First week into February and I'm going to take my Friday post this week to look back on my current loves from January. January was a good month, starting a new job, finally getting all our belongings arrive from Australia and generally a good start to the year. January saw a few new things enter into my favourite things - a new newsletter, a TV show re-visit and some good recipes.
Watching&Listening
Watching&Listening
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Yep, Call the Midwife. I'm a massive fan and for two years I've been out of the loop. I haven't caught up on what I've missed yet but I couldn't not delve back in when the new series started a couple of weeks ago. Who else just watches as wishes they could be as glam as Trixie and be living in 1960's East End and be a midwife? Every weekend I watch it and think I'm going to have a career path change. Well I'll just live vicariously through my Sunday night obsession.
Reading
Reading
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You've probably heard of the goddess that is Deliciously Ella aka Ella Woodward after every blogger under the sun is raving about her cookbook which I can't wait to get my hands on. However I've signed up to her newsletter from her website and I love it. The recipes you get are so good, absolutely delicious but also super healthy and nutritious. My favorite so far is the banana and peanut butter smoothie. Yum!
Eating&Drinking
I acquired a magic bullet blender over the Christmas period so as you can imagine I've been rustling up a few smoothies in that which has been great for my healthy eating campaign. I'll tell one thing for sure having a simple, easy to clean blender makes smoothie making and consuming a lot earlier and a lot more likely. But a recipe of mine I've been loving is my simple greens and red pesto pasta which I've been having for lunch a lot. I make a bulk lot of this at the beginning of the week and see's me through easily and is super filling so great for lunch on busy days. It's also full of goodness - fibre, iron, calcium all good stuff. So here it is:
Ingredients
500g wholewheat pasta
190g red pesto
1 broccoli
100g kale
8 spring onions
Method
Bring a liter of water to the boil.
Add the 500g of pasta and cook for 15-20 minutes.
While the pasta is cooking chop the spring onions and broccoli.
Once the pasta is cooked drain it and put it in a bowl.
Put the broccoli in the pan and cover with water, bring to the boil and cook for about 10 minutes or until soft.
Whilst the broccoli is cooking add the kale and spring onions to the bowl with the pasta.
Stir it all together so the kale softens.
Once the broccoli is cooked drain the water away and bash it around in the pan to break it up a bit.
Stir the broccoli in with the pasta before adding the pesto and stirring that through the ingredients as well.
And there we have it a super simple recipe to see you through the week to save you getting up early to make a lunch or spending your hard earned money on a not so nutritious sandwich.
What have you been loving this past month? Let me know in the comments.
Until next time,
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