To steal your fave easy dinner recipe (if you tell me please)

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Need ideas for dinners for me and DP as we kind of stuck in a rut eating same dinners every week. We have a young baby so simple ideas is best for me!

Various veg - onions, peppers, courgettes, sweet potatoes, leeks etc. cut into chunks, add halloumi cheese cut into slices. Toss with olive oil and lemon juice with thyme or rosemary, roast for about 45 min stirring halfway.

Lots of slow cooker recipes, I like chicken legs and thighs, two sliced leeks and any other veg which needs using (this week a carrot and half a punnet of mushrooms) in the slow cooker, add a pint of chicken stock, tblsp flour, 2 tsp grainy mustard, seasoning. On low before work, ready when you get home.

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Borsetshireblue try bunging onion, diced lamb, rosemary, a pint or so of veg stock, tin of drained apricots and some ground almonds...maybe 3 tbsps? Into slowooker for 5 ish hours and stir it so that the apricots melt and the almonds thicken the sweet sauce, its really good with stilton mash.

can you do the pulled pork in the slow cooker?

I think is my favourite thread of the year so far.

Heinz spagetti with sausages, with a layer of mash potato on top, sprinkle with cheese, onion and leek (or even peppers, whatever ya fancy) oven at 200 for 15 mins. Bish Bash Bosh.

Tis delish and great on a lazy evening.

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Totally unsophisticated but: bake spuds. Cut in half and scoop out flesh. Mash with corned beef and spring onions. Pile back into skins, top with cheese and grill. Serve with salad if feeling grown-up or baked beans if you're not

Put fish fingers in oven. Wait 12 minutes. Remove. Microwave peas for as long as you feel like (

carbonara -
fry some bacon bits
whisk up eggs, one for the first person, and then as many yolks as there are extra people.
cook tagliatelle
dump the drained tagliatelle into the fried bacon pan, removed from heat. wait a minute and mix the egg through.
serve with parmesan or grated grana padano (cheaper)

Egg fried rice. Leftover rice. A garlic. Some frozen veg and an egg.

Put oil in frying pan. Put frozen veg and any other bit of meat/prawn/hot dog sausage. Stir it around. Put rice in. Stir. Make a well in the middle. Crack an egg. Let it sit for a while till it's not gooey but not set. Then stir the whole thing together. Put some soy sauce, oyster sauce, seasoning. Voila.

Takes 10 min flat.

Borsetshire Blue

My DH did the best lamb dish ever this week.

Get a spice mix called Ras-el-hanout. DH found his in Tesco, but I know Lakeland also sell it. The night before you cook, coat the surface of a leg of lamb with the spice mix in a little olive oil. Wrap tightly in cling film and refrigerate overnight. The following morning, put the lamb in the oven on about gas mark 6-7 for about 30 mins, then turn down. We have an S setting on our gas oven for slow cooking; leave the lamb in the oven for 4-5 hours and then remove.

The meat will be deliciously soft and highly flavoured without having any heat. DH then sautéed an onion, mushrooms, adding some chopped orange and yellow peppers when almost ready and add as much pulled lamb as you wish.

Serve in pittas or, as we did, in tortilla wraps with tzatziki and falafels on the side.

Still raving about the lamb 4 days later!!

Thank you for the lamb dishes - I'll try out one of them next weekend!

Defrost frozen prawns.Boil kettle. Put boiling water in pan on hob, bring to boil & keep boiling. Heat olive oil in frying pan. Stir fry chopped spring onion, some bean shoots and add frozen peas. Add table spoon green curry paste & tin coconut milk. Put noodles in boiling water then simmer for four minutes. Add frozen prawns to stir fry. Serve when prswns ready. Can substitute chicken for prawns

Half pound of Pork Mince
1 ounce sage and onion stuffing
1 chopped onion
1 raw egg
1 grated apple

Combine all ingredients, bake in the oven for 30 minutes or so. Serve hot with veg, potatoes and gravy of your choice.

Can be served cold with coleslaw and chips.

Hope this is ok, here are a few I have posted on my blog:

Cheesy Leeks on Toast

Slow Cooker

Chicken suprise
Base - chicken bits ( leg quarters work well), waxy patatoes, garlic left in it's skin but squashed with the edge of the knife all coated with some olive oil.

Then add the Suprise bits - some one has already mentioned lemon & thyme, or you could use Chorizio, onions and olives or panchetta, apples and sage. or cherry tomatoes and peppers or apricots and pinenuts with moroccan spices ( Cumin, dried mint, papricka, Ras-el-hanout, cinnamon). I look in the cupboards and see what might go with what..... it can be quite experimental at times.

If you want you can also add other vege - carrots, sweet potato, parsnips

Mix it all up and lay it out in a rosting tin - bake on a low ish heat until everything is done. Serve with salad and a good dollop of creme fresh.

Or the ultimate "I am so sorry I am so late back from work, year end pressure you know" pasta dish is lemon crab & parsley.

Put the pasta on to cook - empty a tin or 2 of crab meat into a bowl, squeeze over lemon, add a good handful of chopped parsley, a couple of chillies. Season to taste. Drain pasta return to the pan, add the crab mix, stir through and eat. If you want you can add a little olive oil or parmasan cheese. It can be on the table 11 minutes after walking through the door (call ahead to get the kettle on!)

Pasta with pesto, pine nuts, parmesan and peas. Buy decent pesto. Boil up the pasta, add some frozen baby peas for the last minute of cooking. Drain. Stir in the pesto, serve with sprinkle of pine nits and parmesan.
If you want to get fancy get chicken pieces with skin still on and roast with pesto rubbed into skin first, and serve this with pasta. The nicer egg pastas work really well with this but cheap stuff does the job too.

Emergency pasta bake:
Packet of pasta & packet of small frozen veg in an oven dish. Pour over a couple of tins of mushroom or other soup, put in the oven .

This gives the impression if a home cooked meal with minimum effort

For the best chicken ever you need a slow cooker, a lemon (quartered) a garlic bulb (chopped in half), a chicken and an onion (quartered). Place the onion pieces in the slow cooker, insert the lemon and garlic into the chicken and place chicken onto the onion. Put slow cooker on low and leave for about 6 hours. What you get is the tenderest, tastiest meat ever for fuck all effort.

my fave;

fry mushrooms

add 1/3 of a tub of Philly and some milk

pour over fresh cooked wholemeal past

add a bad of microwave frozen veg of any variety

salt + pepper

yummy

made in 10 mins - great for a quick filling tea

Variation on the pasta pesto idea:

Cook pasta. Chuck in green veg part way through eg broccoli, peas, broad/runner beans etc

Meanwhile microwave or griddle some salmon.

Stir pesto through the drained pasta and veg, top with flaked salmon.

Also good with leftover cooked chicken or little cubs of sautéed courgette.

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Creamy presto pasta

This takes 15 - 20 minutes.

Fry some sliced turkey breast (or chicken) for a few minutes. Add sliced spring onions (5) garlic (2) and fry for a couple of minutes. Add about a cupful of hot water and a veg stock cube, stir. Add 10 or so sliced pepperdew peppers (from a jar) half a tub of creme fraiche, and a spoonful of red pesto. Season with black pepper. Let this simmer and thicken while you cook the pasta. Drain pasta and stir it all together.

Its lovely, and really low fat if you use turkey and low fat creme fraiche.