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Cookbook
2026-05-02
This isn't so much a project as a "here's a list of meals that I quite often want to make"
Super useful if I'm at the shops and need to buy some food. Also, all of these foods are delicious.
Recipes
Avocado Dip Serves 10-12
Simple avocado dip. Serve with salted biscuits and try not to eat the entire bowl yourself.
Ingredients
- 2 ripe avocados
- 255g fresh cream cheese
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped onion
- 1 level teaspoon salt
- dash Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons cream
Instructions
- Halve the avocados, remove the stones and scoop out the flesh
- Mash well with a fork and add to the cream cheese along with the remaining ingredients
- Beat well until smooth and quite soft, or for best results, blend to a puree in an electric blender
- Serve with salted biscuits
Chicken Zorba Serves 4
Spiced chicken pitta wraps with a yogurt and hummus sauce. Dead easy and proper tasty.
Ingredients
- juice of 2 limes
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- pinch of salt
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped mint
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 150g greek style natural yogurt
- 170g tub hummus
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 white pitta breads
- mixed salad leaves
- sliced tomato
- yellow pepper
Instructions
- In a bowl blend together lime juice, coriander, cumin, turmeric, salt and mint
- Cut chicken into small strips
- Add chicken and marinade for at least 30 mins in fridge
- Mix yogurt and hummus and chill until needed
- Heat oil in pan and fry chicken for 8-10 mins
- Toast pitta
- Cut pitta in half and fill with above
Farfalle Pasta Serves 4
A quick weeknight pasta with parma ham, courgettes and creme fraiche.
Ingredients
- 250g farfalle pasta
- 25g butter
- 2 shallots, finely chopped
- 125g button mushrooms
- 375g courgettes, cut into 5cm thin strips
- 70g parma ham, cut into strips
- 200ml creme fraiche
- 75g grated parmesan cheese
- black pepper
- basil leaves to garnish
Instructions
- Cook the pasta in boiling water for 10 minutes until just tender
- Meanwhile, melt the butter in a large frying pan and fry the shallots, mushrooms and courgettes, stirring occasionally for 6-8 minutes
- Stir in the Parma ham, creme fraiche, parmesan and pepper to taste
- Drain the pasta and mix with the other ingredients in the pan. Heat through, transfer to a warmed serving dish and garnish with fresh basil
Lasagna Serves 4
A proper layered lasagna with homemade bechamel. Repeat the layers until God smiles at you, then cover the beautiful motherfucker in grated cheese.
Ingredients
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- olive oil
- 500g minced meat
- 2 carrots (optional)
- 350g mushrooms
- 2 cans chopped tomatoes (approx 800g)
- 1 tablespoon tomato puree
- 1 pinch sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 400ml milk
- 4 tablespoons flour
- a little nutmeg
- 1 pack of pasta sheets
- 125g parmesan
- 1 pre-grated pack of mozzarella
Instructions
- Chop up onions, garlic, carrots, mushrooms
- Cover a big pan with olive oil and heat (medium)
- Throw in onions for 2 minutes, only then add garlic, wait until the onions are a bit glassy/shiny through
- Add minced meat and fry until it's all cooked
- Add salt and pepper
- Mix in carrots and let cook for 5 minutes
- Pour in canned tomatoes and tomato puree
- Add pinch of sugar, cumin (salt and pepper)
- Cover and let simmer for 20 minutes then add chopped basil (and mushrooms)
- Melt butter in separate pot (small)
- Sieve in flour, and stir like hell broke loose
- When it's turned into a smooth paste pour in milk and stir well, taste with nutmeg, salt, pepper, (chives)
- Let boil then turn off heat
- In a baking tray, start the layers
- Start with the white sauce, then thinly spread parmesan, followed by pasta and lastly the 'bolognese'. Repeat until God smiles at you
- Cover the beautiful motherfucker in grated cheese
- Bake for 25-30 minutes