Pork with potato and cabbage

I have said before that it's not hard to cook something that tastes good and has good nutritional value.
This recipe is quick and easy.

Pan fry two pork chops
Oven bake the potato pieces (chips, poms, wedges)

Thinly slice a savoy cabbage
Saute in olive oil
Add thinly sliced mushrooms
2tbs white wine vinegar
2tbs of low fat Greek yogurt
Cook until soft but not soggy

Serve the chops on the bed of cabbage with potatoes I garnished with prosciutto

The whole thing takes very little time, literally the time it takes for the potato to cook

Pesto, pasta and mushrooms

I love pesto and the end of summer is always the right time to use up all those excess basil leaves. This is also a quick supper that tastes great.

Pesto Recipe

• 175g fresh basil leaves
• 50g pine nuts, lightly toasted
• 3 garlic cloves
• 125g grated fresh parmesan
• 200ml extra virgin olive oil

Combine in a blender and blend to a paste

Pasta

For the pasta dish

Cook 250gms of Fettuccine

Slice and saute 50gms of mushrooms

Combine and stir together with several tablespoons of the pesto

Vegetable Tagine

In olive oil cook

2 sliced onions
1 diced eggplant
2 diced zucchini
Sliced mushroom

season with a mixture of:
paprika, ground coriander, salt, ground cassia bark, ground cardamon,ground cloves,
garlic powder, ground chilli
Play around with this mix you can make lots of different flavours

Fry until fragrant
Then add
1 400gm tin of crushed tomatoes
1 400gm tin of chickpeas

Cover and simmer for around 45 mins

Serve on a bed of couscous
I served salmon fillets with this dish

Beef and Chorizo Stew

Brown 600gms of diced beef
Brown 3 chorizo sausages cut into pieces
add
4 sliced onions
3 garlic cloves crushed
2tsp smoked paprika
2 400 gm cans crushed tomatoes
2 bay leaves
100gms ketchup
2 cups beef stock
2 cups red wine
4 fresh thyme sprigs
Slow cook on stove top for about 2 hours

Potato:
Thinly slice 5 potatoes
Lay in a small stack on baking paper
Season with salt and pepper
Drizzle generously with olive oil
Oven bake until golden brown


Serve the stew with the potato as a garnish

Vegetable and Potato Bake

Grease a shallow baking dish

Combine a mixture of sliced vegetables
In this case
Eggplant
Zucchini
Mushrooms

Cover with a layer of finely cut potatoes
Pour cream into dish
Top with grated cheese

Oven bake for 45mins at 180c

Cola Beef

This is a great recipe spicy and fall apart. Watch the heat.

Brown a piece of beef in a saucepan ( the cheaper the beef the better)
Place in a slow-cooker or casserole dish
Quater 2 large brown onions
Chop 4 carrots
Season with salt and pepper
Add 1small bottle of chilli sauce (to taste)
Add 600mls of Cola

Cook on low heat for 8 to 9 hours
Serve on rice or potato mash

Rabbit in Red Wine

Joint and Brown the rabbit in a saucepan and add to a casserole dish
Add Potato
Garlic
Carrot
Onion
Season
1 bouquet garni
Cover with red wine and cook for approx 1 hour (double this for a wild rabbit)

Simple and quick a delicious winter warmer.