kitchen

Quinoa Jambalaya with Soya Strips & Spinach

It’s really important to have a back up for when you don’t feel like cooking & you’ve run out of homemade freezer portions, and to don’t need to compromise your nutrition to do so.

This is my favourite frozen steam meal from Aldi’s. It costs £1.49 and takes 9mins in the microwave.

Just add a fistful of spinach or any salad, and you’re good to go!

Spinach & Red Pepper Penne

Serves 2

200g pasta

2tbsp cooking oil

1 onion

2 vegetable stock cubes

2tbsp tomato purée

1 red pepper

1 tin chopped tomato’s

2 large fistfuls of spinach

Salt

Pepper

Cook & drain pasta without shaking off excess water, set aside.

Fry onion in oil, add stock cubes & continue to fry for a minute. Add peppers & fry for a few minutes before stirring in tomato purée, then add chopped tomato’s. Simmer & reduce for 20-30mins.

Stir in pasta, mix well. Add spinach & cover to steam for 5mins. Stir in wilted spinach & serve.

The Visitors Chair [Quick Stop]

Emma Sinclair, Lecturer- Early Years & Childhood Practice

freetoreflect.blogspot.com

•Do you have a favourite dinner?

Salmon with red onion & Asparagus

•Can you suggest any handy household tips?

Housework will always be there so do little & often. Set an alarm on your phone to focus a certain amount of time on housework then get outdoors for some fresh air.

•Do you have a favourite celebrity chef or home & lifestyle influencer?

I listen to Dr Rangan Chatterjee podcasts. His focus is on health & wellbeing – good food, sleep hygiene, being active outdoors & positive relationships

•What does home mean to you?

Being with my husband, my children & my dogs. Living close to nature.

•How do you like to spend time aside from home/family?

Being active in the outdoors with my husband & my friends – wild swimming, biking, walking & running

•Do you have a favourite desert?

Lime cheesecake

•Can you name one item you couldn’t live without?

Non-fiction books – I love to read about personal development, health & wellbeing

Thank you Emma! 🤎

The Visitors Chair [Quick Stop]

Eughine Dunnion [DJ Alkemy]

https://www.facebook.com/djalkemy/

•Do you have a favourite dinner?

Probably chicken quesadilla’s but I’ve been getting into Chinese style Beef n Broccoli lately.

•Can you suggest any handy household tips?

I’m one of the least domesticated people ever LOL. Ummm, I know it’s handy being bald??. If the shower plug thingy is ever clogged up, I’m not involved in the police lineup.

•Do you have a favourite celebrity chef or home & lifestyle influencer?

I don’t even know what a home & lifestyle influencer is lol….but I do like the chef Rick Stein. I used to like the guy who used to get blind drunk on wine while cooking too.

•What does home mean to you?

I think it’s the place where you are truly yourself. There’s no truer version of you than the one at home.

•How do you like to spend time aside from home/family?

Making music, listening to music, watching music documentaries. Basically, anything involving music.

•Do you have a favourite desert?

I have a huuuuuge sweet tooth. Probably why I don’t have many left. My favourite is probably peach and pineapple yoghurt.

•Can you name one item you couldn’t live without?

Probably obvious from one of the last answers but my headphones. I go to sleep listening to music and can’t sleep properly without them.

Thank you Eughine! 🤎