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Salade niçoise
A nice meal for the summer when it is too hot to eat a real meal. This one with tuna, olives, beans, tomatoes and lettuce. Oh and eggs! Soph's salad had anchovies!
Chicken Curry
A standard but tasty curry. Fry onion, add paste, seal chicken, add some water and leave to simmer. Stir in some yogurt at the very end.
Chilli con carne
Easy to make and will feed you for ever! The clever thing about this one is that you put chickpeas, red pepper and cinnamon in it. I also learnt that you can take big dried chillies, put them in a hot pan for a bit and then chop them up into rough pieces. On the picture you see rice and sour cream and slices of bread for the very hungry!
Spaghetti carbonara
Very quickly made. Get the water boiling, take the eggs out of the fridge and sit somewhere warm (so they get to room temperature), chop up some bacon. Wait. Wait till the water is really boiling, put pasta in. Get the pan hot with little olive oil, put the bacon in and fry it. Careful not to burn it. If you timed everything right the pasta will be done when the bacon is done. Pour away all the water, crack egg on top of the pasta (which is back in its hot pan), add bacon without all the fat/oil and stir. Serve with lots and lots of parmesan and black pepper.
Steak with potatoes and broccoli
Get the pan really, really hot. Just a little bit of oil. Fry the steak on both sides for about 4minutes (or there abouts). Let it rest a little bit before you eat it. The red onions go into the hot pan straight after the meat, but turn down the heat! When they are nearly done you can add a little bit of the vegetable water or red wine.
Thai green curry
Fry chicken until it's just done. Remove from pan and heat up some thai green curry paste. Add coconut milk and bring to boil. Add back in chicken and any veg. I also added some red chili. Eat in a bowl with rice 
Jamie's aubergine pasta
As I remember it, onion, garlic, aubergine, tomatoes, pepper, vinegar, basil, mozerella, pasta. Tastes better after a run in the last rays of sun.
Breakfast drink
Like the taste of grapefruit but don't like eating it? Why not squeeze your breakfast grapefruit into a drink! Add lime for extra citron goodness.