Hi guys and welcome back to my channel and to a week of family dinners. Every night that I made
dinner this week, I just picked up the camera and started filming. So I have seven recipes to show
you in total, and they're all family friendly. They're healthy. A lot of them take just 10
minutes as well. So I hope you will enjoy this. I hope it gives you some inspiration because I know
that I am always looking for meal ideas. So I hope you like it. If you do consider subscribing, and
with all that said, let's get into our dinners. The first recipe that I wanted to share with you
is the most delicious baked feta cheese pasta. This is so easy to make, and I found the recipe on
Instagram. It's gone completely viral and made the supermarkets in Finland, run out of feta cheese.
So the first step is to put some cherry tomatoes or some grape tomatoes into a baking dish,
and then add a big block of feta cheese right in the center. Then you want to put on a good amount
of olive oil and also season with salt and pepper. And then put all of that into the oven on 200 for
35 minutes. And while it's baking, I also put on the pasta about 10 minutes before it's done.
And then it comes out like this, the tomatoes are very soft and the cheeses are baked.
And then all you want to do is add in some fresh garlic or I'm using garlic paste.
And then also some freshly chopped basil as well. I would probably even add more basil than that.
And then all you have to do is give it all a good stir. You can add a bit more oil or some pasta
water if you think it's dry at all. And then you can just add in some of your pasta. I made fusilli
pasta, but whatever you have does matter and I actually ended up adding more pastor than that.
And then just give it all a good mix. And that is it. It's so delicious. It is very salty.
I almost feel like it would be like a nice side dish if you don't love a lot of salt,
but me and Matt found it very moreish. And as I said, it is a very simple to make.
Next up. We had some chicken fajita wraps, and I actually got this idea on TikTok. I promise I
don't get all my recipes on social media. It was just a coincidence, but first off you just make
up your fajita mix the way that you normally would. So we just do strips of chicken, some
red peppers, onions, and fajita seasoning as well. And sometimes I actually do this in the air fryer,
but today we were in a rush so I did it in the pan on the stove. Then with your wrap,
you can section it off into four and I put salsa on one quarter, then the peppers and onions,
then the chicken and the cheese, and you just fold it one by one. And then you just fry that
in a pan and you have this really delicious parcel that even the kids will eat. And if your child,
doesn't like one thing then you can switch out for something different. You could put sour cream,
but these were really delicious and obviously easy to hold.
And next up, we had a very simple carbonara. This meal takes about 10 minutes to prepare.
It's a Jamie Oliver recipe and I'll link it in the description,
but all you need for it is eggs, spaghetti, bacon, and parmesan. And that is it. So the first step is
to get your spaghetti on because that takes about 10 minutes or so. And then you can prepare the
bacon while it's cooking. So you just want to cut the bacon up into like little bits.
So I'm using some scissors to do this, and then you're going to put them into a hot pan,
just with a tiny bit of oil. And you just want to cook those until they get a bit more crispy.
And while they are in the pan, you can start beating up your eggs. You want to beat them and
also grate some parmesan. This recipe calls for about 30 grams of parmesan, but often
I will double this recipe for the whole family. So grate your parmesan and then add it to your
beaten eggs and then give all of that a really good mixed together.
Then once this spaghetti is cooked, you'll want to turn down the heat on your frying pan
and add that to the bacon. Give it a little bit of a mix before then adding over the beaten egg and
parmesan mix. And again, you don't want the pan to be too hot or the egg will start to scramble,
but if you put that on top and then start stirring and just keep it moving so that you get a nice
silky sauce, you can also keep aside a little bit of the pasta water to add that in as well, to make
sure it is like that nice silky source. But then all you have to do is plate it up, you can add a
bit more parmesan to it. You could also add some greens as well. I really like this dinner and
so did the kids. Matt says it fills a hole, but it's a nice one that the kids will probably love.
And next step, we had chicken schnitzel and this is one of the most requested meals in my house.
The boys love to eat this just with chips and some veggies. It is like homemade fried chicken,
but I don't mind as much because I know exactly what's in it. It's usually just chicken breast,
bread crumbs, some flour and egg as well. So the first thing that I'm going to do is put
down a little bit of clingfilm or saran wrap and then put a piece of chicken on top of it,
and then put another piece of saran wrap on top of the chicken. And then you'll want to
start flattening it. So any veggies, just look away. I know this isn't nice, but you just kind
of want it to get a lot thinner so that when you fry it in the oil, it cooks really quickly. Just
a couple of minutes on each side really. Then you want to get three bowls and in
them you'll want to have some plain flour in the first one, some beaten eggs in the second one, and
then some breadcrumbs, you can have panko bread crumbs, or you can actually make them yourself
in your blender. So once you have got the chicken to about a centimeter thick, I guess, then you'll
want to start dipping it into the flour, and then into the egg, and then into the breadcrumbs. And
the trick to this is to use one hand for the dry ingredients, and then the other hand for the egg
and the wet ingredients. And that way you don't get like a huge paste and mess on your fingers. I
have very fond memories of eating this as a child. My mum used to make chicken schnitzel and my Gram
used to love to make pork schnitzel as well. But you just want to coat all of the pieces of chicken
that you're going to have. And I should have mentioned, you can also season one of these bowls.
