vegetable lasagne

breakfast bap

There's nothing quite like a sausage and bacon bap with a good cup of tea for a late breakfast.

Quick and easy fish and rice

This is a meal I would often have at University. Its cheap, quick and healthy and luckily my daughter loves it.
It is simply some boiled rice and peas with a tin of sardines/mackerel in tomato sauce stirred in.

Sweet red bean soup.

This is something I love but make rarely as it can be time consuming. It is a chinese dessert / snack made with azuki beans, lotus seeds and sugar.
You will need to soak the beans overnight and the lotus seeds will also need soaking for a couple of hours. On other ocassions that I have made it I have also added a couple of spoons of tapioca balls.
So what you need is 1 cup of dried red azuki beans (soak overnight, they will double in size) If I am being lazy I will also add the 1/2 cup of lotus seeds in with them to soak.
You then need to put them in a pot with about 5-6 cups of water and 1/3 - 1/2 cup of sugar. Start wih less sugar and add more to taste if you like later. Bring to the boil and simmer for about 1 1/2 hours.
The beans should be just beaking up and soft and should have thickend the soup. Enjoy hot or cold.

Kenwood chef

I have become the proud owner of a kenwood chef thanks to my mum passing it down to me via another older lady. I hope it can stand up to all the use I put it through

Banana loaf

Ingredients:

175g (1 cup) light brown sugar

125g (1/2 cup) butter

2 eggs

250g (2-3) bananas mashed

250g (2 cups) self raising flour

1/2 tsp cinamon

1/4 tsp bicarbonate soda

90g (1/2 cup) chopped no-need-to-soak prunes (or apricots)

60g (1/2 cup) chopped nuts (preferably walnuts)

Cream the butter and sugar, slowly add the eggs then the bananas. sieve the dry ingredients together add add to the mix then add the nuts.

Bake for about 50min at 180 C or until firm and golden

Turkey Pie

This was a pie I made after christmas with left overs. I have to admit that I did 'cheat' and use ready made puff pastry.
For the filling I added to the turkey leek, bacon, parsnip some seasoning and flour to thicken. Cooked it together in a saucepan then put the filling in a pie dish and just covered with the ready made pastry. Put it in the oven for about 40min, and hey presto.