These were delicious, though they proved very difficult to take a picture of. We used rice spring roll wrappers, and a selection of fillings: rice noodles, lettuce, cucumber, carrot, radish, peanuts, chilis and a satay sauce. Very tasty.
30 June 2020
28 June 2020
Dinner, 28/6/20: Pinto Bean and Sweet Potato Quesadillas
We love a quesadilla in our house, and eat them with many different fillings, most of them meatless. When Liv is home, I just use vegan cheese in hers instead of dairy cheese - the emphasis is really on the fillings, so the cheese is just something to stick it together a bit. These have spiralised sweet potato in them, which is the orange that you see - this worked really well as a filling, along with pinto beans and other bits and pieces.
27 June 2020
Book 40: Wonder, R J Palacio (re-read)
We were watching the film of this at lunchtime at school this past week and I wanted to remind myself of how the book differed, so I had a quick re-read. What a good book.
Dinner, 27/6/20: New Potato and Green Bean Istoo, Tamarind Shallots
Two dishes from the cookbook East by Meera Sodha. The tamarind shallots weren't, in the end, very tamarindy, as Alex misread the recipe and put tumeric in, instead, but actually, they were still very yummy. The bean and potato istoo is a curry.
26 June 2020
Dinner, 26/6: Rustic Beans and Spinach with Garlic Yogurt
We love a butter bean stew, and do several variations. This one just has some optional yogurt, so easy to accommodate any vegans you may have hanging around...
25 June 2020
Dinner, 25/6/20: Feta & Leek Frittata, Salad
Tomorrow I'm off to collect Liv from Birmingham, so there won't be many meals featuring eggs in the immediate future (even before she became vegan, she didn't like egg-based things like omelettes and frittatas). But this was yummy. Nice eggs, baby leeks & spring onions and some feta. Tasty.
24 June 2020
Dinner, 24/6/20: Aubergine and Mushroom Curry
Aubergine and mushroom curry. Not one we can eat often, as the kids don't like aubergine. Alex had a try of this - he just had mostly mushrooms and sauce and rice, with very little aubergine. But still not a huge hit. Geoff and I like it, though.
21 June 2020
Book 39: One of Us is Next, Karen McManus
A young adult crime novel, sort of sequel (or follow-up perhaps) to a book I read before. Quite a light read, but that's a good thing at the moment. Well constructed.
Book 38: Blood from a Stone, Donna Leon
The next in this series. Makes me want to visit Venice again, as they always do, but even more so at the moment, as I can't go anywhere for the foreseeable future!
Dinner, 21/6/20: Pasta with tomatoes, olives, capers; homemade focaccia
I often reserve the last day of the week before the shopping arrives for a "what needs using" type of meal. This week, what needed using was tomatoes, so I did a pasta with tomato sauce and olives, capers, anchovies, chili - kind of a puttanesca, but not exactly. Also made some homemade foccacia to go alongside. This would work equally well with no anchovies, so could easily be vegetarian/vegan.
20 June 2020
Dinner, 20/6/20: Broccoli and Kohlrabi with cheese sauce, oven potatoes
Oven potatoes, broccoli and kohlrabi with cheese sauce. Everything is better with cheese sauce. It's just one of those facts of life.
19 June 2020
Dinner, 19/6/20: Teriyaki Salmon Noodles
Salmon, noodles, summer greens, teriyaki sauce. And there you go.
17 June 2020
Dinner, 17/6/20: Pork Mince Ragu with Papardelle
Geoff wanted a ragu of some sort, so he cooked this one with pork mince and pancetta. He usually cooks most of the mince-based meals in our house (ragu, shepherds pie, etc) mainly because although I'm fine with eating them, they aren't really my favourite thing to cook or eat, so I leave him to it - he does a good job.
16 June 2020
Dinner, 16/6/20: Broad Bean Risotto, Salad
Broad bean risotto to use the broad beans from the veggie box - last time we just had them plain. It's a fairly short season for broad beans, and although you can buy them frozen, it's nice to have the fresh young ones!
14 June 2020
Book 37: Watership Down, Richard Adams (re-read)
I've read this a number of times - not sure how many - but not in a few years. Can't remember what conversation it was that sparked a desire to re-read, but it was lovely to visit the rabbits again. I love about this book that every time I read it, it's still tense and exciting and you still wonder if the rabbits are going to make it.
