What I Ate This Week #19

Some meals were old favourites this week but I really enjoyed the new chilli which was hot but packed full of tasty veg.

I love trying different shaped pasta, although this wholewheat one looks rather odd! I'm trying not to think about the fact it looks like tentacles! Chilli, garlic and cabbage pasta, deeeeelish.

I probably have this every week but it's so easy and tasty, chilli pasta bake. You need some of this in your life, it takes pasta bakes to a whole other level. Trust me.

Look at that, a picture of health...Okay so not really, my Grandmum's homemade chips, peas and a cheese and onion pie. It's Grandparents, they feed you up!

Oh boy those chips were good.

Mushrooms belong on pizza, they really do. Pizza and a super boring lettuce, cucumber and tomato salad.

I loooove broad beans so I had a tonne of them, peas, baked potato and a Linda McCartney butternut squash, chickpea and lentil pie which I hadn't seen in the frozen department before. It was rather tasty!

Also - Cheese on my potato. I eat a lot of cheese but I always take a photo of my food before I've loaded cheese on top of pasta or whatever dish I think needs it. 

A new chilli recipe from the holy grail of vegetarian recipe books that is River Cottage Veg Everyday. This had allspice and cayenne pepper in it along with three green chillies, it was HOT. Served with brown rice of course. I always think brown rice smells like popcorn when it's cooking. 

A Linda McCartney country pie, broad beans, carrots, broccoli and THE BEST ROAST POTATOES EVER. Homemade and so crispy and so delicious and I could just eat a whole bowl of them right now.

Finally I'm just going to leave this cake here that my Mum and I made using this recipe from The Telegraph. It is to die for. I mean, just look at it. *Love hearts in eyes*.

What I Ate This Week #18

A fairly mixed bag this week, look, barely any pasta for once! Lots of veg though, I'll be making the mushroom biryani again, it's always nice to discover new recipes that are easy.

Nothing wrong with eating up leftovers is there? I always seem to be eating up butternut squash curry!

Corr this blog is glamorous isn't it? I mean check out this beautifully arranged vegetable lasagna on my dressing gown, phew, get Vogue on the phone ASAP, this needs to go in their next issue.

Raw tomato pasta sauce, bit of a strange one as it was hot pasta mixed with cold mashed up skinned tomatoes with basil and chilli. I skipped the capers which were in the recipe as I hate very salty foods (olives are vile to me). This sauce was a little bland if i'm honest.

The Frankie & Benny's Mediterranean vegetable burger. Not too bad at all but the relish is far too sweet. The fries were darn tootin' tasty though. (I took off the gherkins, urgh.)

Lunch at my favourite cafe Topaz. Halloumi pitta with salad, cous cous and hummus. The Cawston Press cloudy apple is my absolute fave soft drink.

This mushroom biryani recipe was in The Telegraph and was super simple so thought i'd give it a go. I didn't use as much oil as the recipe said and ended up putting quite a bit more of the spices in but it was really tasty! Definitely easy to scale up or down too depending on who wants to eat it.

Half a cauliflower cheese grill, half a nut cutlet (that tasted like ash), broad beans, peas, slices of crispy potato with onion and carrots. Desperately need to get some new veggie grills!

What I Ate This Week #17

A pasta heavy week (it's a good job I don't give a monkeys about carbs!)

Wholewheat pasta with pepper, tomato and basil sauce.

Butternut squash and red lentil curry. We have this with mini poppadoms and I can get through a whole bag rather too easily. Yum.

 

A quick dinner of wholewheat pasta and this Loyd Grossman sauce. (Sorry for the steamy picture!)

Quite a disappointing Nandos experience, I had a tonne of salad and barely any halloumi or mushroom. My boyfriends meal was cold and look at that garlic bread, barely been grilled! Boo hiss.

This pasta took 18 minutes to cook! The longest I've ever known a pasta to cook. It's like spaghetti hoops but for macaroni peas!

Baked potato, coleslaw, carrots, broad beans, green beans, (hidden) parsnips and broccoli. 

What I Ate This Week #16

Hairy Bikers veg sausage casserole and mash. Filling and delicious, can't go wrong!

Naughty naughty chippy chips and cheese and onion pie. I'd been driving all day, stuck in traffic on the way home and got back late. Who am I kidding? I shouldn't have to justify myself to you!

Ultimate comfort food am I right!? Pasta and cheese sauce with peas and green beans, mmm.

