Peanut Butter Cookies

I'm moving house at the moment and trying to use up all my store cupboard ingredients, and these cookies were a perfect way to use up some leftover peanut butter. I took them to a BBQ and they seemed to go down quite well. The mixture is quite soft so they are cookies (chewy) rather than biscuits (crunchy).

Tomato and Cheese Rice

This is a relatively simple recipe from one of my random vegetarian cookbooks. It is basically a pasta bake but with rice, so nice if you're gluten free and fancy a comforting dish. The original recipe called for peppers, but I didn't have any so I substituted for green beans and sweetcorn; the dish would work with any mixed veg you prefer. The original recipe called for half a tin of tomatoes, which annoyed me, so I adjusted it and tried to adjust the stock as well. It came out ok, so my conversions must have been fine...

Spicy Roasted Chickpeas and Feta

This is a quite simple, throw some stuff together and roast it recipe, so it's minimal effort. I modified this recipe from a chicken based dish I found over on the BBC's good food site. I quite liked the idea of trying out roasted chickpeas and I would definitely recommend it as it turned out great. They become quite crunchy on the outside but are soft in the middle which adds an unusual (in a good way!) consistency to the meal. The recipe called for harissa pasta which I didn't have, so I found a substitute recipe online. It was very spicy however so if you like things less spice, tone down the chilli content. Finally, props go to Pete as on the day I planned to cook this, I was very ill, and he cooked it for me and even let me annoy him half way through to take a picture for the blog.