Quick and Easy Macaroni Cheese & Easy Christmas Cake



Pacific Pie


A childhood favourite, loved by kids and almost impossible not to have all the ingredients making it a good standby supper……..

Ingredients for 4

3 large floury potatoes
3 tbsp milk
1 tbsp butter
450g tinned tuna (keep the oil)
2 medium onions
400g tin chopped tomatoes
1tsp sugar
1tsp red or white wine vinegar
300g frozen peas (thawed)
1 pkt ready salted crips, smashed up
Salt and pepper to taste

Method:

  • Boil the potatoes until tender, then drain.
  • Mash with milk and butter.
  • Preheat oven to 200c or mark 6.
  • Heat oil from tuna and fry with onions until tender, don’t let them brown.
  • Add tomatoes, sugar and vinegar and season to make the tuna sauce.
  • Transfer tuna sauce to bottom of baking tray and cover with mashed potato like a shepherds pie.
  • Cook for 30 mins and sprinkle crisps on top just before serving.
  • Serve with mayo or tomato ketchup!!

 



Nutty Carrot Cake Traybake


Using a combination of granulated sweetener and muscovado sugar helps to reduce the sugar in this yummy tray bake!

Ingredients:

150g plain flour

3tsp baking powder

40g light brown muscovado sugar

10 tsp table top sweetener

60g walnuts, chopped roughly

120g carrots, grated

2 medium eggs,

50g low fat spread, melted

2 tsp ground cinammon

30g sultanas

Method:

  • Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
  • Line a tin approx 20cm by 20cm with baking paper.
  • Sift together dry ingredients into a bowl, flour, baking powder, sugar, sweetener and cinnamon.
  • In another bowl beat 2 eggs and add the melted low fat spread.
  • Stir the flour mixture into the egg mixture, then add the carrots, walnuts and sultanas, fold and don’t over work mixture.
  • Pour into lined tin and bake for 30-35 mins, using skewer to check centre which should come out clean when cooked