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Banana and Tiramisu milkshake and more

Filed under: Food — Sam at 8:10 pm on Monday, February 15, 2010

My friend Stacey has just had her wisdom teeth out, she also has decided to share with me (and now you) her quite odd recipes to get around the no solids thing. As you can see from the picture, its quite brave but i’ll let Stacey take it away…

If you are also unfortunate enough to have teeth unwillingly ripped from your precious jaw then I have a few beautiful recipe suggestions that don’t involve any form of chewing as it would be mightily painful!

1. Blended roast dinner. (courtesy of Daddy Betts)
Splendid meal, if not disgusting to look at. Simply plate up a smaller than normal portion (mush is suprisingly more filling). Don’t hold back on any of the trimmings – this works with all meats and vegetables. Wack it all in your trusty blender with a large splosh of gravy to aid the churning and blend. Once pureed flomp the mix into a bowl, serve with extra gravy, et voila!

2. Banana and Tiramisu milkshake
…desperate times call for desperate measures but I consider this to be a pretty genius concoction. You will need one banana, a pre-made Tiramisu (M&S my personal fav), some milk and if you feeling extravagant some chocolate sprinkles.
Blend all until running and lovely, add to a mighty pint glass and top with the chocolaty treats ooh and possibly squirty cream to make it extra fatty. enjoy with a straw and some Gilmore girls :D

Salsa Steak and char fried potatoes

Filed under: Food — Sam at 2:48 pm on Tuesday, January 5, 2010

So Safia (my girlfriend) and I decided to cook a little dinner the other night, a sort of experiment to see how it came out. Anyways, skip to the end and it was amazing and I thought why not write a blog post about the good meals I make so that…

1. I will remember them

2. Maybe someone else may read and enjoy them also.

So today we cooked Salsa Steak and char fried potatoes. This is a mixture of my love of steak, and Safia’s home roots of Mexican yum yums.

Here is what we used to cook them. (feeds 2)

Steaks.

- 2 x rump steaks
- Salt & pepper

Salsa

- 1 x Lime
- 3 x Tomatoes
- 1 x Coriander bunch
- 2 x Spring Onions
- 1 x de-seeded Green Chili
- Salt

Char fried Potatoes.

- Potatoes

So start off by peeling and slicing the potatoes to how you see fit. Then put them on the boil. They usually take around 20 for a medium cut potatoe.

We then finely chopped the tomatoes, coriander, spring onions and the chili  into a bowl. This was mixed together and then we squeezed the juice from the lime into the bowl and finished mixing. Add a little salt and check the flavour and thats pretty much the salsa.

For the steaks, We heat the frying pan with a splash of oil until the pan is smoking. Then Cooking the steaks 1 minute each side or how you want your steak cooked. 2 minutes each side for medium-rare, 4 minutes for well done etc. Then let the steaks sit on the plate for the remainder of 10 minutes from how long you’ve cooked it so the juices can run through the steak for a better flavour.

Then take your potatoes (you know they are done by sticking a knife in them and lifting up. If it falls off the knife they are ready) and fry them for -5 minutes in the juices from frying the steaks. This gives your potatoes and nice flavour, a crusty texture and doesn’t waste the yummy steak juice.. my favourite.

Add the potatoes to your plate and add a good spoon of the salsa to the top of your steak and garish with some left over coriander. Wicked. This is the best meal I’ve eaten in ages. Enjoy.