#vegetable – 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.

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

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.

Choco- Avo scrumptious mousse 👌🏼

First we have talented plant based chef ‘Deliciously Ella’ to thank for this stunning recipe! I love her books, the instructions and ingredients are easy to source and create a ‘feel-good’ experience.

Let’s get started!!

Ingredients

– 2x Ripe Avocados 🥑

– 4x Very ripe bananas 🍌

– 12x Dates

– 4x tbsp Almond Butter 🧈

And the piece de resistance …. 5x Teaspoons of Organic Cacao. 🍫

This recipe is so simple it only takes ten mins top to make! Here we go :

Firstly stone and skin both avocados and pop them into a food processor.

Skin the bananas, chop the dates and add these ingredients as well as the rest to the Avo in the processor.

In two bursts of two minutes each, switch on the food processor. Make sure the mix is smooth.

Dish out into small glass dishes and garnish with a fruit 🍇 or herb 🌿 to your taste, I like mint leaves to add to the layers of taste of your nourishing dessert.

Place into fridge and chill for twenty mins.

💛enjoy💛