Piri piri chicken

This is really delicious and pretty healthy. You can vary the amount of chilli and therefore temper the piri piri-ness, but it’s great for a weeknight meal to blow the cobwebs away! The initial idea is from Jamie Oliver’s 30 Minute Meals – and took me about 45 mins to cook even when leaving out some…

Sweet potato cottage pie

This is a great two-night meal. I’ve adapted the recipe from the Hairy Dieters which includes putting the sweet potato on top to make it slightly less carby. It does take quite a lot of time, but after the up front prep, a lot of it is cooking time.

Stuffed peppers

So I’ve been doing a lot of cooking from my trusty Primal Cravings book recently. This one is a little bit of effort but enough to do on a weeknight. I usually find a couple of tweaks from the book make the recipe work better for me, and this recipe is no different: I blanche…

Sloppy Joe Meatballs

This recipe works by first making the meatballs and baking them in the over, then while they’re cooking, preparing your sauce. So the ingredients are ordered in this way.