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This chorizo and pea risotto recipe is the perfect midweek meal for a busy family. It only takes a few minutes to prepare and 30 minutes to cook. The kids love it and always ask for a second helping. It is versatile too. If you don't have any chorizo, replace it with some bacon or perhaps some leftover chicken from your Sunday Roast.

I always like to make recipes quick and easy. With only three steps and 30 minutes of cooking, this fits the bill well. Give it a go and let me know what you think.

If you looking for a quick and easy one pot chicken curry recipe, look no further! This is a versatile recipe and most meats can be used. Or if you have a bit of roast chicken left over from a roast you can use that instead of chicken breast.

Serve it with rice, naan or poppadoms. Or all three if you like! Get you authentic takeaway flavours at a fraction of the cost.

Mango Chicken Bake. This was a really simple one pot dish from the BBC good food magazine and a bit of a crowd pleaser too. Except for the little lady, who was in a ‘I only like cereal mood’, although she reluctantly ate it all very quickly and asked for more of the fruity chicken, whilst saying it wasn’t good because it wasn’t cereal.

Back to basics cooking. This Easy Cheese Sauce recipe, is simple, quick and can be made from ingredients you already have lying around at home. You can add, cooked chicken, cooked bacon, green beans, other vegetables, almost anything you have in the fridge. It can be served with Pasta, rice dishes, over potatoes, over broccoli and other vegetable. This makes this easy cheese sauce super flexible and a handy recipe to have to hand for a quick, affordable and delicious dinner or lunch.

With the six monthly family visit to the dentist after school today I needed something fairly quick and easy to cook on our return. I already had the pork from a yellow sticker haul last week. So grabbed that out off the freezer this morning.

These Greek pork kebabs can be cooked on a BBQ, but the weather isn't quiet there yet, so I used the grill in the oven instead today.

We have visited Spain a few times as a family and the kids love it. Great food, great people and most of the time great weather. We have always come back wanting to eat more of the delicious Spanish food.

After our last visit in the summer, I came home with a Spanish Paella Dish, so keen to give it go. We were having a cheap and easy version of this amazing dish.

My favourite dish from my local Indian Take away is a Jalfrezi. I have always wanted to make it. So with the kids at their Mums for the weekend, tonight was the night.

On my way home from work I picked up all the required ingredients and even got lucky and found a pack of fresh prawns in the yellow sticker section reduced down to £1.20. So Prawn Jalfrezi it was.

This easy prawn jalfrezi recipe could easily be upscaled for more people by slightly tweaking the ingredients.

With my original meal plan going out of the window today and with the help of the BBC good food guide I settled on this little one pot dish instead. With a park play date, school production rehearsal and a lazy pre-teen refusing to walk or ride to school this week I needed something fairly simple. I knew I had some chicken in the freezer and Thai green paste left from another recipe, so this is where I ended up. One pot – two steps – three feed children and a happy daddy!