all right so let’s get to cooking some of those things we picked up in my garden in the previous video uh I do apologize my V voice is a bit croaky I have a little bit of a cold at the moment but I wanted to bring you this video because there’s some yummy food being cooked in here so I have the.
Recipe for this uh linked below but we’ve got some herbs there from my garden some veggies from my garden including the zucchinis and we’re going to need some flour baking powder milk eggs which is kind of the base for this recipe baby spinach um and we also have tuna now you don’t have to use tuna I just like um the original recipe doesn’t.
Call for it but I like adding it for a bit of extra protein so let’s get cooking with this stuff and if you haven’t already please subscribe and like this video it really helps my channel if we haven’t met before my name is Emmy and you can follow me over at simple essentials. lifee over on Instagram I also have a Channel all.
About minimalism and simplifying your life anywh who in this channel we talk all about food meal prep and grocery hauls so if you like that kind of stuff make sure to follow along here I’m just grating up my zucchini and and this is a one bowl recipe you only need one bowl to prepare everything but you may not know that zucchini holds a lot of water.
So before we get started with all the other ingredients and mix them in the one and same Bowl we are going to squeeze the liquid out of the zucchini now you can see how much liquid is coming out of it and getting rid of this at the start means that you will have a much better slice um in the end so also it doesn’t stain your towel I’ve had.
That question before I normally just throw that little kitchen towel in the wash but if you are worried you can obviously use paper towel or something instead I just find that it’s a bit more messy anyhoo I will leave you to watch me chop up some stuff and uh get this dish assembled.
w I just love how quickly this dish comes together and I didn’t have any cooking spray on hand so I just sprinkled some um good old olive oil in this baking.
Dish and spread it out with some paper towel and yeah then we’re just going to empty the well combined contents of the bowl this is such an easy lunch I make this summertime winter time both my husband and I really like it and this makes s six pretty good lunge size portions now in the oven this goes and um I think it’s one of those things that.
Just is a really comforting dish and if you like lemon by the way I can highly recommend some lemon pepper sprinkled on this um as well so you’re going to bake that for about 30 to 35 minutes or so and your kitchen is going to smell amazing I assure you and this is something I’ve been making for years it’s not my recipe but the tuna does.
Actually add that extra bit of protein so we’re going to let that cool and then we’re going to put it in containers in the fridge all right so today we are cooking up a really simple soup stew I’m going to be using my um big pot here it’s a dutch oven I picked up recently I actually got this for free in my um local pay nothing.
Buy nothing group so anyway I’ve been enjoying that and uh these are the ingredients this is a great use it up meal so over here we’ve got some bay leaves pepper I think I’m going to throw in a few just pepper corns as well um some salt and some beef stock cubes uh we’re going to use two cans of diced tomatoes you can add more if you.
Want to and then I have a lot of random veggies in my fridge that I need using up so this is from my own garden um I did a video last week about my veggie patch so if you haven’t seen that yet feel free to click on the link below we did pizzas the other night so I’ve got some mushroom here some is cut up and some is um needs to be cut up so we’re.
Going to use this up as well got a couple of potatoes some carrot this is beef mince from my local butcher and then I have some random onions so it cut up and kind of ready to use up so we are going to throw this together this is a foolproof meal and it’s so easy to make even for those of you out there who are not used to cooking so let’s get.
Started my apologies for my voice being a bit croaky um I am actually at the tail end of a cold but um anyway girls still got to eat right so here we have some olive oil I forgot to show you that we’re going to be using that to cook up the onion and mushroom Etc um I’m also going to be using a little bit of this minced garlic fresh garlic is obviously.
Even better but I don’t have any at home and I normally don’t use this in this dish but I’m going to try it with some muster sauce I think this is going to be really um nice to go with the um cuz I’ve got beef there I’ve got the beef stock cubes so anyway that’s all we’re going to need um I will link a recipe below but this is kind of a dish that.
I’m winging and changing up every single time so let’s get cooking so what I normally do to get all the flavor out is uh I pour in about a cup of the two stock cubes mixed in the.
