Red hot steak

I sometimes feel as though a lot of the food that I put together isn't worth me uploading and are a bit embarrassingly simple. But if the title hasn't been taken yet, I'd like to dub myself the lazy home cook.

If there is an easy way out, I'm there, right at the front!

As most of you have realised I am still catering for the slow carb diet. But as I've mentioned before, a side of rice, pasta, or bread can be added to any of my dishes to cater to those lucky enough to be eating them :-D

Steak has been big in our diet since starting the slow carb regime. I don't think I've eaten this much steak in my life...not complaining, as there is so many things you can do with steak.

This recipe calls for 5 ingredients:

Steak (any cut and size)
2-4 tbs Tomato paste
A few dashes of Tabasco
2-3 tbsp Soy sauce
A good dash of garlic powder

Method:

1) Heat a big fry pan with oil, butter or ghee ( all are optional)
2) Rub each side of the steak with garlic powder and tomato paste
3) place into the fry pan and add soy sauce
4) Keep turning the steak until there is even caramelisation on either side of the steak.
5) Take off from the heat and allow to stand for 5-10 mins.

If you wanted to add the veggies just add them to the pan with all the steak juices and sauce add some Tabasco sauce and you've got yourself one hot steak with veg!

Chicken and egg

Here is another very simple yet very tasty chicken dish. You could easily add bread, rice or pasta to it to make it even more scrumptious.

But for those health nuts wrapping the chicken up in lettuce leaves is the next best thing!

What you'll need:

500g chicken breast
1 tbs All purpose spice
1egg
Olive oil

Method:

1) Dice chicken into approx. 2 cm size pieces (results to faster cooking time)
2) Heat a pan with some oil.
3) Once colour changes add all purpose spice.
4) Once chicken is cooked and the spice has coated all the chicken add the egg.
5) Stir quickly so the egg is incorporated with the chicken and takes in the spice.
6) Once egg is cooked turn off heat and serve hot.

Lettuce leaves are optional.

Enjoy!

Crusted steak and veg

Heyho everyone,

Once again I have had no time to research what I wanted to cook this evening but managed to pull a few things together to make this O.M.G ultra healthy crusted steak with steamed veg.

There are many variations of a crusted lamb or steak but this here is great for people of a low carb diet.

Here is what you'll need

2 pieces 200g steak of your choosing
1 egg
1/2 cup almond meal
1tsp salt
1/2 tbs freshly ground pepper
1 tsp garlic powder
1.5 tsp all purpose spice
Olive oil
Frozen veg (any type)
1 tbsp butter

1) place salt, pepper, almond meal, garlic powder and all purpose spice into a flat plate and mix until combined
2) crack egg and saturate each steak in the egg, taking care and allow excess egg to drip off.
3) coat all sides of steak with almond meal mixture.
4) add oil to a fry pan and fry on high on each side for 1-2 mins. (If you want it well done and cooked quickly reduce heat and cover for 5 mins).
5) remove from pan and allowed to rest for 10 mins.

Veggies

Bring a pot of water to the boil once veggies have gone bright in colour remove from water and rinse off in cold water. Add salt, pepper, more garlic powder to taste and butter.

Tah-dah! It's done. Quick simple and very healthy.

Face of the day

Today is a beautiful summer's day here in Oz and what better way to incorporate the sun and blue skies than to have a summery face to go with it.

There's just something about wearing barely there makeup during the summer season. It's light, simple and easy and  fool proof ;-p

Today I've gone for a powder foundation that is exactly my skin colour (as it should be). It gives good coverage without being too full on which defeats the purpose of summer/whimsical looks. I beautiful peach tone blush goes exceedingly well with Mediterranean skin tones (more yellowish undertones).

A coat or two of a mascara black or brown. And finish off a summer pinky-coral lip.

This to me defines summer.

Enjoy!

Christian dior
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