Simple Roasted Rat & Millet

Ingredients
1 large courgette, sliced and cut into moons
1 red pepper, deseeded and roughly chopped
1 sweet potato, peeled and cut into small chunks
2 tomatoes, chopped into chunks
1 tin of good quality tinned tomatoes
2tsp cajun spice blend
2tbsp olive oil
150g millet, rinsed
1 red onion, finely diced
500ml vegetable stock (a well flavoured one makes a big difference)
2 [...]

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Summer Stew for Soothing a Cold

Can you believe it is summer and I have a cold.  It started scowling at me last Thursday and since then has been lurking around before revealing itself fully over the last day or two.  I cannot stop sneezing nor can my nose stop running.  Fortunately, I am studying at home with no plans of [...]

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For the love of leftovers – Part II

As you can tell, my post on wednesday night didn’t happen.  Time ran away with me and there was a bit of a dinner disaster in the kitchen.  Anyway, on Tuesday evening I made our favourite vegetarian chilli:

There’s always quite a bit leftover so the plan was to use the chilli as a topping for [...]

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A Simple Lunch on a Relaxed Day

Two posts in one day!  This is to make up for my lack of cooking and lack of blogging over the Christmas season.  I would save this post for another day but I’m looking forward to going to Dublin for the day tomorrow and reporting back on a restaurant that we’re visiting which has an [...]

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The First Recipe

I don’t know about you but some weekends, after a particularly busy period and in memory of my university days, I feel the need to spend one whole day in my pyjamas and not leave the house.  Today is one of those days, which means that for lunch I had to make something nutritious using [...]

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