Today's healthy recipe - salmon and green bean stirfry

This is a great recipe that I got from Sainsbury's Feed your family for a fiver collection... very quick and easy!


265g salmon fillet (2 fillets)
300g pack dwarf beans (translation: green beans)
1 large courgette (translation: zucchini)
400g can of cherry tomatoes
plain flour for dusting
150ml vegetable stock (made with 1 cube)
250g of rice, whichever kind you like, prepared however you like it (the recipe uses easy cook rice, we just boil plain white rice for this recipe.  My hubby thinks you could also serve it with noodles instead, but I'm not so sure and I'm right a lot more often than he is)

Prepare your rice, and meanwhile, cut salmon fillets into small chunks and toss in 1 tbsp of flour and season with pepper.  Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a large frying pan, add the salmon and cook until browned, then set aside.  Add the beans, chopped courgette and tin of cherry tomatoes.  Pour in the stock and bring to the boil.  Simmer for about 8 minutes until the vegetables are tender.  Return the salmon to the pan and heat through.  Serve with the rice on the side.  And follow up with some kind of rich, chocolatey, calorie laden dessert to make up for such a healthy main course.  Eat after your ten month old goes to bed to avoid yet further food mashed into your nice hardwood floors and carpeting.

The Joys of Juicing - today's healthy recipe - Cellulite Eliminator Juice

This post is prompted by me noticing that my favourite appliance of all time, my Phillips Juicer, is £28 off at Argos, down from £94.99 to £66.59 (and no, I'm not being paid or rewarded in any way to mention any of this, I really do love it).  I got it when I was in the first few weeks of pregnancy last year, as my cravings were cantaloupe juice, cantaloupe juice, and more cantaloupe juice.  I know, sounds great, but that soon gave way to chocolate cravings that I'm hoping will pass soon, considering the fact that I gave birth 10 months ago.

When I bought the juicer it came with Jason Vale's (aka the Juice Master) book Over 100 Delicious Juices and Smoothies Keeping it Simple, which is a fabulous book.  Now, I thought the juicer looked a bit big and scary when I got it, but it's actually very easy to use and clean.  That says a lot coming from me, as I can barely change the batteries in the remote control and have yet to learn how to use the DVD player.

Today I am going to try the juice "cellulite eliminator"....gasp...could there really be such a thing?! Sounds about as believable as finding David Beckham in my bed on a Saturday morning.  Well, there was that one weekend in Madrid but I'm not supposed to talk about that.  The recipe is simple... 1 apple, 1 pear, 1/2 pink grapefruit, 2 sticks of celery, a few mint leaves and 4 ice cubes.  Juice everything except the mint, which you chop and sprinkle on top of the juice once you've poured it into the glass.

I will report back tomorrow.  And maybe even post a picture of my thighs...not to scare you all of course, because by then they will be fabulous and cellulite free ;-) 

This is the juicer I'm talking about in case anyone's looking to get one:
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=10001&catalogId=1500002451&langId=-1&searchTerms=PHILLIPS+JUICER

Happy Monday!