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Recipe - Low Fat Cheese Scones

These scones are gorgeous.  The kids love them.  I love them.  And they are low fat!  Woohoo!!!

Ingredients (Makes 12 scones)

• 500g self-raising flour
• 2tsp powdered mustard
• 1 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1 tsp salt
• 200g low fat soft cheese with added herbs (I used Light Phaladelphia with garlic and herbs)
• 200ml semi-skimmed milk
• 120g reduced-fat grated Cheddar cheese 

 

The scones are delicious served warm with low fat soft cheese...

 

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 200ºC/400ºF/Gas Mark 6.

Sift the flour, mustard, cayenne and salt into a mixing bowl.

Add the soft cheese to the mixture and mix together until well incorporated.

Make a well in the centre of the ingredients and gradually pour in 200ml milk, stirring as you pour, until the mixture forms a soft dough.

Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead lightly.  Roll out until approx 2cm thick and use a 68mm  pastry cutter to cut out as many scones as you can.  Re-knead the dough trimmings and roll out again.  Cut out more scones from the dough.  Transfer to a greased baking tray.

Brush scones with a little milk and add the cheddar cheese.  Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes until risen and golden.

Transfer to a wire rack to cool slightly......they are rather delicious warm!  Serve with more of the soft cheese.

 

The recipe is adapted from the book 'Ultimate Low Fat' by Parragon.

 

 

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Recipe - Philly Lemon Chicken Pasta

This is a recipe from the Philadelphia website and I am blogging it because its been tried and tested by me, and my kids absolutely loved it (and they are hard to please).  I must admit that even though I am not a great fan of this type of  pasta dish, it was very lovely and one I will do again.

The website gave half the amount of ingredients that I am giving here.  I usually have five adults to feed and they all have healthy appetites.  I'm one of the five and my portion is the one you see here.  Mine is the smallest and everyone else had more.  Doubling the ingredients was just right for my family but if you only want small portions then half everything.

I also did not follow the recipe exactly (but then I rarely do) - I did not have Philadelphia with garlic and Herbs only the plain Philly.  So I added two cloves of garlic and some dried herbs.  The recipe below is my version but if you want the original then go to the Philadelphia website :)

 

Ingredients

• 600g pasta
• 300g mange toute
• 800g chicken breast
• 4 tsp olive oil
• juice of two lemons
• 400g Philadelphia Light
• two cloves of garlic
• 200ml stock from one Oxo chicken stock cube

Instructions

Cook the pasta in a large pan of boiling water as directed on the packet.  Four minutes before the end of the cooking time add the mange toute to the pasta.  Drain when cooked.

Meanwhile, cut the chicken breast into chunks.  Heat the oil in a large frying pan and add the chicken.  Cook the chicken through and then stir in the lemon juice.  Add the stock and Philly.  Crush two cloves of garlic in and a sprinkling of mixed herbs.

Heat gently until the Philly has melted and formed a sauce but do not boil.

Add the pasta and beans to the lemony chicken and stir together.

Serve immediately.

 

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I found a really fab receipe {here} on the BBC food website.  So easy to make and delicious to eat!!

Enjoy and Merry Christmas :)

 

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You can find all the ingredients and instructions {HERE}.

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Product Focus - Maya Road and Eco Green - a slice of apple...by Alix

This week at Bubbly scrumptious, the DT are having a bit of a product focus. Join us as we focus on the lovely Maya Road Coaster albums and NEW ink and embossing pads from ecogreen crafts. It will be exciting to see what different things each DT produce with their different albums and ink pads.

 

Come on over and see my project just here!

Ingredients:

Maya Road apple coaster minibook

Prima Branch

Eco~Green Exquisite Embossing inkpad

Eco~Green Dye inkpad

Prima patterned paper

Prima glittered chipboard shape

Prima clear stamp

Petaloo jewelled florettes

Tim Holtz ticket

Clear embossing powder

 

Thanks for stopping by,

alix