Cheesy Toasty Tomatoes

I've spent my years living in a world where the grill was broken; we lived an underprivileged life in which cheese on toast didn't exist. After 3 weeks of living out of a microwave and making tea for builders we have a new kitchen! Complete with grill. First order of luncheon: cheese on toast.

Of course, no one needs a recipe for cheese on toast, it basically explains itself, but I was so excited by the prospect I went all out.

A nice slice of wholemeal bread, topped with chopped baby tomatoes, tomato salsa (I used marks and spencer's jalapeño chilli salsa dip, which was a new find and delicious!) I then tore up a cheestring and layered the 'strings' on top. Under the grill on high, for about 3 minutes until the cheese was melted. Perfect!

I've recently rediscovered cheestrings, a childhood favourite. As a student who doesn't use much cheese at all, they are perfect to keep in the fridge so I can have a little bit of cheese when I fancy, rather than buying a big chunk then having cheese everyday just to use it up! I can see this week is going to be cheese on toast week for me! Yum yum yum!

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Carrot, Pomegranate and Feta Rice

Here's a quick recipe for a colourful vegetarian dinner! I took my inspiration from BBCgoodfood, which is one of my favourite recipe websites! Have a look: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1973658/roasted-carrots-with-goats-cheese-and-pomegranate It's so easy to use and you can search for inspiration or just exactly what you were looking for. I'm a self confessed 'foodie' and although I've still along way to go when it comes to confidence in cooking I have about a gazillion cookbooks and I'm always picking up the food magazines. My favourite chefs include Donal Skehan,, Nigel Slater, Sam Stern and Sophie Dahl. 

You might have noticed I'm a vegetarian, although technically it's "pescatarian" since I still eat fish. It's been just over a year now since I gave up meat officially, although I've always been prone to a vegetarian style diet. Above all I just really didn't like meat all that much, and I love the variety and flavours you get in vegetarian food! Just look at that plate. So pretty! 

Ingredients 

4 carrots

1 pomegranate

feta cheese (amount on preference)

a few mushrooms

a few peas

Some broccoli 

about 50g rice

I roasted about 3 carrots in the oven, 180 degrees, cooked the rice per instructions with 2 parts water to 1 part rice. Fry the mushrooms, and steam the peas and broccoli. Remove the seeds from the pomegranate - you can just buy the seeds, which is what I meant to get, but the accidental purchase of the fruit instead was pleasantly simple! You have to be careful not to squeeze the juice everywhere as you go!) Crumble the cheese and mix all the ingredients together. 


Voilà! Enjoy. 

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