I have a been a little quiet on the blogging front this week – sorry! Life and work for clients got in the way and I did not do such a great job of managing everything… my multi-tasking skills failed me. But I’ve got so much deliciousness coming your way next week 🙂
I’ve been loving seeing different produce available thanks to the slowly changing seasons and have been using lots more autumnal flavours in my cooking. Next week there will be a new autumn skillet lasagne thing, I’ll finally post the buttermilk chicken recipe I hinted at on Instagram stories and there’s a yummy fish burger recipe coming at you too.
I’ve been trying to learn more about sustainable seafood options as my obsession with salmon and ocean trout needs to be tempered with some more sustainable choices. You’ll see one of them, mussels in the meal plans below. Mussels are such a great protein choice, low in fat, sustainable and inexpensive to buy. I probably eat seafood 2-3 times a week, most weeks I eat more seafood than I do meat, thus I’m always looking for sustainable options that won’t cost me and arm and a leg. Wild caught salmon is sustainable in Australia but the farmed type most fishmongers sell is not so great… I’m clearly obsessed with my Sustainable Seafood App. I love eating vegetarian and vegan food but have never found I thrive or enjoy a completely vegetarian or vegan diet.
This is reflected in the meal plans each week as in Plan A (the eat everything/omnivore plan) there’s usually 2 vegetarian options, 1-2 seafood options and 1-2 meat options. Let me know if there’s anything you’d love to see in these plans!
Plan A
Day 1: Garam Masala Spiced Sweet Potato and Carrot Soup, roasting the vegetables first gives this soup so much flavour.
Day 2: Cauliflower Risotto, creamy and comforting this is one of my favourite risottos.
Day 3: Ginger and Sesame Steamed Ocean Trout, salmon works well too, and the wild caught variety is a more sustainable choice.
Day 4: Roast Chicken Noodles, this is the perfect lazy dinner, you can by an good quality roast chicken on your way home and whip up these noodles so easily.
Day 5: Mussels with a Thai Coconut Curry broth you can change up the vegetables in these to reflect what’s good at the moment, some slice baby carrots and green beans would be yummy.
Plan B
Day 1: Cauliflower Risotto, this is the perfect creamy yet light meal to start the week. Oh and there’s no cream 😉
Day 2: Garam Masala Spiced Sweet Potato and Carrot Soup, there’s lentils added to this to make it extra filling.
Day 3: Vegetarian Nasi Goreng Noodles. All the flavours of the famous rice dish but on noodles so it’s perfect if you don’t have leftover rice around.
Day 4: Pumpkin, Freekah and Buffalo Mozzarella Salad, a simple and delicious salad.
Day 5: Dahl Makhani, this is such a creamy and delicious rich dahl based off my favourite chicken curry.
And this weeks bonus suggestion: 7 ways to reinvent your morning toast! Because breakfast shouldn’t be boring.
HH. x
