Seven Recipes Make One Week

Couscous With Apricots & Pistachio Nuts
Roasted Asparagus & Tomato
Spicy Fruit Kebabs
Honey Lemon Chicken
Purple Sprouting Broccoli
Mango, Berry & Pistachio Sundaes
Chicken, Soft Cheese, Cherry Tomato Combo

Let’s brighten up the week with a few new ideas. If you have been cooking for your family for years and years, we often need to pep up our culinary routines.

When you talk about healthy eating to mothers of teenagers the same request crops up… do you have any new cookery ideas? Recipes?

It’s not easy to make the family try out new foods and tastes with a sense of eager adventure. However it can be an interesting experiment to discover on talking to their friends what foods the ‘picky teenager’ is happy to try outside of their home. Mothers know after years of practice what the family is happy to eat and generally enjoys. All the hard work in the kitchen is worthwhile and not a wasted effort (as well as the time in the supermarket and the cost) if the food is consumed. Radical change can result in radical waste in food, time and money.

Despite this however it is worth keeping in touch with what is available and aiming at minor changes in the weekly food coming out of the kitchen. Internet shopping has changed the lives of many but do you order the same food each time? Occasionally it may be good to force ourselves away from the computer screen and return to the shop and see the quality of what’s on display.

The supermarkets don’t always make it easy. Last week, Tesco had wonderful dragon fruit on display but no one had bothered to cut one open to show how effective it would look in a fruit salad. There were no instructions on how to serve the fruit and yet people were saying “What is it ?”

Most ‘friends in the kitchen’ are open to new ideas so why do the supermarkets make it difficult? A few cookery demonstrations in store may not be a bad idea but many of the major stores do have recipe cards and their own food magazine and club.

What about all the cookery, food and health magazines that seem to be everywhere at the moment. Do you buy them? Do you use them?
What are your thoughts?

Do email any recipes you regularly use particularly if they are simple to follow, great to look at and delicious to eat of course!

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