Well hellooo ‘der
How are we all??
As you know, one of my 2017 goals was to have one meal out of my Eat Smart cook book each week – even if I don’t think I’ll like it as you never know, I may surprise myself and find a new fave dish!
To help me try to stick to this, I want to start a little series called Eat Smart Sunday. Each Sunday I will post a little summary of the meal I have tested that week!
So first of all – I Started with the Mexican Chilli Bowl – I didn’t do the sour cream dip with it though but I made the main dish so it still counts! >.<
I told the guys at work that I was making a chilli without any meat and they were all disgusted with me and wanted to come and rescue my boyfriend haha! I actually quite enjoyed it though.
I’ve never had chilli before – so I guess I don’t know what I’m missing out on by not using any meat, but I can’t take a lot of spice so I’ve always been very very reluctant to try it. Surprisingly though this dish wasn’t very hot! I used all of the herbs and ingredients it said to. The only thing I can think of is instead of chilli powder my dad grows chillis and then mum dries them out and grinds them into little flakey things! They have a lot of kick to them so I used it sparingly – perhaps I should’ve used a little more but I may not have liked it as much!
It was pretty easy to make really and the ingredients were fairly easy to find – I didn’t find bay leaves in the shop and I admittedly did skip out the mushrooms as I don’t like those at all. You basically start by frying the onions and garlic, add in the peppers then bung in everything else and voila!! Quinoa is also very simple – basically similar to cooking rice so nothing very complex there.
Overall Rhys and I both quite enjoyed the meal! There was a bit too much there for me, it gets a little bit samey after a while too but it was pretty yummy and I would definitely make it again. I’d give it a 7.5/10
Here is the finished product:
Has anyone else tried some good recipes from this little gem of a cookbook?
Much Love xo
LJ
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