Friday Five - Meals we're eating this week

So this week I thought I'd share what we're having for tea/dinner/supper or whateveryoucallit.  On Sunday I sat down on the interweb thingy and found five recipes that tickled my fancy for the week and proceeded to do an online shop so I was organised and didn't have to make a daily trip to the supermarket.  Those of you who know me well know that I love the supermarket (truly I do!), but hey you know, lets try something different.  These are the meals I chose, so far we've had three because Andrew got home late last night and Thursdays meal was supposed to take over an hour to cook.  I didn't fancy dinner at 9:30 so it was toasted sandwiches for us.

1.  Bacon and egg filo pie.

This is a real NZ classic but with the healthier filo pastry.  Bacon and egg pie at home is usually served cold at a picnic but we had it warm.  It retrospect I'd have it hot because the filo lost its crunch.  I also didn't include any onions because, well I don't like onions in B&E pie, and I served it with salad leaves.  I also halved the recipe because there are only two of us, and Andrew had some for lunch the next day. 

2.  Sweet and sour pork.

Once I'd found that cool website with the pie I kept looking and found this recipe for sweet and sour pork.  Andrew cooked it on Wednesday and it was yum!  He'll probably be cross with me but I have to tell you, he messed up the rice, we don't eat a lot of rice, noodles are so much quicker and it had been a while since he'd cooked rice, and to be fair we usually have boil in the bag and were out of that too.  So I guess I'd better forgive him.  I can be a bit of a picky eater when it comes to stir fry foods, I'm not keen on big chunks of onion, the smaller the better, and up until recently I wouldn't eat cooked pepper so this was a big step, we're making progress folks!  

3.  Moroccan lamb pie.

This comes from Delicious Magazine which I buy every month without fail, its such good food porn, and I was browsing on their site and came across a category for Moroccan meals and found this.  It was so good!  I didn't make it in little pie dishes, just put the filo on top of the mixture in my Le Creuset and let it cook in the oven.  When I make this again, (Andrew just loves lamb dishes) I will def cook it for longer to get the lamb to break down and become even more tender, I might even try it in the slow cooker.

4.  Moroccan chicken stew.

I was so impressed with the Moroccan choices I chose another one of Delicious' suggestions.  I haven't made this yet but I'm swapping the chicken breasts for thighs for a bit more flavour.  I'll probably make up the cous cous with vegetarian stock too to give it a bit more zing.  

5.  Honey ginger chicken.

This will be Saturday nights meal and while I love honey chicken its a bit of a step outside my comfort zone because of all the stir fry veg, my mum will be pleased though!  Andrew loves Chinese food so I thought this might be nice for a weekend instead of takeaways (hopefully!)

There you go, my meal plan for the week!  I've already started thinking about next week too, but this time I'm going to challenge myself to use the mountainous small pile of cookbooks I've got, better get looking.