Looks crappy but makes me happy: February 2016

Well.

For the last wee while I've not really been making much, a mixture of being not arsed and being bloody knackered. However, last week i done my usual fir this time of year (this is the third year, anyway) and rejoined slimming world. The last 2 years I've joined a local group bit I've decided this year to join online and go it alone. No more paying a fiver ti get told I'm fat- at least this way i can pay way in advance and clap myself every week  (or eat shit loads of chocolate and drink shit loads of wine if it's a shit week lol).

Anyway, i digress!!

I knuckled down this weekend and went mad on cooking. Well. That's maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but i cooked more than i have in a while.

It started with chilli. Now. Normally i use lean mince (5% fat) but i felt a bit saucy and got turkey breast mince instead! Ooh! So mince, tomatoes, peppers, onions, spring onions, chillis, green beans (only cos they were there and out of date) and shit loads of cumin, paprika and chilli powder.

It tasted of nothing. I don't know what i done wrong. I did, however, use to much chilli so it burnt the mouth off me. My lips were tingling (oo-er). I put a pic on instagram (as one does) and my pal nikki (who we take the piss out of for putting baked beans in her chilli) suggested i put beans in it. So i have. I've not tried it the again yet to test it but ive warned her if it's shit then shes broon breed 

Then there was soup. I had baby plum tomatoes in the fridge that had a bbe of 3rd feb. I thought well, it's only the 7th so fuck it! Tomatoes, carrot, onion, ham stock, chilli and basil. Bloody amazing. Except, you'd think I'd learn, i put too much chilli in it. Near took the tongue off me!!

Then, after looking at recipes on the slimming world website, i decided to make pulled pork! 1.8kg of pork shoulder and passata, Worcester sauce, balsamic vinegar, mustard powder and sugar to boil while searing the pork (it was a bloody big bit of meat to handle ). It looks ok so far but tomorrow morning well be the tell.

*sings* how do you pull your pork in the morning... 

Come back next time when i try and make something called cloud bread!

Fuck knows!