It’s Monday night. I haven’t gone grocery shopping since last week and I’m lazy. There aren’t any leftovers except for a small container of basmati rice, but there are frozen hake fillets in the freezer and a head of broccoli in the fridge.

Who’s hungry? Vincent and I.That means tonight’s recipe serves 2 people.

Ingredients:

• Woolworths frozen hake fillets
• Ladismith Spreado butter
• Robertsons veggie spice
• Robertson Portuguese chicken spice
• Broccoli
• Spar Cheddar cheese
• Spar Feta cheese with herbs
• White wine (to drink while cooking and eating)

Let’s get cooking!

First, switch on the oven grill.

While things are heating up in the kitchen, melt about four big spoonfuls of butter in the microwave.

Then, whip out your go-to oven-safe container which is also coincidentally just big enough for two hake fillets.

Sprinkle copious amounts of whatever spices you…

Asian cuisine is always a treat for me.

But in the past I have been apprehensive about cooking authentic Asian dishes because the recipes I usually gravitate to require a lot of effort and the ingredients are often hard to come by.

However, yesterday as I was browsing the web for interesting new recipes to try I stumbled upon this Honey Teriyaki recipe on Skinny Taste’s website (check them out for other awesome recipes too). Their recipe looked really simple so I decided to try it.

It turned out to be a super delicious meal that required pretty much zero effort because I used my pressure cooker. I’ll definitely make this again!

Who’s hungry? Vincent, our friend Roan and myself, but this recipe can easily feed 4 to 5 people.

Ingredients

• 12 chicken drumsticks, skinless
• 120 ml rice vinegar (this is the same as rice wine — I never knew!)

Here’s a little secret: I’ve never made lasagne before.

Of course I wasn’t just going to wing it for my first try, so I did a bit of research on one of my favourite sites; Jamie Oliver’s website. He’s got a number of lasagne recipes on there, but this one tickled my fancy as it seemed the most traditional, and the ingredients would be easy to find at my local grocer.

Make no mistake, lasagne is a massive undertaking. This recipe took about 3 hours in total. But jeez Louise, it was so worth it! It came out absolutely perfect and tasted better than any lasagne I had ever had before. No jokes.

Who’s hungry? Vincent and Roan. Yes, I made this ridiculously laborious dish for just two people (with the intention of feeding them leftover lasagne for the next three days — and I did!)

Ingredients

For the…

Seed-sown Rudbeckia ‘Prairie Glow’ is joined in today’s vase by Anthemis tinctora ‘Kelwayi’, Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’, a couple of struggling stems of Calendula ‘Orange Prince’ and an infiltrator, an unidentifiable bright orange crocosmia which has no label because I thought I had removed all of it.

Sadly, the photographs of today’s vase of daisies do not really do them justice – in real life they are far more vibrant and pick out the bright coloured bands of the lighthouse-shaped vase, bought from a local pottery in the Scilly Isles when we visited a couple of years back. The prop is another daisy, sunflower ‘Italian White’, which has performed very poorly this year, especially when compared to its queenly neighbour.

I may be a little late responding to comments this week, but don’t let that deter you from posting your own vase. Late summer is still providing plenty of picking material…

Moon and White Flower

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