One that I've made and loved is chicken stuffed with spinach and feta.

Pretty easy:

Take 2 chicken breasts, a good handful of spinach and around half a block of feta cheese - depending on how much feta you like. Chop up your spinach nice and small, mix with feta and a little bit of cream cheese, some salt and pepper. Slice open your chicken breast, stuff the mixture inside, and put into an oven, around 180 Celsius (not sure what the Fahrenheit conversion is - sorry!) and bake it for around 40 minutes. I like serving with baby potatoes and some yummy fresh veges, or a salad.

Fresh spinach is better to use than frozen, but frozen is fine.

A nice wintery breakfast is mince on toast - ideal for hangovers, or a rainy Sunday morning. Make a spaghetti bolognese the night before, leave out the pasta and pop leftover mince in the fridge. In the morning, heat up your leftovers, toast the bread, spread on lots of butter and pile up the leftovers onto your toast. Season with salt and pepper, and serve with piping hot coffee (or tea if that's more your groove). Flavours in the mince meat are so much better the second day, and it uses up the mince in case you don't feel like pasta two nights in a row. Win.

People think I am a bit strange for cooking with beef cheeks! My favourite thing to make when I want to spend all day cooking is beef cheek tacos. You trim the cheeks, then marinate them in a heady concoction of peanut butter, cocoa, coffee, honey, olive oil, garlic, cumin, cinnamon and cilantro, then slow cook them until they fall apart. I make corn tortillas, salsa and guacamole, and then we eat! The whole process takes a good 10 hours or so but it is SO worth it.

Elizabeth that sounds delicious! I'd love the recipe if you'd care to share it. One of my all time favourite things to do is spend HOURS cooking something and Mexican is the highest on our list.

This is it!

I make my own salsa by blending up a 400g tin of peeled tomatoes, cilantro, garlic, red onion, salt, pepper, Cholula, cumin, cinnamon and lime juice.

To make guacamole mash up a couple of ripe avocados with cilantro, garlic, salt, a tiny bit of Cholula, garlic and lime juice.

To make tortillas, mix masa flour (its commercial name is Maseca, and it might be sold as that - you can get it at wholefoods stores or Mexican/Spanish groceries) with salt and water to make a dough, and rest it for half an hour or so. Then roll out tortillas and dry fry them about 20 seconds on each side.

Awesome! Thanks!

My favourite salsa is super easy - tomato, garlic, jalapeno, salt and pepper. Wizz it up and enjoy!

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/23366/chickpea+tagine+with+figs

This recipe has become my catch-all for the sad limp vegies in the bottom of the fridge at the end of the fortnight. Today I've got a pot of it on the stove with yellow capsicums, celery and half a sweet potato added in. I soak my own chickpeas (much cheaper!), I don't use a spice mix, but chuck in whatever spices I do have, and I usually serve it with rice rather that couscous because it's cheaper and doesn't make my belly feel all bloated.

It's yummy and warming and cheap to make, and easy to freeze in batches for future lunches!