Stir Fry

Stir fry for lunch, kale with tofu and fried flat noodles.

Healthy (ish) lunch

Tomato bread, cheese and onion bahjis (alingan), rocket, tomato, brie, Garstang blue cheese, mushroom pâté.

Quesadilla Lunch

A common classic for us - tortillas filled with refried beans, a spicy salsa (tomato, pepper, chilli, onion, spices) and cheese. Then grilled or cooked in a hot oven until brown. Served with yoghurt or sour cream, chilli sauce and guacamole (if you have it!).

Breakfast from Banger Bros

At Victoria Train Station - a veggie sausage on a bun, with some salad, (mild) chilli and alioli.

Not bad, but too much alioli and the sausage is a 'made from vegetables' type, which I find a bit unsatisfying...

Canneloni

Mushroom-stuff canneloni, with a tomato sauce. The stuffing is really just mushroom and onion with some cheese, the sauce just tomato with some herbs - wonderfully simple meal.

Turnip Rosti

Yes, well, I had a turnip to use up. That's fake bacon around the edge, and some tofu I fried (I had to use that up too).

A real dog's dinner this one, nothing matched up.

Turnip rosti is disappointing...

Risotto on Toast

Should be a lunchtime classic :)

Leek risotto, very creamy, very good.

Left over soup

That is, soup made from left-overs in the fridge.

All the vegetables, boiled up with some stock, then blended.

Not bad, but a bit odd...

Chocolate cake

Home-made chocolate cake with coffee. Made with ground nuts instead of flour - great stuff!

Classic Breakfast

We eat this brekfast a lot :)

Fried egg, fake bacon, patat rissole (potatoes fried with onion), and spinach (wilted with garlic and a knob of butter).

Cheese on toast gone mad

I do feel a bit ill after eating this. Cheese on tomato paste, topped with jalapeño, olives, strips of veggie burger, tomato, an olive oil drizzle and black pepper.

Very rich after a few bites - one slice would have been enough!

Kludge

That is, two day old samosa filling (potato, spinach, cheese, chilli, spices) and last night's Egyptian-style lentil meal made by the wife. I combined the two in a hot frying pan for a while, hoping for something good...

In the end the two combined into a sludgy green-ish mass, which, despite looking odd, tasted wonderful!

Mince pie and hot chocolate

Snack of a shop-bought mince pie with a cup of hot chocolate.

Cheese on toast

Afternoon snack - mature cheddar on toast with smoked paprika and chipotle chilli sauce.

Xmas horror

The horrible, horrible xmas lunch from work this year. It's some kind of haloumi tart with mashed potato (with the skin still on!).

Butter Pie

Butter pie from a local bakery. It's, well, pretty rich. Eating the whole thing makes me feel slightly ill to be honest... But I keep on going back and ordering more... What's that all about?

Breakfast of chilli and egg

Not for the faint-hearted. Last night's chilli with a butter-fried egg and a corn tortilla.

Chinese style tofu

This is a kind of 5-spice dish. The tofu, onions and mushrooms are cooked in the oven in a sauce for 45 mins first. The sauce is chilli, garlic, soy, honey, vegetable stock, sesame seeds, fennel seeds, cinnamon (or cassia) and lime juice.

The sauce is thickened with cornflour towards the end of cooking.

The the tofu is removed and fried in a very hot pan for a few mins on each side - the honey caramelises and makes the tofu crispy.

Served over noodles, topped with the sauce, sliced spring onion and a squeeze of fresh lime.

Pretty good, the 5-spice flavour is almost there (yes, I know it's not a true 5-spice dish)

Not a pizza

An invention of the wife.

Puff pastry base, with a purée of chickpea, spinach and some others. Topping is sweet potato and normal potato sliced, spiced and cooked with a little oil in the oven until almost done. The whole thing is put together and cooked for 15 mins more in the oven and topped with caremlised onions.

For lunch the next day I added cheese and chilli, because I'm like that.

Leek and mushroom pasta

Lunch leftover.

Leeks and mushrooms are roasted with herbs, stock, garlic and tomato for about 45 mins, then thickened with corn starch and cooked uncovered for 10 more mins in the oven.

Served mixed into fresh pasta.