Tonight's Low Carb' Dinner: Jamie's Jerk Pork

This recipe isn't mine. It's stolen and slightly adapted from that pseudo cockney Jamie Oliver. It's jerk pork with a corn and crunchy tortilla salad.

It actually took a lot longer than that fake prole' claimed. He said fifteen minutes and it took me about an hour. You put two tortillas in an oven proof dish and bake them for about ten minutes until the edges are crispy. You griddle the corn on the cob with some olive oil and seasoning. The pork is a fillet which you slice into 1 1/2 inch discs. I couldn't remember exactly how Jamie made his jerk sauce and he's keeping that secret pretty close to his faux working class chest. Here's how I made mine: I 'wanged' ginger, honey, soy sauce, thyme, allspice, one scotch bonnet, red wine vinegar, two cloves of garlic and some olive oil into my 'Jamie Oliver' blender. Sorry. Then I blended it together whilst adding about three quarters of a pint of chicken stock. I reduced the mixture over a medium heat, until it had become a syrup.

I spooned about three tablespoons into a frying pan and cooked the pork in it until it had caramelised on the outside and was still tender on the inside.

For the salad I put some romaine lettuce, tomato, pepper, red onion into the dish with the tortillas. Then I added the corn which I removed with a sharp knife. I put about a tablespoon of olive oil on top, with a squeeze of lemon and some salt.

I did add some fresh parsley to the salad and some soured cream to the dishes as you can see. That's it. You can see why it took more than a 'pukka' fifteen minutes.

Kev's verdict was: 'unbelievably tasty'
He didn't add any hot sauce but he did add an extra spoonful of jerk sauce.
Ollie wasn't here.
We discussed whether we can afford to go to Bali on honeymoon.

Overall 9/10, I will definitely make this again but will make a big pot of jerk sauce so that it's quicker next time.

Next Week's Low Carb' Dinners

Don't worry, we will be back to healthy eating from tomorrow, and here's what we will be having.

High Carb' Pie

I've gone viral, and not in a good way, so Kev's cooking tonight which means it's a high carb', high calorie, high fat pie. It's beef and stilton pie with daupinoise potatoes.

Tonight I tried a low carb', low GI version of chips, by using carrots instead of potatoes. It wasn't exactly a roaring success because they were a bit slippery and greasy. I will work on them and re post. The burger towers are a good low carb' alternative though, you just make discs out of whatever is at home and pile them up with burgers. We didn't have them  today but homemade, peppered burgers work best for extra flavour.

Today's towers consisted of slices of: beef steak tomatoes, red and yellow peppers, beetroot, chorizo, red onion and gherkins or pickled chillies.

I give the burgers 8/10 and the chips 5/10.
Hot sauce added by Kev: none.
Ollie: had them with bread, only ate the lettuce when it was at a 2:5 ratio with mayonnaise.
Table chat: how good Kev is at punching one of those things that measures how good you are at punching (really good).

Tonight's Low Carb' Dinner: Beef and Broccoli in Oyster Sauce

Tonight's dinner was a beef stir fry. I used: cashew nuts (which I'd toasted) carrots, spring onions, tenderstem broccoli, garlic, green chilli and rump steak. The sauce was made from sesame oil (not much), oyster sauce (lots), soy sauce (some) lime juice (the more you use, the more tender the beef will be) and a pinch of sugar.
As soon as I got in from work, I marinaded the steaks in the sauce. I left them for as long as it took me to change my clothes, moan at Kev for drinking beer, sniff Ollie's PE kit and change into leggings. Then I thinly sliced everything else, fried all but the beef and the spring onions until softened slightly. I mixed in the spring onions and put the lot in a separate bowl. The beef then went into the same pan and browned on a high heat for a few minutes before all the other junk went back in.

Here's the verdict:
Ollie: had pizza instead.
Kev said: 'amazing' - this is one of his two stock phrases so not exactly high praise.
Amount of hot sauce used by Kev: medium to high.
Dinner table conversation: Ollie and school.