What's for dinner?

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Tuna salad and rolls

Potato wedges (home made) and baked beans - pregnancy seems to have reverted my taste buds to those of a 6 year old!

pasta with tomato based sauce (tinned toms, red wine, shallot, garlic clove, olive oil, squirt of ketchup, s&p, bit of sugar and simmer/reduce for about an hour or until really dark, thick and rich), chorizo and smokey bacon plus garlic baguette. Yum

Sounds great Paula.
Will give it a whirl meself!

DH calls it tex/mex cottage pie

Bruschetta and salad

(I know salad might sound an odd choice when we have 10ins of snow and its -4 outside but its a case of using up whats in the fridge before it goes off and trying to ration other stuff as I'm not sure when I can get to the nearest shop).

should've said spiced lamb with cous cous and roasted veg very lush and low calorie too

We had risotto and locally farmed Old Spot pork chops.

Yum to cornbread. Which recipe do you use please?

We had roasted vege pasta bake. I don't like pasta bake.
But it keeps dp and dd2 happy every now and then.

Chicken casserole and mash potato/ T'is cold, I want carbs and stodge.

Vegetarian black bean chilli from this month's Good Food magazine.

Chickpea, chorizo and spinach stew with rice.

Thats ound slovely, Blame the Parents. Do you have a recipe?

WE had veg rice gratin fo rlunch.

Homemade bread, cheese, and leek and potato soup this evening.

JamButty - how do you do your spiced lamb with couscous?

blametheparents - please can you report back about success of black bean chilli because I was thinking about doing it one night next week.

Here, we (DH & I) are having teryaki salmon with noodles and wilted greens. Children had pasta & red pesto as they were in a whingy carb-slump after all the snow activity this afternoon.

I had this Innocent veg pot. I've liked most of the ones I've tried but this was truely vile.

We are eating through the freezer, tonight is left over ready meal, chicken in a tarragon sauce, and I have baby new potatoes and broccoli.

I running out of meals in the freezer , managed to find bag of frozen fish pieces.
Made fish pie for the dc's and me and dp had fish cooked in lemon and chilli on a bed of rice with mange tout and yellow peppers.
Was very nice and good for the diet.
However the glass of red i am enjoying now probably isn't

sowhatitsonlysnow Saw that one in Waitrose today and thought it looked yuck. Most of the others are lovely and great for a healthy lunch / tea.

I can report that the black bean chilli was delicious, tho have just realised that I forgot to add the flat leaf parsley. Had it with spring onions and crumbled feta cheese on top and very yummy. Will def be making it again.
Can type up recipe if anyone would like it.

was the black bean chilli particularly hot? Would you feed it to an adventurous 5 y.o?

No, not especially hot. When I make beef chilli I make it much hotter.
Was spiced, but not hot.
My 8 yo liked it, he is quite adventurous. My 4 yo DD would not touch it, but then she is a fussy little madam.

Thanks, btp

We had that black bean chilli on Tuesday blametheparents, I also can concur that it was delicious (we had feta and avocado on top). And no, not particularly hot - although obviously you can add chilli powder to taste.

Oh and we had prawn and butternut squash red curry with brown basmati rice tonight.

Dairymoo - could I have the prawn curry recipe please?

Bean fajitas yum yum. With homemade salsa and guacamole.

Sausages with roasties, veg, yorkshires and gravy - num num num!!