Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel. In today's video, I'm going to be sharing with you a week of
family meals. So I'm going to show you the seven dinners that we had, and I really hope it gives
you some ideas and inspiration because I know personally I always struggle when it comes to
dinner ideas. And now that the kids are back to school and the world is opening up again, it can
be so difficult to find time in everyone's busy schedules to actually sit down and have a healthy,
delicious dinner together. It's so important and nice to catch up on the day. So a few of
the meals that I'm going to show you actually take less than 10 minutes to make, which is amazing.
And I have a brand new kitchen gadget that I wanted to show you guys. This is the Cook4me
Touch from Tefal. They kindly sent this to me to test it out, and it is mind-blowing
how quickly you can plan and make a delicious family dinner in this thing.
So I'm going to show you how to make two of the dinners that we had in this.
The Cook4me Touch makes meal planning stress-free because it actually has over 250 meal ideas
and recipes on it, and 150 of those take less than just 10 minutes to make. So it's perfect
if you're short on time. It also has a color touch screen display, which actually tilts and is
waterproof as well. And it links up to your WiFi so that you can access all the amazing recipes.
And a feature that I really love is, say you have something in your fridge that you need to use up,
like maybe chicken, or I actually had cod to use up this week. You can type that ingredient onto
the display, and then it will bring up all of the meal ideas and recipes that include
it. It will tell you exactly how to make it and show you step-by-step with walkthrough videos how
to do it. And it also has photos and as well. It tell you all the other ingredients that you need
alongside it. And it just makes it very easy to follow. And there's even a Cook4me app, which has
a further 300 recipes on it. So when you're meal planning, you can browse the app, and if there's
anything you want to make, you can just send it directly to the gadget itself and then follow the
step-by-step instructions on the display. So it makes it very easy to make quick healthy recipes.
So I'll put some further information in the description down below if you want to go ahead
and check it out. But the first dinner that we're going to be making is a cod and chorizo stew,
which was a very quick... I think it took six minutes to cook. So let me show you. Okay. So for
the cod and chorizo stew, you literally just need five ingredients. And as I said, I had some cod to
use up. So I typed it into the app, and then about 14 different recipes popped up that I could make.
And I thought chorizo sounded really good. So I'm just going to follow the step-by-step guide.
The first step is to preheat it, and while it preheats, it actually flashes red on top. So while
it's doing that, I'm going to get the ingredients out. So you just need chorizo, finely chopped red
onion, some chopped tomatoes, obviously the cod, and then also some butter beans.
And another cool feature is, on the app, if you are cooking for two or four people,
you can adjust how many you're cooking for, and then it will adjust how much of the ingredients
you need. So it's nice and simple to kind of follow. So once it's preheated, you can tap on the
touchscreen display to move on to the next step, which will put the Cook4me Touch in browning mode.
So then you want to brown your chorizo and red onion just for a few in it until the onion is nice
and soft. And then, once you've done that, you can go onto the next step, which is to pressure cook.
So for this, all you want to do is add in the rest of the ingredients. So the butter beans are
going in. Then also, the chopped tomatoes, and of course, the cod. Once everything's in, you
can just lock the Cook4me Touch and then pressure cook for just five minutes. And this was actually
the first time that I had used this. And I just felt like, "Oh, five minutes feels so short."
But then I was pleasantly surprised. [inaudible 00:03:51] moment of truth.
Oh my gosh. So that is literally it. It's quickest meal to make. And you could serve this with
rice or mashed potato or crusty white bread. We literally just had it as stew, but it was
very flavorful. The chorizo makes it so salty and moreish, and the kids really liked it. So
it's definitely one I'm going to make again. And I would actually love to know in the comments,
have you guys ever tried pressure cooking? Am I really late to the game because I cannot believe
how quick it was to make this dinner. Next up, I wanted to show you how to make this
delicious cauliflower cheese pasta bake. This is very much my type of food. It's so tasty
and warming at this time of year. And it's also a vegetarian option. And I think it works out at 65
P per portion. So it's definitely a dinner under five pounds, so Matt's going to make it tonight.
So I'll run through it with you, but it takes about 20 minutes to make. So first off, you just
want to put the pasta on to cook. We're using brown pasta, or you can use whole wheat pasta
as well. And we're also going to cook the cauliflower for three to four minutes. Then
in a pan, he's adding some oil, some flour, milk, and also some vegetable stock, about a cup of it.
And then he's just going to whisk that together constantly for about eight to 10 minutes until it
becomes a bit more of a sauce. And then he's going to add in two types of cheese. We're using feta
and cheddar as well. This makes it so tasty. And if you have a fussy eater, a really good idea is
you can actually blend up the cauliflower so that they don't even know it's there.
