BUTTERNUT SQUASH STUFFED WITH COUSCOUS, FETA AND OLIVES

Mmmmm some very phallic squash there!

Ingredients:

• Cous Cous (we just used some flavoured stuff from Aldi)
• Black Olives
• Red Onion
• Garlic
• Feta
• Olive oil
• Cheese, any hard cheese.
• Quorn mince
• and obviously butternut squash

I know, I never do amounts, but honestly, this is cooking, not baking. It's not a precise science, so honestly, use as much as you have/want.

1. Preheat the oven to 190°

2. Scrub the squash clean and cut it in half.

3. Scoop out the seeds and stringy shit and get rid of that. Then scoop enough flesh out to make a cavity, leaving some to line the sides though. Like in the picture.

4. Put in an oven dish and oil em up! Add some salt and pepper too, or even rub them with garlic if that sounds sexy to you.

5. Bake them until they're nice and tender.

6. Cook the couscous and fry the mince

7. Chop up some red onion, garlic and olives, and crumble some feta. Put all of that in a bowl.

8. When the couscous and mince are done, add those. Also add the squash flesh. Add salt and pepper to taste.

9. When the squash is tender and ready, stuff it with the mixture.

10. Grate some cheese of your choice on top, and stick em in the oven for another 15 minutes!

PASTA BAKE WITH SPINACH TROTTOLE, ROMANESCO AND GOATS CHEESE BECHAMEL SAUCE

So our entertainment today was going to a big supermarket and looking at every. single. thing. Especially in the section with worldwide stuff. We spent AGES there, picking up everything and being like "Pomegranate molasses!! What could we use that for? OH MY GOD IT'S FROM LEBANON! I WANT IT!" So much for keeping it local. Oh well, what can I say, I'm a big arabophile. (Pah! Apparently that isn't even a word! It got underlined in red by the spell checker! How racist. Haahaaa)

ANYWHO, we sort of realised it was all too expensive in the end, so we made this:

I've personally never had trottole pasta before, but it's basically very large spirals. Yummeh.

Ingredients:

• Spinach Trottole (about 3 handfulls, don't use to much of this stuff, it gets really big)
• Quorn mince (2 handfulls)
• Romanesco Brocolli cut into smallish pieces
• Garlic - 3 cloves (!)
• Shallots
• Onion
• Fresh rosemary

1. Cook the pasta and romanesco brocolli (in the same pot, why not?) Also, add a good amount of salt to the water, this pasta needs it to taste of anything.

2. Fry the mince with some garlic and onion. This Quorn mince isn't particularly flavourful so you do have to add some salt and pepper.

3. Mix all this together and put it in a casserole dish

THE SAUCE

Ingredients:

• Milk
• Butter
• Flour
• Salt & Pepper
• Chopped rosemary
• Cheddar (or any kind of cheese you want)
• Goat's cheese

4. Preheat the oven to 160°

5. Melt butter in a small saucepan on low heat. Just enough butter to cover the base of the pan.

6. Keep adding small amounts flour and milk alternately, whilst stirring the entire time, until the sauce is as thick or thin as you want it. We made it quite thick. While you're doing this, don't let it boil.

7. Add the cheeses and turn up the heat so they melt into the sauce, keep stirring!

8. Let it simmer for a minute, et voila!

9. Pour it over the stuff in the casserole dish as evenly as you can

10. Grate some cheese on top (we used cheddar and red leicester).

11. Put it in the oven for 20-30 minutes!