It’s been a minute since I’ve done one of these. I haven’t really had the time to cook as much as I’d like to but I will try to be better at that. Here are some recipes I’ve tried out recently, with the written recipe and any adjustment I made listed. All were so so good.
Vegetarian rocky road
Recipe via BBC Good Food
Store bought vegetarian rocky road is always so unnecessarily complicated. Just cause I don’t want to eat animal bones doesn’t mean I need fruit in my deserts. Mad that to get rocky road the way I want it I have to do it myself but it’s really not too complicated which is good. I dished it out into muffin cups which means I have pre-decided portions. A very good idea of mine honestly. As far as adjustments go; I used rich teas for the biscuit, maple syrup instead of golden and I had to cut up big marshmallows into sixths. No major changes. It’s a pretty easy meal to just use whatever you have in for. Which is easier if you regularly have in veggie marshmallows.
Ham and leek omelette
I don’t have a recipe, my dad just told me how to make an omelette
I had never made an omelette before (I have obviously eaten one, but ones that were made for me) but we had leek in and ham and so I just had to make one. My dad verbalised what to do and so I did it. I did mess up by forgetting to add salt and pepper while it was on, but I remembered when it was plated which is fine. I also like definitely overcooked it but again, totally fine. I don’t like to eat egg, it tends to make me feel gross but I actually felt weirdly fine after eating this like it didn’t mess me up at all. I would make this again for sure. Had with slightly toasted, buttered bread.
A wannabe caesar salad (truly just a chicken salad)
I decisively did not check recipes. Hence the failure.
I was so excited to make an imitation caesar salad but there’s way more to caesar than I thought. It literally is just the what the cluck chicken pieces with lettuce leaves, cucumber, celery and yellow pepper. I then doused it all in caesar dressing which I’ve been really liking recently. It’s so good. I do need to figure out how to properly make a caesar, like with the croutons.
I tried it another time and I think this is even less like an actual caesar but I did Quorn roast with baby spinach, olives, carrot and garlic mayo. I think including the olives brings it back to a legitimate caesar but really this is just me wanting to show this off as something I’ve made. Really not impressive or anything I know, but it tasted good and was really easy.
Spinach pasta
Recipe via BBC Good Food
This is an insane bastardisation of a Good Food salmon pasta recipe that has become my basis for any cream pasta meal. Really I sub out the salmon for spinach and olives and I topped with grated cheddar rather than chives. Both things change it a ton but the rest of the rough recipe is the same. I would say something about knowing this recipe so well that I can change it but at the end of the day the method itself is so basic and this really is just cream cheese pasta now.
Vegetarian curry
Recipe from Family Food on the Table
This is my go to curry recipe. I found it in uni and I have made it so so many times since. Again, it’s really not hard but I had like no clue where to even start when I found this and it’s good for knowing quantities of seasoning. I make a lot of adjustments always, just ways to use what I have in. Like I used frozen spinach and added broccoli this time for ease. I also did not put cream in it which I think just keeps it thin. Adjustments aside, any recipe with chickpeas that takes less than 30 minutes (allegedly, this took me longer because it’s me and I added the veggies in so late) is a good time in my book.
Pizza toast
Do you need a recipe for pizza toast?
I used a part baked stick that had been cooked prior to making this, like several hours prior. This post is half ‘how many different ways can I have olives and spinach together’ but look here’s another way. And actually they’re my favourite things to have on pizzas. The grill was being so annoying on this day and I should have added more cheese but still it was a great time. I continue to use pasta sauce for the top, as the easiest thing to do. I acknowledge pizza sauce is a thing but that’s a pretty specific thing to just have in.
Baked sweet potatoes with spinach and tofu
Recipe from Tesco Real Food
Another just insane bastardisation. I switched out the kale for spinach (love spinach clearly), used roasted garlic cloves instead of chopped garlic and added baked tofu instead of feta. So maybe not insane but it’s a very different meal. I love hearty food like this, like if I could eat a meal like this everyday I’d be a happy gal. There’s balsamic to top too so it’s like warm and sweet with the onion and garlic and then bam vinegar. Just the best. I roast my tofu with a marinade of oil, cornflour and salt and pepper until it looks good. So easy and like half the things here are roasted so it works well with the recipe. Giggling at how you can barely see the sweet potato in the image but it’s there I swear.
That is all I have! There was already a massive amount of time between the writing of the first half and the second, if you cannot tell from the writing, without adding more to this. But one of my new years resolutions is to cook more so hopefully I make more recipes this year and don’t spend like 5 months on a post like this again.
Georgia
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