Fancy something a little bit different for your dinner? Then why not try out one of these 4 Unusual Savoury Recipes – each a little twist on a classic. Plus find the linky for #CookBlogShare Week 9.
How’s the weather where you are? Here in the South of England, it’s glorious sunshine – it makes it hard to believe that it’s still only February! It did make running the Brighton Marathon on Sunday rather more enjoyable than I was expecting – so much more fun running in the beautiful sunshine (most of our training runs were done in the cold and dark – often featuring rain and mud!).
Brighton Half Marathon
February on Easy Peasy Foodie has been all about comfort food! I started the month sharing one of my favourite midweek meals: Easy Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas.
This is a recipe I make nearly every week, but for some reason had never quite made it to the blog! It’s such a great recipe as it features all the great flavours of chicken fajitas, but it’s easier to make AND tastes EVEN BETTER than it’s frying pan cousin – WIN-WIN!
Easy Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas
I also shared a new leftover roast beef recipe: my Leftover Roast Beef Korma AND a roundup post of all my Easy Leftover Roast Beef Recipes – 10 great ways to use up you Sunday roast leftovers!
Creating this post reminded me that I’d been meaning to update my old Easy Peasy Roast Beef recipe. This was one of the first recipes I ever created for Easy Peasy Foodie and it was badly in need of new photos and a complete rewrite (just the post though – as with all my old posts, the recipe itself was great – it was just EVERYTHING ELSE that needed redoing!). I’m super chuffed with the result though – especially the new photos!
Simple Roast Beef and Mini Yorkshire Puddings
I’ve also been busy over on Productive Blogging. I kicked the month off comparing two of the most popular email services for bloggers – ConvertKit vs MailChimp. I use both of these services, but I have one I much prefer – I didn’t know how much until I wrote this post! Still on the theme of email, I also wrote about why you should be regularly cleaning your email list (and how to do it!).
One of my aims for Productive Blogging is not just to write my own posts, but also to share posts written by other bloggers and I was delighted that in February I was able to feature two fab guest posts: the first was by Jenna Farmer of The Bloglancer sharing her 10 top tips for pitching to brands and the second was by Lucy Down of Fresh Leaf Creative all about why bloggers should care about personal branding.
4 Unusual Savoury Recipes
And so we turn to this week’s roundup… I must say I had a job deciding on the theme for this week’s roundup – there were so many delicious recipes, but seemingly no common thread… until I spotted that many of the savoury recipes were unusual versions of well-known dishes!
And so, this week’s roundup features interesting twists on macaroni cheese, stuffed peppers, beetroot soup and pancakes!
Savoury Pancakes with Salmon and Broccoli
Since it’s very nearly pancake day, I’m kicking off with this fab twist on pancakes from Jacqui at Recipes Made Easy. Whilst most pancake recipes are sweet, Jacqui’s Savoury Pancakes with Salmon and Broccoli are most definitely not! I love how she has used salmon, broccoli and crème fraiche to make a delicious filling for her crêpe style pancakes. These remind me of the savoury pancakes (called galettes), I used to eat when I lived in France – if you’ve not tried a savoury pancakes you really need to – they are SO GOOD!!
Oven Baked Spaetzle with Turkey and Spinach
Keeping on the continental theme, I’m loving this Oven Baked Spaetzle with Turkey and Spinach: a German versions of macaroni cheese from Patrick at Looney for Food. In this recipe Patrick shows how to make German pasta – called spaetzle. He then combines the spaetzle with lean turkey mince and spinach. He also uses a chicken stock based sauce, rather than the traditional bechamel. The result is a much lighter version of macaroni cheese that’s packed full of goodness.
Beetroot and Black Cumin Soup
I’m a big fan of beetroot soup so this recipe for Beetroot and Black Cumin Soup by Janice at Farmer’s Girl Kitchen really caught my eye. This recipe is adapted from the cookbook Moro. And Janice originally made it as part of a challenge where she had to open a recipe book at a random page and make whatever she landed on! I love that idea – a great way to try new things and not get stuck in a rut. Whilst I’ve had beetroot soup many times, I’ve never thought to put cumin in it before – I really need to try that twist!
Cauliflower Rice Stuffed Peppers with Feta
The final recipe is for these fab Cauliflower Rice Stuffed Peppers with Feta from Monika at Everyday Healthy Recipes. The twist here is that she uses cauliflower rice instead of normal rice for the stuffing. I am a huge fan of stuffed peppers and cauliflower rice, but I’ve never thought to combine the two! Using cauliflower rice instead of normal rice makes this recipe low in calories and low in carbs. As Monika says, it would make a great vegetable side dish or starter. Though I really like the idea of serving this as a vegetarian main with a side of chunky homemade chips (obviously that wouldn’t be low-carb ?)
#CookBlogShare2019 Week 9
And so we come to this week’s linky. You can link up any foodie post that you have – both old and new posts are welcome. All you need to do is:
- Link up a recipe or foodie post by clicking the blue ‘add your link’ button below and following the instructions (maximum of 4, please).
- Add a link from your post back to this post (so everyone else can find it and link up too!) and / or add the #CookBlogShare badge to your post (you can find the code below).
