Saturday supper - a not-so-healthy meal

We spent most of this afternoon going through papers and cupboards and tidying as our flat needed a proper blitz. My dad rang in the evening and told me about two curries he's had recently - I was starving and that didn't help matters much. So we nearly got a takeaway to reward ourselves after all the work we'd done. But we had a Vietnamese on Thursday and we try not to have them too often, and reluctantly I cooked a pasta supper.

To save time I used a Sacla tomato and marscarpone sauce, which we had with extra onions, green pepper, courgette, garlic and a few halved cherry tomatoes. At the last minute, when I drained the wholewheat pasta (which I now prefer to white pasta, unless I'm making a cream-based sauce - I think you need something spicy to stand up to the stronger, more fibrous flavour of the wholewheat variety), I added a big load of cubed mozzarella (hence the not-so-healthy meal). I grated parmesan on the top and added a bit of black pepper. I thought it was a bit flavourless, but I've still got a bit of a cold so I hope that's why. It was big and warm though, which was just what we wanted.

Scallop and bacon salad - healthy?

This was our scallop and bacon salad. It felt pretty healthy. I love the contrasts of delicate scallops with crispy, salty bacon and salad. Just thinking about it is making me hungry.

Veggie pasta supper

On Thursday night we'd had a big tapas meal with my family, and we guzzled a lot of Spanish wine. The tapas included bruschetta with smoked salmon, white anchovies and pimento pepper, asparagus wrapped in proscuttio, marinated garlic cloves, king prawns wrapped in bacon, then in a sliver of courgette, served hot, meatballs in a tomato sauce, omlette and new potatoes lightly mashed with lots of garlic and olive oil. Sadly, I didn't take any photos, and I was far too drunk to blog about it later. But we had lots of the tomato sauce from the meatballs left over and I took this away with us for a quick supper. On Saturday night we had it, with aubergine, red onion, yellow pepper, cherry tomatoes, more garlic and penne pasta. Very filling.

Sweet chilli prawn salad

After consuming much more pâté than we had intended - it was just so moreish - we needed something fresh and zesty for our Sunday supper, and we had some big prawns in the fridge which we fancied eating. So I made this quick and easy salad with baby spinach leaves, halved cherry tomatoes, thinly sliced organic carrots, sliced yellow pepper and the prawns scattered artistically, I hoped, over the top. I made a tangy sweet chilli dressing (about 2 teaspoons of Blue Dragon sweet chilli dipping sauce, a couple of dessert spoons of sherry vinegar, about 4 dessert spoons of olive oil and some seasoning), poured it over and got stuck in. Lovely.