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.

Some recent meals

Swedish meatballs (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
The first night I served them with oven chips and steamed carrots, corn and green beans. The next night I had the leftover meatballs and sauce over pasta (delicious!) while the rest of the family had chips from the fish-and-chip shop and battered (fried) snapper that Grant had caught.

Chicken Divan (link to recipe)
I adore this and would eat it at least once a week. I add a teaspoon or so of curry powder to the sauce and it just makes it. Serve over rice.

We've been eating a lot of roasted butternut, potatoes and beetroot - I sometimes throw some onion in there too. So delicious and easy and I just add some chicken breasts or minute steaks to make up a full meal.

Some of this week's meals

Homemade hamburgers with oven wedges.

Chicken thighs "roasted" in the slow cooker, served with potato puffs, gravy, and steamed carrot, broccoli, corn and peas.

Creamy Lemon Tortellini Bake (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
I left out the lemon zest and used leftover chicken instead of bacon (I think it would be awesome with the bacon though!) Everyone liked it - what a miracle - although Noah did pick out the spinach.

Beef stew with rice and steamed Brussels sprouts and broccoli.

Four Cheese and Sausage Stuffed Shells (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
I couldn't find pasta shells so I just did the pasta, cheese mixture and tomato mixture in layers. I also halved the recipe as the original serves 12.

Some of this week's meals

Slow cooked BBQ beef (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
We had this on rolls with not much else - bit of a rushed meal. It was good but the sauce is quite strong - I'll use fewer ingredients next time and add some water.

Cheesy taco pasta (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
Delicious. It is a small-ish portion, don't know if it would truly feed 6 as the recipe states. We got 4 generous portions out of it - in future I'd probably split it into 5.

Pasta with Italian chicken sausage, peppers and escarole (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
I tweaked it a little: left out the red pepper flakes, added a can of chopped tomatoes to the sausage mixture, and left out the escarole.

Cheeseburger casserole (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
I didn't have turkey mince so I used 350g steak mince and the rest turkey sausage meat. I also didn't have low fat evaporated milk or the cheese product - I used grated cheese and low fat sour cream. Everyone except Noah enjoyed this. I found the recipe served 4, not 6 (the portions would have been too small) but maybe that was because I was so hungry by the time it was ready.

Spag bol

Spaghetti bolognese except I did it with pasta as I didn't have enough spaghetti - we spontaneously invited friends round for dinner.

Pasta with tomato sauce

Pasta with a tomato sauce and cheese.

Spaghetti carbonara

Weight Watchers recipe spaghetti carbonara.

Pizza

We ordered pizza from Pizza Hut tonight - well, the boys and Grant had that and I had leftover lasagne.

Lasagne and macaroni cheese

We had the Coyles visiting and we had lasagne, macaroni cheese, steamed carrots and corn, and garlic bread. Sticky toffee pudding and ice cream for dessert.

Sausage soup sauce

I made sausage soup but kept it thick (didn't add stock, just a stock cube) so we could have it as a sauce over pasta.

Spaghetti bolognese

Spag bol - a different recipe than my usual, from the River Cottage cookbook I got out of the library.

Spag bol

Spaghetti bolognese - actually taglietelle, not spaghetti.

Fish and chips

Daniel wanted fish and chips from the chippie, so that's what he had. I just had chips. Noah had pasta with pesto and cheese. Grant is at work.

Carbonara pasta bake

Dolmio carbonara pasta bake, with added onions and bacon.

Leftovers

Leftover pasta and leftover pizza from lunch (we had friends round), with coleslaw and fruit.

Chicken pasta bake

I made a simple pasta dish - cooked pasta, cooked cubed chicken breast, can of chicken soup and some mayonnaise, cheese on top and baked until golden.

Pasta bake

The last jar of pasta bake in our pantry :)

Spag bol

Spaghetti bolognese is what we had tonight.

Cheeseburger Pasta

Click here for the recipe.

Macaroni Moosh

We all like Macaroni Moosh - click here for recipe.