- Comment on one of the host’s posts and a minimum of 2 other posts linked up here, and generally share the love with a bit of social media action!
If you wish, you can tweet a link to your recipe to me @easypeasyfoodie and also (if you have room on the tweet!) my co-hosts Jacqui @jacdotbee and Monika @MonikasRecipes, using the #CookBlogShare hashtag and we will retweet them. You can also post your recipe on the Cook Blog Share Facebook Page.
Need some help on Instagram? You and me both…so let’s help each other! Whenever you post to Instagram, use the #CookBlogShare hashtag, then quickly hop over to the #CookBlogShare feed, liking as many as you can and commenting on any that particularly catch your eye. Not a big job at all, but if we all do it, it would make a BIG difference!!
I will comment on a selection of my favourite posts this week and pin them to the Cook Blog Share Pinterest Board. I can’t wait to see what you’ve all been making!
Just to remind you, by joining in, you are giving the #CookBlogShare hosts permission to use your pictures in a round up and on social media, if your recipe is selected as one of our favourites!
The next #CookBlogShare will be hosted by Jacqui at Recipes Made Easy 🙂
Pin 4 Unusual Savoury Recipes for later
Jo Allison / Jo's Kitchen Larder says
Very clever theme for round up Eb and such delicious recipes too! I’m very much in the pancake mood at the moment (getting ready for next week) so Jacqui’s savoury pancakes have my name written all over them. Huge congrats on Brighton half marathon! You are such an inspiration Eb, I really mean it. Most exercise I ever get is doing school run lol although I must say since the weather has been so kind to us I have been a bit better than that over the half-term week! I just need to keep it up now! 🙂 x
Eb Gargano says
Aw, thanks Jo! It’s funny – 3 years ago I did no exercise and struggled to run for more than a couple of minutes, but I did a couch to 5K beginners course and then worked up to 10k and then the half marathon distance very slowly over time! I now run the beginners group and a whole bunch of this years newbies ran the half marathon with me – so proud of them. But I never wold have done any of it without my fab running club – it has made all the difference! Eb x
patrick@looneyforfood.com says
Thanks for featuring my Spaetzle
Eb Gargano says
A pleasure, Patrick! Eb 🙂
Jacqui Bellefontaine says
Thanks for including my savoury pancake I love the look of all the other dishes #CookBlogShare Bloggers are so creative. This week I’m linking a sweet pancake.
Eb Gargano says
A pleasure, Jacqui – I love savoury pancakes! (though I’m quite partial to the sweet version too!!) Eb x
Nickki says
Great round up, Eb! That beetroot soup looks so good. Going to check out your roast beef leftovers post right now!
Eb Gargano says
Thanks Nickki – hope you find some recipes you like on my leftovers post!! Eb x
Monika Dabrowski says
Thank you for featuring my recipe! Love your other unusual features, especially the beetroot soup (probably predictable, coming from me).
Eb Gargano says
A pleasure Monika! Haha – that doesn’t surprise me one bit, but it does look a fab recipe – I would never have thought to pair beetroot and cumin, but now I really want to try it! Eb x
Corina Blum says
Lovely round up! I love savoury pancakes so would definitely like to try jacqui’s pancakes as they look perfect for me. Congratulations on your first marathon too! Was that enough or are you thinking of doing another one now?
Eb Gargano says
Thanks, Corina. Actually it was my second half marathon. I did my first in September last year! I expect I’ll do more in the future. For now though I’m concentrating on recovery!! And then I have a 10 mile race at the end of April – then I’ll be back to training up the next crop of beginners. 😀 Eb x
jenny walters says
Fab round up as ever Eb. Fabulous achievement running a half marathon. I have to admit that I am toying with the whole running thing. I keep doing a bit on my running machine and then ignoring it for a week if it suits! It’s good to get out and about too isn’t it? Thanks for hosting.xx
Eb Gargano says
Thanks Jenny!! Running is so much fun – I’d really recommend joining a local running group if you can. So much more fun running with other people – there’s no way I would have run any 10ks, let alone half marathons if I’d been doing this on my own!! Eb x
Michelle Frank | Flipped-Out Food says
I envy your weather, Eb! Here in Wisconsin USA, the winter is really wearing me down. I have snow piles at the end of my driveway that are taller than I am. Needless to say, I haven’t been outside for a run in weeks—running on snow and ice is not something I enjoy! Good for you for chalking up your first race of the year!!
I love, love, LOVE your newly photographed roast beef. Beautiful!! Coincidentally enough, I’m also linking up a newly rephotographed post: Make-ahead Irish Guinness Stew. Thanks for hosting and for giving us this great roundup!
Eb Gargano says
Oh my goodness – that weather would get me down too – that’s rubbish. In my little corner of the South of England we hardly get any snow – my kids hate that, but I secretly love it – I’m really not a snow fan! Thanks for your kind comments about my photos. Oh my we really are thinking alike at the moment as I am currently working on my easy peasy version of Irish stew which I’ll be sharing tomorrow – love the sound of yours though – especially the idea of putting Guinness right in the stew and you know I’m always a fan of anything make-ahead! Eb x