Although our household isn’t vegetarian, we often eat veggie meals. Usually that means a meal without meat, but sometimes I will use Quorn as a meat substitute. As we are now on a bit of a healthy eating kick I’m trying to include a little less meat in our meals to save on calories, and Quorn is a great low calorie substitute, as well as being full of protein. I recently made this delicious looking – and sounding – Spanish sausage casserole. Most of the ingredients for this I already had in my cupboard or fridge; the only things I had to buy …
Recipe – Courgette & potato fritters
I experimented with this recipe after acquiring a collection of courgettes from our weekly fruit & veg delivery, and wanted to do something different with them rather than our usual pasta dish (it’s also nice in cake too!). We served them with sausages and peas but you could serve them as a replacement to any potato side dish you have really. Ingredients (makes around 10 large fritters) 2 large potatoes, roughly grated 2 courgettes, roughly grated 1 small onion, roughly grated 1 egg, beaten plain flour 1-2 tbsp oil Method Grate your potatoes, courgettes & onion into a large bowl. …
Meal Planning Monday – 30th June
I’m going to start joining in with the meal planning Monday linky over at At Home With Mrs M. I thought it might give me a bit of structure for our meals rather than just deciding on the day, and also give me some inspiration! So my meal plan for w/c 30th June: Monday – Brinner* Tuesday – Cheesy broccoli pasta Wednesday – Sri Lankan duck curry (J will have a light dinner as he has a cooked meal at nursery) Thursday – Jacket potatoes with various fillings (Fish) Friday – Scampi & home made chips Saturday – Out Sunday – …
Foodie Penpals – June reveal
This month my parcel came from Laura over at Foodie Laura. I usually give spicy food as one of my preferences, and this box happened to be an international spice fest! I haven’t actually tried anything yet but I am really looking forward to doing so. First up was a couple of meal kits: Sri Lankan duck curry. Now this sounds delicious as we love duck but rarely ever have it, so I’m going to treat us to some duck this week and have it for dinner one evening! lamb Rogan Josh. this is one my favourite Indian curries so …
A to Z of Family – D is for Decisions
As parents, we all have an awful lot of decisions to make. Some are easy, some are hard. Some take a lot of thought, some we might do on a whim. Of course the biggest decision we will ever make is whether to start a family, then you have to think about when. When is the right time? Is there ever a right time? For us, we decided to wait until after we married. We were married in the July but because I am OCD about things, we I decided to wait until the New Year so it was a fresh …