It's the same color as the sauce, so it mixes in really well. And I did that when the boys
were younger. Then you just want to add the pasta and the cauliflower to the sauce.
Give all of that a good mix, and then pour that into a pan or a tray. And then you can top this
off with a bit more cheese. So if you hold back a little bit of the cheddar cheese and the feta,
you can put that on top. And then you can also add in some of the greens from the cauliflower,
we only added in a little bit, but you could put all of them in. And then you also want to put on
some Worcestershire sauce. I still can't say that word and then stick that under the grill
for about eight to 10 minutes until it's nice and golden brown. And then that's it.
You can serve this with some salad or some bread. We literally just had this as a pasta bake,
but it's one that I know everyone's going to eat. I think Matt would prefer just meat and veg,
but the boys all like this. And as I said, it's a nice vegetarian option. Next dinner that we had
this week was a chicken paella. We all love this in his house, but Jackson, especially. He loves
any type of rice dish. So I knew that he would eat all of this up. And this is another one
that we made in the Cook4me Touch. So I've just obviously got a step-by-step guide and touch what
ingredients to have. So here they are all laid out. So we're going to be putting chicken in this,
chorizo, red pepper, peas, rice, stock, and onion as well. So the first step
is to preheat it and add the oil into it. And then, once it's in browning mode, you can
season the chicken with some salt and pepper and brown that for about six minutes. Then once that
is looking a bit more cooked. Then you also want to add in the onion, which has been chopped up,
some red pepper, which has been chopped up, and garlic as well. And then you want to brown all
of that together for about two minutes. And once that is all browned, you basically just
need to chuck in the rest of the ingredients. So in goes the chorizo, which I've sliced up.
Also, some frozen peas. Some white rice. And then I'm going to sort of mix all of that together
before adding in the chicken stock. And then also a little bit of white wine. And don't worry if
your kids are having this dish because the alcohol from the white wine will actually cook off of it.
So then I'm going to give that a mix. Lock the Cook4me Touch, and then I'm just going to pressure
cook it for just six minutes. And that is it. So it comes out like this six minutes later,
and if you didn't want to eat it straight away, you can keep it closed. And it will put it on
a keep warm mode, but we actually ate it straight away, and it was delicious. Again, very flavorful,
and the kids really liked it. And next up, I wanted to show the boys' favorite homemade
hidden veg sausage rolls. These never last long in this house. If I make extra, they get eaten,
and it's so simple. All you need is some sausage meat, some ready roll puff pastry,
an egg, a carrot, and some courgettes and garlic as well. So all I'm doing here is grating up an
entire carrot, and then I'm going to grate about half of that courgette and save the
rest of the courgette for a recipe tomorrow night. Then in a pan, I'm adding in some garlic paste, or
you can add fresh garlic if you want to, and that grated up veg. I'm just going to soften this for
about five minutes. I don't actually want it to cook just to get soft. So while that's in the pan,
I'm also going to whisk up this one egg and use that as an egg wash on the pastry in a minute. So
once that is all soft, I'm just going to add it to a bowl with my sausage meat, and you can season it
if you want to. And then what I tend to do is mix it around, because it is very hot, with a spoon.
And then once it's cool enough from the sausage meat, then I'll just mix it with my fingers.
Then you just roll out your puff pastry. And then I cut this one in half because I'm going to
make two really big sausage rolls for everyone. Then you just load it up. I put quite a bit of
sausage meat in. I put like as much as I possibly can, but you don't have to. And then I just add
the mix of the sausage meat with the veg. And the cool thing about this one is you could actually
add any veg that you have to use up or that your children like, and because it's grated, it really
does just kind of mix in. So once you've put all your sausage meat in, then you just fold it over
and then I to secure it just by using a fork like this on the edge. And then you also do the egg
wash that I was talking about. This just makes it really shiny and golden once it's cooked. So
I'll just do that all over, and then I'll cut it up into the sizes of sausage roll that I want.
So I'm doing this size, but you could do very big ones if you wanted to. You could do very
small party ones as well. And then you just stick that into the oven for about 25 minutes.
Sometimes it's a bit longer, 25 to 30 minutes until basically the sausage meat is all cooked.
And then we're serving this with good old chips and beans tonight. This the ultimate for the
boys and Matt as well [inaudible 00:10:40], and it's so simple. Next up this week we have
pasta e fagioli. This is what my grandpa used to make me as a kid whenever I had dance class.
And it literally translates into pasta with beans. It really fills you up, gives you loads of energy,
and it's really delicious. It's almost like a very thick minestrone soup. So this is everything
you're going to need. First off, I'm putting some pasta on to cook, and I'm using rigatoni.
