Healthy breakfast

A healthy breakfast without carbs is pretty hard - given the usual suspects of toast, bagels, cereal....

I recently started with a personal trainer and here's what he recommended:

3 eggs
half an avocado

The whites should be cooked with the yolks almost raw. Fortunately this is how I love my eggs although I really struggle to get them like this anywhere in the US....

Here's how I make them - its real simple...

Heat the oil - use grapeseed oil - on low/medium heat
Crack the eggs and just leave them in the pan sunny side up until the whites are pretty much cooked, and going heavily brown around the edges.
Flip them for 10 seconds max and then turn out.
Add salt and eat!

I eat these every day - no ill effects so far...!

Saag Gosht (lamb with spinach)

Quick and easy Saag recipe - loads of these all over the internet but many are odd, wrong, and I'm sure they're fine in their own right but not what I would call saag...

Plus mine is much easier! But you need a pressure cooker.

This makes 2 big bowls for hungry people on a zero carb diet - or serve with bread/rice and it will happily feed 4 people

• 1lb lamb - trim the fat, or not, as you prefer. Cut to one inch cubes (ish) and include the bones
• 1 bag frozen spinach
• 1 white onion
• 1 inch ginger
• 4 cloves garlic
• cumin
• coriander
• turmeric
• chili powder (optional)
• cardamom pods - about 10 (optional)
• olive oil
• salt

Add the oil to the pressure cooker and heat

Chop garlic, ginger and onion fairly finely and add to pan - saute for a few mins while you chop the meat.
(sometimes I add thai fish sauce at this point for a meatier flavour but not essential - if you do, just fry it off until the strong aroma has nearly gone)
Add 1 tbsp cumin, coriander, and about half a tbsp turmeric.
Crack the cardamom pods if using and throw them in
Roughly 1tbsp of salt (to taste)
Don't stress over the quantities - slight variations make for interesting taste changes each time!
Add the Chili powder if you want it - I add 2 tbsp hot chili powder for a hot saag. You can reduce this to 1 tsp (or leave it out entirely) depending on how hot you like your food.
Stir this through and brown the meat - a few minutes is all

Add the frozen spinach.

Put the lid on the pressure cooker and get it up to temperature then leave it for 20-30 minutes on the lowest setting your hob will do. The water in the frozen spinach will provide the steam. I'm usually hungry by this point so it rarely gets allowed 30 minutes...

When you come back to it, check the colour of the spinach - it should be brown/green not green. None of this nonsense about adding the spinach late, or not cooking it for more than 5 minutes. If you want a warm spinach salad then thats fine, but its not saag....And don't puree it either. Frozen chopped spinach is perfect.

Tastes great if you leave it overnight too.