Last week's meals

Pollo in Pottachio (link to recipe)
I've made this before and we all enjoy it. I use stock or fruit juice in place of the wine. I served it on pasta.

Slow cooker beef stew served with pasta or rice.

Jacket potatoes with cheese and baked beans.

Homemade pizza with ham and pineapple on.

Chinese style sticky pork served with rice and stir-fried vegetables.

Low fat oven chips with oven fish.

Toasted sandwiches with cheese and baked beans or ham and cheese.

Poppy seed chicken (link to recipe) served with rice.

Mexican casserole

Mexican casserole for supper tonight.

Leftovers

Leftover Mexican casserole with chocolate cheesecake for dessert.

Jackets, tart, salad

Jacket potatoes with cheese and beans, salad, goat's cheese tart.

Toasted sandwiches

Daniel and I had cheese and bean toasted sandwiches, Noah had pesto pasta, Grant was at work. Chocolate chip cookies for dessert.

BBQ

We had friends round for a BBQ for lunch and dinner was a repeat - salad, potato salad, three bean salad, burgers, rolls, sausages. Yoghurt fridge tart for dessert.

BBQ

I say barbecue because it wasn't a braai, it was English style - burgers, sausages, salad, potato salad, three bean salad, rolls. Doughnuts for dessert.

Toasted sandwiches

Just a casual meal of toasted sandwiches. Feeling very stressed this week and haven't been on top of things at home, like meal planning.

Bits and bobs

I had egg on toast, Noah had pasta with pesto, Daniel had toasted sandwiches, Grant was at work.

Toasties

Toasted sandwiches with cheese and beans on.

Curry

Curry and rice, served with buttered bread and Mrs Ball's chutney.

To make the curry I stir-fry a chopped onion and some mince (we like lean lamb), then add some herbs, curry powder, stock cube, can of baked beans, chopped peeled potato, about a third of a cup of ketchup and some water. Simmer until potato pieces are done. (When I make it without the potato it takes quicker and we call it curry-in-a-hurry.)

This and that

Hilmar made some bean curry dish that he is experimenting with at the moment, I had noodles and Phillipa had jacket potato.

Paninis

We've been wanting to replace our snackwicher and buy a new one to ship over to NZ. I spent some time looking at reviews on the Argos website and we decided to get the Cookworks Signature Panini Press instead. Lucky for us Grant got £30 in Argos vouchers from work at Christmas time so it didn't even cost us anything.

So we used our new panini press to make paninis (cheese and ham, cheese and onion) and toasted sandwiches (cheese and beans) for supper. We had peppermint crisp dessert for pudding as it's my no-count day and I had to make it to photograph for my e-book.

Goat's cheese chicken

Grant and I had chicken breasts stuffed with goat's cheese, topped with tomato slices and roasted, served with green beans and microwaved potato. The boys ate earlier and since I knew they wouldn't eat what we had, I did cheese and bean snackwiches for Daniel and pesto pasta for Noah.

Marmite pasta

Just threw together some Marmite pasta and an egg on toast for myself and Grant; Daniel had beans on toast and Noah had pasta with pesto and cheese.

Jacket potatoes

Jacket potatoes with coleslaw, tuna mayo and / or cheese and beans, served with salad.

Beef and Bean soup

Pinto/sugar beans, chopped tomatoes, onions, some shin/stewing beef and salt. Doesn't sound like much but it's so good. Always goes down well in our house.

Leftovers

I did a roast chicken dinner for lunch so for supper Grant and I had leftovers of this pasta mixed with sausage soup and Daniel had beans on toast and Noah had pasta with pesto and cheese.

Sausage soup is delicious and healthy and low in points. You fry up an onion (I also added a red pepper and some celery) then add a package of sausage meat and fry that up with it, breaking it up. Add two tins of chopped tomatoes, two chicken stock cubes and enough water to make the consistency you want your soup. I also threw in a drained can of haricot beans.

Bits and pieces

Daniel had snackwiches with beans and cheese; Noah had pasta with pesto and cheese; I had pasta tossed in a little butter and Marmite with a bit of cheese; Grant is still sleeping (he's on nights tonight) so I'm not sure what he'll have.

Mexican lasagne

I got this recipe from Laura and I love that it's easy as well as being low in points.

Chop and fry an onion and a pepper (red, yellow, orange, green - it doesn't matter).
Chop up a couple of chicken breasts, add to the onion and pepper and fry.
Drain and throw in a tin of beans (flageolet, cannelini, haricot - it doesn't matter).
Chuck in a small jar of salsa (hot or mild - it's up to you), stir through.
Chuck in a 300ml carton of sour cream (I buy the low-fat one), stir through.
In an oven dish layer the mixture and tortilla wraps as you would build a lasagne.
Top with grated cheese and put into a hot oven until heated through and the cheese is golden and bubbly.

We had this with a salad tonight.