So I'm putting that on for 10 minutes. And while that's on in a pan, I'm just going
to brown some chicken. I'll try to write the recipe down below. It's my grandpa's,
but I'll just write as I'm showing you guys. So once the chicken is brown,
then you add in some chopped-up onion and some garlic as well. Then you add some chicken stock.
You can add more or less depending on how soupy you like it. Then you also add some
chopped-up tomatoes, some basil, or I actually added Italian herb and some bay leaves as well.
And then I'm also adding in another grated carrot and the rest of the courgette grated as well that
I used in the sausage roll. Then once that's all been cooking for a little while, you add in
some beans. So I had chickpeas, and I also had some red kidney beans. Mix that all together.
And then finally, just add the pasta. I probably made too much pasta as you can probably tell here,
but we like it quite chunky. And then we serve it with some parmesan on top. And you can serve
this with crusty bread and butter as well. And the boys eat... I know this looks like,
I don't know. It looks like something your kids wouldn't eat, but with parmesan all over the top,
they really like this, and they eat it. And as I said, it's a great... It's got
loads of protein in it because it's got the chicken. It's got the pasta. It's got the beans
and load of veg as well. So it's very healthy, very hearty. And I tend to make a big batch so
that I can also sometimes have it for leftovers or for lunches. In the next recipe that I wanted to
share with you is a very simple curry tray bake. I'll link this down below, but we found this in
a magazine. Thought it sounded quite good. The boys are getting quite into curry. They actually
will eat it now that they're a little bit older. So this is everything that you're going to need to
make it. So the first step is to mix some yogurt and also some curry paste and mango chutney into
a bowl. And this is basically going to be a marinade for the chicken. So you just want to
mix all of that together and then put your chicken into it. And then you can kind of set that aside
to be marinating while you make up the rest of it. If I made this recipe again, I would probably cut
the chicken at least in half because I was nervous at the end of this, whether the chicken had cooked
all the way through. But then once you've coated the chicken with that marinade, then
you want to add the chopped tomatoes and finely chopped up onions to the rest of the marinade.
It did also call for sultana's as well, but we weren't keen on that bit. So we left it out,
but then you want to line a tray or with the saucy marinade and then top it with the chicken and then
stick it into the oven for about 20 minutes. We preheated it on 200 or gas mark six. And then,
after 20 minutes, just pull out the tray and add on some frozen peas. We tried to kind of like
mix it into the sauce so that the peas would cook. And then you just return that to the
oven for about five minutes, obviously check the chicken is cooked. And then something a bit extra.
We added some toasted almonds and some coriander on top, and it was very delicious. A nice mild
curry. And then we served this at the rice, and we actually had a bit extra for the next day at lunch
because the boys didn't eat a whole one each. So a very nice quick one. What I love about this
is just stick it on a tray and just chuck it into the oven so you can kind of carry on with
your evening. Okay. And then the last recipe that I wanted to share with you guys is veggie
enchiladas. I decided to put this last in the video just because it took the longest to make.
It's still only a 30-minute meal, but I feel like if you're in a rush, then you kind of have to plan
a bit more for this one. But we're still really trying to make an effort with the vegetarian
meals. We try to have at least two or three veggie meals a week, and we're trying to make that more
and more. And I find that Mexican food and curries and chilies lend themselves so well to veggie
food that they're so flavorful on their own. You almost don't need the meat. So to make the
filling for these enchiladas, the first thing you want to do is put some oil into a pan and
then add some finely chopped onion and grated carrot. Just want to soften this for about
five to eight minutes before then adding in some chili powder, some chopped-up tomatoes, and some
lentils and pulses. Then you kind of want to turn down the heat and let this simmer for about five
to 10 minutes. Once that has been simmering for about 10 minutes, you can taste test it,
see if it needs more salt and pepper. We added quite a bit in. And if the kids weren't having
this, we probably would've even added more chili into it. And then we're just going to layer
a pan with a bit of the sauce because we find that really makes the wraps not stick.
Then you just want to start filling up your wraps. Matt actually made this dinner tonight.
You can see he actually likes to cook quite a lot. So he's just going to wrap that up,
and then we'll lay them in the pan. And then, for the topping, you want to mix up some yogurt
and some grated cheese and maybe some seasoning. And then you just spoon that all over the top
of the enchiladas and then grill that for a few minutes until it's nice and golden and bubbling.
And then we actually served this with salad. Okay, guys, that is everything that I wanted
to show you of what we had this week. I'll be sure to link all the rest in the description down below
because I know I've kind of flown through them and if you wanted to remake them yourself, then you
can check out the description and I'll also put some more info on the Cook4me Touch. And thank you
so much for watching. If you did like this video, please give it a big thumbs up, because it's such
a good indicator to me whether to make more like this and I'll see you in my next one. Bye guys.