Next week

While I'm getting over a cold by eating a spicy Indian lentil soup, made from ingredients in my cupboard, I'm online ordering groceries for next week. I love doing that, it allows me to plan my meals ahead and budget things a lot better than in my days as a student, when I went out to get groceries nearly every day. For the coming week, I've managed to find a few ingredients that I'll use for several meals. I've also decided to try out a new cuisine: I've bought the ingredients for Chinese egg fried rice and crispy pork belly. I love Chinese food, but I've never cooked it before, so that will be exciting!  Of course as I'm cooking for two, a 800g pork belly is far too much for one night; I've decided to split the pork in half and use the other half for a roast pork belly with apple confit, kale and potatoes. Another new recipe that has the same autumnal feeling is a parsnip and ginger soup. Then, I'm going Italian with a spinach lasagna, a tagliatelle with creamy mushrooms, and some veggie pizzas. Last this week I'm going back to lentil soups, making one with red and green lentils and some cannelini beans. Yum! I'll put some of the recipes online when I've tried them, dear readers :)