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Easing back in gently. Due to "new austerity measures", alternately known as working part time in a recession, I have started planning menus. This is an effort to ONLY buy what is on the shopping list, yes ONLY (no half price wine Ms O, that means NO!). I think it probably has saved us some cash, but what it has definitely done is mean I am cooking loads more from my beloved cook books.
Unlike certain other people I know, I don't list set meal per day of the week, but I do buy the ingredients for 7 main meals, and then we see how we go during the week. So far this week we've had pork ribs, Nigella's chorizo and chicken bake, and tomorrow is chilli. According to my tiny scribbled scrap of paper drawn over with cartoon cats this week also has pasta puttanesca, baking soda biscuits (plus whatever), fishcakes, and a chicken pilaf of some sort. We seem to be protein heavy this week, but I blame the cold.
This has also driven me to search out tasty cooking blogs; has anyone got any recommendations? What is your go to meal for ease? What about to impress?
Currently I think I do something tex-mexy for impressing and carbonara or poached eggs for ease. Could change though!
Favourite of our discovered recipes are Nigel Slater's spicy meatballs (fnargh), and a Cranks recipe for cabbage with cream and mustard. Yum.
In Gwen news today, she is very keen to learn morris dancing. She doesn't know it's called that, she just wants to do the dance where Mup and I sing morris type tunes and then mime the "Clllock" of the sticks knocking together. I was greeted this evening by her going "deeeddleedee CLOCK!". hmmmm, is this something social services will worry about? Are we creating a monster?
Unlike certain other people I know, I don't list set meal per day of the week, but I do buy the ingredients for 7 main meals, and then we see how we go during the week. So far this week we've had pork ribs, Nigella's chorizo and chicken bake, and tomorrow is chilli. According to my tiny scribbled scrap of paper drawn over with cartoon cats this week also has pasta puttanesca, baking soda biscuits (plus whatever), fishcakes, and a chicken pilaf of some sort. We seem to be protein heavy this week, but I blame the cold.
This has also driven me to search out tasty cooking blogs; has anyone got any recommendations? What is your go to meal for ease? What about to impress?
Currently I think I do something tex-mexy for impressing and carbonara or poached eggs for ease. Could change though!
Favourite of our discovered recipes are Nigel Slater's spicy meatballs (fnargh), and a Cranks recipe for cabbage with cream and mustard. Yum.
In Gwen news today, she is very keen to learn morris dancing. She doesn't know it's called that, she just wants to do the dance where Mup and I sing morris type tunes and then mime the "Clllock" of the sticks knocking together. I was greeted this evening by her going "deeeddleedee CLOCK!". hmmmm, is this something social services will worry about? Are we creating a monster?