Peppers, Prawns and Spinach

 A delicious meal of precooked prawns (a bargain from the local Co-op), sliced yellow and red peppers, plus diced spinach. All steamed, and soused in some gluten free soy sauce. Ten minutes to cook. Fabulous!

Lamb Steaks with Turmeric Rice, Ginger, Spinach and Coriander

Lamb leg steaks unexpectedly available from the local co-op. Half steamed in a lidded pan for forty minutes with some olive oil, and turned once. Great smell in the kitchen. Served with turmeric'd basmatic rice mixed with grated fresh ginger, plus diced spinach leaves and coriander. Absolutely delicious.  

Chicken and Torunska sausage soup, with Spinach

 This began as a chicken soup with carrot, diced orange pepper and mushrooms. After a day I augmented the soup with diced spinach and Torunska sausage. A fabulous result. Simmered for an hour on the hob.  

Rice, with Torunska Stew

 I found my ice-cream scoop, and was able to produce balls of turmericed rice and coriander once again. This was an interim dish, using up existing ingredients from the fridge.  Served with fresh spinach. 

Lorne Sausage, with Spiced Beans and Peppered Chips

 Great Sunday breakfast, based around two slices of Lorne Sausage. One sliced tomato and five mushrooms were cooked in the same skillet. 

The peppered potato chips were roasted in the oven, after being dressed in some olive oil. Cooked from scratch in about 40 minutes. The beans were cooked on the hob for about ten minutes, after the addition of the herbs and spices. The entire dish was added to some diced spinach leaves. 

Delicious! That's about as good as it gets with Lorne Sausage. Much better than just serving it with fried eggs.

Vegetable Stir-Fry

 Pretty straightforward and tasty dish. Everything diced and sliced apart from the bean sprouts and the red chillies. Cook for five minutes at a high heat. 

Salmon Fillet, and Black Bean Rice

 Delicious meal. An oven roasted salmon fillet (19 minutes, drizzled in olive oil), served on a bed of chopped spinach leaves (raw). I boiled some rice with a little turmeric and then drained the rice thoroughly. Mixed with black bean sauce. 

Smoked Ham and Spinach Leaves

 A simple salad, based on some smoked ham, spinach leaves, stuffed olives and grated carrot (dressed in some horseradish sauce). Easy to prepare, and delicious. 

Lamb Meatloaf in Chilli Sauce

A meatloaf made with minced lamb with 20% fat, so no oil was added to the bread tin in which I cooked the meatloaf. The vegetables were diced (Polish red pepper, Purple Onion) and added to a pyrex bowl along with half a cup of oats, and a third of a cup of Khorasan wheat. Mixed together by hand (about ten minutes work), and then forked into the bread tin, and levelled. Cooked for about half an hour at a medium to high heat (watch carefully by eye).

Served with chopped spinach and spring onions, and lightly fried button mushrooms. The chilli sauce for the meatloaf was cooked with chilli, garlic and tomato puree.
 

Shoulder Pork Strips in Black Bean Sauce

 Shoulder pork steak from the fridge, cut into strips and marinaded in a black bean sauce. Use a Chinese one rather than something from a supermarket, which will be pretty bland. Cooked for at least half an hour. 

The rice was basmati, and cooked with some turmeric and Chinese five spice in a separate pan. Served with raw spinach leaves. 

Torunska (Copernicus) Sausage, with Spinach and Baked Beans

 Spinach leaves dressed in freshly ground black pepper; baked beans dressed in coriander leaf and dried basil, plus fried torunska sausage, slightly browned. Cook the sausage for about ten minutes or so, moving the sausage around the skillet. No oil necessary, since the sausage cooks in its own fat. A favourite dish. 

Pan-fried Free range pork loin steaks

 Pan-fried pork loin steak (ten minutes on each side), served with fresh coriander leaf, diced tomato, and spinach leaves. Dressed in American mustard.

Chicken, Sweet Potato and Spinach

 Roasted sweet potato (forty minutes or so in the oven at around 190 deg C, cut in half), served with roasted chicken (cooked separately) and spinach leaves. 

Horseradish Chicken, with Spinach and Tomato

 Half a breast of chicken, diced, mixed with chopped spring onion, and horseradish sauce (two teaspoonsful). Served with chopped spinach leaves, and one tomato. Delicious!

Cubed Beef and Pasta

 Cubed Scotch beef, cooked for an hour and a half in a lidded pan at a medium heat, with olive oil. The green beans and spinach were cooked for ten minutes along with some dried rosemary in a separate pan. The wheat free pasta was cooked in a third pan for ten minutes or so at a medium heat. Fabulous meal!

Spicy Garlic Lamb and Spinach

Ground minced lamb which had been browned and then simmered under glass for two hours. Then I added diced mushrooms, lamb stock, oregano, and two bay leaves. Then simmered again under glass for another 45 minutes, with some onion gravy granules. I added diced spinach leaves and spring onion, plus half of a chopped yellow pepper. 

I added several crushed cloves of garlic, and a couple of red chillies, which I removed (along with the bay leaves) after an hour or so. 

Served with steamed potatoes (thirty minutes or so), and boiled podded peas. 

King Prawn Curry with Spinach

Prawn curry with spinach, with the basic recipe stolen from the 'Jono and Jules do food and wine' site. https://jonoandjules.com/2018/07/30/prawn-spinach-curry/

I skipped the extra sugar, and the coriander, but otherwise it is very similar. I created some creamed coconut, and mixed it all together with the Madras curry powder and the tomato puree. I added lots of diced spinach.

The rice was steamed earlier in the day, and spinach and the peas were added. The king prawns (from Vietnam) were added to the top of the steamed rice, and steamed once again for fifteen minutes.

Served with the tomato and curry salsa. Delicious!

Baked Potato with Ground Lamb

The baked potato was begun first, with a little butter, in a roasting tray in an oven heated to 190 deg C. It took one hour and fifteen minutes to cook (not wrapped in tin-foil). Check every fifteen minutes, particularly if you don't have an oven thermometer.

From the fridge I took the Fresh ground minced lamb I cooked a couple of days ago, which had been browned and then simmered under glass for two hours. Then I added diced mushrooms, lamb stock, oregano, and two bay leaves. Then simmered again under glass for another 45 minutes, with some onion gravy granules.

I added diced spinach leaves and spring onion, plus half of a chopped yellow pepper. Serve hot.

Potato, Spinach, and Polish Sausage Casoulet

A simple casoulet begun as a stirfry of diced polish sausage, diced potato, spring onion, quartered button mushrooms, chopped green beans. I used a drizzle of olive oil. 

Cooked for about an hour at a medium heat. Then I added boiling water, along with some vegetable stock, plus chopped spinach, and the herbs sage and tarragon. Cooked for a further forty-five minutes. 

 

Lorne Sausage and Roasted Parsnips

 A simple dish of Lorne Sausage (a Scottish favourite, also known as 'square sausage'), with chipped parsnips, fried baby plum tomatoes, and raw spinach. 

The sausage was slow-cooked in a little sunflower oil for twenty minutes, mostly under glass, along with the chopped baby plum tomatoes. Turned once. 

The chipped parsnips were dressed in tomato ketchup, sunflower oil, and vinegar, plus the herbs oregano, basil, and coriander leaf. Also some ground white pepper. Grilled for about fifteen minutes (judge progress by eye).