So, what’s for dinner?

One of my favourite lazy, easy and nourishing meals I throw together is a bake. Whatever is in the fridge, whatever looks good in the supermarket, whatever is needing to be used up- all can be put in a bake. If there is illness around us, the bake will have lots of garlic and chicken, if the weather is hot then it’ll have more root vegetables and be served with salad, if the weather is cold make the bake a bit more of a stew by adding a tin of tomatoes and serving it with a mash. A bake like this is also a great thing to make when you have lots of guests as you just need a bigger tray and more ingredients. It’s just so easy! And there’s nothing more loving and nutritious than an easy meal you’ve prepared freshly

Your bake can have

  • Chicken thighs and sausages
  • Potatoes, pumpkin and sweet potato
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Spinach and kale
  • Wedges of onion and lots of cloves of garlic
  • Olives or capers- or both!
  • Zucchini
  • Eggplants
  • Mushrooms
  • Herbs that are in season or herbs you like, fresh or dried
  • Tin of tomatoes
  • Glass of white or red wine, depending on what you’re feeling like (for the bake and to accompany it- haha)

For the image below I used sausages, baby potatoes, cherry tomatoes, onion, garlic, olives and rosemary. Baby spinach is tossed through the bake once the other ingredients are cooked. I served this with cauliflower mash, but you could use pumpkin, sweet potato or potato mash. It’s so easy to put together that I often let the kids ‘make dinner’

Hope you’re loving easy food

‘WHAT’S FOR DINNER?’ BAKE

1kg chipolata sausages, I used beef sausages. You could use regular sized sausages and cut them in half, or leave them whole- it’s very much up to you

500g baby potatoes, cut them in to pieces so they are all a similar size as this helps cooking time

1 punnet cherry tomatoes, I cut the tomatoes in half

100g Kalamata olives (I used pitted olives as that is what I had in the fridge)

4 cloves of garlic, halved

1 onion, sliced

Olive oil to coat the veggies and sausages (not too much as the sausages will release cooking fat)

3 sprigs rosemary, leaves only (or whatever herbs you have or like to use)

Salt, to taste

3 handfuls baby spinach

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius

Place all the ingredients in a roasting dish and toss together to coat with the rosemary and olive oil. I like to use baking paper to line the roasting dish as I’m lazy and don’t like having to scrub dishes, but that is up to you

Bake in the oven until the potatoes are cooked (should be about 30minutes). If you’ve decided to add chicken, make sure the chicken is cooked through as well. The sausages won’t take too long to cook

Remove from oven and add the baby spinach leaves (which will wilt)

Serve with salad or mash of your choice

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