This is an easy mid-week meal. Let’s be honest, you can’t go wrong with sausages and pasta in tasty tomato sauce can you! Parmesan and parsley finish off this dish nicely and the whole thing can be whipped up in less than 30 minutes. This sausage and pepper pasta dish is so easy and delicious!

I have been making this chicken pesto mozzarella and pasta dish for about 20 years. It was something I learnt form a friend at uni and it has stood the test of time. Even though my repertoire in the kitchen has expanded dramatically since then, I still make it today!

This is one of my favourite ways to eat chicken breast, it’s quick, easy and is so filling and comforting. It goes so well with pesto pasta, which let’s be honest, is amazing on its own already!

Pesto fried eggs, so simple, so delicious, why has it only recently become a food trend?! Pesto fried eggs are perfect for brunch, lunch or just a light meal whenever. I usually just have these with toast, however It’s pretty easy to elevate pesto fried eggs with some other additions. For example, why not serve with avocado, a side salad or even add some slices of chorizo or bacon on the side. Personally I like to keep it simple, there’s something that feels so virtuous and clean just keeping this to a 3 ingredient meal

This gnocchi bake with chorizo, peppers and mozzarella makes a nice mid-week meal. Great when you fancy a change from a normal pasta bake. You’ll find this the perfect Autumn/Winter comfort food.

Even though we are approaching winter, I still enjoy a salad and this is a lovely hearty winter-warming one. This cavolo nero, sweet potato and fennel salad with red cabbage and a tahini dressing is an unusual combination but it all just works. Hope you give it a go.

This is one of my favourite mid-week dinners as it is so easy and quick to make yet so tasty! In fact I am pretty confident in saying it is probably the pasta dish I have made most frequently ever!

This is a great vegetarian salad that is substantial enough for dinner. Roasting the vegetables and serving it still warm really makes it feel more hearty too. The combination of cauliflower, sweet potatoes fennel and feta is wonderful and the hazelnuts are the perfect finisher. Great for a mid-week dinner and one you can easily change to your tastes and based on what you have in the fridge!

I must admit, the rice is actually my favourite part of this cod and tomato rice dish, it’s so full of yummy things that I thought would go well with the fish. In the end it turned out so well that I actually sometimes just make the rice to eat on its own! Still, the cod just finishes this dish off perfectly.

This is such a great combo and well balanced meal that is comforting and satisfying. I often make it mid-week as it’s easy and just full of my favourite flavours that go so well together. Beautiful salmon, creamy leeks and roasted potatoes, what more do you need.

The great thing about this sushi salmon bowl is that it’s easy to prepare.  I had thought about making sushi but to be honest, I find the end result in terms of flavour is the same and this is way faster, easier and dare I say, looks better, than my home made sushi. I fully respect that making sushi well takes some serious skill, skills which I have not quite honed yet! 

In this dish I have used salmon and salmon roe (ikura) which I have seasoned to add extra flavour.

This is one of those treats which is delicious, doesn’t need baking, is super quick and is more or less fool proof. Great one for kids to help with.

This is sort of a soup, sort of a stew, not a million miles away from my chicken and white bean stew recipe. It is wonderful and hearty from the beans, sausage and the veg, but the broth is relatively light and the tomatoes provide a nice tang along with a hint of lemon and fennel.

Aubergine is one of my favourite vegetables to cook, especially in Chinese dishes, I think I first came across fish flavoured aubergine (yu xiang qiezi) when I lived in Kunming, Yunnan province after uni and this dish has a similar profile, removing the minced pork but keeping the garlic, ginger and chilli. I decided to add tofu to this dish to make it into a more substantial main course, it goes well with just some simple plain rice.

This pasta dish with kale, lemon, trout roe and parsley is a quick and easy mid-week meal, but also the addition of the trout roe makes it seem fancier than it is. You could substitute the roe with anchovies which you can cook along with the garlic and kale if preferred.

Another great vegetarian meal that is suitable any time of the year and is filling enough to be a main meal without any addition. Particularly with the tangy lemony yoghurt dressing, this salad hits so many notes. I love the toasted nuts, and using lots of fresh herbs. It’s not the most cost effective of salads for that reason but there again there is no meat or fish, so swings and roundabouts I guess.

This salad is both light a fresh from the fennel, apple, greens and the zing of the lemon but at same time the smoked mackerel packs a punch of flavour making the salad feel meaty and substantial. I love this in the summer for dinner.

This ice cream is very easy to make. It can be in the freezer within 10 minutes of starting. It’s super creamy and packed full of raspberries which offset the sweetness of the ice cream. As this is raspberry flavoured I couldn’t resist throwing some white chocolate in there as well, it’s just a flavour combo that is a match made in heaven!  

The great thing about poke bowls is that they’re easy to prepare, you can put whatever you want in them and they’re generally quite a healthy meal whilst also being so tasty and colourful. I’ve used tuna here but salmon is another favourite. If you can’t get sushi grade fish that you can eat raw then you could always just use cooked fish.

This tuna kimchi fried rice is so flavourful from the Korean staples of gochujang, gochugaru and kimchi. You can control the heat with the gochugaru (Korean pepper flakes) and either keep it relatively mild or make it as hot and spicy as you like! This is a really quick and easy dish to make and so versatile. If you don’t fancy tuna you can substitute in prawns, tofu, chicken or whatever you prefer. A fried egg with a runny yolk finishes this dish off perfectly.

This dessert is surprisingly easy to make and can mostly be made well in advance making it a good option for a dinner party. It looks impressive yet means not too much faffing away from guests. It’s also got built in portion control!  I love the addition of the blueberries in the bottom but you could leave these out if preferred.

I love normal crisps made of potato, but the problem is I could mindlessly eat a whole big bag and we all know they’re not the healthiest for us. Kale crisps provide a far healthier alternative, baked in the oven you can control the amount of oil and salt used. They’re also super easy to make!