Ryan and I have decided to give Fish Friday’s and “Tofu” Tuesday’s a try recently – we don’t actually have tofu on Tuesday’s but vegetarian Tuesday’s didn’t have the same ring to it, instead we’re going meat free on Tuesday’s and have a fish meal on Friday’s. We’ve been trying this out since the beginning of January and it’s going great. 🙂 This is one of our recent fish dishes.…
Food & Drink
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Spicy Pepperoni Pasta Bake
Today I really fancied pepperoni for dinner but didn’t want a pizza, I always keep pasta in my cupboards and thought it would be great to combine the two into a spicy pepperoni pasta bake. You will need 200g dry pasta – I used whole wheat fusili 500g Jar of tomato pasta sauce or make your own Oil for frying 1 pinch seasoning (salt, pepper, pasta/pizza herbs) 2- 3 tsp…
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Chicken pesto pasta
Tonight I made chicken and pesto pasta for dinner. Funnily my first time using chicken with pasta! I don’t know why I haven’t cooked this before, it’s great as a quick and easy meal for two or make extra for lunch at work. Yummy! Ingredients 200g pasta or spaghetti 200g chicken, chopped 100g of red pesto Black pepper to taste 80g grated mozzarella cheese Method Cook the pasta according to…
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Christmas cupcakes
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🙂 For Christmas this year I’ve decided to bake Christmas cupcakes and a chocolate chip banana cake as we had some left over bananas to use up. For the Christmas cupcakes I used my “go to cupcake recipe” but added a chocolate sauce to the mixture to make gooey chocolate filled cupcakes. I decorated with red / pink icing and Christmas themed sprinkles…
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Mince pies
Last December, I baked a gingerbread house and mince pies for the Christmas period. I’ve yet to decide what I’ll be doing this year, yet, but wanted to share the mince pies I made last year. Since I forgot to! … Better late than never? You will need 500g pack sweet or dessert shortcrust pastry Plain flour, for dusting 300g mincemeat Milk, for glazing Method Pre heat oven to 200C/180C…
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Chocolate Frosted Funfetti Cake with Jam Filling
Tomorrow is Ryan’s birthday (and Back to the Future day). Unfortunately, he’s working until 22.00pm so we decided to celebrate today. There was presents, singing and of course, cake… I baked a vanilla sponge cake with chocolate frosting. He loved it. 🙂 You will need For the cake: 4 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 20 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 cups granulated sugar 3 eggs 2…
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Spaghetti bolognaise – classic
Quick and easy to make but really tasty. This recipe serves 4 but we had the left overs another night. Spaghetti bolognaise is one of my favourite meals. You will need 250g spaghetti 400g mince meat olive oil for frying 1 jar (500g) tomato pasta sauce (or make your own) Mixed herbs Grated cheese (optional) Method Cook the spaghetti according to packet directions, usually 10 minutes in a saucepan of…
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Lasagne
Lasagne – the first pasta dish I made for Ryan back when we were living over a commercial premises… March, I think and one of his favourites. I’ve made it a few times since and it’s always a hit; I think if Ryan had his way I’d make lasagne every day. 😉 Tonight I cooked it for my dad and I, we watched a film and had a good catch…
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Apple Crumble Cake
A colleague at work brought in a bag full of cooking apples from his tree, free to anyone who wanted some. I took 6 and decided to have a try at my first apple crumble cake. I adapted an apple crumble cake recipe I found on Pinterest for self raising flour (I’m out of baking powder)… Here’s the result. 🙂 You will need 7″ (18cm) round cake tin 75g unsalted…