#oliveoil – 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. ♥️🍅

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.

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

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!

Finally coming together after adding the aubergine and jar of chargrilled artichokes.

And there we have it, one delicious dinner. Feeds six with generous portions. I’m sharing mine w hubby and my gorgeous pal Maria. Until next time folks!

Nourishing New Potato Dish

Potatoes are absolutely yummy! They can be eaten in so many guises – chips/crisps/roasted/the list goes on……..

But let’s switch things up a bit with this recipe of mine –

Ingredients

12x new potatoes 🥔

2x garlic cloves

1/4 of a red onion 🧅

12x cherry tomatoes 🍅

7x sundried tomatoes 🍅

A glug of olive oil

A few sprigs of parsley 🌿

1. Chop new potatoes in half and boil for fifteen mins, until soft.

2. Chop up the garlic 🧄 and onion 🧅

3. Chop the sundried tomatoes 🍅 into thirds.

4. Add Olive Oil to saucepan. Heat for a min.

5. Add the chopped onion and garlic to the oil.

6. Heat for five mins, then add the rest of the ingredients ( omitting the parsley at this point)

7. Heat ingredients in pan for ten mins. Dish out. Place a sprig of parsley top of dish 🌿

Bon Apetit!!!!!!

I added a chicken burger 🍔 with aubergine pesto.

Cheeky Italian Bruschetta!

Q) what’s tasty, got all the flavour, simples to rustle up, and gives you two of your five a day?! ( um, clue in title) …….,,,

Ingredients

1x Ciabatta loaf, cut into four. 🥖

2x tbsp Pesto (flavour of your choice)

20x cherry tomatoes 🍅

1x 1/2 small cup of red onion 🧅

Generous glug of olive oil

Method.

Add olive oil to a medium frying pan, heat and place both the onions and tomatoes into the pan. On a high heat, cook these for five mins, stirring occasionally.

Next, Add the bread, doughy part facedown to the frying pan for two mins, allowing it to soak up the flavoursome olive oil, and flavours of onion and tomato.

After this, place the ciabatta on a big serving dish. Layer with the contents of the frying pan and at the end, add a cheeky topping of lush pesto on top of each piece of bread.

Serve immediately!