Cottage Quiche

With our wedding fast approaching and a wedding dress to get into, watching what I eat is definitely something I have to do at the moment. So even though some of my dishes may not be friendly to the waist line, I do like to bake the occasional healthy options and that is something you will probably see a little more of over the next few months. 

On tonight's menu it was definitely time  for something light a healthy and my Cottage Quiche is exactly that! Packed full of vegetables and topped with egg on cottage cheese, it has the tastes of your favorite Quiche without the calories and fat of the pastry base!

Eating healthy doesn't have to be boring. Stick with me and I'll make sure to have plenty of healthy meals to sink your teeth into!

Serves 2

Ingredients

1 Courgette 

1 Onion

1 Pepper (any colour) 

110g Low Fat Cottage Cheese

2 medium Eggs

5 mushrooms (I used shiitake but you can use any)

1 Leek
Chili Flakes
Tarragon

Directions

1. Turn oven on to 180°C / 350°C / gas mark 4

2. Chop up all of your vegetables.

3. Sauté the vegetables in a little water until al dente and add pepper, few chili flakes to give it a bit of a kick and some tarragon.

4. Whilst the vegetables are cooking, beat the eggs and cottage cheese together. Add some pepper.

5. Put the vegetables into a shallow glass dish and pour the egg mixture on top.

6. Cover with foil and place on oven for 10 minutes. Remove foil and cook for another 10 minutes.

7. Serve with a side salad. 

Healthy, tasty and guilt free!

Secret Wedding Cake

I am so excited because yesterday we finally ordered our 'wedding cake'! Now I use the term wedding cake lightly as we are not going down the traditional wedding cake route. To be honest though we aren't really going down the traditional wedding route!

I am not going to give too much away as we want it to be a surprise for everyone!

Me and Jamie got engaged in Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida in September 2011 so our wedding will have been in planning for 2 years. And as you can imagine we have had many ideas going through our minds. I was certain that I didn't want a traditional tiered wedding cake. And then I saw a pretty nice cake from Marks and Spencer's and thought that it was a bit edgy so would be different for our not so traditional wedding.

M&S Milk Chocolate Ribbons Wedding Cake

Then as time passed that idea was overridden by designing our own cake with each tier displaying a different part of our life together but the whole cake idea just wasn't us!

We then started to see Cake Pop wedding cake displays that looked amazing and having had Cake Pops at our engagement party we knew that was for us and we were finally set on this idea......... until I found Delish! I spent the whole of Saturday looking though all of their amazing facebook photos and then there was something we saw that instantly changed our mind. Now don't be deceived by the fact that Cake Pops feature heavily on their website. There will be no Cake Pops at our wedding.

We threw a few ideas around with Neli who makes these fantastic treats and placed our order!

Cannot wait to show you the final display on the day! My mouth is watering just thinking about it!

In the meantime, please go and check out all of the delicious photos on their facebook page and website. Here's a few to get your mouth watering!