We bought the Hairy Bikers Eat For Life book last weekend. Highly recommend it - we've had many meals this week from recipes in the book. This included Rich Beef in red wine and Quick Chicken Cordon Bleu (I can't find these online). Mr B made third quantities of the former and it still fed 3 of us with some left over including some of the Colcannon. With a single chicken portion left over as well, we had a tapas meal yesterday evening!
On the tapas 'menu':
Chorizo and cherry tomatoes - slices of chorizo each with half a cherry tomato on top.
Rich beef in red wine
Baked leeks topped with slices of the chicken 'cordon Bleu'
Oven baked potato croquettes
All baked/reheated in hot oven. Served with green salad.
Oven baked potato croquettes
Heat oven to 200C
Mix any seasonings or additions (eg finely chopped cooked veg, meat, fish) with mashed potato. Add splash of milk to get creamy consistency. With your hands form into walnut sized balls
Put layer of breadcrumbs on a plate.
Dip the potato balls into milk and toll in breadcrumbs to coat. Put on lightly greased baking tray and cook for 20 minutes, turning at least once, until golden on outside.
Depending on what you add to the potato, these are a low fat alternative to the normal fried variant.
Recipes and at least some menu planning for each week
About this blog
I started this blog as a place for me to record evening menu plans for a week for my family of four, somewhere to store the recipes I have on scraps of paper or in my head and potentially where kids can access their mother's recipes in the years to come. Both 'kids' are good cooks in their own right.
Some years on and it is now also a place I can share recipes with friends. Enjoy!
About the family
Me - I am a working mother of 2. I love cooking, when I get time, and planning out or at least having ideas for evening meals during the week helps considerably.
Mr B - the other main cook and a very good one too, but he does like to follow a recipe to the letter.
E - eldest child. Has been a pescatarian for a number of years now.
M - tallest of the family even though the youngest. Along with Mr B an out and out carnivore.
Recipes
We're based in the UK so you'll find a mix of measurements for my recipes. Where possible I have linked to online recipes from some of my favourite cooks and their cook books.
If you need any clarification do add a comment to the recipe and I will get back to you.
All recipes and words copyright © Catharine Brode 2009 - 2024 unless otherwise credited. All rights reserved. Please ask before you republish, in whatever form.
Some years on and it is now also a place I can share recipes with friends. Enjoy!
About the family
Me - I am a working mother of 2. I love cooking, when I get time, and planning out or at least having ideas for evening meals during the week helps considerably.
Mr B - the other main cook and a very good one too, but he does like to follow a recipe to the letter.
E - eldest child. Has been a pescatarian for a number of years now.
M - tallest of the family even though the youngest. Along with Mr B an out and out carnivore.
Recipes
We're based in the UK so you'll find a mix of measurements for my recipes. Where possible I have linked to online recipes from some of my favourite cooks and their cook books.
If you need any clarification do add a comment to the recipe and I will get back to you.
All recipes and words copyright © Catharine Brode 2009 - 2024 unless otherwise credited. All rights reserved. Please ask before you republish, in whatever form.
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