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When the kids eat you out of house and home

5/28/2017

You made an extra big meal the previous evening and had hoped to use the left over vegetables as an accompaniment for the next days meal but those greedy teenagers just kept going back for more to fill the bottomless pit which is their stomach and there is very little left!

I always keep some couscous in the cupboard for just this occasion. I tend to by the Ainsley Harriott couscous as it is often on special offer and I like his flavours.

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For extra taste you can always add some curry or chill powder. I often add a few raisins or other dried fruit to give it a bit of a zing!

You can use rice instead of couscous or use noodles with some sweet chilli sauce which is great either hot or cold.

I add boiling water to the couscous as directed on the packet. Chop the few left over vegetables into small pieces, heat them through in the microwave. Add them to the couscous with some cooked meat or fish and a new meal is created.

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Easy canapés when you need them

5/7/2017

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OK so you get invited to a friends for dinner and ask if you can bring anything (quietly expecting they are going to say yourself and a bottle of wine)! Alas, they ask if you'd mind bringing some canapés... and you go into panic mode!
So there are usually two options:
(a) you spend a couple of hours in the kitchen fiddling about with some highly complicated recipe with lots of ingredients.
(b) you cheat and buy spend a fortune at waitress and buy their pre-made canapés.

Well here I am providing option (c), a really good way to make some easy, tasty and inexpensive canapés!

This is what you will need:

Some mini pastry cases or blinis you can find in Asda & Waitrose.
Cream Cheese (Philadelphia is my favourite buy any of the cheaper own brands will do the trick)
Cherry Tomatoes
Pesto (homemade always tastes best if you have time to make it)

Method:

Put the cream cheese in the pastry cases or spread on the blinis.
Cut the tomatoes on half and spread some pesto on the inside flesh of the tomato
Place on top of the cream cheese

Voila and don't they look professional!

Different varieties include:

Pate with an olive
Brie and grape
Custard with a strawberry or some other fruit
Chocolate Mouse with an orange segment

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