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 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

Pork chops with roasted diced potatoes, steamed carrots and broccoli, and gravy.

Skinny Chicken Enchiladas (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
I only had 10 inch tortillas so I used 4. I found this recipe serves 4 if the enchiladas are all you have. They were delicious! However, the kids didn't think so and acted as if I was poisoning them.

Stuffed pepper soup (link to recipe) out of the freezer as I wasn't in the mood to cook after a day at work.

Bobotie served with rice and steamed carrots and broccoli.

Pam's Lamb stir-fry (frozen product). It was okay, probably won't re-purchase.

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.

Fish and chips

Crumbed fish, low-fat oven chips, salad.

BBQ

BBQ with teriyaki marinated pork loin chops (they were so tender!), jacket potatoes and salad with my new favourite salad dressing - half a tablespoon each of malt vinegar and oil, a tablespoon of pesto and a tablespoon of mayonnaise, all mixed together.

Chicken dinner

Roast chicken thighs (done in the Crockpot), roast potatoes, steamed carrots and broccoli and corn.

Potjie

Our main meal was in the afternoon when visiting with my uncle, aunt and cousins - we had the most divine potjie I've ever tasted, served with rice. I made brownies and German apple pudding with ice cream for dessert.

Sausages

Sausages, curly fries, broccoli and cauliflower cheese, steamed carrots and green beans. Ice cream and hot fudge sauce for dessert.

Fresh fish

Now that we are a little more settled here in NZ I thought I'd start posting here again. Tonight we had fresh kahawai fish, caught today by Grant. (He went fishing on Paul's boat with another friend, Thomas.) It was delicious. We had it with shoestring fries and steamed corn and peas.

Burgers

Hamburgers and potato salad.

Chicken dinner

Roast chicken dinner with steamed veg and roast potatoes and a little leftover potato hash.

Sausage

Clearing out the freezer so we had sausages with hash browns and potato croquettes and steamed veg.

Fish and chips

Battered fish and low fat oven chips with steamed cauliflower and peas. We're trying to clear our freezer out.

Chicken and hash

Potato hash, leftover roast chicken, steamed corn and asparagus.

Chicken dinner

Roast chicken, low fat oven chips, steamed asparagus, broccoli, carrot and baby corn.

The Blossoms

As the shippers were still busy and there were boxes everywhere and nowhere to sit and eat we went out for dinner again, this time to The Blossoms as it's nearby and cheap. Grant and I had a loaded burger and lamb shank, Noah had spaghetti and garlic bread, and Daniel had chicken nuggets, jacket potato and beans.

Carvery

Because the shippers are coming tomorrow and everything we're sending has been washed and separated from everything we're keeping, we decided to just eat out today. We've been sorting and doing laundry and packing all day and cooking and keeping the kitchen sorted was the last thing on my mind! We went to a carvery.

Chicken wings, chips, veg

Frozen BBQ chicken wings done in the oven with low-fat oven chips, and steamed baby corn, carrots and asparagus.

Jackets, lamb, salad

We had fish and chips for lunch so supper was light - jacket potatoes, salad, leftover roast lamb.