Friday More of an idea than a recipe, this is a pocket potato, as inspired by Ella Risbridger’s Midnight Chicken. The idea being, you pack a foil wrapped baked potato in your pocket as you go out for your picnic. It does require some forethought and it depends what time you’re leaving the house to…
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On the menu – Mac and No Cheese
Thursday There’s a new One Pound Meals book out, woo hoo!!! This one is vegan and I was a little unsure about whether to buy it, as I have an intolerance to a lot of typically vegan foods but it’s One Pound Meals, I bought it anyway and I’m glad I did. There are some…
On the menu – Mug Marmite Mac and cheese
Wednesday This really doesn’t look like much but this was so gorgeous. It’s Mug Marmite Mac and Cheese from Jack Monroe’s Cooking on a Bootstrap (you can also find the recipe here) and it is so good. I’ve made microwave mug mac and cheeses before and they’ve never really worked for me, so I was…
On the menu – Red Pepper & Tomato Risotto and Pizza Boats
Monday This is from the James Wong 10-a-day book, it’s an ‘interesting’ way to cook risotto. It’s basically everything bunged together, with the liquid being milk and cooked for a long time. The milk bit was interesting, it made the risotto sort of like a savoury rice pudding but the whole bung everything in and…
On the menu – not chicken soup and ‘not’ mac & cheese
Friday This is Not Chicken Soup from Anna Jones’ The Modern Cook’s Year. It’s meant to have a tofu topping, which would have been delicious but I’m intolerant, hence the pancetta. The whole thing is rather nice, I’ve made chicken soup before and been really uninspired by the broth, ‘Not Chicken Soup’ is meant to…
On the menu – cooking from Jamie Cooks Italy
Friday This is an adapted version of the minestrone in Jamie Cooks Italy, I know it doesn’t look much like minestrone does it? It’s adapted, in that the recipe is for 6-8 people, (which is annoying, how many people regularly cook for that many people in the home environment these days?), I quartered the ingredients…
On the menu – Peri Peri Tacos and Whatever Noodle Salad
Friday These are Peri Peri Tacos from Miguel Barclay’s Super Easy One Pound Meals and they were okay, the chicken was nice but everything else a bit bland. Monday This is the Whatever Noodle Salad from the Carbs book and I’m not having the most successful week with my cooking, apparently, as although this was…
On the menu – Uplifting Chilli and Lemon Spaghetti
Friday This is Uplifting Chilli and Lemon Spaghetti from the wonderful Midnight Chicken by Ella Risbridger. It’s a very simple dish, it’s the ideal sort of thing to make when you feel tired and foot sore and have pretty much minimal energy for cooking but feel that you should make something. Just the simple act…
On the menu – sweet potato fries and banana chocolate chip muffins
Friday I am not a massive fan of sweet potato, I’ll eat it if it’s mixed in with butternut squash (one of my favourite vegetables of all time) but on its own, nah. But one of my kids likes sweet potatoes and she got her hands on my Tasty app recently and bookmarked some recipes,…
On the menu – Masala Pepper & Potatoes and Chicken Fajita Pasta
Friday This is a recipe from the Food with Chetna YouTube channel and it was really nice but when I make it next time (which I will), I will have to remember to cut the potato cubes much smaller as they took longer to cook than the recipe said, so the onions were getting cremated….
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