I’ve been enjoying these Couscous snacky lunchbox bites for a couple of weeks now. I thought I’d explore making them from scratch. You know me, I don’t use ready made stuff if I can avoid it.
Couscous Snacky Lunchbox Bites
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Sugar Free Chocolate, Cranberry and Walnut Tea Bread
This rather wonderful tea bread started life as an extremely simple ordinary bread loaf
Spiced Broccoli Soup. Delicious with tomato scone or herb bread
This is a delicious soup. Mildly spicy and creamy, a lovely cold weather lunch, filling, warming and tasty. It is exactly the same as the Spiced Parsnip Soup recipe on meal plan 4, except that I have swapped the parsnip for broccoli. Whist enjoying the parsnip version, I thought that it would probably work for all kinds of different veg. So as I had a yellowing head of broccoli to use before it was unusable, broccoli was the first one I tried.
Baked Oats
I’ve written before about how delicious overnight oats are, but I there is something else to do with oats in the morning. Baked Oats and I’m loving them!
Oven Baked Frittata. Takes literally 2 minutes to make, then just bung it in the oven
I knocked this up for tea this week. I was looking for something slimming world friendly that involved lots of vegetables and remembered the three bags of mixed veg in the freezer. Aha, frittata, thought I.
Arguably the best chocolate brownies – Ever!
This very simple chocolate brownie recipe makes the best chocolate brownies!
Fudgy, gooey, white chocolate blondies
Earlier in the month, I posted about some really good brownies. Last week, I took it into my head to make some blondies. I used the exact same recipe, but using white chocolate instead of plain, and oh my, were they good!
Maple Syrup, Toasted Almond & Cranberry Granola
This granola is just as I wanted it. Warm and smooth from the maple syrup, with hits of sharpness from the cranberries and extra crunch from the almonds. Delicious!
8 Sandwich Pastes for super cheap sandwiches and toast toppers
I have made lots of different sandwich pastes and toast toppers. This round up post gathers together 8 of them. I’ve really liked each of them. They are quick and cheap to make, freeze well and can be used as sandwich fillers, toast toppers, jacket potato fillings and even with pasta if let down with some liquid.
Stuffed potato cakes
The U3A cookery group came round today. We did 3 recipes this time, including this one, stuffed potato cake. 2 potato cakes is the recommended portion size. It isn't many calories, but 2 really is enough The recipe uses a potato dough and it has spiced vegetables...
OMG! These are AMAZING! Gingery soy sharp apples
Sharp apples baked with butter, ginger and soy. Must be firm apples, not Bramleys. Amazingly good. Will work equally as well with pears
Cipolline in Agrodolce (Onions in Sweet and Sour Sauce)
A wonderful side dish, or try making just the sauce for use in Chinese style recipes. Cipolline is pronounced chip-oh-LEE-nay and is a flat type of onion used in Italy for this dish.