DadDidDinner

This uses the basic tomato sauce. Corn on the cob is massive treat round my place and the fact that theres sweet pepper balanced out how much my daughter fucking hated the lettuce and leftover lentil / feta salad that her mum gave to her. She HATED it. So she ate it first. 'Get it out the way'. Then relax, good flavour!!

Every Christmas I watch as mum, aunties and grandmas arrive laden with food. Mum does the turkey, potatoes and veg, grandma does the fruit cake, goat curry and chicken drums, aunty does the macaroni cheese, dad does the curry theres bare fish involved wether fried or salt fish and ackee. Every year I have offered my hand. And finally, they have let me in. So this year I was in charge of potatoes, veg, yorkshires and soup. Now apart of the Christmas traditions. Blessed!

Fish n Chip Friday is a good thing. Homemade chips, home-battered fish and mushy peas. Here's a little video of me making it too lol!! https://youtu.be/dRigucg9x5k

This is easy, colourful, more expensive though. It is a treat. Things like this are my kind of treat. Watermelon. Treat. Your kid should be grateful! I know i am.

We have fish about once a week I reckon. Again, fill up on the potatoes. The salmon is the special bit. I feel posh when we eat salmon. Change the music up a bit. Light a candle!

Making this plate made me realise that my kid was easily, well, duped. I put down the plate. She said 'oh, I wanted four sausages'. So I broke each one in half. She smiled and tucked in. WTF?!! 

She also made ice cream outta this. Chocolate flake (sausages) on the ice cream (potato) with sprinkles (peas). Whatever. She ate it. 

Soooo yeah - it's just a plate of rice and veg. But sometimes, there's no time and I can't be arsed to cook. So what the hell's the problem just giving veg. Raw veg. Best thing for them anyways. 7 mins to cook the rice, then, well, make it colourful. Done. Bam. 

I said this pesto is good on anything. It is. Anything at all. Leftover rice, mash in a bit of pesto, make the cucumber look like a lipstick-wearing packman and fuck, it's a party. I thought she'd moan about the kale in the rice so the watermelon was a distraction technique. Worked.

I've done this one before, but, well, it's a good one. And this plate is slightly different. Peas or mushy peas, you choose. Added ketchup.

Went to do a show last night. DMC Championships. Backstage was full of fruit, sausage rolls, crisps and chocoloate. By the end of the night, the crisps and chocolate were gone, piles of fruit still there. I took the lot. Saved it. Juiced all the grapes and made ice lollies. Then gave her fruit and sausage roll feats for at least a weeks dinner. Good job. Loved it!

Ok, so the peas were pretty dry from the day before. Two bits of broccoli chilling at the bottom of the fridge stuck on the plate raw and about a cm of cheese left. But sometimes it's like that. It's still a good meal for a kid. 

I had a gig in Devon and my mate down there had a shit load of mackerel given to him from a local fisherman. Skin colour of it was a dreamy rainbow blue. He was off away, so he gave it to me. I fried every bit and handed out fried mackerel to my entire family. Bit like Jesus! Once cooked, they lasted three days. We had this, mackerel salad, mackerel on toast. My daughter was alright with it for a couple days. Moaned a bit the last. Also had runner beans for weeks from the neighbours. Summer things.

These shells are good with the basic tomato sauce cos these catch it inside and are extra juicy because of it. Sometimes I throw a biscuit on her plate. Sometimes not. Keeps her on her toes!