Butter chicken

Huh, me at my lazy, cheapskate best!!

1 tsp each ginger (I used it from a jar), turmeric, chili, salt and cinnamon
1 TBS Tomato paste (I buy the one in the squeezy bottle because I use little bits often and find it keeps the best)
1/2 tsp garam marsala
1 clove garlic, finely chopped, or crushed or something.
1 diced onion
2 chicken breast fillets (because the equivalent amount of thighs looked shitty at Coles today, had to go the expensive option sadly.)
3/4 tub of plain Jalna yoghurt (or use thickened cream, or use whatever, just make sure it's white ok??)
big spoonful of butter if you want to, I did, it was gooooood... hehe

Fry off onion and garlic, add roughly cubed chicken and all spices plus tom paste.

Add yoghurt and stir.

I also added a handful green beans and a red capsicum because I have a son who needs veg. Mind you, while I was boiling the basmati rice with some cardamom seeds, at the end I added some sultanas and then dyed his rice portion blue.

He had yellowy orange sauce with red and green bits through it plus blue rice, it was a rainbow for dinner!

So, dinner for under $10, again! And the chicken was half that on its own!

More news from the bosom lady, I can breastfeed while shopping in Target, wandering around the shopping center in general and now I have done the ridiculous, breastfeeding while getting a root canal. Yes, the dentist was amused, and she doesn't even like kids!

Wow, I have been slack....

But it isn't my fault. Between chasing up work about, you know, paying me! Organising a solicitor for another work issue, chasing a 3 year old, losing myself in the presence of a 5 week old, running a household, dealing with guests and whatnot, life has been busy.

In the spirit of my new tightarseness (new word, I made it up just now.) I have decided to share with you recipes to feed a family of 4 for under $10, will add them as I create them because it all comes from my tiny little mind. None of these recipes require exact amounts or even the actual ingredients listed in most cases, and you have to love that right?? Mind you, any awesome changes need to be shared, don't be selfish!

Cheaparse Chicken Kiev (cholesterol reduced)

4 chicken thigh fillets
14ograms Ricotta
handful parsley
half a handful mint
clove of garlic per person
4 slices pancetta

I used my mortar and pestle to mash the garlic and herbs, chopping will do just as well though.
Mix it in the ricotta with a little salt and pepper.
Stuff the chicken, roll up, wrap with pancetta and secure with toothpicks.

Roast for 30 mins.

Serve with:

2 cups couscous, sundried toms and a green veg (I used broccoli florets).

To make, pour 2 cups cold chicken stock in a saucepan, add your broccoli, bring to the boil, throw in couscous and sundried toms, take off heat immediately and put the lid on the pan.

Serve chicken, mix couscous and serve that too.

Oh, and I am now at the weight I was at when I was about 20. That's right, under 70kgs for a change, in order stay there, all recipes will be low fat without making an issue of it (because we don't want to make a meal of it do we now?? hehe) as well as low cholesterol if at all possible. Add cheap and lazy to that and well, makes life easy huh??

Oooh, curry!

Next time. This curry is cheap, kids love it and you can use almost any meat in it.... It's comin'!

xx