FONGTASTIC Black Sticky Rice with Mango and Coconut Cream

Helene Ng mixed things up by making this traditional Thai dessert, black sticky rice with mango and coconut cream.

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Healthy Pizza

Everyone seems to have this odd perception that pizzas are one of the most fattening, unhealthy meals you could possibly ever eat. If you order one from a late night takeaway, this may well be the case, but there are a few simple tricks that you can put in place to make sure that your own homemade pizzas don’t add inches to the waist:

• Difficulty: Easy
• Serves: 4
• Prep: 30 minutes
• Cook: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

• 250g strong white flour
• 250g wholemeal flour
• 1 sachet dried yeast
• 2 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 250ml luke warm water
• 4 tbsp tomato purée
• handful chopped ham
• handful spinach
• handful cherry tomatoes, halved
• handful sweetcorn
• handful cheddar, grated

Method:

1. Put the flour, yeast and salt in a large bowl and mix together. Stir in olive oil and water to form a soft dough.
2. Turn out the dough onto a well floured surface and knead for approximately 5 minutes. Leave to rest in a warm place for roughly 1 hour.
3. Once the dough has risen, roll it out to a 30cm circle and bake in the oven (220°C, 200°C fan, Gas 7) for 5 minutes to crisp off.
4. Remove from the oven and spread over the tomato purée. Top with as many ingredients as you like but remember not to go overboard with the cheese! Bake for another 10 minutes.

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Lemon Meringue Pie

Lemon Meringue Pie

As you can probably tell, I’m big into puddings at the moment and the only way I can justify eating this much pudding is by making it myself. There aren’t that many healthy desserts out there but I decided that a Lemon Meringue Pie had to be one of the kindest to the waist. This BBC Good Food recipe turned out a superb looking pie that impressed everyone with it’s perfectly bronzed and spiky meringue topping.

Unfortunately, the taste test ended up being a little bit of a flop. The filling was ruined by an orange that had somehow managed to squeeze its way into the recipe. Instead of tasting like a lemon meringue pie, the orange overpowered the flavour of the lemon and transformed it into an unwanted orange meringue pie. It’s such a shame because this pie could have easily been able to match up to its stellar appearance and scrumptious meringue if only it didn’t include one of its key ingredients; the orange. Although I may have a sad face on this time round, at least I can sleep well tonight knowing exactly how to make my next lemon meringue pie the best it can possibly be.

Words of Wisdom

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

Luciano Pavarotti – Opera Singer.

Say What?

I have long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organised crime “associates”, food, for me, has always been an adventure.

Anthony Bourdain – American Chef, Author, and Television Personality.