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Tea tonight
Some mixed veg and rice with sausages.
I had some courgette, onion and red cabbage to cook so I added in a handful of rice into a pan of boiling water. I let that simmer while the sausages cooked in my air fryer. I knew that red cabbage releases colour into the water but I wasn’t quite expecting purple/blue to dye the rice.
It was a little bland but I added some brown sauce to liven things up a bit! Tasty
Just managed to cook! A simple recipe, two carrots chopped, half an aubergine chopped up, half a courgette (zucchini). I set a pan of basmati rice boiling while I put a couple of chicken breasts in another pan and fried them. Then I added the vegetables, added a large flat mushroom, added salt, oregano, and garlic granules. When the chicken was part cooked I cut it up into small chunks. I had some cooked mussels out of the fridge that had defrosted overnight, I added them to the food.
Then I deseeded a single chilli and added that, I spooned cooked rice into the pan and added half a tin of peeled plum tomatoes. In all everything cooked on a low heat for about half am hour.
Did I mention? I stood up to do it, put my crutches to one side. I felt a bit unbalanced, but I’ve got to try and do things. And the meal was lovely. Hubby carried the plates into the living room for me.
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A quick curry using vegetables and a small amount of Quorn pieces and prawns.
Ingredients.
One jar of curry sauce, chose your favourite. I got tikka massala. One onion, one sweet pepper, a handful of button mushrooms, a big handful of washed baby spinach, about a quarter of a bag of Quorn pieces and a small packet of kingprawns (or small prawns). A packet of microwaveable rice.
Method.
Defrost the Quorn in the microwave if you have one. Peel and chop the onion. Put in a frying pan in oil and start to fry. Roughly chop the pepper and add to the pan. Chop the mushrooms and add. Put the Quorn and prawns in. Finally stir in the baby spinach, add the packet of rice and pour the curry sauce over the mix. Cook on a low heat with a lid on for about twenty minutes. Make sure the curry is thoroughly cooked before serving.
Serves two or three as a main meal.
Every so often, after choir practice, I order a takeaway curry because I’m too tired to cook our evening meal. It feels like a real treat not to have to cook.
All I need to do is dish it out when it arrives. The local tandoori restaurant does really nice baltis and bhunas. Then pilau rice or garlic nan to accompany it.
I’ve done a drawing to illustrate as I will be otherwise engaged in a short while. There is an interesting movie on the TV and I might have a small glass of beer to go with the food.
Tomorrow I need to plan what paintings I’m going to do next, but tonight I’m going to chill with chilli!
Experiment.
I used,
4 yellow bell peppers with their tops cut off and de-seeded.
Small amount of lean minced beef (I could have used quorn mince). 600 grams.
1 corgette finely chopped. (after I cooked this I suggest 1/2 instead)
8 baby corn cobs, finely chopped. (after trying this use 4)
1 small onion, finely chopped.
The tops of the yellow peppers, finely chopped.
1 small jar of Bolognese sauce.
A cup of brown rice. (1/2 a cup instead)
Garlic olive oil (or 3 garlic cloves and ordinary olive oil)
Grated cheese
Salt and pepper to taste.
Method,
Fry off the mince and vegetables till softened and cooked.
Boil the rice in water until aldente (cooked but still a bit hard)
Once the meat and veg are cooked add the bolognese sauce and the brown rice.
Spoon the mix into the peppers. Cook them in a gas mark 6 (medium hot) oven for 15 minutes then check and if not cooked put them back in for 5 minutes.
Eat …
Fingers crossed.
Result: very tasty but a bit too much for two! Use less brown rice, half a courgette (zucchini) and 4 baby corn instead. (I’ve altered the amounts in the recipe) the original amounts would do for 3 or 4 people. 
Mallaband-Brown