Dead Easy Low Carb Food 2 - Shroom Shoop

This one is proper easy as well, but it tastes great - if you like mushrooms.  It'll take half an hour including mucking about time.

Heinz Mushroom Soup is about 7% mushrooms.  This one laughs in the face of that and snogs its sister into the bargain.

What you need - 
About 300 - 400g (14 oz) Mushrooms  (some that are going past their best will be fine)
A small onion.  (Not like, tiny though.)
A good dessert spoon of butter.  then a bit more.
A really good glug of what ever oil you like (I used walnut oil)
2 ladles worth of double cream (heavy cream in the USA)
1 generous tablespoon of Full Fat Philadelphia, or some other cream cheese.
A bit of water. (sorry - a drop of water.)
Salt and Pepper.
A handful of something else.  Like ham. or celery, or bean sprouts (If you like)
A heavy bottomed pan that won't burn your food.
A hand blender and something to blend stuff in.
A wooden spoon.
A cooker.
Somebody to wash up.

What you do-
1 - Heat the butter and oil in the pan
2- Chop up and fry 3/4 of the mushrooms (Pick the worst ones.  Leave the best to later)
3 - Roughly chop the onion and bung it in.  Peel it first.
4 - Add some of that water.  You don't need to cover it in water.  Just enough to spread the heat around.
5 - Now is a good time for salt and pepper.
6 - You don't want to be over hot on this.  Half way heat is fine.

Step 6

 7 - Cover the pan.  Tidy up and get your salad ready. Chop the rest of the mushrooms. Come back to it in ten minutes.  Give it a stir during that time if you're bored.
8 - Pour half of the mix into a blender jar.  Use the hand blender on it quite thoroughly. (you should have a black mush)

Step 8

 9- LIGHTLY blend some of the rest of the stuff in the pan.  (so that you get a variety of sizes)
10 - Slop the stuff back into the pan on a LOW heat.  Add the mushrooms you've been chopping. Add a LITTLE more water.  More will appear in time.  Don't drown it.

step 10 - Sorry about the funny colour.  My phonecam doesn't like the kitchen lighting

 11 - Add what ever else you fancy. to make it Shroom and (insert the word of your choice)
12 - Cover and simmer for long enough for the new mushrooms (and what ever else) to soften nicely
13 - Remove from heat.
14 - Stir in your cream. Then stir in your cream cheese.
15 - Return to a VERY low heat (so you don't spoil your cream)
16 - Warm a bowl up (1 minute on its own in the microwave on full power,  per empty bowl)
17 - Ladle it out.

Ready to serve.  In the dark, preferably.  Looks awful tastes nice.

18 - Serves 2.  Get the other person to tidy up.

Dead Easy Low Carb Food 1 - Chicken and Blue Cheese

If I were on Twitter I would say this was #PBD, which means it's Probably Been Done.

Anyway.  With apologies to who ever dd this first, I just thought I'd share with you the first of my Dead Easy recipes which won't make you fat, but will still give you something to look forward to at the end of the day.

Eat it while it's hot.  Melted blue cheese is just scrummy...

Chicken is a bit of a bind, because unless you're going to roast a whole one yourself, the chances are you're going to be stuck with chicken breasts which have loads of water in them, don't have much flavour, and get really dry when they're cooked.

So... We're going to GRILL our chicken.  Not to be "healthy", but because that's the best way of getting shut of all that blooming water.

Before you serve them, slice them open and add a generous amount of blue cheese, or cheddar, or any other full fat cheese you like.  Bung them in the microwave to melt them if you want.  Especially if it's on the plate you're serving on - because then the cheesy goo will sit on your plate.

Serve them with some green salad and a few tomatoes if your particular diet plan will allow them.

That's it. Sorry this is such an obvious meal but I'm trying to address the fact that people always say they're stuck for ideas when they start cutting back on carbs.  With this - you get your protein AND your fat, and it tastes lovely.  Glug a bit of olive oil on your greens if you like.  It won't make you fat either.