Last minute Zucchini and Chorizo Pasta.

You know when you haven't been to the shop for a while and you look in the fridge and the cupboards and at first it doesn't look like anything is there? This is when you have to get creative. Tonight was a little like that. I ended up finding one tomato in the bottom drawer of the fridge, a zucchini from my garden (which Coco had eaten about a quarter of) and three chorizo in the freezer, oh and some gluten free pasta. I had to improvise with garlic out of a jar instead of fresh cloves, and luckily we had parmesan which you can pretty much put on anything and it gives it an instant make over. So dinner was a success and it was so cool using up little bits and pieces of ingredients and not wasting food, i love that. Here is my recipe for the pasta:

Gluten free pasta (enough for two)

1 Vine tomato sliced

1 Zucchini sliced

A big handful of basil chopped

3 Chorizo sausages

Olive oil

1 Tsp crushed garlic (real garlic would be better)

Parmesan

Salt and Pepper

Heat oil in a pan and add garlic, throw in the chorizo and cook for a few minutes then add the tomato and zucchini. Cook for another few minutes and then stir through the cooked pasta, add the basil in at the last minute and top with parmesan ! Add salt and pepper to taste. Ta da.

Orange, honey and almond chocolate cookies.

I made these the other day for husband as a total experiment (not unusual for me), and they turned out pretty great (kindof unusual for me). I didn't use a recipe as such i just threw some things together so i'll just write out roughly what i did. What i love about these is that we used eggs from our friends farm, oranges from their orchard, and honey from my dad's hives. It's the best thing using local organic ingredients, especially from people we know.

Recipe:

1 egg

1 cup organic white flour

1 tsp baking powder

100 g butter (softened)

1 tsp orange zest

50 g Whittakers dark almond chocolate (broken into little pieces

2 tbspn honey

a few drops of real vanilla essence

Beat together honey, butter, and vanilla. Add egg and zest and mix, then stir in dry ingredients. Put small spoonfuls on trays and bake at 180 for around 10 minutes. So easy x

We have a 6 month old.

Yes, i am ashamed to say it has been that long since i have posted anything.. In that time i have planted an entirely new garden, and we've even eaten our first brocolli (again) but this time there was three of us to eat it. Baby girl is all about her food and is joining in on mealtimes with us now. We're doing Baby Led Weaning with her, which pretty much means that she eats with us and we just share our food with her. Pretty fun (in a really messy kinda way!) I'm really loving this being a mum thing a lot, she is rather amazing.