Veggie Mexican

I've finally managed to motivate myself to get back onto the fitness wagon and started counting my calories again today after I weighed in and realised that I have gained 4lbs over the Christmas period. I've also signed up for a half marathon and started running again. Tuesday's run made me feel as though I was broken, today's was much better thankfully. When I got back I grabbed all the veggies out of the fridge and fried them up with a spray of oil, added some quorn pieces too, some cumin, paprika and chilli powder and a tin of chopped tomatoes and let all the flavours simmer away together while I had a shower.

The result was a tasty, easy to cook low calorie dinner (one wrap with veggies is about 200kcals).

Mushroom and rice one-pot

Mr VST made dinner for the second night in a row - a first I think! He was heading out at 6.30pm and wanted to eat before he left. I wanted to go for a run straight from work so he made us some mushroom one pot. He was challenged with limited ingredients as there was only one pepper in the fridge. It still tasted great though.

Spinach pie with peas

Mr VST made his spinach and feta pie again this evening. He complained that the oven needed cleaning and that he could smell something burning. Unfortunately it was his pie! He had turned the grill on instead of the oven and the top of his pie was rather black. It didn't make any difference to the taste of the pie thankfully and as we have been rather disorganised over the holidays the only thing to serve it with was frozen peas!

Dahl and Christmas Pudding

Made a lovely dahl for supper this evening followed by Christmas pudding which just keeps getting better served with clotted cream and double cream!

Chinese

All too tired to cook or do anything this evening so we had a Chinese take-away consisting of crispy seaweed, vegetable spring rolls and vegetable chow mein.


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Potluck Supper

I'm blogging early today as I'm going away again for a few days and I already know (partially) what I will be eating this evening. 

Mr VST and I are going to a fancy dress/ potluck supper tonight. It will be my first potluck but definitely not my first fancy dress. The whole potluck thing is an American idea where everyone takes a dish. I have made a leek, mushroom and feta tart and a white chocolate torte. I've also cooked a box of Linda McCartney sausage rolls to take with us and we've packed a jar of Mr VST's home made pickled onions. 

The leek tart is a VST own recipe which I will post later and the chocolate torte is kind of this one but with a hobnob base instead. 

Pasta pesto

I wasn't going to bother with dinner tonight. My digestive system is letting me know that I've eaten far too much and far too much junk over the last week. Mr VST suggested we finish off his home made pesto and it sounded like a good idea. If it is possible I think it was even more delicious this time round.