mushroom, spinach and mozzarella wraps

About half a punnet of chestnut  mushrooms and some spinach needed eating up, so I deliberately made last night’s cabbage dish with only half a mozzarella ball, and saved the rest for today’s lunch. Finely chopped the mushrooms and set them to cook down slowly in some olive oil. Put the wraps on individual plates,…

cabbage with pancetta and mozzarella

We normally have this without the pancetta, but I’m trying to cut my carbs at the moment so I added some meat. I make this in a frying pan with a lid. Chop and onion and some garlic, and fry it off in olive oil. Add the pancetta (I used cubes – you could use…

cabbage, bacon and mozzarella

We seem to have a cabbage glut – two of them in the fridge at the start of the week, which is bad planning. I mandolined half of one on Monday for this week’s soup, so only one and a half to go … There were a few bits (I couldn’t call them rashers, really)…

another potato bake

using up: cold roast chicken, half a bag of spinach, a mozzarella past its sell-by date A proper Reactive meal – first for a while.  We are still ploughing through Sunday’s chicken, and had some other stuff that needed eating up.  This worked really well, although next time I would poach the chicken in the…

cabbage with mozzarella and pancetta

This is one of our favourite Things To Do With Cabbage – it’s incredibly quick to make, and very nice to eat. Shred half a cabbage – doesn’t matter what sort; this works with savoy, with hispi, with white, with green. Chop an onion, and a couple of cloves of garlic if you like –…