Pasta

This was supposed to be a pasta bake but an unexpected visitor and my usual sloth transformed it into a quick 10-minute tea. Pasta with red pepper/tuna/olive oil/oregano/balsamic vinegar, plus some Texan champagne (chilli sauce) for me.

"Minestrone"

Of sorts, anyway: onion, carrot, celery, aubergine, haricot bean, new potato, tomato, pasta soup, stewed with the obligatory manky old end of parmesan.

Allotment dinner

I'd describe it as a "mezze" tea if that wasn't so terribly pretentious. Pitta bread; new potatoes from the allotment (with mint from the garden of course); aubergine and tomato salad; a salad of lettuce and peas both from the allotment; broad beans and radishes from the allotment, baby (fetal, really) carrots from pots on the patio and fennel with a miso/wasabi/mayonnaise dip; mushed chickpeas with tahini (not quite hoummous as no garlic).

Salmon

in "den miso", Nigella's faux-Japanese marinade (white miso, sake, mirin and sugar, cooked for 20 minutes unti it starts to darken then smeared over salmon fillets which are left in the fridge for a day or so before cooking on a griddle). With romanesco cauliflower and soba noodles.

Fish and lentils

Nil pwa for presentation: the fish is buried somewhere under that heap.

Fish was plaice. Heap was lentils, cooked earlier with onions and celery and stock.

When I got home I fried some curry paste (just a little because of M), stirred in the lentil mixture and some diced sweet potatoes and carrots that I had already cooked in the microwave. Balanced the fish on top, waited 5-10 minutes or so until the fish was cooked: hey presto.

Leftover lasagne

...from Sunday. With carrots.

Brown

Spelt pasta (bit nasty but good for babies) with sausages, fennel and chickpeas in marscapone and lemon juice. Tasted better than it looked but not enormously (although M spent the whole meal going mmm this is a lovely tea mummy so somebody enjoyed it).

Lasagne

Which I never usually bother with, finding it all a bit of a faff. But I have rediscovered my slow-cooker, which made the ragu much less hassle than it might have been; that and a waitrose cheese sauce made the whole process quite easy.