Steak Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes

The sweet potato cooked like this make a great alternative to wedges served with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce.  It’s worth buying a really good steak from the butcher, which might seem expensive but is well worth it if it’s only every week or two you have it.

1 large sirloin steak
2 sweet potatoes, skin on, cut into wedges
1 small punnet of cherry tomatoes
50g rocket, washed
sumac, to serve (optional)  Read more... (194 words, 1 image, estimated 47 secs reading time)

Ingredients (Serves 4):
8 – boneless skinless chicken thighs
2 – tbsp. olive oil
2 – tbsp. lemon juice
3 – cloves garlic, crushed
2 – tbsp. white wine

Directions:
Mix chicken with all ingredients in a bowl. Once chicken is thoroughly coated, chill for 20 minutes. Then grill under high heat for about 10 minutes per side, or until cooked. Serve with steamed broccoli and baby carrots, plus basmati rice.

Serving guide:
Fill one quarter of a regular dinner plate with rice (or other starchy carbs), one half with vegetables, and the remaining quarter with your cooked chicken recipe.

You just can’t imagine how light and moist and tasty these cupcakes are unless you try them! Any nutritionist would agree that eating one of these as an occasional treat is 186 calories well spent. Makes 12 large or 48 mini cupcakes.

½ cup tub margarine or light butter
¾ cup sugar
1 egg plus 1 egg white or ¼ egg substitute
½ cup cocoa powder, unsweetened
1½ cups natural applesauce
1¾ cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt

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• Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF. Grease and flour the cupcake tin.

Curry Chicken Salad  Read more... (227 words, 1 image, estimated 54 secs reading time)

Ingredients:

• Salt and White Pepper
• Skinless, boneless Chicken Breast 1.5 lb
• Mayonnaise 0.5 cup (I used Light Hellman’s)
• Nonfat Plain Yogurt 0.5 cup
• Curry Powder 2 tsp
• White Wine Vinegar 1 Tbsp
• Celery 4 stalks chopped
• Apples (Fuji, Gala, or Granny Smith) 3 cored and cut into cubes
• Pecan halves, 0.5 cup toasted
• Butter (Boston) Lettuce 1 head, pale inner leaves only