My attempt at "Zoodles"

In the 4 Ingredients Allergy book there are also various "zoodle" themed recipes. Or that is, Vegetables prepared to replace pasta and noodles in meals.

Sweet potato noodles are ready to fry.

The idea is that you peel the vegetables instead of cutting them, so that you end up with something like linguine or wide rice noodles. The recipe involving sweet potatoes called for cinnamon as well for some reason. The idea was to fry them in oil (!!). However, I failed to use enough oil and ended up with overly thin bits of undercooked sweet potato that had to be broken up so they wouldn't stick to the bottom of the pan. Grr.

The zucchini fared better, but it was a hassle to peel one zucchini let alone the amount you would need for a pasta dish. And it just tasted like normal zucchini.

It's hard to stop noodles breaking apart in stir fries at the best of time. Sweet potato noodles (which didn't even fully cook) were a bad, bad idea for this meal (the chicken and balsamic noodles from 4 Ingredients, in which I used mung bean noodles).

In future, I will make sure noodle stir fries are composed of ingredients that have been cooked fully XD.

Easy low carb slim Bolognese

530 calories

Ingredients per person (I made 3 servings)

33 g aged cheddar cheese, the icing on the proverbial cake. It's a bit brittle, but packs a ton of umami into the meal.

1/3 jar organic pasta sauce randomly picked up on special at a chemist (due to being close to its best before date, probably. This seems to be the only way shops like this end up selling stock)

A pack of slim pasta, also from the chemist. It seems one of the staff had been considering buying it because she asked me I it was "any good." If you like slightly jelly-like vermicelli, then yes, its fantastic. And it happens to go rather well with tomato based sauces.

1/3 of an extremely huge almost half kilo  onion from one of those 10 kg bags. Diced with the pivot method and a nice, sharp knife. Fried until caramelised with spray oil.

1/3 diced carrot

300 g premium beef mince formed into a pattie with a little flour to bind and spices

Method: cook everything in a microwave for 10 minutes and serve with noodles

Next time I'm substituting the noodles for long, thin slices of carrot (thin enough to bend)