It's 2016. A new year, and a resolution to strike a better work life balance than 2015, part of which means I might hopefully manage a few more blog posts. We'll see!
I did cook stuff last year (although there were a lot of fish fingers on the menu too…). Some of it was quite nice - I love a good fish finger sandwich.
And with some sense of unrealistic optimism, I even took a few photos of things as I went along, which then languished on my SD card and cluttered up my DropBox, so in the name of a New Year clear out, here are those pictures - a visual smorgasbord of some of the non-fish-finger meals we ate last year.
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Pasta with chard pesto |
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Refried bean french toast bake |
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Meatballs with roasted cauliflower "rice", dairy free "cheese" sauce and tomatoes |
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Dairy free moussaka |
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Spaghetti and sausage dairy free carbonara |
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Scrambled chard and sausage on toast |
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Tuna and green pepper potato hash with poached egg |
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Mashed potato topped pie - no idea what was in it! |
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Penne with kale and turkey sausage |
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Christmas dinner pizza |
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Fennel, almonds, apple, garlic, olive oil, lemon juice…. |
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Blitz! Quick and healthy pasta sauce ready to go |
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Carrot puree, egg, oats, spices - mix…. |
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Carrot and seed koftas |
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Tomato soup |
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Lattice topped creamy dairy free chicken pot pie |
So there you have it - we ate at least 16 meals which didn't feature spaghetti hoops or fish fingers...