Cruising Femail on the Daily Mail’s site, as I often to, I came across a great recipe for homemade ice cream which both intrigued and excited me. And made me a little hungry. I’ve never tried to make homemade ice cream before or anything in ‘that family’ so it was a little daunted but it looked so nice! So off I went and had a little go.
I noticed a post on British Mummy Bloggers a couple of weeks ago by Sandy Calico about a free lunch/meet up at Pizza Express, which naturally caught my eye! They are pushing the new Leggera pizza, which has a big whole in the middle which is filled with salad - making it only 500 calories, which is certainly attractive. Almost as attractive as the word ‘free’.
So I shall soon hopefully be meeting Sandy, Lindy at Chronicles of Squidyboo, Sally at Who’s the Mummy and Yummy Mammy at Secret Diaries of a Wannabe Yummy Mammy. It should be a fun meet up! And free food always goes down a treat!
So after a couple of months racking your brain about how to entertain the kids every day, they’re finally back to school. School uniform check! Sports kit check! Stationary check! Healthy packed lunches…hmm not yet got that sorted?
With fresh news of Jamie Oliver getting out there to the schools once again and banning butter on sandwiches, I think we’re all realising how important it is for kids to get the right nutrients on a daily basis, without all the junk food. Another factor is that the food needs to keep them full throughout the day – a hungry child is a grumpy one!!
Last night when I got home I had no time whatsoever to start rustling up a masterpiece, not to mention no patience or enthusiasm and I was starving (I think I was just having one of ‘those’ hectic mum chaos days!) So when it came around to making something for tea I just needed something I didn’t even need to think about, something easy and wouldn’t leave me shouting “I’ve been standing over this hot stove all day!!”
Looking in the fridge I had chicken and a few packs of assorted veg – zero inspiration for me there. Looking in the cupboard a packet of noodles fell out as I opened it causing me to have a Eureka! moment – or rather a ‘that’ll do’ moment. So the conclusion I came to was chicken stir fry. What I remembered after the meal was that it is in fact National Organic fortnight so if you can use fresh and organic veg in the stir fry you’ll be doing your bit!
No hassle chicken stir fry…
stir fry
Late last year I remember watching Jamie Oliver’s cooking programme “Jamie’s Ministry of Food” where he goes around teaching the art of cooking to people who ‘cant cook, wont cook’.
One week he was teaching a ‘Busy Mum’ called Emma Peckett who, like me, loves to cook but never has the time to. She made an amazing fish pie from scratch in under an hour and Jamie really impressed me with the way he had conjured up an easy recipe whilst still keeping the taste of a yummy gastro pub!
So with that theme in mind, I’m going to try a similar pie to Emma’s – not fish however as I don’t think Kian’s culinary tastebuds stretch that far just yet – something that is filling and won’t leave me raiding the biscuit cupboard later on in the night! Unfortunately it does take longer than the other recipes I’ve been uploading but believe me, it’s worth it!
Comforting cottage pie…
