There was some riced (mashed) potato left after dinner the night before. Wondered what to make with it, bright idea, Tuna Fishcakes.
A light lunch served with salad.
Tuna Fishcakes (serves 3)
Ingredients
1 medium potato (mashed)
1 tin tuna drained and flaked
2 spring onions, finely chopped
1 free range egg, beaten
1 tablespoons capers
2 oz self-raising...
Fish, Mash and Peas + Parsley Sauce (All-in-one White Sauce recipe included)
Time to raid the freezer, when fish is what you fancy, there is nothing like lots of different types available so everyone has what they want. Hubby = cod, daughter and me = plaice.
Yet again, the potato was put through the ricer, leaving it light and fluffy, so much easier to serve and less "claggy".
The fish can be backed in individual foil parcels...
Leek and Potato Soup - Simple can be all that's needed
Gently does it
When you aren't feeling quite as good as you should, slightly off colour then soup maybe all you fancy. A very simple Leek and Potato soup would be a failsafe, plus I could put into a pour and store bag and pop in the fridge for later.
Leek and Potato Soup
Ingredients
1lb Potatoes, peeled and sliced into 1/2 inch slices
1 Leek, washed...
Chicken Fajitas - when short cuts are good
A very successful dinner last night.
As our daughter has an intolerance to wheat, gluten and dairy, we had bought a Fajita Kit a couple of weeks ago. Tonight I used this to save some time and create a healthy dinner for all of us.
The kit came with the tortillas, salsa...
Pasta with tomato, courgettes and tuna sauce.
Lunchtime Dilemma
Using leftovers!
What did I have left, 1/3rd tin tuna (well I did leave for daughter yesterday, but she didn't get back until tea time), also had a box of cooked pasta left from yesterday?
I didn't want to waste this and came up with the following dish and whilst it was cooking, I could nip outside into the garden to grab the fresh...
Chicken Fricassee
I bought a whole free range chicken and then took the breast off for our meal.
Electric Steamer
We were lucky to receive an electric steamer last year from my sister-in-law, which is brilliant for cooking the vegetables to serve with the dinner, just pop them in using however...
Tuna Salad
Tuna Salad (serves 2)
2 oz cooked and cold Seeds of Change Semi-wholewheat Tortiglioni
2 handfuls of salad leaves with beetroot shreds
Half an avocado
2 inch chunk cucumber
1 large tomato
1/3 tin tuna fish in spring water
Extra virgin olive oil
Organic cider vinegar
Freshly ground pepper
Method
While the pasta was cooking (yes I do...
Taking the Pressure out of Cooking dinner
How often do you find that you want a rib sticking kind of dinner, get home late from work and realise that you don't have 3 hours to cook the dinner in the oven.
Perhaps you're feeling a little poorly, that doesn't stop the family needing feeding, so you want to cook health meals as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Saving money is good too.
Tonight...
