What's for dinner this week - week beginning 28th April 2014

Wednesdays and Thursdays need to be quick and easy or pre-prepared the night before, as the girls do activities after school and I work longer days.
I prefer to avoid meat midweek, so there are non-meat alternatives.

Monday 
Beef enchiladas (Annabel Karmel recipe which was in BBC Good Food magazine May 2014) and Bean enchiladas

Tuesday
Honey & soy mackerel using mackerel fillets instead of whole fish for the girls (Waitrose magazine, March 2014), brown rice and green veg)

Wednesday 
Pesto jackets (Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook) - I would prepare these the night before (or even the night before that!). I make my own pesto but you can use a bought one.

Thursday 

Chicken/ Tofu stirfry with noodles (soy and sweet chilli sauce) - chicken breast/ marinated tofu, stirfry veg & noodles.

Stuffed baked potatoes with pesto – Sarah Raven’s Garden Cookbook

For 4:

5 baking potatoes (there’s an extra to fill out the other halves)

200ml crème fraiche

175g hard cheese, grated

150ml pesto

2 cloves garlic, crushed

Salt & pepper

Preheat oven to 180C. Bake potatoes for about an hour, then cut them in half and scoop out the potato from the skins into a bowl. Mix all the other ingredients in with the potato and mix. Spoon the mixture back into the skins, filling generously. Return to the oven for about 15mins, until golden.

You can make in advance up to the just-stuffed stage and keep in fridge or freeze.