1230 - looking at the same old boring sandwich wrapped in tin-foil sitting on the desk infront of you. Depressed because when you take it out of the foil you know its not going to excite you, its not going to fill that cavernous hole that's in your tummy... Its depressing, has those sad little finger dents where you pushed down to halve it - diagonally, to try and make it fancy... well this is where your lunch time changes... keep reading for more!

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Filling, healthy and warming...


Chunky Vegetable Stew with Chorizo and Sweet Potato 

1 medium sized sweet potato
1 can of butter beans (including water)
1 can of tomato puree
1 can of tomatoes
1 medium - large red onion
4 cloves of garlic
2 courgettes / zucchini 
2 peppers / bell peppers 
4 inches of chorizo smoked sausage
3 tsp of italian herbs 

Slice and add to a lightly greased large pot the onion and the garlic
Gently fry off on a medium heat
Dice the peppers, the zucchini, the sweet potato into chunks - keep the zucchini a little longer so it keeps it shape.
Sprinkle the herbs into the pot and keep stirring 
Add the chorizo and the other veggies - stir until coated for a few minutes
Add the remainder of the ingredients and cover and simmer for 30 mins

This dinner was only labour intensive for the chopping, but then simmering away and splitting it into 4 portions was no hassle at all. I ate it just now, and can tell you, that with the low points that this dish has, and the fact that I had it with a litre of water, a banana and a yogurt I am completely full, and I should be OK till after boot camp later! 

Apologies for the terrible photograph - I should have cleaned up the bowl a bit before hand but I just was tooooooooooooo hungry!! 



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