If you wanted to add some salt and pepper to the flour, you can of course do that. Then you'll want
to heat up some vegetable oil or sunflower oil in a pan, not a huge amount, just a shallow amount
that you can see there. And then put the chicken into that and just wait a couple of minutes for
it to go brown on one side and then flip it and repeat. And whenever I take it from the heat,
I do actually cut it open just to check that it is cooked and that is it. I just serve it with chips
and veggies. And next up, I wanted to show you the lazy mom's guide to a roast dinner. This
is a hack that we've been doing for many years. If I ever can't be bothered to stick a chicken
into a slow cooker or into the oven, I just run to Sainsbury's and there's a counter at the back
that sells these delicious rotisserie chickens. So there's a whole one there. We used to be able
to eat just one between our entire family. This weekend I actually ended up getting two and then
had some leftover for lunches. So it we'll just have that and then make some roast potatoes and
greens to go on the side, or we also love to get this chicken and just serve it with garlic bread
and salad. That's another very simple dinner that we've been making for a long time. The kids really
like this chicken, me and Matt do as well. So you can either serve it with gravy, or like I said,
just have it with salad. And next up we had a melanzane or aubergine or eggplant parmesan.
This is a recipe from Joe Wicks and I really like it. I'll link it down below for all of the exact
measurements, but you just need an eggplant or an aubergine, and you'll want to start cutting
it into discs that are about a centimeter thick. I suppose you could cut it another way as well,
but I always tend to cut it in circles like this. Then I put a little bit of olive oil into a bowl
and then using a brush, I'll just brush a tiny bit of oil onto each side of the discs before then
putting it into the frying pan. So while it's then in the frying pan, I will actually brush the other
side with olive oil, but you just want to get that to be a little bit brown or golden before taking
it out of the frying pan and then adding in some garlic cloves or garlic paste like I'm using here.
You'll also want to add in some tomato puree and then some chopped tomatoes as well. And I'm
using two cans here, because I actually doubled the recipe, then give all of that a good mix.
And then you'll want to add in a little bit of red wine vinegar, also some oregano or oregano however
you say it, a good amount of that. And then you want to put half of that tomato mixture into the
bottom of a baking dish and then put all of the aubergine or eggplant on top of that. You can
almost overlap them if you need to. And then put the second half of the tomato sauce on top of that
before adding lots of cheese. So you'll want to put some mozzarella and grated parmesan on top.
I think the recipe called for two bowels of 80 gram mozzarella, but I may have added two 100
gram bowls of mozzarella and some grated parmesan, but then you put this into the oven for 25 minutes
and it comes out like this. It is bubbling, it smells so good, and it's really delicious.
This is the kind of food I really like. And it's a nice veggie one because in a weird way,
the mozzarella becomes chewy and you don't kind of miss the meat. So I really like it. And for
something with so much cheese, it's not too bad on the calories either because it's pretty much
just aubergine, tomatoes, and cheese. So yeah, if you like this kind of Italian food, give it a try.
And we also had some egg fried rice and this is such a quick,
easy family dinner. That is also great if you have any leftover chicken or fish. This is a
Jamie Oliver recipe, so I'll link it down below. But today we're using some pre-made basmati rice,
some spring onions, some eggs, soy sauce, sweet chili sauce,
and some tofu as well because we're still eating vegetarian at least three to four nights per week.
So the first thing is to chop up your spring onions. And as you can see, Matt's doing it there,
I think there are about five or six spring onions there. So just going to cut them into small bits
and then put that into a frying pan with a little bit of oil. Once the spring onion has softened,
you can add in the rice and there's no need to microwave it for this recipe. You can just
chuck it in as it is, break it up with the back of a spoon and give it a really good mix around
before adding in a little bit of the sweet chili sauce. And then again, mixing that around as well.
Once it is all mixed, you can make a hole in the middle of the rice and then add in
the two eggs, just crack them straight in. Give them a minute and then stir them in as well,
and they'll just cook within the rice and you'll get like the bits of scrambled egg in the rice.
And then you can just add in whatever you have, if it's chicken or fish, or we've just added in some
tofu as well. And it is literally that simple, then we plate it up and you can put some soy sauce
on top. The boys really liked to have soy sauce on theirs, and that's it a very simple dinner that is
ready in 10 minutes. But I hope you really liked these recipes that we had this week. Let me know
in the comments, which one was your favorite and I'll see you in my next one. Bye guys.