So it’s the start of a new term at university and the start
of a new year.
Just like everyone else, after all the food I ate over
Christmas, I’m trying my hardest to be healthy and not to eat everything in sight.
I’ve even got some of the biscuits I was given as a present left! However the presence of these biscuits and the
lovely Christmas / New Year fruit cakes that my Mum and Grandma made me, have meant that I’ve been avoiding baking!
As you can imagine, as I’m in uni, I eat on a pretty tight
budget; but that doesn’t stop me trying new recipes and discovering new food
blogs. I only eat small portions of meat, so that immediately makes it easier
to stick to my budget. Plus, I love hunting for the reduced things in
M&S!
I thought that I’d share a some of the recipes which I’ve used over the past few weeks.
Lunches:
For 3 days out of 5, I have to take a packed lunch into Uni,
so I gerenally opt for either some roasted vegetables with couscous or a pitta
or try and make a salad. When I’m at home I tend to eat quite a lot of soup (it’s
filling and really warming on a cold winter’s day). Here’s a few things I’ve
made.
Lentil salads are always a
good pack lunch call for me as they fill me up quickly and I stay satisfied for
ages
I only did the chickpea accompaniment for this, the soup was
beautiful and froze brilliantly
I’m doing a variation on this for my packed lunches this week (the variation being a necessity, as I could get hold of some ingredients due to snow).
Dinners:
Me and one of my house mates share dinners on week-nights.
Normally I make something quick and easy but other times I’ll do something
faffy so that I don’t have to do my work!
I just used the gnocchi from this recipe and made my own
tomato sauce (like here). It was my first time making gnocchi and it wasn’t the
best I’ve tasted but it wasn’t too bad for a first attempt.
I couldn’t get hold of kale so I substituted it for some
spring greens and it worked really well (although I used less garlic than
stated and it was still very garlicky!).
The biscuits are nearly gone so hopefully I’ll be doing some more baking soon! I got a Great British Bake
Off recipe book for Christmas so I should be doing some things from there and I
want to have another play with my piping set!
Work will get done though, I promise!
V x
The sound track of my cooking: The Les Mis
soundtrack (musical and film – I went to see it in the cinema yesterday and
bawled my eyes out / mimed the words to every single song).
