Have I told you that I have a new kitchen? If I haven't, I'm sure not why I've told everyone else; including people in shops and weirdos on the bus. (Wait, maybe that makes me the weirdo on the bus!)
Anywho, in my new kitchen I've been doing a lot of cooking- and as I've been home a lot more recently (more on that to follow)- the three of us have been eating dinner together.
As a result, I've purchased the Ella's Kitchen cookbook and may I just say, it's bloody brilliant.
For a start it's covered in the excellent branding that you see on the Ella's pouches (that make you wonder why you can't eat them yourself!) and it's so inviting that you actually want to cook dinner.
The recipes themselves are designed so that older kids can get involved with the cooking, so they're easy-peasy to make and, as if to reflect the attention span of knackered mothers and children alike, they mostly take under 30 minutes.
That's actual 30 minutes, not Jamie Oliver's 30 minutes which starts after you've chopped 50 different ingredients up.
So far I've made the curry, the four bean feast, the lamb cous cous, the courgette frittata and a few more.
All of been well received by B and J (who is fussier than B) and I've lost half a stone from all the cooking-from-scratch.
For the sake of good measure there are a couple of negatives about the recipes: Sometimes it's not clear what equipment you'll need from the start, so if you get halfway through and then realised you need something you don't have, you're stuffed.
Also, J did comment that the curry was a bit bland, so I'd recommend keeping some chilli flakes in a pepper shaker so grown-ups can add their own spice.