Dinner, 14/6/20: Braised Chicken & Lettuce; Mashed Turnip & Potatoes
Sunday at the moment tends to be a day reserved for a meal made up of whatever needs using up (because at the moment, the shopping is coming on a Monday); this week there wasn't much, so although I did use the two large turnips (mashed with some potato) and the lettuce (braised), I also dug out some chicken breast to make a kind of quick casserole. Some weeks we have a lot of veg hanging around waiting to be used up, some weeks, not so much.
13 June 2020
Dinner, 13/6/20: Onion & Goat Cheese Pizza, Caramelised Carrots
A glut of onions (as usual) prompted these pizzas/topped flatbreads - caramelised onion and goat cheese pizzas. On the side, some caramelised carrots with a green salsa.
12 June 2020
Dinner, 12/6/20: Sausages, Broad Beans, Turnips & Potatoes
A simple meal of sausages, broad beans from the veggie box and oven cooked turnips and potatoes (also from the veggie box).
11 June 2020
Dinner, 11/6/20: Spinach, New Potato & Chickpea Curry
An old favourite; this time it was a little different because I bought a different (and better!) brand of curry powder than normal, so it was a bit spicier. Served with flatbreads from our local shop.
10 June 2020
Dinner, 10/6/20: Korean-style Prawn & Spring Onion Pancake
Alex, Geoff and I really love this - Sarah's not a big prawn fan, and of course with both prawns and eggs, it was a no-go for Olivia even before she was a vegan. But that's ok, we just eat it when they aren't around, or in this case, Sarah ate something different. It was a good choice, as we had quite a lot of eggs in, plus a glut of spring onions, so it made sense. With getting a veggie box each week, I can't always have complete control over the veggies we get, so I do try to let the veggies dictate the meals, rather than the other way around. It usually works pretty well.
09 June 2020
Dinner, 9/6/20: Minestrone
07 June 2020
Book 36: The Wyndham Case, Jill Paton Walsh
Jill Paton Walsh is best known to me for being the writer who completed and then continued Dorothy L Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey books - I'd never read her own books, so I thought I'd give them a try. I enjoyed this. I predicted some elements of it, but not others, and am curious to see where the rest of the series goes as I haven't quite got a grasp on the main character yet - she feels slightly unrealistic, though not in a bad way, necessarily. But then, so does much of what takes place in Oxbridge (ie high academia), so perhaps she fits in.
Dinner, 7/6/20: Bacon & Artichoke Pasta
This is a standby sort of dish - a bit of bacon, some artichokes, a handful of rocket and some grated parmesan...
06 June 2020
Dinner, 6/6/20: Potato, Camembert & Spinach Tart, Cucumber Salad
This is a tart I've made before using Taleggio cheese, which has a lovely flavour, a bit stronger than Camembert, but they were out of Taleggio (a lot of Italian ingredients are a bit harder to come by at the moment), so I had to sub in. It's still really tasty.
04 June 2020
Dinner, 4/6/20: Courgette, mint, goat cheese & chili salad
The recipe was for a courgette, mint, ricotta and chili salad, but the shop was out of ricotta and it's not our favourite cheese anyway, so I used a nice goat cheese instead, which was lovely. We also had potatoes and carrots alongside the meal, but I didn't photograph them...
03 June 2020
Dinner: Chorizo, Red Pepper and Rocket Frittata
Frittata - great when you've got a lot of eggs knocking about wanting to be used. Here, I've also added oven potatoes and turnips. A quick weeknight meal.
02 June 2020
Dinner, 2/6/20: Salmon, Cabbage, Potatoes
With Liv away from home at the moment, we are having fewer vegan meals - not because I don't like vegan meals, but because we do like things like cheese and fish, so it's nice to have meals which don't exclude her. She's always happy to make her own stuff, but I still feel bad making something she can't eat. A meal like this is fairly versatile because it's only the fish she can't have - so she can just have veggie sausages or burger, and eat the potatoes and cabbage with us. But still...
01 June 2020
Dinner, 1/6/20: Ravioli with garlic bread and salad
Ravioli (not homemade), with a sauce of artichoke and smoked tomatoes. And garlic bread and salad...
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