Vegetarian Dishes 2020 – July

Right, I am going to be on time for my vegetarian dish this month and will make an effort to keep up and not get behind!! As mentioned previously, I am not that confident in cooking vegetarian dishes so I try to use our ‘veggie day’ to learn something new!!I saw this recipe online and just by chance my husband brought 2 x avocados with his grocery shop. We never buy avocados as we don’t know what to do with it! Also, I am actually not a huge fan of avocados as there is something about the texture that i don’t like! But, I thought, might aswell give it try, you preach to the kids to try out new vegetables and fruits so there is no excuses for grown ups! Lol!The avocado pasta is so easy to make, i actually didn’t have most of the ingredients like basil and parmesan so just improvised with what I got! We had some prawns, mushrooms and tinned crabmeat (nearly expiring), I heated them up and then added it to the spaghetti. With the avocados, i just mashed it up with some olive oil, salt and pepper but I thought it needed abit of acidity and added some lemon juice. The sauce was quite thick so it just coated the spaghetti. Dinner turned out to be quite nice surprisingly! I would definitely make this again and use the avocados sauce as a base and experiment with different ingredients such as adding tomatoes or peppers etc. 

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World Chocolate Day!

It was World Chocolate Day on Tuesday 7th July so I thought it would be good excuse to make something chocolaty with the boys! I finished work late so we didn’t enough time to make it on the actual day so we made it the next day!We decided to make a Chocolate chip traybake from BBC Good Food website. With this recipe, I adjusted the light brown sugar from 300g to 200g as I thought it would be sweet enough already especially if it has got icing on top aswell. The cake is very moist and not dry at all!It was really simple to make and the boys enjoyed all the weighing and mixing and eating the white chocolate chips! Although, I didn’t realize how big the cake is! In the end, I had to freeze most of the cake or otherwise we would be having chocolate cake for the whole month!! Hope you guys enjoyed World Chocolate Day! 🙂

Vegetarian Dishes 2020 – June

I wanted to be on time with my vegetarian dishes but just missed it! However, I will be on time for July’s Veg dish!!

Last year, I went on my 1st solo trip to Florence for my best friend’s 40th birthday. I have never been on a trip by myself before and I was petrified! My husband took care of the logistic details and even planned my sightseeing schedule! He loves to doing that kind of thing as normally on our hols, i would just go with the flow and let him organised the whole day!

I loved it in Florence, it was such an amazing trip and had the best time with my best friend, Gil who currently lives in Sydney! She wanted to go to Italy for her 40th birthday so they planned a trip with her husband and baby girl! Unfortunately, our whole family couldn’t go as it was too expensive and the boys still had school etc, hence why i went by myself! I will make a separate blog entry for this as i experienced so many yummy food and need to blog about my pasta making class!

I made a few food purchases and one was a packet of Nero di seppia risotto, which is squid ink risotto. I have tasted this dish once in Venice and just remembered it was so different but delicious.

All you had to do was to fry the risotto mix in oil and add hot water until it is fully absorbed which took approx 25 minutes. When I started cooking this, it was so weird seeing the risotto black, it looked like tar! I added some prawns, mussels, seafood sticks and leeks. I have never cooked anything like this before as it was so black!! Even all the seafood went black aswell! I must say it didn’t look very appealing and my boys were shocked that we were eating something so black. It actually taste much better than it looks, the sauce was so rich and even after adding a pint of water, it was still quite strong and flavorsome! If this was on a restaurant menu, I would definitely order it again!

Vegetarian Dishes 2020 – May

It was my husband’s turn to cook for veggie day. He wanted to cook some fish and looked online for some recipes. He saw one from cafedelites.com with pan seared salmon with lemon garlic butter sauce. He liked this one because it was easy to follow and doesn’t take that long to cook. Normally, if he is cooking, he does it super early ahead of our of dinner time as he takes ages doing all the prep work etc and the kitchen is like a bomb site afterwards so he takes awhile to clean it!! lol!

All you need for this recipe is skinless salmon fillets, lemon juice, olive oil, butter, garlic and parsley and ready in under 15 minutes, you really can’t go wrong with this unless you burn the salmon or something. It was so delicious that I  nearly forgot to take a picture of it – already half eaten!! 🙂 

 

 

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