Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu!
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
July is officially here! 😱
Lockdown is relaxing here but life is still not back to normal. I'm still working from home and so making the most of my time here. This week, it rained a lot so our food became warmer and spicier. Coming up in today's post, all the happenings from this week including:
- cheese scones
- Chinese food
- so many quesadillas
- a huge pot of quick saag
- giant cookies
- cooking fried rice outside on the deck
- grilled croissants
- strawberry sugar syrup
- and so much more!
As you can tell, I am making the most of being at home by filling my days with lots of activities. 😄
Monday 29 June 1:55pm It was grey all day today with lots of rain. I enjoyed it - a refreshing change after the heatwave last week.
2:38pm Loving these lentil chips at the moment!
4:03pm Baking cheese scones for Mum.
4:05pm Whilst she cooked okra curry for us.
4:37pm Slicing watermelon and mangoes. I like to peel the mangoes with a vegetable peeler then slice into cubes.
4:40pm The cheese scones are baked!
5:43pm With jalapeno cream cheese and pickle.
7:42pm Dinner time! Okra curry and fresh roti. Roti is always best fresh.
8:02pm Winding down after a long day. ✨
Tuesday 30 June 11:46am My Mum's Instagram recipe page is back! We forgot about it, sorry! You can follow her here.
2:42pm Blistering green beans for lunch.
2:55pm Until they look like this!
3:06pm I cooked my version of Sichuan dry fried green beans with lamb mince. I love eating this with rice.
3:32pm I had potatoes to use up so I made this Chinese potato salad.
3:39pm Lunch! Leftovers with the two dishes I cooked.
4:21pm It's sweetcorn season!
4:36pm I made a batch of pico de gallo with tomatoes, onion, lime juice, chillies, salt, coriander.
6:29pm Ingredients out to cook chicken for quesadillas. My original recipe is here but today I went for a Korean Mexican mash-up. I cooked the chicken with soy sauce, tomato ketchup, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, Korean chilli paste, ginger, garlic, onion, spring onion and chillies.
6:54pm Ingredients out to make a sweetcorn salad - grilled sweetcorn, spring onions, lime juice, chillies, salt, red chilli powder and mayo. Add everything to your own taste because you know what you like best!
6:58pm Dinner prep in full swing.
7:07pm The chicken for the quesadillas is ready. Basically I was originally going to cook this but then watched this and decided to mix the two recipes together and make quesadillas instead. Crazy how the brain works, isn't it? 🌚
7:19pm We are ready to make quesadillas. 😎
7:19pm Here is the finished sweetcorn salad, by the way.
7:30pm Dinner time! Korean chicken quesadillas, sweetcorn salad, pico de gallo salsa.
Wednesday 1 July 5:07pm Mango milkshake number 675332277 of the Summer!
7:05pm My Mum cooked today, She's calling this her Supreme Lamb Chop Curry and you can find the full recipe here.
7:46pm I baked my quesadillas today. Brush a tortilla with oil, turn it over, add toppings, fold over and bake at Gas Mark 6 for 10 minutes or until crispy.
Thursday 2 July 1:57pm Pounding (or should I say plodding) the alley ways with this one.
3:42pm Roasted almonds for the snack win today.
6:39pm Ordered my first set of metal straws today. I bought them here.
7:44pm Cold drinks taste even colder with metal straws. 😍
7:44pm This was dinner. Chicken kimchi fried rice and mango for dessert.
Friday 3 July 2:23pm It rained all day today.
3:40pm Toasted sesame seeds going into their jar.
3:54pm A pot of Saag bubbling away.
4:04pm I'm baking after ages! 😱
4:21pm Ginger and garlic being pounded for the Saag.
4:48pm Giant cookies ready to be baked.
4:55pm Quesadillas being assembled. These had jalapeno cream cheese, cooked chicken, tomato ketchup, pickled jalapenos and cheese.
5:04pm So yummy!
5:19pm The chocolate chunk cookie with flaky sea salt is ready. I used this recipe.
5:21pm This is a chewy ginger honey cookies which needed to bake further. Recipe is here!
6:22pm The smell of ginger, garlic and green chillies frying means Saag is on the menu tonight.
7:11pm It's ready!
7:14pm Delicious with bread.
7:30pm Or fresh wholemeal roti.
7:31pm A very tasty Friday night. 🇵🇰
Saturday 4 July 2:30pm Cooking chicken kimchi fried rice outside because it was too hot in the kitchen.
2:36pm I fried onion then added chopped kimchi and green chilli. Next, in went cooked chicken, hoisin sauce and soy sauce. I fried it until it was sizzling nicely.
2:45pm I added cooked rice, a splash of water and black pepper. I fried it until I was happy then added toasted sesame oil, more pepper and vegetarian oyster sauce. Topped with grated Mozzarella and popped on the lid.
2:48pm It's ready! Not a traditional recipe but it's how I like it. 😎
2:48pm Eaten straight from the pan with an iced Coke Zero.
7:51pm I defrosted raw croissants. They were bought here.
8:12pm The croissants went into the electric grill.
8:19pm Until toasted and crispy.
8:25pm Topped with vanilla ice cream, ground cinnamon and maple syrup.
8:28pm Such a good combination!
Sunday 5 July 1:42pm Mum cooked her moong and masoor daal today.
2:32pm Sunday drives in the Lancashire hills.
3:23pm Prepping fruit for the week ahead. I sliced the melon and pineapple ready to go in the fridge.
3:52pm The strawberries were very sour.
4:03pm I weighed them and added half their weight in sugar.
4:37pm Pulsed in a blender and bottled to use in drinks this week.
5:02pm My kebab and chips sizzler for dinner. The recipe is here.
5:05pm Serve with jalapeno mayo (chopped pickled jalapenos + mayo + ketchup + juice from the pickle jar) and iced Irn Bru because it's spicy.
Hope you had a great week! 🤗
Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu!
