This is a great recipe to use as a side dish for dinner, or as a main for lunch. When we make this for dinner, we like to serve it with either Quorn breaded stakes or nuggets. But if you are not a veggie or vegan, you can add breaded chicken to it. You could also … Continue reading Veggie Egg Fried Rice dinner
At the Cooking Mummies HQ we are all about easy, tasty, healthy and were possible, QUICK recipes! As you may have realised by looking through our recipes, we are heavily inspired by Italian and Mediterranean cuisine. This recipe is inspired by an Italian classic: Pasta con Pomodoro (literally; Pasta with Tomato). It features 3 very … Continue reading Nice and Easy Pasta con Pomodoro
This is such an easy and versatile lunch time recipe! It can be great fun to make with the kids, as they can help with mixing the eggs and adding the ingredients to the pan. It pretty much involves any leftover pasta or rice that you have in the fridge, which can be also mixed … Continue reading Leftovers Frittata
For those of you who knows us, you will know we LOVE pasta!! It is such a versatile dish, which can be combined with anything! So we really wanted to come up with a recipe that is easy, tasty and relatively healthy. It is super quick; it takes only 20-25 minutes from start to finish! … Continue reading Quick and Easy Pasta with Tuna, Pesto and Tomatoes sauce
Things have been pretty busy at the Cooking Mummies HQ recently - hence the lack of posts... With 2 kids each, working in the NHS, house renovations and just the general exhaustion of being mummies of young children, things have been pretty intense! So to beg forgiveness, we have decided to post this quick and … Continue reading Super Easy Oaty Blueberry Squares
This recipe was inspired by Elisa's Italian childhood. One of my fondest memories was my dad's minestrone soup, which he used to make with as many veg as possible. He essentially made it to use up any leftover veg and would leave it to simmer for hours. So it's a bit like a veggie stew. … Continue reading Chunky Veg Minestrone Soup with Barley
This recipe was inspired by one of our favourite risotto Italian dishes: Pumpkin Risotto. It is so warming and delicious! We are always looking for inspo to make new and interesting recipes, which are also nutritious and please all family members (big and small). We love Risotto but we are always making very samey Risotto … Continue reading Butternut Squash, Zucchine and Leek Risotto
I don't think soups get as much attention as they deserve. They are seriously under rated eventhough they are an absolutely brilliant lunch to make for your family. You can whack whatever you want in there and pack it full of veggies and goodness, which makes it ideal for little fussy eaters. You can then … Continue reading Veggie Supa Soup
Now that the hot weather has finally arrived, we are starting to have a lot more cold dishes in our house. Plates that are easy to whack together using left overs in the fridge, and are reasonably healthy of course. This is a brilliant dish for making a quick lunch, whilst having to get the … Continue reading Summery Prawn Pesto Pasta Salad
This dish was inspired by my childhood memories in Italy. One of my favourite dishes that mum used to make was a potato and zucchine bake. It was so simple and delicious; she simply put the veg in a baking dish with a load of olive oil, salt and pepper, and let them bake in … Continue reading Oh so Cheesy Potato, Leek and Zucchina bake
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