Recipes
The Chocolate Sorbet from the weekend - very nice, although I didn't get to actually eat much of it, and we left the rest at our neighbours... it would be rude to ask for it back, wouldn't it?
I worked the WW points out as being 4.5pts (according to the nutritionals on the recipe), but not sure if that was per recipe or portion. I'm hoping it's recipe...
Chocolate Sorbet from Cooking Light.com
Last night's dinner:
Steak and Chargrilled Pesto Pasta
Preheat oven to 220 degrees.
Cut aubergine lengthwise, about 1cm thick per slice, lay on grill pan. Cut peppers in half, deseed and lay outer up on grill pan. Spray with low fat cooking spray, or olive oil spritzer.
Cut courgettes into 2cm thick slices, and lay vertically on grill pan (ie, not flat side down).
Chargrill all in oven for half an hour (or until you can smell burning in my case!)
When cooked, cut into chunks of roughly the same size.
Cook pasta of choice in boiling water.
Meanwhile, put cherry tomatoes in griddle pan, spritz with oil and saute until skins burst. Add thickly sliced mushrooms until browned. Remove from griddle.
Season steak with garlic salt and pepper and hit with a meat hammer (?). Griddle on both sides to taste. Cut into strips.
Stir everything together to reheat the vegetables through, and stir in pesto.
In other news - I'm freezing cold today....
Comments
Mmm. I'll arrange to give you my pineapple sorbet recipe if you like. I'm soon to make a batch so I'll finalise what I've got written down before sending it. It's just wonderful. Do you have a proper ice-cream maker/attachment or do you do the whisk in a bowl technique? I can never seem to make the quantities I want with my ice cream maker and so end up using the bowl.
I don't think I do either! I use the put the liquid in a tupperware and check every couple of hours and stir with a whisk a couple of times...
I have decided to ask for an ice-cream maker for my birthday!
That's what's putting me off, but at the moment I don't have the freezer space or the time to keep going to the freezer and keep stirring. I'm intrigued by this "frozen bowl" thing you keep going on about - I've never heard of that.
I bought one of the balls that you kick around and play with, but it made a tiny amount, and it melted as we were scraping it out of the canister into a tupperware, so we had to refreeze it and stir it anyway!
I think I shall wait until I have more freezer space, and a kitchen worktop big enough - both have been reviewed very positively though. Maybe I shall start smaller!
That ice cream ball's very fun, but I can't imagine using it often! Still, I could work off the calories before I even started...
The Kenwood attachment is the same kind of thing, yes. I was very close to getting a Kenwood, too, but it was a present for Big Boy and he wanted the Kitchenaid (which is also fantastic). I hear that Kenwoods are great - I'm sure the attachment will be too.
The ball is quite heavy really, so you can't really kick it without breaking a foot, and you can't toss it to each other without worrying about it breaking. We just kind of span it around the kitchen floor... but you're right, you can burn some calories, which is always a good thing... Maybe they should invent a bicycle or treadmill powered freezer unit ice cream maker... you have to burn off enough calories before it's frozen enough to eat!!!