Stuffed peppers

Stuffed peppers with a potato and green bean salad, with a bit of green salad too.

Easy peasy ... made a tiny bit harder because of the current dietary requirements at Kitchen Fairies HQ ... 1 veggie ...easy red peppers stuffed with mushrooms and onions, then mozarella, tomatoes and basil.  1 meat eater, but cheese and tomato dodger.  1 meat eater and tomato dodger.  1 eats pretty much anything, but shouldn't eat cheese.

So, basically, we all had stuffed peppers, but there was some variety in the fillings.

Potato and green bean salad dressed with garlicky vinaigrette.

Red peppers

Olive oil
Onion
Garlic
Musihrooms

Minced steak
Chili flakes
Cinnamon

Tomatoes
Mozzarella
Basil

1.  Sautee onions and garlic in olive oil, add mushrooms.
2.  Prepare peppers by cutting in half and scooping out seeds and connective bits.
3.  Boil potatoes, steam green beans.
4.  remove veggie portion of onions mix and stuff into veggie's peppers.
5.  Add steak mince, and a tiny pinch of cinnamon and chili flakes to onion and mushrooms, fry off.
6.  Slice mozzarella and tomatoes, add to veggie's peppers, with a few leaves of fresh basil.
7.  Stuff other peppers with appropriate collections of steak mince, mozarella, tomatoes ... Drizzle them all with olive oil, and put int the oven for 20 minutes or so.
8.  Make dressing for potatoes, add crushed garlic to olive oil and balsamic - drain potatoes, add wo dressing, with beans when still warm.
9.  Serve, scoff

Pitta burgers with salad

Burger night.  100% steak mince for the carnivores and halloumi for the veggie.  All made extra delicious by having a really garlicky pesto salad dressing, mushrooms and heirloom tomato - stuffed into a pitta and served with potato wedges.  So, so good - and all from Todmorden Market.

From The Mediterranean Pantry:

Olive oil
Organic pitta bread
Red tomato pesto
Garlic

From Mellings:
Steak mince

From the Crumbly Cheese:
Halloumi

From Garry the veg:
Potatoes
Tomato
Salad leaves
Mushrooms
Onions

1.  Cut potatoes into wedges, par boil.  When nearly cooked, drain and put into a roasting tin in olive oil.  Roast for 35-40 minutes.
2.  Shape the mince into burgers, chill for a few minutes.
3.  Chop onions and muchrooms, fry in olive oil.
4.  Wash salad leaves. Make dressing by mixing crushed garlic, a spoonful of red pesto and a glug of olive oil.
5.  Fry the burgers for a few minutes on each side - we like ours quite rare, so about 3 minutes each side - rest for a couple of minutes.
6.  Fry the haloumi and push the pita breads down in the toaster.
7.  Chuck everything in the middle of the table and let people assemble their own burgers.

Delicious.

Burgers and "chips"

Burgers and chips - a perennial favourite - made a bit more special by mixing caramelised onions into steak mince, topping with mushrooms and onion - and served with a simply dressed salad.

Potatoes
Onions
Olive oil
Steak mince
Mushrooms
Cos lettuce
Balsamic vinegar.

1.  Saute finely chopped onion until it's caramelised (you could add a sprinkle of sugar to help).
2.  Mix onion into steak mince, form into burgers and refridgerate for 30 minutes.
3.  Cut potatoes into wedges, toss in olive oil, and roast in hottish oven for about 45 minutes.
4.  Chop onions, sautee in olive oil, add chopped mushrooms and cook through.
5.  Wash and shred lettuce, lightly dress with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
6.  Fry burgers in hot pan to taste.

This was delish - I am hungry writing it up now.