happy eating, with Louisa

A Hearty Nourishing Dinner 🍲

Ingredients

2x Jacket Potatoes 🥔 chopped roughly into thick wedges

1x Red Onion chopped finely

5x Garlic 🧄 kernels cut into tiny pieces

6x round tomatoes 🍅

Chicken in BBQ glaze (ready prepared) from all good food supermarkets and great 👍🏻 for protein and energy.

A dusting of dried parsley 🌿

A few generous pinches of sea salt 🧂

Two generous glugs of olive oil.

Method

Place the chicken into a baking tin and add the potatoes, drenching in olive oil, sea salt & dried parsley. Heat potatoes and chicken on 220 for an hour.

Heat the second and final half of the Olive oil in a frying pan. Add the onion and garlic, & cook for five minutes until the heavenly ‘kitchenny’ smell starts to take effect.

At this point add chopped tomatoes ( cut into small wedges) to the onion & garlic. Heat until the juices flow and the tomatoes begin to sweat and stew.

Place the tomatoes frying pan mix to one side and turn off the heat on the hob.

After the chicken and rustic potato wedges have cooked, quickly heat up the tomatoes mix for another four minutes.

Plate up !!

Pictures to follow

Not forgetting the succulent warm tomatoes 🍅 mixture

Enjoy your well deserved nourishing supper. ♥️🍅

Ahhh, this is just a bit of variation on the traditional flapjack, it’s yummy and the richness of the Organic Cacao means that small portions can be the way to go – a long lasting snack to have in the pantry.

Kitchen Heroes

Method

Grease a small baking tray

Melt the flora – 1/5 of the tub, and golden syrup (enough to fully immerse the flora together) .

Envelope the mixture by then adding the organic cacao – enough to cover the flora-syrup mixture which should have melted after three minutes on the hob at a low heat.

Briskly add the oats, 400g to the mix, stirring thoroughly and off the heat.

Place in the baking tray and into the oven at 180’ for fifteen minutes. Allow to cool before rolling into rough, rustic blobs.

Rich, filling and a ton of slow release energy. Tasty too!! All this makes for a fantastic snack to have about whilst staying at home.

Enjoy guys

Louisa xxx

A lockdown smorgasbord

I always find cooking just so therapeutic, and productive.

Here we have some tantalizing flavours for a supper that will make you feel a) full b) nourished c) happy!! Whatcha waiting for?!

Ingredients

Bag of new potatoes 🥔 cut in half.

6x garlic cloves. In small pieces.

Generous glug of olive oil

1x big bunch of curly leaf parsley 🌿

1x bag of green beans (top & tailed)

4x slices of smoked salmon

2x lemons 🍋 cut in half.

Method

1) place the new potatoes and parsley and garlic into the roasting tin.

2) add the Olive Oil.

3) cook for 40 mins on 220.

4) meanwhile boil the green beans.

5) After cooking take the ingredients and either spoon them out onto individual plates, or one big cooking dish.

6) i then added some smoked salmon ( taking advantage of the 3 for £10 offer in Marks) ( it freezes well)

7) plate up and enjoy!!!

These heroes!! The flora wasn’t needed in the end.

Garlic herb 🌿 potatoes – smelling divine rn.

M&S smoked salmon. On offer and freezable ( very filling!)

Pure health! As my dad would say. Myself and Adz scoffed this! Definitely love this combo of ingredients!! Change from herbs to paprika on the new potatoes. I added a tiny bit of sea salt to the green beans.

Enjoy making this! Yay.

Happily Eating……..Gnocchi!

So Gnocchi is a beautiful potatoey dumpling 🥟 kinda thang. The benefits? Super-tasty, super quick and easy peasy to cook. 👩🏻‍🍳

I don’t know about you, but pasta sometimes doesn’t agree with me, and anyway, it’s always nice and refreshing to switch things up a little! Here’s my recipe for a speedy, yet impressive Supper.

