What's for dinner?

I'm learning to make quick one-pot lunches in the instant pot.

Today I had spaghetti with lamb's quarters, pork scraps, creamy sauce and a bit of parmesan.

Chicken sandwiches from last night's lemon & onion baked, spatchcocked chicken. Wednesdays are busy, so an easy, fast, leftover-based supper is a bonus.

Getting home late to find nothing planned, so ....my first harvest from my new polytunnel! - salad greens topped up with small leaved lime leaves and sea cabbage flowers. Made a little potato salad, grated a carrot and dressed with (home made) apple cider vinegar and a little unrefined sugar, some colourful baby tomatoes (not mine, they're only just starting to flower!) and a tiny bit of cheese and home made rhubarb chutney. edit - I forgot a few walnuts on the side, and a sprinkle of raisins in with the carrot. A healthy meal on the table in about 15 minutes.

Eton mess for pudding!

Nice cauliflower at the veg store and freezing outside tonight, so i dug out some sausage from the freezer, fried it up with onions to make some gravy and made spatzle alongside the cauliflower and sausage.... Some nice carby goodness to keep warm!

Toasted chicken salad sandwiches - from the spatchcocked chicken, night before last. The carcass is in the slow cooker, with onion, celery, carrots, garlic, bay leaves, black pepper, and thyme, for the day - maybe the night, too.

there is a certain point in winter when I take more produce out of the garden than in the summer. We have just hit that sweet spot!!

Last night was the first dinner made from snow peas and cabbage from my garden.
(we are only two people right now but this dinner will be our lunch/dinner today and lunch again tomorrow, due to schedule silliness. Making a big meal with multiple dishes on Monday keeps things calm on Tuesday and Wednesday).

(snow peas with garlic and oyster sauce; miso hoikoro, a spicy chinese/japanese pork dish with garden cabbage, and korean braised potatoes and carrots. oh yes and a simple tomato/nori/scallion/sesame salad and jasmine rice [since we're out of normal short-grain]. What didn't come from the garden was a fridge clean-out campaign!)

Sunday night was all about the daikon radishes (also harvesting now): I made indian daikon-stuffed parathas. They were spectacular.

Japchae!