Tuna pastries

I personally love tuna and I can easily cook it in different forms. Even with just taking it out of the can and seasoning it with lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Anyways, simple easy bites. Tuna pastries. You can whip them in no time. Delicious the way it is or with a simple dip.

Ingredients:

- 2 cans of tuna in water. (Healthier option)

- 3 table spoons of mayonnaise

- 1 lemon juice

- 1/3 Kraft cheddar cheese shredded

- 1 large carrot shredded

- 1 large spring onion chopped

- salt and pepper

- 1 packet of puff pastry (I used light)

- 1 hot green chili sliced finely (optional) 

Method:

1- I left the pastry dough slices melt into each other and rolled it out on a bed of flour and cut the dough into circles.

2- In another bowl, mix all the ingredients perfectly.

3- Fill your thin circles of pastry with the tuna mixture. Close the circles the way you wish. I did half moons.

4- On a baking tray sprinkle some flour and place your filled with tuna pastry dough.

5- Bake in the oven and let the pastry turn golden brown.

Serve alone or with dipping sauce. 

Dipping sauce:

- A bunch of parsley

- A small piece of ginger

- 1 lemon juice

- Salt and pepper

- 1 teaspoon of pomegranate sauce

- 1/4 cup of olive oil

- mix all together in blender and serve in small bowls

Sloppy Joe

One of my all time favorite is a sloppy joe. As greasy as ever and with lots of melted cheddar cheese would fix my mood and let me hanging there with ecstasy.

Before I started working on my salad and soup diet, which also included grilled meat and low fat diaries, I rewarded myself with an amazing sloppy joe. and here I am sharing my recipe.

Ingredients:
- tomatoes
- medium sized onion chopped
- 2 -3 cloves of garlic
- butter and olive oil
- 1 can of kidney beans
- 1 cube of chicken stock melted in some hot water
- tomato paste
- salt and pepper for seasoning
- cream cheese, i used Philadelphia cheese
- chopped parsley
- cheddar cheese, grated
- minced meat, it doesn't matter what type, it can be mutton or beef
- burger buns or small buns, depends on what you like

1- boil your tomatoes for few minutes so that the skin will peel off very fast.

 2- peel the skin off your tomatoes and chop them into large cubes.

3- in a pan, put your chopped onion and garlic. Add to it some butter and a table spoon of olive oil.

*I do that to avoid having trans-fats. 

4- when your onion turns golden brown, add your minced meat.

5- when your meat is almost done, get the kidney beans, rinse them first then add them to the meat.

6- add your chopped soggy tomatoes and then add a half a cup of melted chicken stock cube with a tea spoon of tomato paste.

 

7- let the meat simmer until the result is as showing above.

8- get a seared pan with butter, and turn your halved buns on the pan.

9- the best part comes here, add some team cheese on both sides of the buns, 2 full spoons of the meat mixture, as much cheddar cheese as you would love and some chopped parsley for additional flavor.

10- serve and eat hot.