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Smoked salmon layer
By leigh-anne
Need something stylish in a dash? This is quick and stylish to impress unexpected guests
- ½ carrot, peeled
- 2 radishes, trimmed
- small chunk cucumber
- 3 tbsp full fat soft cheese
- juice ½ lemon or lime
- small handful coriander leaves, roughly chopped
- 2 slices smoked salmon
- drizzle of olive oil, to serve (optional)
- bread and butter, to serve
Simmered duck with cabbage & potato
By leigh-anne
Treat yourself to Barney Desmazery's one-pan solo supper - with the extra bonus of next to no washing up
- 1 duck breast, about 200g/8oz
- 2 rashers smoked back bacon, each chopped into about 6 pieces
- 1 medium waxy potato such as Desirée or Maris Piper, peeled and cut into about 8 chunks
- ¼ Savoy cabbage, roughly shredded (core removed)
- 150ml chicken stock
- large pinch chopped parsley
- small pinch chopped garlic (optional)
Chorizo with potato & cheese omelette
By leigh-anne
Whisk up your eggs with Spanish sausage and potato to make a decadent omelette lunch for one
- 1 small potato, cut into 2cm dice
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 50g chorizo, chopped
- 2-3 eggs
- chopped parsley
- 25g grated cheddar
Turkey with pea guacamole & radish wrap
By leigh-anne
Keep in shape with this lunchbox and picnic-friendly wrap filled with lemony pea 'guacamole', low-fat cream cheese
- 50g cold cooked peas
- 2 tbsp low-fat cream cheese
- a little lemon zest and juice
- 1 reduced-salt wrap
- 50g turkey, sliced
- 2-3 radishes, sliced
Sardine storecupboard spaghetti
By leigh-anne
This pasta supper, packed with canned fish, olives, tomatoes, capers and parsley, is a quick and colourful dish for...
- 100g spaghetti
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 2 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 10 cherry tomatoes, halved
- 95g can boneless sardines in olive oil, drained
- 8 green pitted olives, halved
- 2 tsp capers
- handful parsley leaves, chopped
Spicy courgette pitta pockets
By leigh-anne
Treat yourself to a solo supper of grilled vegetables, served in bread pockets with tahini, houmous, broad beans an...
- 1 courgette, trimmed and thinly sliced lengthways
- 2 tsp harissa paste
- 2 tsp olive oil
- small handful broad beans (fresh or frozen)
- 2 tbsp houmous
- 1 spring onion, finely sliced
- 1 tsp tahini paste
- small garlic clove, crushed
- squeeze lemon juice
- 1 tbsp Greek-style yogurt
- 1 large wholemeal pitta bread
Mushroom soup
By leigh-anne
Step 1 Spray a frying pan with oil and cook the mushrooms, onion and garlic until soft, then add stock and wine
- olive oil spray
- 3 cups chopped button mushrooms
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 1/8 cup white wine
Tuna and kumara bake
By leigh-anne
Step 1 Peel and chop kumara
- 1 large kumara
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon Tuscan seasoning*
- 95g can tuna in spring water, drained
- 1 spring onion, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup peas, thawed
- 1/4 red capsicum, diced
- 1/4 cup grated mozzarella cheese*
- 1 tablespoon fresh basil
- 1/2 x 400g packet stir-fry vegetables
Pork and plum stir-fry
By leigh-anne
Step 1 Prepare noodles following packet directions
- 100g udon noodles
- 150g frozen mixed vegetables
- 1 tablespoon plum sauce
- 1 teaspoon canola oil
- 125g pork fillet, thinly-sliced diagonally
- 1 plum, destoned, cut in thin wedges
Salsa jacket potato1
By leigh-anne
Step 1 Cook bacon until crispy
- 1 rasher rindless eye bacon (such as Freedom Farms)
- 1/2 x 400g can mixed beans, drained, rinsed
- 1 spring onion, chopped
- 3 tablespoons salsa sauce
- 1 cooked baked potato
- 2 tablespoons extra-light Philadelphia cream cheese