Bean balls and spagetti in chilli tomato sauce

<-What you need

1. Chop an onion and three gloves of garlic, and gently fry

2. When fried, remove half and put in a blender, leave the remaining half in the pan

3. Add to the pan chilli powder, tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, a stock cube and a little water, and simmer

4. Add to the blender parsely, kidney beans, cumin, corriander, salt and pepper. Blend, and then add 50g of oats

5. Mix together and roll into balls (see second picture)

6. Fry the balls untill browned all over, and then tip over the tomato sauce, and let it simmer (third picture)

     7. Serve over spagetti! 

Since this recipe didn't photograph well I've kept the pictures small... but it was delicious all the same!  

Kung Pao Broccoli, Cashews and Noodles

I've got a sort of before and after going on here (the red pot is sugar)! I based this meal on this recipe from the BBC, but I left out the tofu due to my tofuphobic boyfriend, missed out the added greens because I was in a rush, added noodles because noodles are yummy (ready for wok ones, I used Sharwoods and I really like them - much nicer than dried noodles!). I also ran out of ginger, and cheated with chilli powder rather than crushed. Nonetheless, even all this recipe-butchery later, it was really tasty!

It was also  super quick (about 25mins start to finish), and only one pan, a knife and a bowl to mix the sauce for washing up... brilliant lazy day cookery!