kit Kats, pour on the rest of the white chocolate, dot with Smarties.
Leave in the fridge to set. 


Wednesday, October 10, 2012 | By: Sinead Finnegan

Salted Caramel Chocolate Torte

     I am so behind on this blogging business. New house, new masters and just generally being terribly distracted. 

     I made this cake nearly a month ago. It is my absolute favourite cake I have ever tasted. Just too amazing. 


     So rich. So gooey. So chocolatey. I may need to make another one of these very soon. 


     It is from the BBC good food website