Wraps rather than sandwiches

Hi,
Today's Healthy Home Cooking Tip.

A tasty alternative to sandwiches can be to use a tortilla wrap instead of the bread. Wraps come in plain, wholemeal or even seeded, so there are plenty of varieties to choose from.

You can spread half the wrap with salad cream or mayonnaise, then add a slice or two of cooked meat. Add some iceberg lettuce and sliced tomatoes and you have a very tasty lunch. You can substitute cheese for the sandwich meat. Children often enjoy wraps - no dry crusts to munch!

Or make a hot wrap. Cook some breaded chicken fillets or goujons in the oven. Spread the wrap with relish (tomato and red pepper is really nice!) and add the hot chicken and some softened onions and peppers before wrapping and eating.

Mmmm scrummy and still healthyy home cooking!

Slow Cooking

Hi,
Welcome to the Healthy Home Cooking Blog.

Using a slow cooker is one of the best tips I can give. They come in family-sized these days and are not too expensive. Mine is an oval 6.5 litre slow cooker and it can fit a medium chicken!

We took ours on holiday this year and it was great to come home after a day out to a ready-cooked meal. You use the ingredients from scratch, and can use cheaper cuts of meat as the soaking for four to eight hours really makes it tender. There are plenty of slow cooker recipe books out there to choose from, but many recipes can be adapted that you already do. The chilli recipe mentioned on the last post for example.

A slow cooker recipe
Try this:

Sweet and Sour pork

Lean boneless pork (enough for your family)
Plain flour
onion
celery
2 or 3 carrots
4 table spoons wine vinegar
4 tablespoons soy sauce
4 tablespoons tomato puree
pineapple juice (from tin of pineapple rings)
pineapple rings (add about half hour from end, chopped up)
2 tablespoons brown sugar
water (just enough to cover about 3/4 of ingredients in the slow cooker)

Coat the pork in the flour and then brown the meat in a frying pan. Soften the vegetables next, then add everything to the pot. Some slow cookers recommend heating the pot first - so check instructions.

The meal should take about four hours on high and about six hours on medium.

Either bring home some nice Chinese microwave rice or put it with some easy cook rice boiled for about 15 minutes (or whatever it says on the packet).

Mmmm. Just off to get some pork...!

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