Moths’r’cool

Another recipe! This is a feta pasta, vaguely inspired by the once viral feta pasta bake. But doctored to my own taste.

Feta, tomato, onions, peppers, mushrooms and garlic cloves all go into a big oven safe dish with 5 millimetres of water, and a decent swish of oil. Throw in whatever herbs you like, I used thyme and basil. Cover in tin foil and throw into your oven at 150°C for half an hour or so.

Take that tin foil away, set it to the side to hold dirty spoons or whatever.

Get a potato masher.

Mash the dish’s contents, bonus points if you imagine your ex’s face.

Once sufficiently smushed, throw that bad boy back in the oven for another half an hour or so, while you cook some pasta.

I do not need to tell you how to make pasta.

When you’re satisfied, the pasta is cooked, and you’re hungry enough to eat the plate, take the dish out the oven and throw its contents into your DRAINED pasta, mix it all together and then gently spoon into whatever you prefer to eat off of. I used a bowl, you could use a plate, mug, particularly nice neighbour, or just eat it straight from the pot i can’t tell you what to do.

Sprinkle over some herbs, and Parmesan.

Strawberry Cajun Salmon with Mint couscous and honey lemon salad.

A super easy recipe I stumbled upon playing the “what’s left in the fridge before payday” game, but it’s phenomenal and now a staple of my household 😂 highly recommend!

Mix strawberries, Cajun spice, salt, pepper and brown sugar with a tiny bit of water in a pot, you’re basically making a thin jam.

Spread that over your salmon, and bake for 15 minutes ish.

Mix mint and spinach into some couscous and cover with boiling water, leave for 5 minutes.

Mix honey and lemon juice with a little HINT of sea salt, drizzle that over some salad leaves.

Throw it all onto a plate in a way that feels pleasant.

The amount of adults in my life (colleagues, friends, family) who just… don’t read, and find the idea that I carry a book everywhere with me and routinely get lost for hours in a book so strange or ridiculous is saddening.

I respect that dyslexia, vision problems, physical disabilities can all limit how much someone is able to physically read. But if you’re an able bodied person, and you ARENT reading even just ONE BOOK a year, why??? How???