Anything Omelette

When in doubt, fry it and cover it with eggs and milk.

Onions automatically make it awesome, one red pepper and sliced chorizo - done and done.

Pesto Salmon

I actually used my Jamie's Ministry of Food for this one, but I found the recipe online here.



You can obviously have it with side salad to keep it healthy,  I made chips...

Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup

Is it obvious I like food with a bit of a kick?



I use this recipe. But I add two chillis and I don't add mushroom or sweetcorn...cos Ben is awkward. I also go to my local Thai shop and buy rice noodles cos I love skinny skinny noodles! Yum!

Pear and Proscuitto Salad

I am not a fan of salads, but this is such an easy, delicious, amazing go to:



You need:
Baby leaf salad leaves (half a bag - spinach, rocket, stuff like that)
One pear (buy a few days in advance so it's deliciously ready for eating)
Three slices proscuitto
Spring onions
avocado
pine nuts (optional)

Dressing:
One part olive oil to three parts balsamic vinegar
grainy mustard
clove of garlic chopped very finely

For the dressing, combine it all and shake vigourously (I use an old nutella jar)

For salad, chop the pear, avocado and spring onions, then throw everything together. If I'm at home I'll put some pine nuts in the oven, keep an eye on them and when they start to brown, add them on top - heaven.

Spicy Gnocchi

It's not too spicy, it is an original recipe, whaaaaat! Well, I say 'original'.... I knew we had gnocchi and chorizo so I googled 'gnocchi chorizo' and found this recipe.

But we substituted the basil for one red chilli and threw in some chorizo. Also, we used two peppers, cos you can never have too much veg!

I have to say as well, super easy recipe (I mean, Ben made this...enough said).

Spicy Chicken Stew

I'd bought some stuff to make a pasta sauce but had ended up improvising, leaving me with quite a lot of veg in my fridge. Some googling on bbcgoodfood for a healthy recipe I found Spicy Chicken Stew.



It was yum! Find the original recipe here. It is super easy, and just uses one (large) saucepan. I did tweak the amounts going into it though, since the original recipe was for six!

For two hearty portions:
a packet of chicken drumstricks (we used tesco which weighed in about 430g)
1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, chopped
1 red chilli (I used two but it was too spicy)
1 red pepper
200g chopped tomatoes
1 tin kidney beans (the recipe says 'kidney beans in chilli sauce' but I just added a tsp chilli powder)
1 tin butter beans
220ml chicken stock
small bunch coriander

Follow the instructions on the website...though I would just leave the skin on, peeling it off raw chicken is a pain in the arse, it'd probably come off easier after the pre-frying anyway!

Ruby Red Chicken Curry

Don't really think this falls into my healthy eating so much but hey ho.



I saw this recipe in Metro on Monday and I said to Ben (because it was one of the rare and awesome days we took the same train to work), "Do you want this for dinner?". It's the first time I've made a curry not using some pre-bought sauce or paste. In fact, I made my own curry paste, which I am entirely proud of.

Find the original recipe here. The only change I made was to use chicken breast instead of thighs or legs because I don't like bones in my curries.

I also feel like there was something missing from this curry... but I made a second curry paste based loosely on this one (but more chillies and other spices) and I'm going to make something with this tomorrow...so let's see!

Broccoli and Carrot Soup

Soups are awesome for healthy eating. Puréed vegetables. And they're PERFECT in winter. I think people think soups are harder than they are. They're possibly the simplest thing ever!



You will need:
1 head of broccoli
4 large carrots
1 leek (don't use the end leafy bits though, white or light green stalk bit)
1 vegetable stock cube

Chop off the brocolli florets, chop up the carrots, chop up leek, keep it chunky, carrots/leek about 2cm wide. Throw them in a saucepan, cover veg in water, add your stock cube, bring to the boil. Once boiling, cover and let it simmer. After 15 mins check it, if you pierce a carrot with a knife, lift it out of the water and it falls off, then it's ready. Drain the stock, but keep it! Use a blender to blend up the vegetables, adding stock bit by bit until you get a consistency you're happy with.

Season to taste. I always add black pepper. :-)

I bought a big jar from Wilkinsons, making this the easiest work lunch ever! This recipe will make you a pretty big batch but I figure, since it's essentially only veg, I can have a huge bowl of it! So this made two servings for me.

Got a tip to make soups more entertaining? Share! Don't be selfish.

Avocado Toast

They changed our offices and now I can't have toast for breakfast. Tragic isn't it. Breakfast was becoming really depressing for me. Cereal was bland, fruit and yoghurt just doesn't do it for me. Then my birthday rolled around and the lovely girls at work got me Gwenyth's 'It's All Good'. I saw a recipe for Avocado Toast...and tweaked it for work purposes. It's just plain AMAZING.

You need:
Ryvita crispbreads (I use Dark Rye)
Philadelphia (I use Light garlic and herb)
Half an avocado (and eat the other half the next day)



I really don't need to tell you how to do this but - cracker, spread, mush your avocado for even spreadage and add a sprinkle of pepper. Boom. You're welcome.