'STICKY CHICKEN' RECIPE

Hola! My family, after a lot of convincing have decided to trust me a bit more in the 'kitchen department'. They did used to let me cook occasionally, but I may have given them reasons to not trust me, twice. Once, I was cooking my Dad some soup on the hob, and left the hob on for 5 hours, woops. Another time is when I was cooking, I turned the knob the other way, to low, so you couldn't see the flame. Instead of turning it off... My Dad then came in from work, and for some reason put his oily work trousers on the hob and one thing led to another and my Sister had to retrieve them. I thought it was funny, they didn't so much... They didn't catch fire or anything though, they just gained holes where they had melted. My sister now claims to have 'saved our lives' everytime the mention of me cooking comes around, it's rather annoying actually.

So every week, on a Tuesday evening I cook a meal for the family. As it was my first week, I wanted to redeem myself by cooking something simple but effective. We always eat the same meals: Pasta bolognaise, Curry, Chicken & bacon and Casserole. Everyone in my family are on 'The Caveman Diet' where basically, they can't things like: Bread, Pasta, Rice, Potatoes etc.. So, I had to stay clear of those. Another issue is that my Step-Sister is a vegitarian, so I had to make sure I didn't contaminate her Quorn with meat. I did the same for her to, just with Quorn Fillets not meat!

 I decided I wanted something different, and I had 'Sticky Chicken' in mine. To be honest, I didn't actually know what it was, I had some sort of BBQ Rib sort of thing in mind, just chicken instead of ribs, I was wrong. To be honest, I still don't really know what it is, all I know is that it was VERY tasty!

You will need: (1kg of Chicken fillets and 2 Quorn Fillets)

4 tbsp of Soy Sauce
2 tbsp of Honey
1 tbsp of Tomato Purée
1/2 tbsp of Olive Oil
1 Garlic Clove (preferably 1 tbsp of Garlic Powder)
1/2 tbsp Ginger Powder
A few drops of TABASCO

This is sweet, so if you want it a little less sweet, lower the Honey levels to one, and if you want it spicier, add more TABASCO sauce. The reason it's better with Garlic Powder, as it's easier to mix in and marinate with.

Then what you need to do is mix all of the ingredients (bar meat etc...) in a bowl until it forms a marinade.
You then need to marinate your meats and leave it for a while, I left them for around an hour and a half and they were fine, preferably over night though, then you will get the fullest flavour possible.

Once you have left them for long enough, you can then start cooking them, use a shallow roasting dish, I don't know why, but that's what I used, then oven cook them on 180° for 50 minutes. 

Here's some pictures!

Before it was mixed...

Raw Chicken, ew...

Raw Quorn...

Not too pretty presentation though... but I served it with roasted veg!

So there you have it! If you are going to re-create this recipe and have a food diary with My Fitness Pal I have made a recipe for it on there, its called Amy's Sticky Chicken pretty adequate! Haha!

My family really enjoyed it too, the Chicken wasn't dry and it was VERY yummy, I want more, but with more chicken next time! It would also be lovely with rice and more sauce to drizzle over? Or noodles? Ooh!

If you have any ideas that are simple-ish for next time I cook for my family, please comment them below, or tweet me? THANK YOU!

Amy

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CHOCOLATE CORNFLAKE CAKES

Hola! As it's Easter, I decided to make some Chocolate Cornflake Cakes, they're SO nice and tasty, and SO simple to make! This recipe makes 50 cakes!

You will need:

50 Cake Cases,
450g of Cornflakes,
3 tubes of Smarties,
1 Tablespoon of Oil,
450g of Chocolate,
1 Tablespoon of Golden Syrup.

I realise that I've pictured 500g of Chocolate there, but I ate some as I was going along, my bad. Break up the Chocolate and put it in a glass bowl over boiling water, not touching! Add the oil whilst it's melting!

The oil makes it thinner, and easier to mix up with the Chocolate. Make sure you don't burn the Chocolate, it's ever so simple to burn it! In order to prevent this turn the heat off and remove the bowl once it's melted, no later! 

Once the chocolate has fully melted, add the Cornflakes! It's a lot easier to add them bit by bit, and i soon learned it's a lot easier to add half of the chocolate and then the rest later on when you add some more cornflakes.

                             

Mix it all together, if you like the mess, you can use you hands for this, I did that but it was so stressful, so the second batch I made, I used a wooden spoon thingy. If you're using your hands beware, it's a lot of hassle, and make sure you have your cases pre-set out.

Now you need to put them into your cake cases. I found that the easiest way to do this was using two teaspoons, but I did use my hand for a batch, but it looked really messy. 

This isn't the best picture as it's rather messy, but I think I got the point across. They were SO yummy and SO simple to make! I did run out of Smarties though, so I ended up putting one or two on each, so stock up on Smarties for more!

If you're going to do this at home, which I advise you do, tell us in the comments and leave a picture, or a link to a picture! I have made a recipe for this on MyFitnessPal for those of you with food diaries with that company. It's named Amy's Chocolate Cornflake Cakes and each cake is around 85 calories!

ENJOY!

Amy

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MARCH NAILS!

Hola, so I know last month didn't have one of these post and that is because I spent most of the month bare-nailed, so their sakes. The quality of my nails right now are shocking and I can't come to terms with why? I do everything in my nature to take care of them? So if any of you know about different nail strengthening ideas PLEASE tell me in the comments! Let's get on with this post then shall we?

All used with Sally Hansen Miracle Growth Base Coat and Maybelline 40 second top coat.

Primark Gold & Black with dotters

Ted Baker Black

I can't find the right shade, but it's a Tara's Talons polish.

Revlon Chroma Chameleon.

Collection Hot Looks Electric Dreams, OPI I just can't cope, George Sunset Orange, George Lavender Fantasy, Revlon Sweet Tart.

So, there you go! My nails from throughout March, though, I'm pretty sure I had more than that? Ah well! If there's any nail-related questions etc you want answering, comment below and I'll try my best to answer them!

Amy

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