This weekend has been so crisp, sunny days becoming cold nights and I just don’t know why I’m never prepared for this level of winter. Every year I’m all like, ‘I don’t remember it being this cold last year’, when clearly it was. And for al of you that live in places that are actually cold. I’m only talking single digits celsius that I’m struggling with. There’s no snow or actual cold. Just me dressing inappropriately, as a fairly constant state of affairs. But man is it making me crave hot food for every meal.
7 HEALTHY SOUPS TO KEEP YOU WARM THIS WINTER
You cannot possibly underestimate the warming, healing and happiness power of a good soup on a cold day. I’m probably making at least 1 soup a week at the moment and filling my freezer with tasty things for cold days when cooking is just beyond me. Yeah even people like me who spend all their time, thinking about, writing about and cooking food can’t be stuffed sometimes. Make your way through this tasty little collection this winter for happy bellies and warm hands.
MEAL PLANS WEEK 25
This weeks meal plans are continuing along that waste less theme. The recipes have cross over ingredients but different flavour profiles and should leave you with enough for lunches if there’s just 2 of you! This is how I cook at home, using ingredients form one recipe to create the rest.
CHICKEN ORECCHIETTE SOUP WITH PARMESAN AND LEMON
I was going to call this chicken noodle soup, because any short thicker style pasta will work. But, I love it with orecchiette the best so let’s give those little ears of pasta a starring role in the recipe name. They deserve it.
MEAL PLANS WEEK 24
This weeks meal plans have arrived and they’re delightful! I’ve included notes on how to cut down on waste by adjusting the recipes, such as using green cabbage for both recipes that call for cabbage this week. I’m all for adapting recipes to suit your needs, and the contents of your fridge.
CRISPY CHICKEN BURGERS WITH PARMESAN SLAW AND SPICY MAYO
I’m so excited to share these with you. I was meant to post a vego recipe today (which I’m also super excited about) and these tomorrow but these are like, everything. So I’m sharing early. Crispy chicken burgers. Crispy chicken burgers are one of my favourite indulgences. But these one’s aren’t fried, and are filled with light and tasty slaw and a spicy sauce. If you choose a gluten free bun they’re also GLUTEN FREE. And full of goodness thanks to the crunchy almond coating on them.
MEAL PLANS WEEK 23
This week has been a fun one in the kitchen, with delicious cakes, yummy curries and even more things to come next week. The meal plans this week definitely reflect this as well as my continuous push to wasting less food and using similar ingredients across the week, but don’t worry this doesn’t mean everything will taste the same!
GREEN CHICKEN SKEWERS WITH HARISSA SAUCE
These chicken and vegetable skewers are delicious and an easy way to get a range of protein and vegetables on your plate. The marinade makes the chicken super taste and it’s actually quite flavoursome just by itself. But that sauce is bright and delicious too and kind of takes things to a new level.
MEAL PLANS WEEK 21
This week has been full of fun things with some great new recipe son the blog, naturally I’ll be including them in this weeks meal plans! One of them is my favourite thing I’ve made in a long time because it uses one of my favourite ingredients… noodles!
THAI RED CURRY NOODLE SOUP, RAMEN STYLE
This noodle soup is totally a Japanese Thai hybrid thing, and it’s amazing. Like all my noodle, soup, and curry dreams coming true.