It was time to hit our ‘To Do Recipe list‘ and last night we cooked a deliciously unhealthy, but surprisingly light, Poppy Seed Chicken casserole style dish picked up from Christy at The Girl Who Ate Everything. It’s a rich, creamy bake with loads of chicken and crumbly goodness. We made a couple of slight variations, also I made a bit of a boo-boo and forgot to put the casserole dish lid on, so had to recover halfway through the …

Tonight’s a quick recipe that makes 4 decent sized serves, only takes 15 mins and is DEEElicious. (That’s according to Bec BTW)

Ingredients

500gm shell pasta
1 small onion
2 cloves of garlic
2 teaspoons of olive oil
190g basil pesto paste (we use Barilla, it’s got the highest percentage of basil)
10 slices of finely shaved ham, roughly chopped
10-15 button mushrooms, diced into cubes
Half or a whole zucchini (totally optional)
Sour cream to taste

Recipe

Bring a large pot of water to the boil, add pasta with a dash of olive …

Cereal is one of my all time favourite meals, when I was super young I’d eat enormous amounts of Weetbix three times a day, covered in cream and sugar and swimming in litres of milk… Makes me hungry just thinking about it.
But now I’m a grown up and can’t handle that much cream and sugar, I’ve moved on to more mature types of breaky I’m kicking off today with a bowl of muesli, good for the body and tasty …

Saturdays are made to be lazy in my book, followed by lots of eating. When you’re lazy there’s nothing easier than microwavable pre-made food, sure it’s usually terrible and bad for your, but hey it’s Lazy Saturday after all.
So I heated up some Pumpkin Soup of the Woolworths Essentials variety and… it was delightfully not terrible. Not the greatest but certainly tasted like real pumpkin, filled my tummy up and kept me warm.

Now for the extra excuse, it wasn’t really …