North African squash and chickpea stew from the River Cottage Veg Everyday recipe book. Seriously worth buying this book. We make so many dishes from it! This has turmeric, cinnamon, ginger and saffron in it, really tasty and can be thickened for a stew or thinned into a soup.

Linda McCartney cheese, leek and red onion plait, carrots, green beans, new potatoes and roast parsnips.

What I Ate This Week #15

This weeks meals only confirmed quite how much rice I eat! I love the stuff! Brown, white and arborio. Not exactly a varied week, meal wise but it was nice to eat at an organic restaurant and a new pub.

A hefty family meal of butternut squash curry with mini poppadoms and naan bread. 

Great food photography there Cressida, beans sticking out all over the place! A mushroom, pepper, bean, garlic and smokey paprika risotto.

Took my brother to Aberystwyth so it was a long journey in the car. Decided to have a big lunch to keep us going. This was a veggie burger with wedges and salad from The Treehouse. The veggie burger must have had beetroot in it because it was pink! It had garlic mayo too, yum. The Treehouse is a small organic restaurant and health food shop with some lovely vegetarian options, my Mum and brother had Welsh Ploughmans.

Finishing up the butternut squash curry with some brown rice. Barely any food gets thrown away in this house! We compost anything we can too. 

I admit this doesn't look like much for dinner but it's my Mums tiny portion! Chilli penne (new obsession) pasta bake and peas. Deeeeelish. Seriously get some chilli pasta in your life. You can thank me at dinner time.

This was the result of the great 'argh what shall we have for dinner?!' debacle. Found a stir fry sauce in the cupboard and bunged in some onions, beans, peppers and carrots. Turned in to a half decent meal!

Went out to the Junction Inn for my Dad's Birthday lunch. Not a vast amount of vegetarian choice but the cheese and onion pie was really tasty, as were the chunky chips. (Got to have chunky chips at a pub.)

What I Ate This Week #14

Lots of pasta this week but I've been enjoying the wholewheat version. I think I'll try and eat more of that and only white occasionally.

I bloomin' love pasta bake. You've gotta make the top crispy, get some bread crumbs on there! This was a random mix of wholewheat and white pasta. 

Pancake day, woohoo! I had honey and blueberries (picked by me in Norfolk last Summer). I tried to center the pancake to make a lovely picture buuut it wasn't happening #bloggerproblems.

Mushroom and pepper risotto. This time with Italian herbs, usually I chuck plenty of smoked paprika in a risotto but not this time.

A Linda McCartney mozzarella burger with garlic mayo and beetroot salad, tomatoes and spiced wedges. A girl needs a burger sometimes, just sometimes.

Big old vegetable lasagna. Made using frozen mixed veg, lasagna sheets and cheese sauce.

I could eat the top forever as I'm not super keen on the mixed veg (sweetcorn is not my friend).

Both my brothers are home, all of us are 6ft and above so want hefty portions! 

Garlic, chilli and chickpea pasta with savoy cabbage. 

I wolfed this down. One of my favorite ever meals.

Homemade Yorkshire puddings, broccoli, potatoes, goats cheese and red onion tart and Chantilly carrots.

What I Ate This Week #13

Sorry it's a day or two late. I've been busy painting! A mixed bag this week.

My boyfriend made dinner for me, we were meant to have this the evening before with the sushi and vegetable tempura but we were too full! This was the hottest stir fry I have ever eaten. I could barely eat it, my mouth turned numb! He did put three fresh chillis in it and a black bean sauce. Blew. My. Head. Off.

This cauliflower cheese will change your life. Okay it won't but it is the best cauli cheese I've ever had! Roasting cauliflower is the way forward. I use this recipe. 

You can thank me later.

I had chips becaaaause I wanted to have chips and I rarely have them! I always want a potato special but they are always piled on top of sausages and I don't really fancy a meat tainted one, a cheese and onion pie sufficed.

Paprika vegetable stew with brown nice. This has roasted peppers, carrots, onion, mushroom and parsnip in a tomatoy papriky (totally real words) sauce. Yum.

You know when you've got little bits of pasta left over in bags, not enough for a meal? Well use them up in a big old pasta bake. The chilli penne was amazing in it!

American pancakes made for me on Valentines Day by my boyfriend. Topped with strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and plenty of maple syrup. 

If you can't have pizza on a weekend, then when can you have it?! This is my favourite frozen pizza, Chicago Town Takeaway Four Cheese Melt. A God in the pizza world I tell you. Also, pizza doesn't really photograph well buuut we all know what pizza looks like.

Went slightly overboard with the leek sauce today. A nut cutlet (bit dry), mash, savoy cabbage and carrots.