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Hayden Weekly Menu, but not as you know it…

01.02.2019 by georgie // Leave a Comment

When I first met Pete I was obsessed with the fact that his parents have had the same weekly menu all their lives. What madness! It tickled me, and I loved it. I still love it in fact, because it means when we visit I know I am having roast chicken for dinner on a Saturday night with potatoes, peas and cauliflower cheese. And that there is vanilla Vienetta for pudding. This hasn’t changed in 37 years. For the longest time I just couldn’t get my head around the idea of a set weekly menu. Now that I am juggling work and baby and house maintenance I TOTALLY GET IT. And while I’m never going to have the same week menu on rotation (my job/ I need to experiment etc), I fully appreciate the ease and calmness it must have provided my mother in law. She had 3 boys to raise, a full time job once they were at school and a husband to cook for. Of course the woman had dinners set in stone for goodness sake.

When I am shooting and developing recipes for work, it’s just days of leftovers. But on quiet weeks like this a menu plan is a God send. So here I am sharing this weeks plan with you. It’s not that I think it is the best thing ever, or I’m saying go copy it word for word, it’s more for a bit of inspiration and to show how we do things. I’ll be sharing some of the recipes along the way too (over on @peaandthepod).

Also bear in mind that we have a kid in childcare 3 days a week so that means lunches + tea are taken care of Monday – Wednesday. She still comes home and will eat a little of whatever I am making for dinner, so I still need to make sure there is something Persephone can eat on the table but it is definitely less manic. We are also both at work those days so the meals are less fussy. They are quicker, simpler, freezer reliant and leftover friendly. On the days where I am at home I tend to cook a little more, and weekends are naturally a little more indulgent.

Anyway, I hope this helps a little and keep an eye on IG for any recipes that might tickle your fancy. Oh and Happy New Year! x

WEEKLY MENU – JAN 2019

THURSDAY

  • B: Pete’s sourdough toast
  • Snack: Carrot rounds
  • L: red lentil + squash soup (take to the park in thermos)
  • Snack: yoghurt + pear
  • D: Sweet potato + black bean quesadillas, mashed avocado
  • (Make overnight oats)

FRIDAY

  • B: Overnight oats + yoghurt
  • Snacks: red pepper + a little feta
  • L: Eating out
  • Snack: Yoghurt + clementine
  • D: Coconut beef curry with rice noodles (batch cook curry for freezer) Recipe to come on Pea + the Pod

SATURDAY

  • B: Overnight oats + yoghurt
  • Snack + L: Eating out
  • Snack: banana bread
  • D: Semolina gnocchi with greens on the side. Recipe to come on Pea + the Pod

SUNDAY

  • B: Chocolate porridge + blueberries
  • L: Herby pea + cheese omelette (use whatever is in fridge)
  • Snack: Carrot rounds
  • D: Indian Shepherd’s Pie with peas + spinach (Pete to cook)
  • Pud: Yoghurt

MONDAY (P NURSERY)

  • B: Cereal
  • L: Leftover Shepherd’s pie (Pete + Georgie)
  • D: Khichdi: slow cooked split peas, rice and kale – batch cook Recipe to come on Pea + the Pod

TUESDAY (P NURSERY)

  • B: Golden porridge + banana
  • L: Leftover khichdi (Pete and Georgie)
  • D: Defrosted coconut beef curry with rice + broccoli

WEDNESDAY (P NURSERY)

  • B: Granola, yoghurt + pear
  • L: Out out
  • D: Jacket potatoes, miso tuna + avocado Recipe in Stirring Slowly

Categories // Family, Parenting, Pregnancy and Parenting, Stirring Slowly, Vegan and Vegetarian

Have child, will travel: The Lake District

12.05.2018 by georgie // Leave a Comment

I’ve banged on about food being my life for a few years now, but connected to that is travel. One equates to the other for me – my love of food is not only what is on my doorstep (although that is important too). But also taking inspiration from where I go, what I see and do. It always has been, with every passing year being centred around trips and journeys. Even when Persephone was born one of the first things we did was book tickets to Australia, as we thought it was a good idea to go long haul before she was fully mobile (it really was). Pre-baby I realised a lot of my destinations were picked on what I wanted to eat. I adore spicy food, so Asia has seen a lot of love. When we lived in a Vietnamese populated part of London we became obsessed with the food so a trip to Vietnam seemed obvious. Then there are journeys closer to home – a train journey through France, heading for Italy – Piedmont to be specific – in November for truffle and hazelnut season. Staying on a hazelnut farm for £50 a night. It isn’t always about big monies.

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Categories // Family, Travel

A perfect first birthday cake, with not an ounce of added sugar

06.18.2018 by georgie // 20 Comments

I have been on a mission the last few weeks. I wanted to create a birthday cake for Persephone that is:

– not full of sugar, honey and maple syrup. That is actually free from any added sugars.

– isn’t full of weird stabilisers/ strange ingredients/ obscure fillers

– tastes delicious, doesn’t just look good

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Categories // Baking & puddings, Cake decorating, Celebration, Parenting, Pregnancy and Parenting

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Georgina is an award winning food writer, cook and presenter from North London.
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Hello 👋🏼 just wanted to come on here and say hi and also to apologise. This week has been a bit crappy and I had to do something I’ve never done before, which was cancel a big event. I had been so excited about my talk at @helleniccentre (with the wonderful @toniabuxton . Over 150 people had tickets and the excellent team at @bbcradiolondon were going to have me on to talk about it). But it’s been a bit of a scary week health wise within the family and I had to pull out. I absolutely hate letting people down, I’m a total people pleaser, and this was something I was so excited about. Please know it’s something I wouldn’t do half heartedly - hopefully we can reschedule for a later date. But at the moment I just need to be with these guys.
Yesterday I received a card from a friend who has sent me one every Mother’s Day since I had Archie. It had a pack of wildflower seeds attached and she wrote ‘if you plant these now they might grow in time for Archie’s birthday, to cut and put on his bench’. (Obviously I cried).
Patates antinaxtes! Top 3 potato recipe right here. Pleeeeeease please trust me when I say these taste far better than they look/ sum of parts etc.
45 years! A day late, but yesterday my folks celebrated 45 years of marriage. They’ve been together since they were 17 (17!!!). They’ve stuck by each other through thick and thin and are proper couple goals.
(Vegan) Rizogalo with roasted strawberries

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