Oven baked Zucchini with tomatoes

Oven baked Zucchini with tomatoes

Easy, delicious and a great dish when having a zucchini or two – a bit soft (or fresh of course!) and tomatoes. Ingredients: 1 – 2 Zucchini 3 medium sized tomatoes 1 small handfull roughly chopped fresh basil 1/4 cup oil 1 buffalo mozzerella – 

Indian inspired curry with left over roast

Indian inspired curry with left over roast

The other night, we did a roast but ended up with too much meat and a few roasted potatoes. As this would be far from enough for a full meal, I decided to do a curry and serve this with a large dish of stir 

Carrot/Potato/Broccoli soup

Carrot/Potato/Broccoli soup

Carrots, potato and the stalk of a broccoli worked well together in this soup. To make it even more festive, I fried some bacon for topping. Ingredients: 200 g carrots 200 g potatoes 100 g stalk of a broccoli 1 clove minced garlic 1 chopped 

Apple and pear sauce

Apple and pear sauce

Apple and pear sauce, apple sauce, pear sauce …whichever you have…is so versatile and a great way to use wrinkled over ripe fruit. You can freeze it, use it for sorbets, filling in a dessert pancake, as a snack for the little one, topping on 

Apple/pear layer cake

Apple/pear layer cake

This cake came to life as I had some apples and pears that I used for an apple/pear sauce. This could have been frozen for later use in a dessert, made into sorbet, used as topping on your morning yogurt …or something else. I decided 

Chili con carne

Chili con carne

Everyone likes chili con carne – well except if you are vegetarian. In general it is a great dish if you have some capsicum, chili, stalks of celery or older tomatoes that need to be used. When cooked – it doesn’t matter if they were 

Pear pie

Pear pie

Here is an example of how you can use pears which are no longer attractive as they are…pear pie. Always a success in the family. Ingredients: 2 large pears (maybe 3 depending on the size of the pears) 150 g cold butter 240 g flour 

Left over chicken, onion and red capsicum tortillas

Left over chicken, onion and red capsicum tortillas

This is an example of what you can use left over chicken for. Delicious tortillas – also great for a school lunch. However, you could also very easily just make a vegetarian tortilla omitting the chicken and adding more onion and capsicum. This too is 

Aubergine/Eggplant/Courgette “lasagna” – vegetarian

Aubergine/Eggplant/Courgette “lasagna” – vegetarian

As I had a courgette which needed to be put to use and some older tomatoes, I decided to cook up a meal involving a good tomato sauce. We eat so many tomatoes yet we often end up with some, which are only good for