#tomato – 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. ♥️🍅

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

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.

Pasta A la Lula!

Pasta is just a real staple food. It’s a blank canvas, and I find it tastes best with simple, minimal flavours. This is so it ain’t too heavy.

Follow my easy recipe for dinner time wins.

Ingredients

2x portions of Pasta.

Medium Jar Marinated artichokes

Juice of one lemon 🍋

9x sundried tomatoes

A generous dusting of Parmesan

Methodology

Boil pasta.

Drain.

Add entire jar of artichokes and the liquid.

Add juice of 🍋

Finely chop sundried tomatoes 🍅

Add Parmesan

Bon Apetit!x

Guys, this only took ten minutes to make. Satisfying, NOURISHING and most importantly delicious. until next time,

Lula xxx

Nourish Me Pitta 🥙 Pockets

Is it me, or do carbs have the WORST rep EVER?!

Today we are using wholemeal pitta and filling them with a heavenly combo of vegetables. Get Ready for deliciousness!

Ingredients

1x jar Marinated Artichoke hearts 💞

1/2 jar Sundried tomatoes 🍅

15x Cherry tomatoes

Half a small Red onion 🧅

Handful of fresh Herbs 🌿- I like flat-leaf parsley

1x lemon 🍋

6x wholemeal pittabread

Method

Place the artichokes (and the marinade in the jar), sundried tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, onions, into a saucepan. On a low heat, warm and stir for 4 minutes.

Warm the Pitta in a toaster.

Add the lemon juice to the mixture.

Carefully, using a spoon, place the vegetable mixture into the pitta breads.

Eat immediately.

Sun dried and chopped, ready to be added to the mix. In background, the pitta for later.

Fresh 🍋 lemon, fresh cherry tomatoes – so healthy!

Nicely warmed (definitely not boiling these vegetables)

Enjoy 😉! I had these for my dinner 🍴 full up till tomorrow!

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!