Advent Colander – Dec 6th
on Dec 06 in Uncategorized by Dan[Open the door / Close the door]
One of the reasons my diet has been so successful (54lb lost to date) is that it allows me to indulge in hearty breakfasts. I hate being hungry and the reason so many of my previous attempts to lose weight have failed is because I hadn’t been able to resist the impulse to stuff my face.
With this diet (ostensibly the Slimming World green day’s plan, but I don’t go to any meetings) I’m allowed to eat as much as I like, but only of certain things.
While I miss bread, crisps, and to a lesser extent meat, I certainly can’t complain about the results. And I am allowed to eat as much egg, baked beans, and mushrooms as I like: a perfect recipe for a faux full English breakfast.
So every morning, providing I have enough time, I cook myself a fry up. And to complement it I garnish it with liberal lashings of my own home made spicy tomato ketchup, the recipe for which I give you now. Be warned, it’s strong enough to remove the skin from the roof of your mouth.
Ingredients
1 finely chopped onion
2 crushed garlic cloves
2 x 400g cans of chopped tomatoes
2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp celery salt
2 tsp English mustard powder
2 tsp ground white pepper
2 tsp paprika
2 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp oregano
2 tsp cayenne pepper
4 tbsp artificial sweetner
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce (leave this out if you want to go veggie)
9 fl oz red wine vinigar
Method
Bung it all in a big pan and simmer for about 40 minutes. Then stick it in a food processor and blend it until smooth. Transfer to a sealable bottle or jar and then Bob’s your uncle.
If you can’t find any of the ingredients (I’m thinking mainly of English mustard here as I know that can be scarce in the States) then just leave them out. But whatever you do don’t mistake tsp for tbsp. I did that the second time I made it and it didn’t taste too good.
Apparently you can keep it for three weeks in the fridge, but I personally think it’ll probably last a bit longer than that. I triple all the measurements and then stick bottles of it in the freezer as I’ve been getting through quite a bit of it recently.
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Love the new header!
I am not a fan of anything spicy at all, so I think I might skip this recipe. Ha! Not that I actually cook in our kitchen at all anyways.
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I LOVE me a fry up! (I have British friends) They open up their fridge and take everything out and fry it for breakfast. Yum. Found you through Average Joe and laughing at your banner. Very funny.
Good lord man do I ever miss a good English fry up. Ok, mouth watering now.
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Firstly: holy spice, I am a big sissy. No can do.
Secondly: Redesign looks great, Dan. Nice work.
Avitable – You don’t cook in the kitchen? surely cooking in the bathroom is a little inconvenient?
Movin’ down the road – Fry ups are what made the British Empire great.
Kevin – Surely you could concoct your own?
Daddy Scratches – Wimp.
Those mushies look nice..yummmm. I have to agree with the breakfast thing. I love a fry up too. WW have a version I keep meaning to try but I wouldn’t have time to eat it every day – maybe just on weekends.
Fantastic that you have lost so much weight – we won’t recognise you soon! How much do you want to lose in total?
hmm removing skin..sounds like a good thing to do.
I like the goatee btw, if you decide to do another shave down..let the goatee grow back asap ;)
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The remnants of my last years diet have left me with a severe stir-fry habit, strips of pre-cooked and frozen chicken from Aldi and then as much vegetable matter as is humanly possible is thrown into a huge wok with a little olive oil and gallons of piri-piri sauce or a concoction of my own making which involves cayenne pepper and chilli seeds – and some boiled brown rice.
Mushrooms and leeks pad out the plate nicely and as 95% of it is veggie then it counts for a big zero on the calorie count, better still the sweats that you get afterwards are equivalent to a 45 minute workout at the gym.
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