Beef Casserole with an Orange Twist. - Finale

Here is the finale :) Looks good doesn't it, have to say it was delicious the meat melted in my mouth :) Been eating this for days now .. its better on day 3 than it was first first cooked !

Served with Pasta, asparagus and spinach, normally i wouldnt serve so much but oldest loves asparagus and wanted to try the spinach .. so i try to encourage him eating vegies especially green ones :)

Spaghetti Reworked and Chicken Kiev

This is a belated post but i took the photos so i thought i would still post them for you all.
This was Friday nights dinner, which was comprised of the left over spaghetti from the other nights dinner.

I did the boys dinner in the microwave, my oldest was helping with the cheese which he loves to do, all i did was whack some chopped up ham, and olives in a bowl along with the spaghetti and heated it in the microwave for a couple of minutes. Once done we stirred through the cheese along with some tomatoes (at his request) and some rocket and avocado.
My youngest doesn't like tomatoes rocket or avocado so i just left that out for his bowl.


Easy done in about 10 mins. I didn't have enough spaghetti left for my meal so ended up using the salad ingredients for a salad, and cooked a pre done chicken kiev in the oven.
Lovely for a friday night easy dinner :)

Quick and Easy Peasy Spagetti

I love these sort of dinners, they are quick no fuss, the boys love them and best of all they use up all those bits and pieces that you have in the fridge and cupboard. I often make various combinations of this spagetti dish depending on whats in the fridge.

Tonight i had some left over ham (could use bacon or proscuitto), salami, tomotatoes and frozen peas. In the past i have thrown in mushrooms, olives, baby spinach, bit of cooken chiken, tin of tomatoes, prawns. The key to this dish is lots of garlic, i am talking 4-5 cloves finely chopped. If you have it parmazen cheese at the end sets it all off but i only had normal cheese today.

Thought i would take some photos as i go so you can see how easy this is.

1. Cook some spagetti :) (you dont need a photo of that do you ?)


2. Put the ham and salami in the frypan leave it to cook and brown and crisp up a bit.








3. Throw in the tomatoes, garlic and whatever else you like leave that to cook a bit. A good idea whenever having tomatoes like this is to put it a bit of sugar, say maybe around a tablespoon or so i dont measure i just chuck it in :)

4. Add the frozen peas. The frozen peas add a bit of water so makes a slight sauce, let cook just for a couple of mins.

Variation is to add in a tin of tomatoes just prior to this step so its more saucey if you like it that way, but takes a bit longer cooking time as you need that sauce to cook down a bit.




5. Next add in the cooked spagetti, use some tongs mix it all together, if its a bit dry use a bit of olive oil (extra virgin if you have it) cook for a min or so more and then serve it up. If you add in baby spinach just add it in here it will cook with the heat of the spagetti.








You can see my bowl in the top photo has a big dollop of chilli in it. mmmmmmm .
This is also why i love this dish, its easy for me "adulterise it" (if that is even a word) for me and I dont have to cook separately for the boys who wont eat chilli obviously.


As i said above paramazen would have been perfect here but i didnt have any, still tasted good without it.

5.0 ate 3 bowls of it, so i think it was a winner :) I good one for the whole family.