This is a fab meal, pretty paleo (if you do dairy) or easily adaptable to be so. Add whatever meat or veges you have, toddlers pretty much all love it so it’s a great way of cramming concealed veges in and so flavourful for adults too. Super high protein. If you don’t do dairy swap the cream for coconut cream or milk, and the butter for coconut oil.

This meal may or may not have come from Reuben dropping an entire carton of eggs on the floor and every single one of them cracking

I want to say thanks to Waitrose for making these awesome lamb sausages, I have a mega hard time finding decent sausages in this country (no offence but I hate pork sausages) and found these at the deli counter, only 1.50 for 5! Score. Cheap meal. Well… 7 free range eggs aren’t the worlds cheapest but still.

7 lightly beaten/mixed eggs
1/2C cream (or milk, coconut cream, whatever)
5 lamb sausages – thanks waitrose
Onion
Garlic
Carrot
Thyme
Capsicum or Red Pepper sliced finely
Butter

If you have an oven proof skillet/frypan now is the time to use it. Other wise you will have to bake your fritatta in a cake pan like me which makes more evil dishes!

Fry off chopped onion, garlic, carrot and sausages in a knob of butter. Add remaining ingredients and mix together. Put into your oven safe dish and bake at 200C for about 20 minutes until the edges are puffed and golden.

ENJOY .. with some healthy spinach leaves x

It has taken me a long time to get up the courage to make hummus after a disastorus (read: garlicy) experience a few years ago. This however, has brought back my faith in my hummus-making-abilities. It was even worth the walk in the 100% humidity sweltering heat to pick up some garlic. No more $4/tub supermarket hummus for us! Yum.

If you are not used to using dried chickpeas, I guess you could use canned but dried taste so much better and not to mention are so much cheaper. Just soak them overnight in a saucepan with lots of water, rinse and then cook for about an hour or until they are quite mushy. I like to peel my chickpeas before making hummus but I think I may be in the minority with this. Infact next time I will try without peeling .. what a rebel.

2 cups soaked cooked chickpeas
2 garlic cloves, peeled
3/4 cup sesame seed paste
1 lemon or more worth of lemon juice to taste
salt
pepper

blend garlic, sesame and salt. add 1/2 cup water and blend until smooth.
add chickpeas and blend until desired consistency is reached, season to taste with salt and pepper.

Im always tryna find some way to disguse the disturbing amounts of protein I cook for Jonno and I now that we are both gym junkies, and since we have had this 2 nights running I hereby declare it a success. It is ready to eat in the time Jonno has had a shower and is a one pan dish which are huge bonuses too.

Garlicy Chicken Chilli Beans

as much chicken as you want, sliced/cubed (we use about 350g)
chilli Beans (yes, yes from a can) – 2/3 of a can serves 2
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 tbsp light cream cheese
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
tuscan seasoning – make your own, basil, garlic, salt, sugar or buy it from the supermarket
any random cheese that is in your fridge, I just use a tiny amount because Im trying to avoid dairy, a tbsp or so.. adjust to your taste
fresh basil, 8 leaves or as much as you can spare (optional but highly recommended)

Cook chicken in olive oil until just cooked through. Chuck all other ingredients in except fresh basil and simmer until hot and cheese melted, then stir through basil until wilted and serve hot with a grind of salt.