Oven Baked Cod coated in a Walnut, Lemon and Parmesan crust.

This is without doubt one of my all time favourite dishes!!
The crunchy crust embracing the soft flesh of a beautiful piece of cod, you cant beat it!!

If you're going to give this dish a go, id suggest going out and buying the best cod fillet you can afford!
Lets face it, you're not going to be having a meal like this all the time, so why not go out and buy the best ingredients you can afford.

before you start cooking, pre-heat your oven to the highest setting to get it piping hot, and also take your fish out of the fridge to allow it to come to room temperature.

For the crust, you will need.

• A big handful of walnuts
• A cup of breadcrumbs
• Half a cup of grated Parmesan
• The zest of 1 lemon
• Salt and Pepper
• A little drizzle of oil

First things first, give your walnuts a blast in the food processor and then add all of your other ingredients and blitz until it resembles a crunchy paste.

Then simply rub the flesh of your cod with your walnut paste and cook it at gas mark 6 for 20 to 25 minutes.
Its that simple!! Why not try my Cauliflower rice recipe to go with your fish?

Healthy, Easy, Delicious...... What more do you want

My Mean Green Smoothie

So I've been on juice plus for about 6 weeks now, but i wouldn't say I've stuck to it very well if I'm being honest.

So i have tried to mix things up abit and i came up with this smoothie.
Now normally I'm not the kind of person who would have a load of greens in a meal, but i think i need this to mix it up from the basic juice plus recipe.

What you will need:

2 Apples
1 Cucumber
1 stick of celery
2 bananas
2 big handfuls of Kale
juice of 1 big Lemon
2 cups of water
and if you like an ice crunch, put in a few ice cubes.

simply chop all your ingredients, put them in a blender and whizz your way to greeny goodness.
This recipe should yield 4 pint glasses of Mean Green, so if you want to yield 1 glass, just quarter the recipe.

Juice Plus 2nd weigh in

sorry this post is 2 days late, been very busy in work.

but i have to say i had abit of a cheat weekend, we had a take away on Friday and Saturday and i went out Saturday night (couldn't resist the hen party)

But leading up to the weekend i was doing very well at sticking to the juice plus plan, although not doing as much exercise as i would like as I'm watching every game of the world cup and also fitting in Andy Murray around that.

Most days i would have a shake for breakfast and tea, and for lunch in work i would have my homemade tomato soup (ill post a recipe soon) which is just so yummy! and a wholemeal pitta bread.
And that seems to do the business and curb my hunger.

My tomato and garlic soup

So onto the main event, weight.

at the start of week 2 i weighed 13st 13lbs
at the end of week 2 i weighed  13st 11lbs

So Ive still lost 2lbs and overall gone from 203lbs to 193lbs in 2 weeks.

happy days.