Sort of pizzas

One with tomato and mozzarella, one with garlic and rosemary.

My first rotis

Chicken with coriander and tomato

This was a quick little curry for just me, but It should be quite easy to adjust for more people.



Ingredients
1 good quality chicken breast ('cubed')
A big bunch of coriander leaves
Fresh chopped tomatoes (whatever you see fit as being the right size portion for one person)
1 fairly large clove of garlic
2-3 small green chillies
About a tablespoon of garam masala
Olive oil
Salt

Chop up your garlic, coriander and chillies, combine with the garam masala, then grind it all down to a paste with a pestle and mortar.

Heat up some oil in a pan, add the coriander paste, and fry in the oil for about 30 seconds. Add the chicken and give it all a good stir, making sure all the chicken is coated. After a couple of minutes, add the tomatoes with a little bit of water and a pinch of salt. Keep stirring on a medium heat and after about 10 minutes or so you should get something that resembles the photo above.

Sausages with broccoli and garlic

Fry your sausages in a pan on quite a low heat. The low heat will keep any fat from the sausages burning and mean that you won't need to add any oil later on. Keep the sausages moving round so that they brown nicely all over. When they are just cooked, turn the heat down a bit, throw in some chopped garlic, then some broccoli. The fat from the sausages should be enough to keep anything from sticking. After a minute or so, add a very small amount of water, a little butter, and a bit of salt. Keep stirring everything round. The water will help to steam the broccoli and create an instant gravy from the sausage fat.

Sausage and mushroom lasagne

Right, I thought of this a while back, and thought I'd better write it down before I forgot. On the bottom layer, a mix of sausage meat and tomatoes. On the top layer, lots of mushrooms with thyme and oregano. Plus the white sauce in between, and lots of parmesan on the top. The good thing about this is that sausage meat is usually very well seasoned, so you can make a really nice meat sauce quite quickly.

The picture is of the second helping, hence the mess.

Pea and prawn risotto