Recipe 40 – Spinach and Sweet Potato Curry

This is a recipe I’d been wanting to try for a while, as I really enjoy spinach in curries, and I wasn’t disappointed with this.

This was a very easy recipe to do – boiling some sweet potato chunks and onions in some stock, and then adding chilli, curry powder, tomatoes, coriander, garlic and spinach was all that was involved. It was ready very quickly and was absolutely delicious. This is something I will definitely be cooking time and time again when I want a curry quickly!

Recipe 39 – Tray Bake Chicken, Crushed New Potatoes and Creamed Spinach

I’d really been enjoying the new Jamie Oliver programme – ’30 Minute Meals’, so had splashed out on a copy of the accompanying book. This is the first recipe I’d tried, and I did make it in exactly 30 minutes, although the time was very hectic.

The chicken was simple but tasty, and just flavoured with oregano and paprika. The crushed potatoes were my favourite part of the recipe – the potatoes were boiled, and then crushed into a frying pan with some garlic, and cooked until golden and crispy over the outside – absolutely delicious! Finally the spinach was made a bit more interesting with some cheese and spring onions and the recipe was done.

I really enjoyed this way of cooking, as it was great to see a lovely combination of food in such a short time. The rest of the recipe book looks good too, so I look forward to trying a few more things out.

Ooops

Well I have to confess to being very behind on this. After my last post I had kept up with the recipes for a while - I just didn't have time to post them, and then some personal circumstances stopped me from making anything new for quite a few weeks, but now I am back on the cooking wagon, and starting again.

From what I can remember, I will add the following new recipes to the list which I have made since the last post. I'm pretty sure this won't be a full list, as I've not been noting down what I've been cooking, but at least its something.

Chicken Jambalaya
Roasted vegetable couscous
Chicken in a red wine and chill sauce
Pilau rice
Bombay potatoes
Lentil, tomato and bacon soup
Potato and spinach bake
Home made sausages with ale gravy and mash
Mousakka
Eggy tomato and potato pie
Lemon, garlic and white wine chicken
Mexican scrambled eggs
Chunky roots ratatouille with basil potato dumplings

That's all I can remember for just now, so that makes it another 13 recipes to add to the list, which currently contains 25 recipes. This gives me a total of 38 recipes for the year so far. I make it that I should be on week 41, so I'm only 3 recipes behind to average out one new recipe per week. Hopefully over the coming weeks I'll be able to make this up. I've got a few new recipe books that I'm really looking forward to trying things out from.