This is pretty feisty - make at your peril!
Ingredients
2 bags of tomatoes (roughly 10-12)
heaped tablespoon of hot chili powder
2 large onions
2 peppers (I used orange and red last time)
3-4 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon of paprika
1-2 tablespoons of salt
3-4 tablespoons of palm oil
1 stock cube of choice (I used vegetable last time I made this)
Blend onions until fine
Fry onions - in pressure cooker without lid on - gently in palm oil for about 10 minutes
Add garlic (chopped for stronger flavour, crushed otherwise) for 5 minutes
Add paprika and chili - fry off for 5 minutes
Add stock cube
Blend tomatoes and peppers until roughly chopped
Add tomatoes and peppers to onions and stir in
Add lid to pressure cooker and bring to max pressure
Turn heat down to minimum and cook for 30minutes to 1 hour (less means fresher, rawer tomatoes)
Season to taste
Serve 2 ladles of sauce with rice
We normally make a batch of this and it will last us about 3-4 days (2 people)
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Friday, 2 September 2011
Interesting article on carbs
Here's an article on carbohydrates from Spark People
http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/nutrition_articles.asp?id=590
Having followed a very low carbohydrate, and very low calorie diet (Exante) for some time I have to agree with some of this. Not sure I agree with all - I found my weight loss was fat not protein - and its easy to address the dehydration aspect. Thats just a bit of a change in lifestyle.
Whilst I'm off Exante now, I've kept up the water consumption. I have put on weight again (about half what I lost) but am now trying to adjust my lifestyle to be healthy enough to lose weight again. Focus is on vegetable juicing, reduced meat in diet, generally not snacking and breaking some of the emotional connection with food (as a reward, as a de-stresser etc)
Typical daily diet at the moment is:
Breakfast:
Breakfast bar
Lunch:
2 rounds of tuna and cucumber sandwiches on wholemeal bread
Grapes
Snack:
Small box of carrot sticks and sugar snap peas
Dinner:
Vegetable juice
White rice and tomato/chili sauce
At the weekend I'm trying to vary it a bit mainly so I get chance to cook. I'll give it a few weeks on this and see how it goes!
http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/nutrition_articles.asp?id=590
Having followed a very low carbohydrate, and very low calorie diet (Exante) for some time I have to agree with some of this. Not sure I agree with all - I found my weight loss was fat not protein - and its easy to address the dehydration aspect. Thats just a bit of a change in lifestyle.
Whilst I'm off Exante now, I've kept up the water consumption. I have put on weight again (about half what I lost) but am now trying to adjust my lifestyle to be healthy enough to lose weight again. Focus is on vegetable juicing, reduced meat in diet, generally not snacking and breaking some of the emotional connection with food (as a reward, as a de-stresser etc)
Typical daily diet at the moment is:
Breakfast:
Breakfast bar
Lunch:
2 rounds of tuna and cucumber sandwiches on wholemeal bread
Grapes
Snack:
Small box of carrot sticks and sugar snap peas
Dinner:
Vegetable juice
White rice and tomato/chili sauce
At the weekend I'm trying to vary it a bit mainly so I get chance to cook. I'll give it a few weeks on this and see how it goes!
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