Sort of pizzas

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

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.

Chicken with coriander and chilli

I'm not really in the mood for writing recipes at the moment, and in any case this is quite easy. Just fry a spoonfull of curry paste in some oil for a few minutes, add some chicken, then some chopped garlic, 5 or 6 sliced small red chillies (depending on how you want it, mine was double hot!), and a load of chopped coriander. Stir in about half a cup of water and keep stirring until the chicken is cooked.

Monkfish with tomato and garlic

I'm not too up on fish, but I reckon any thick white fish would be fine for this.




Ingredients
Monkfish tail
A load of cherry tomatoes
2 cloves of garlic
Juice of half a lemon
Flat leaf parsley
Plain flour
Olive oil
Oregano
Salt and pepper

Chop up the parsley and mix it with the lemon juice, some olive oil and a bit of pepper. Get your monkfish (there should be no skin or other unsightly grey bits attached) and put it into the marinade for at least an hour (I wouldn't leave it for much longer than about 3 hours, as I imagine the lemon juice would start to taste a bit rank).

Put a small bit of olive oil in a pan and leave to heat up for a few minutes. Put a layer of flour on a plate and season it with a little bit of salt and pepper. Take the fish out of the marinade, and pat both sides into the flour. You don't want the fish to be caked in the flour, just a light 'dusting' will suffice.

When the pan is hot, put in the fish and cook for about 15 minutes, turning once. While the fish cooks, chop up your garlic and tomatoes. In a separate pan, heat up another little bit of olive oil, add the garlic, and just when it starts to change colour, add the tomatoes. After a couple of minutes add a pinch of oregano, and let the tomatoes reduce down to a pulpy sauce. You can add any remaining marinade if you want, but it will make the sauce very sweet.

Prawns with garlic and chilli

My prawns were already cooked, but they'd probably have been better uncooked. In any case, they should have their shells on.

Chop some garlic and chilli, and heat up some olive oil in a pan over a medium heat. Cook the garlic and chilli for about a minute, then add the prawns, give it all a good stir, then after another minute, add in some lemon juice (the juice from half a lemon should be enough for two people). Keep on stirring for another few minutes, and that's it.

I had mine with a bit of salad, and an extra squeeze of lemon juice.