Spaghetti Bolognaise (fortnight 1, day 1)

Well almost a whole year later I am back!

I was inspired by the blog NeverSeconds to start up my food blog again!

Today is box day, and I got:
large bunch of small carrots
celery
flat runner beans
swiss chard
cherry tomatoes
golden bosc pears
apricots

plus leftover mushrooms, courgette, red onions and a tiny bit of lettuce.

Today I am making Spaghetti Bolognaise!

Having said that, it's a loose resemblance, as you'll see. =)

Ingredients:

• Lean minced beef
• tin tomatoes

• red onion
• runner beans
• courgette
• carrots
• mushrooms
• celery

• garlic
• mixed herbs
• oxo cube
• Worcestershire sauce
• tomato puree
• red wine (I think it was a Shiraz)

• dried spaghetti
• Parmesan cheese freshly grated

Chop all the veg. I always end up eating a few runner beans raw as I go along because they are so tasty! I tend to chop my veg very chunky partly because I'm too lazy to do it finely and partly because I like the texture when I'm eating it.

The carrots that I got in the box were very small ones so I just gave them a good wash instead of peeling.

I tend to use a wok to fry most things because the high sides are convenient. Firstly I cooked the celery, onion and garlic in a little olive oil. Then I transferred that to the main pot.

Fried the beef, drained off the water/fat liquid, crumbled an oxo cube directly to the meat and added the Worchestershire sauce, tomatoes, tomato puree and herbs and then transferred that to the main pot too.

Stir fried the rest of the veg very quickly and then added them to the main pot as well, along with the mushrooms raw and a good amount of red wine.  I don't drink wine at all, so I just buy the small bottles for cooking with.

Put the lid on and leave to simmer for a while, meanwhile get the pasta on to cook.

Serve with spaghetti and some grated (or dried) parmesan cheese. mmmmmmm tasty.

And unfortunately the pears aren't yet ripe, so I finished the meal off with a couple of apricots instead! =)

~ Hannah

Sausage Pasta Bake

This is also really nice vegetarian with a couple more veg varieties in it.

Serves 4.

3 Sausages, already cooked and cut up.
1 courgette, cut to chunks
3 small onions, cut to chunks
4 cabbage leaves, shredded into strips
tin tomatoes
tin condensed cream of tomato soup
paprika
chili powder
pasta, cooked and drained.
cheese

cook sausages and pasta and set both aside. Fry onions for a bit, then add courgette and cabbage. Cook briefly. Stir in tomatoes, soup and spices and then add the chopped sausage. Leave to fully warm through and simmer briefly, then stir in pasta. Pour into a large dish and top with grated cheese. Bake in gas 6 for 20 mins until brown on top.

Fortnight 3, day 2

Catchup of last fortnight: Pasta bake, shared with my parents, recipe to follow, and I can't really remember what else, but I ended up with one small onion and a tiny bit of cabbage left, so doing well once more!

This fortnight I have:

7 vine tomatoes
5 pears
9 clementines
2 large courgettes
3 red onions
pack spring greens
mushrooms

last night I had an onion, tomato and cheese omelette to finish off last week's remaining onion and used two of the tomatoes. Also already getting through those clementines, mmmm they are so nice. haha.

Fortnight 2, Day 6.

This fortnight I got:

5 nectarines
6 pink apples
4 large tomatoes
5 large salad onions/bunched onions
2 large courgettes
salad pack (mixed leaves)
2 small cabbages

(2 pears, a lettuce and spring greens left over)

Meals so far:

Taramasalata with pitta bread, salad and tomato (x2 days)


Chicken wings with salad and tomato (x2 days)


Steak with onion, courgettes, chips and tomato (for me +guest)

all of the tomato and salad (inc. lettuce) is gone, both pears, nearly all the apples and all the nectarines. I actually had to chuck a couple nectarines out because I blinked and they were mouldy. Next time I get them I'll make sure to eat them very quickly so this doesn't happen again!

It's been nice to have salady things this week for a change, but I'm kind of glad it's all gone now because I'd have got sick of any more!

End of the first fortnight!

Yay it's day 14.

Yesterday I ended up having the leftover sausage pasta and today I had the veg I had prepped saturday:

Lamb chops
butternut squash
courgettes
wet garlic
onion
spring greens/cabbage mix

So at the end of the fortnight I have a lettuce, a small amount of spring greens/cabbage, and 2 pears. Oh so happy about this. Tomorrow, it starts all over again. XD

Sausage and Courgette Pasta

3 pork and apple sausages *
2 strips bacon *
1/3 large onion *
1 wet garlic
1 small courgette
tin tomatoes *
pasta (c)

fry sausages, then bacon and chop all up into bite size pieces.
add onion and garlic and fry quickly
add courgette and cook briefly
stir in tomatoes and leave to simmer while pasta cooks.

2 portions, one for eating... one for fridge. Probably have leftovers on Monday.

Day Twelve (June 11th)

Haha the daily lists weren't working out. Partly because I'm too lazy to update daily, and partly because I ate a load of leftovers this week, and couldn't be bothered to put 'leftover soup' every day. o.o

So I think the new idea is to post when I actually cook something, and do small updates through the fortnight.

Today is day 12 of 14. I prepped the butternut squash, cabbage, spring greens, and the rest of the courgettes for tomorrow's lunch. Made sausage pasta just now.

So what I have left (presumably) after tomorrow is:

lettuce (haven't touched it. =( I hardly ever eat salad... and there isn't much to do with a lettuce on its own.)
spring greens (probably 1/4 pack left which isn't too bad.)

AND THAT IS ALL!!! Making this fortnight probably my best for a long while. =D