Water and I do one um fill up each of the two cans of diced tomato with water as well now you can see I’m balancing here on a very full pot but I was able to cook this whole meal without it boiling over so adding a little bit of salt throwing in a bay leaf didn’t end up adding any extra pepper corns you obviously can you can chuck in a dash of.
Chili as well if you like it a little bit more spicy so letting this simmer on my stove and giving it a stir every now and then just to check make sure that everything is um fully coated as well I do let the simmer with a lid on so that uh the Water the liquid line doesn’t go down too much but it’s totally up to you but it was smelling really wonderful in.
My house at this point and then about half an hour later you are ready to check and the thing I normally find is that the potato um is definitely the one to check for first so I’m fishing out my bay leaf and then just making sure to test the potato for softness making sure that it’s sort of fork tender without being.
Potato mash mushy and then I’m also just tasting for salt and seasoning I did end up adding a little sprinkle of uh chili uh chili powder to this dish just because it needed a little bit of a kick but it was really really tasty and turned out very very yummy and on this particular night we were having this soup for dinner but I.
Did also use this opportunity to scoop this up in containers now these are glass containers with plastic Lids on them and you can absolutely freeze these sort of things don’t um just don’t overfill them because obviously liquid expands when you freeze it so just dishing up uh those four pretty generous portions plus dinner for the evening uh.
Along with my homemade crusty bread it was really really comforting on a very cold night and while I am waiting for something else to cook in the kitchen I thought I’d whip up a really quick chocolate cake this is a really simple recipe um I will link it below it is a very common thing in Sweden called clad CA and to make it it’s basically a gooey.
Kind of fudgy chocolate cake so you need some white sugar I’m going to use some plain flour this is gluten-free I’ve just got a bit of extra in case I don’t have enough um we need some baking cocoa some vanilla extract or vanilla powder some butter that I’ve got melted on the stove right now uh two eggs and I’m going to be using licorice powder this.
Is actually something I buy whenever I go back to Sweden to visit family so I will be restocking this year if you don’t like salty licorice it tends to be kind of a Scandinavian Dutch thing if you don’t like it obviously you can leave this one out and only use the basic ingredients so let’s dive in now this is a really nostalgic recipe for me.
Cuz I’ve made this ever since I was a kid and especially when I’ve at Uni we got my melted butter there just cooling off a little bit uh on the side there H me helping out on the background too but yeah I used to make this all the time when I was a poor student and really craved chocolate and you know didn’t really want to go you can make this into.
Muffins I’m going to bake it in a cake tin today um and here is my licorice powder so I’ve just whisked up my sugar and my eggs and now we’re going to mix in all the other ingredients and save the flour for last like I said I’ll link a basic recipe below for you the vanilla again is also optional but I think it’s really quite nice in this dish and uh.
I’m going to add in my butter as well and we’re going to stir this up and combine it well and um yeah this is just so nice my husband loves when I surprise bake uh I don’t bake a lot of things I have a couple of signature things but he gets so happy and because he’s glutenfree this is one dish where you can swap like for like with gluten-free.
Flour for regular flour now I did go and bring him the um Bowl afterwards cuz he loves licking the bowl for this particular recipe otherwise I will fight him for it um but yeah so this um is now ready so we’re going to just got a little bit of butter there on a paper towel and I’m just greasing my baking tin you could also use baking uh baking.
Paper or something like that if you prefer to do that and now we’re just going to scrape this amazing goodness in here I had the oven going on the background anyway uh for another recipe so I figured why not bake a cake while I’ve got my um clearly need a new spatula as well uh why don’t b a cake while I’ve got my oven running um so in.
It goes uh again the uh measurements and temperatures are linked below cook for about 25 minutes and then take it out and let it cool for a little bit before you serve it now I often serve this with ice cream but most commonly actually with my homemade yogurt which I did make in a previous episode and the yogurt is really nice and obviously a lot.
Healthier than whipped cream Etc I hope you try some of these recipes and have an amazing week I look forward to see you in the next video where we’ll be doing another grocery haul see you then bye
