Weekly meals plan

[emma_p]

T: chowder and baguette
W: fake carluccio's courgette pasta with spinach balls, rocket salad
T: rib eye, chimichurri, roast garlic and rosemary potatoes, salad. Lemon tart with raspberries
F: pizza and salad
S: roast chicken with chips, cafe de paris sauce and salad
S: lentil bay and chard gratin with rosemary garlic bread, salad. Blueberry cornmeal tart
M: spring chicken and wild garlic pie with purple sprouting broccoli, roasted carrots and peas
T: chickpea stew, basmati rice, cucumber salad
W: lemon spaghetti, rocket salad.
T: black pepper tofu, basmati rice, smacked cucumber, broccoli

[Luna]

That all sounds gorgeous, Emma. Your kids are so lucky growing up in a foodie environment. My formative years were all convenience food as it was the dawn of freezer foods. My first boyfriend had a foodie mum and my stomach couldn’t handle a lot of the rich food she made having only eaten rissoles, crispy pancakes and other Bejam delights :-(

[emma_p]

Most nights Liv has a different version to everyone else. She would love freezer food every night.

Also because I love cooking George has never wanted to cook anything himself beyond crumpets, toast or instant miso soup!

[Luna]

I not sure I cooked much for myself beyond cheese on toast, a boiled egg or jacket potato. This is where it went wrong when I lived in Athens for a year. Apart from the fact the ancient oven didn’t work in the apartment, I wouldn’t have known what to cook as fishfingers didn’t exist in Prisunic ( supermarket)

[emma_p]

I had it in my head that these things might skip generations as I learned to cook because my parents were convenience food all the way and her mum cooked everything from scratch. But maybe not!

I think I could have easily survived in Athens on greek salad, dips, pitta and pink wine

[Luna]

I lived on pizza, chicken and chips, lasagne and these toast things which were similar to a panini with choice of filling. And a lot of cake that my students made me. And the filled chocolate hazelnut wafer rolls things. I ate my weight in those.

ETA: Caprice biscuits!

[Disco]

I went nuts in the woods and need to process all
This wild garlic.

[emma_p]

Oooohhhhh

I made the wild garlic chicken pie on Monday and it was so good (and so green!).

[Disco]

I can't wait to make it very soon! I'm going to make up some butter and pesto today and once I've bought some peas tomorrow I'll make up a few quantities of stock to have in the freezer.

[Disco]

Pork nasi goreng
Spaghetti, wild garlic pesto, potatoes and tenderstem broccoli
Char sui, egg fried rice, stir fried tenderstem broc, sugar snap peas, carrot & wild garlic
Roast chicken, wild garlic mash, roasted chantaney carrots

[Disco]

Sticky pork loin, egg fried rice, sesame stir fried chinese leaf, sugar snap peas
Bangers and mash, onion gravy, roasted carrots
Pork cabbage noodles
Toasted smoked mackerel sandwich
Green pea pulao with cardamon and almond.

[Disco]

Toasted smoked mackerel sandwich - this was amazing, I had it for lunch
Green pea pulao with cardamon and almond
Black lentil daal
Smoked mackerel kedgeree
Gyoza with sesame sugar snap peas and chinese leaf

[wendy james]

Gochjuang tempeh salad bowl
Tomato curry with Bombay potatoes
Middle Eastern spiced chickpea salad
‘Chicken’ saag masala and masala fries
Sweet stripped and diced summer salad
Burgers with tomato and pomegranate salad
Tofu Kung pao
Leek rigatoni
Koshari

[Disco]

Cottage pie
Chicken & wild garlic pie, jersey royals, tenderstem broccoli
Pulled chicken black bean chilli
Parsnip & pancetta tagliatelle
Meatballs, tomato sauce tagliatelle, wild garlic bread
Leek & chickpea soup

[wendy james]

Singapore noodles
Potato and green bean salad with smoked tofu
Pasta e fagioli
Sausage/chicken, mash, stuffing, cauli cheese and veg
Bravas beans with garlic aioli
Spicy tofu noodles

[Disco]

Beef shin casserole with mash
Cherry toms, psb, tagliatelle, brie, pancetta bake
Butter chicken, cumin rice, naan
PSB, chilli, anchovy orecchiette
Butter chicken toastie, red onion, raita, mango chutney, coriander, tomato, gruyere
Paccheri pasta tubes - upright to scare Bean - filled with pulled beef, covered in cheese sauce then baked

[Ruby]

Beef shin casserole with mash
Cherry toms, psb, tagliatelle, brie, pancetta bake
Butter chicken, cumin rice, naan
PSB, chilli, anchovy orecchiette
Butter chicken toastie, red onion, raita, mango chutney, coriander, tomato, gruyere
Paccheri pasta tubes - upright to scare Bean - filled with pulled beef, covered in cheese sauce then baked

I've had a really unseasonal yearning for beef casserole this week, Diccers. Also, I really want all your food this week.

[Pippedydeadeye]

Paccheri pasta tubes - upright to scare Bean - filled with pulled beef, covered in cheese sauce then baked

I thought about this when i made crab & chilli spaghetti this week and all the spaghetti went into the holes in my pasta pan. It really upset me.

[Disco]

All the veg and the shin worlds collide plus I like a hearty meal at the best of times.

I'm not too bad with holes but layers and rows of crowded things, like barnacles, really freak me out so badly. I think it's quite similar. I imagine human skin covered in layers/ rows of teeth like barnacles and I can't deal with the thought of seeing that.

[Pippedydeadeye]

Like that episode of Round the Twist where the kid grows into a merman?