My Take, on an Iced Orange Cake (originally by Rachel Allen)

This simple and delicious little cake is from a recipe by Rachel Allen. The blueberries were my idea, and were just right with the runny icing (ok perhaps a bit too runny) and the orangey cake. Rachel points out in her recipe (found here) that the cake is supposed to be quite dense, and sink a bit in the middle. Which makes a nice surface for a little pile of berries, I reckon.

Cheesy Chicken & Roasted Tomatoes

Simple for simpletons, this one. Chuck the tomatoes in the dish and add a splash of wine. Make a pocket in your chicken breasts and stuff cheese inside. Strew with thyme and bake until chicken is done.

Original recipe can be found here.

Vegetable Parmigiana (by Giada de Laurentiis)

Canellini Bean, Lemon & Herb Crostini

Roasted Tomato & Garlic Bruschetta

Folded Pizza Stuffed with Fish & Salad

This brainwave involved a boring old cheese & tomato pizza, with the addition of (umm) scampi, salmon, rocket, tomato, cucumber, red onion and a bit of mayo.

Fishcakes with Pea Soup

Is this a bit weird? Oh well sod it, it was lovely.

The soup was made by softening onion and garlic in a little olive oil, then adding quite a big bag of frozen peas. In went boiling water from the kettle, and some vegetable stock powder (the kind in the green tubs). I blitzed it with a stick blender and stirred in a noggin of cream cheese. Finally, just after plonking the fishcakes in, it was drizzled with drops of oil from a jar of pesto sauce.