31/01/2012

Crazy day today - our little girl has been teething and had her 16 week vaccinations this afternoon so combined this made a pretty unhappy baby tonight. She did however treat me to a 45min nap late afternoon which allowed me to prep dinner! Good job really as it took 2.5 hours to cook!

I managed 3 Delia recipes - Hungarian beef goulash, dwarf beans and mash with sour cream and chives.

The meat was beautifully tender and the dwarf beans, which were in fact green beans, I will definitely be making again - simply tossed in olive oil with some chopped garlic yum.

Now I am praying the wonders of calpol means I'm not up every hour tonight...

Oh and a little update one month in:

63 recipes down, 11 months and 486 recipes to go. That's just over 44 recipes a month

29/01/2012

Well after being quite scared by the prospect of so many recipes so little time... I went a bit crazy today with a grand total of 5 recipes!

For starters (although eaten for pud!) I made a lemon layer cake layered with lemon curd and whipped cream. Then for tea we had moules mariniere, with proper chips and aioli using the mayonnaise recipe. Was gorgeous but not eaten til 9pm thanks to our teething little girl who was struggling going off to sleep bless her.

Time for an update

Well at 4 weeks in I am 55 recipes down, that leaves me with 338 days to cook another 494 recipes. Eek!!

26/01/2012

Well dinner tonight didn't go as planned but I did still manage to have Delia recipes for breakfast and lunch.

Breakfast was fried egg on toast. Egg was fried in lard and a bit greasy for my liking, I prefer my eggs fried in frylight spray!

Then for lunch I made a nice Greek salad, with black olives and feta.

25/01/2012

Well today I braved two brown rice dishes - for dinner and pudding!

Firstly for dinner we had baked spinach with brown rice and cheese, really lovely but a massive 2 bags of spinach made 3 portions. The crunchy cayenne breadcrumb topping was really good too.

For pud we had brown rice pudding with prunes and apricots topped with some Greek natural yoghurt. Nice but very heavy!

24/01/2012

Tomorrow nights tea a day early in honour of burns night - punchnep soup served with sour cream soda bread. First time I've cooked turnips and it was really tasty. Surprising how much sour cream Delia uses... Something I never used to use.

23/01/2012

With the other half of my jointed chicken I made chicken in BBQ sauce... Except it was more of a Chinese sauce than a BBQ one, quite appropriate for Chinese new year!
I served it with brown rice, lentil and mushroom salad which was really good - I'm starting to realise how much I like lentils I think.