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 #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 #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.

What I Ate This Week #11

Hello! Starting WIATW back up again as I think it's good to show that vegetarians don't just eat salad, they eat tonnes of different things (my diet does admittedly contain a lot of rice and pasta, pretty samey but nevermind).

Started off the week at my favourite vegetarian cafe, Topaz. I have never once been disappointed there, the food is amazing quality, lots of herbs and veg is grown in their own allotment, it supports a local charity, it is reasonably priced (you get a hefty portion for your money) and it is SO TASTY! I had a lentil curry with raita, rice and a freshly made chapati. 

I love the colour of butternut squash curry, such a beautiful orange! I was obviously feeling the love for lentils at the start of this week. Butternut squash curry is a staple in my house, we have it with naan bread and padadums. 

Smoked paprika, tomato and pepper sauce with chilli penne pasta. I've never had chilli pasta before (this one is from Sainsbury's). It had a subtle chilli taste and was something a bit different, it enhanced the sauce and was pretty tasty!

So this was meant to be roasted butternut squash and garlic risotto with cannellini beans but I didn't have those in so I used black eyed beans instead. Bit strange but it was alright. This risotto is rather time consuming roasting all the veg and having to cook it for a while but it is worth it. I could have roasted the squash for longer to blacken it a little but it was nice and soft as it was. It contains a fair amount of garlic and I definitely would have warded off any vampires the next day!

I love homemade mixed bean enchiladas. So easy, filling and yummy. This is kinda a lazy meal but my boyfriend and I love it, usually I can eat a bigger portion than him of this stuff! We had it with potato wedges and onion rings, naughty.

Well would you take a look at those Yorkshire puddings! Er HELLO, best thing ever! My Mum made them using this Brian Turner recipe (minus the beef dripping). Carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, mash and a Quorn cheese and broccoli grill.