Cooking tips, recipes and attempts!

[Marjo]

Hi guys,

So as many of you know I've just had my kitchen renovated (the oven/hob is also brand new!). I now have a lot more motivation for making home-cooked meals than I used to, and I'm very keen on trying out different things to improve my cooking skills!

So far I have made a very simple oven vegetable dish with different chopped veggies (courgette, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, mushrooms, red onion, peppers - of which some came from a pre-chopped packet of veggies from Tesco so it was SUPER easy), a bit of olive oil (well I actually forgot to buy it so used some margarine instead), and a whole cube of Greek feta cheese melted on top. No need for seasoning as the feta is salty and the veggies have a lovely taste anyway! It turned out delicious.

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I discussed vegan food with @EmilieT earlier and was intrigued. After finding an easy and delicious-looking recipe in a Finnish food blog, I decided to bake a vegan blueberry pie over the weekend. The two "trial pies" turned out great and I took some to the office as well.  

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We've had some food topics in the past but I wanted to start a new one where I can document some of my cooking attempts!

Please do feel free to do the same if you'd like to share some of your creations (I'd love to see pictures!), and also any tips and recipes you might have for easy beginner cooking that might be helpful for anyone who is looking for some inspiration!  

What's your go-to easy dinner/lunch/breakfast/snack that you make yourself?

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[TallTrees]

@Marjo
I cooked spaghetti yesterday that is quite quick. Did very similar. Used tinned tomatoes chopped left over spring onions pinch dried garlic, mint, chopped chopped bell pepper, small spoon bovril salt black pepper lemon juice, anything left over veg. Chopped small. Nice. Serve on spaghetti with grated cheddar.

[Marjo]

Sounds so good @TallTrees !  Last night I was super tired and didn't feel very well so I ended up ordering takeout while hungry, which resulted in having warm milk chocolate cookie dough with vanilla ice cream as dinner.  Tonight I aim for cooking something again.

[TallTrees]

Hi @Marjo 

I know how it feels to be beyond tired!

Not well is even worse ~

The stir fry is always a quick meal but it has to be

all chopped first, lovely on rice or noodles.

However, don't always feel like chopping so

some supermarkets do a very nice frozen stir fry mix

(I think I got a good mix from tesco) it has baby 

corn and all sorts of veg in it very handy for those

"bad" days!  

then you can put that with noodles they

are easy and quick to cook. I always have some soy and 

a bottle of chilli sauce to add to mix or some little

packets of black bean sauce, chow mein sauce or

sweet and sour sauce  to pep up the flavours. 

If you have any veg you can

pop that in like the spring onions but no need.

By the time the order comes in you'll have this

meal up.   

Enjoy your meal tonight