Satay Vegetables

Slice into sticks:
- carrot
- eggplant
- zucchini
- sweet potato
- capsicum

Fry eggplant and zucchini in a little oil in wok to cook through. Add a little chicken stock to moisten and some sherry. Take out. Cook sliced onion and crushed garlic, and put eggplant and zucchini back in. In the meantime boil carrot and sweet potato in a saucepan and drain and add in. Finally add capsicum and then satay sauce to heat through. Serve with rice.

Result: 4 - pretty good for a simple vege dinner
Preparation: very quick and easy

Asian Roast Chicken

Butterfly a small (no. 10 or 11) chicken and squash flat. Rub with salt then paper towel to clean inside and out.

Make marinade of dry sherry, light soy, lime juice, dark soy, (a little) kecup manis and sesame oil with a small amount of white pepper, five spice and chilli powder. Place chicken in the marinade for a few hours, coating it occasionally.

Roast in oven on tray shelf 7, fan grill at 180 with probe in the breast set to 82 degrees.

Serve with rice and vegtables (greens, red capsicum and cashews stir fried and braised in the left over marinade).

Make a sauce by tipping a tablespoon of smoking oil over shredded spring onion and garlic in a Pyrex bowel, add light soy.

Result: 5

Lasagna

Make meat sauce: Fry up 250g pork mince, 250 beef mince, finely diced onion, 1/2 finely diced red capsicum, 5 mushrooms finely diced. Add 1 cup red wine, tin tomatoes, splosh passata, whole garlic clove, bay leaves, sugar, salt and pepper. Cook for about 15 mins (or longer if you have time).

Bechamel sauce: 1 tbsp butter, melted, and 1 tbsp plain flour cooked in. Heat 1 1/2 cups milk in microwave and whisk into butter off the heat. Cook on low heat about 10 mins, stirring, until thickened. Add 100g grated mozzarella cheese, 1 tbsp parmesan and pinch freshly grated nutmeg. Add extra milk if too thick.

Layer in lasagna dish with Barilla lasagne d'uovo which cooks in oven at 20 mins at 200 degrees. Top with more mozzarella and parmesan. Cook for about 25 mins.

Result: 5. How lasagna should be made. No annoying veges!
Preparation: Surprisingly quick and easy. Can be done in about an hour.