The past few weeks have been a bit manic and something that I’ve really been missing (aside from snuggling up, watching 30 Rock and having extremely early nights), is eating some proper home cooked grub. Luckily we’ve been spending a lot of our weekends in Brighton and boy does my Mum feed us up with dinner, pudding, after dinner mints – I spend the journey back to London with my trousers undone and patting my rotund belly – but I quite like donning the apron myself and so today I thought I’d share some of my favourite recipes that I’ve whipped up before and I’ll be whipping up again. WARNING: Do not ready the following while hungry…
It’s no secret that I have a major sweet tooth. If it was socially acceptable to eat Dairy Milk Giant Chocolate Buttons for breakfast lunch and dinner I would and I could. Side note: why do they taste so much better than the small ones? I have a few things that I like to make and bake when a sugar craving comes around, one healthy and one not so. Let’s address the latter first – my Triple Chocolate Super Gooey Cookie Recipe. For me these never disappoint and make the perfect ‘going to a dinner/party and I don’t know what to take with me’ gift. These days I tend to chop up the chocolate smaller, make more cookies and leave them in the oven for a little less time, so the mixture goes further. The healthier way to get my chocolate fix is in the form of Madeleine Shaw’s Raw Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownie Cake which tastes SO DARN GOOD. I make them into little balls and leave them in a fridge for a pre-lunch, pre-dinner, pre-bed snack.
I’ve got a new favourite when it comes to dinner – cauliflower. Now hear me out on this one. Before I even put it in my fridge I blitz up the florets in the blender (you will find little tiny bits of cauliflower stuck to your kettle, sideboards and behind your ear for weeks to come because it gets everywhere) and put the little rice-like remnants in a container. From this I make cauliflower base pizzas which Mark actually prefers to the original stuff (crazy guy!) and cauliflower rice to pair with curries and chillies. I haven’t got a specific recipe for the pizza bases because I’ve used so many and as long as you’ve got some blitzed cauliflower, an egg and some seasonings you’ll be ok and to make the rice I just warm up a small amount of aroma-free Coconut Oil in a wok, heat up the cauliflower bits in there for 6-7 minutes and serve. Give it a go!
The other veg that I’ve been slicing and dicing for a dinner accompaniment is courgette. I make ‘courgetti‘ by using a spiralizer, but you can get the same effect with a julienne peeler or with a slicer, just cut the strips into even thinner ones. Right now I’m loving it with Madeline Shaw’s Turkey Meatball recipe from Get the Glow (but this recipe is similar). I just make the meatballs, cover them in a tomato sauce and bake them in the oven and it tastes ah-mazing. Plus a big dish lasts two days for dinner meaning that Monday evening’s supper is already sorted. Nice.
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