Ingredients

500g Gnocchi

12x King Prawns 🍤

Small jar tomato 🍅 pesto

350g jar marinated artichokes

Sprinkling of Parmesan – (optional)

Method

1) Take a large saucepan and fill it to halfway with boiling water.

2) Add the Gnocchi. Cook until the gnocchi rises to the top.

3) Using a colinder, get rid of the excess water down the sink.

4) Add the pesto, to the warm gnocchi and distribute evenly.

5) Add the Artichokes and then the prawns. Mix well with the pesto covered gnocchi.

6) Plate up, and eat whilst still warm.

Makes enough for four generous portions, ENJOY!!

This recipe is suitable for pescatarians (just leave out the grated cheese)

Cook 👩🏻‍🍳 for five mins or until all gnocchi is floating on the top.

Bon Apetit!! Until next time! Hope this is great meal inspo! Louisa x

A Beautiful Okra Side Dish (or Vegan main)

The delicious Indian 🇮🇳 delicacy Okra, also known as Ladies Fingers, is an absolute joy to cook with veg and seasoning in a stir fry pan. Something new, because, tbh broccoli can get a bit boring sometimes.

Here I will show you how ten to twelve minutes of cooking with Okra leads to a happy, healthy dinner. Hold on tight! are u ready?!

Ingredients

12x ladies fingers/Okra

25 Santini tomatoes 🍅 ( cherry tomato is just as good)

1/2 a red onion 🧅

2x garlic 🧄 cloves

Generous glug of Olive Oil.

Smattering of Sea Salt 🧂

Method

1) Top & tail the Okra.

2) chop up the onion and garlic into small pieces.

3) halve the Santini tomatoes.

4) heat the Olive oil in the frying pan for one minute.

5) add the Okra, garlic and onion to the hot oil. Cook for ten minutes.

6) add the tomatoes and a pinch or two of sea salt to the mix. Heat for five more minutes.

Enjoy as a side or a main. I have three vegan sausages and a couple of cheeky cheese and onion potatocakes. The Okra mix went beautifully.

A wonderful hearty dinner, even my vegetable-dodging hubby scoffed his Okra !!! Success!!

Have a wonderful weekend, with love 💓 and light 💡, Louisa

Lula’s two-ingredient Banana Bread 🍌

I know, I know. I’m kinda late to the party Re the covid / banana loaf thang.

But, it’s just the ticket 🎫 if, you’re like me – sweet tooth, but craving food that nourishes. This is your man (!)

Ingredients

4x overripe bananas

350g ground almonds

Method

1) turn on the oven to 180.

2) grease a baking tin with olive oil.

3) skin and chop the bananas.

4) carefully place into magimix/food processor

5) add the ground almond to the bananas.

6) switch food processor on and blend for two and a half minutes.

7) spoon into the greased baking tin.

8) place in oven for twenty mins.

9) leave to stand for twenty mins.

10) chop into rough, rustic squares.

11) enjoy a little piece of bliss!

Bon Apetito!

Until next time folks, Happy Saturday! X

BBC Good Food 🥘 Risotto, a delish dish!

BBC Good Food 🥘 Risotto, a delish dish!

BBC Good Food 🥘 Risotto, a delish dish!

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BBC Good Food 🥘 Risotto, a delish dish!

Ingredients

Method

1) chop up the Aubergine into small chunks.

2) add olive oil to the pan and heat the aubergine for ten minutes.

3) set to one side. Heat the onions 🧅 for five mins and then add to this the garlic and stalks from the parsley handful.

4) add two tsp of the turmeric and smoked paprika each, as well as the Arborio Risotto Rice to the mixture in the pan. Coat well.

5) add a 3/4 l of stock w one Knorr organic veg stock cube. Heat for twenty mins.

6) next add the cooked aubergine and chargrilled artichokes from a jar, including the oil. Add the 3/4 l of stock with the second final Knorr veg stock cube.

7) finally add the juice from three lemons 🍋 taking care to remove the pips.

8) garnish with parsley leaves 🌿

Bon Apetit! Enjoy!