Warm Sausage Couscous Salad
This is the delicious result of using stuff that needed using in the fridge and pantry.
Warm Sausage and Couscous Salad
Serves 2
Method
- Make couscous according to packet. I used one cup which makes two serves. Use a large bowl that you can later add everything else to.
- Heat a frying pan and fry a teaspoon of taco seasoning for a couple of minutes until fragrant.
- Slice a couple of sausages and half a capsicum, add to pan and fry on high heat to get a nice caramelisation going.
- Chuck in some chopped baby bak choy (Shanghai) and cook until wilted. Other greens like broccoli, beans or asparagus would work too but you probably would want to blanch those first.
- Drain a can of chickpeas (or other beans), and rinse.
- Use a fork to fluff up cooked couscous, add in a tablespoon of chutney, then throw everything else in and combine.
Time for bed, snacks
Abby’s got a “Time for Bed” book about little animals going to bed. Her version, while eating snacks is “Go to sleep little raisin, little raisin…” (eats raisin). “Go to sleep little nuts, little nuts…” (eats nuts). “Time for bed little raisin, little raisin…”
Hahaha!
How the book’s supposed to be read is below.
Ubby Dubby Wall
Abby’s new favourite game is “Ubby Dubby Wall” – she acts out Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall. I’m still undecided if I approve of this as sometimes it looks quite brutal doing face plants like that! She doesn’t seem to be hurting herself though, and at least it burns off some energy, and I get a bit of a chuckle.
Mega lots of Megabloks
This is what 230-something Megabloks looks like:
My two year old and the tower of Megabloks
(Please excuse the state of my daughter’s hair in the above photo. We had just returned home and she had been sleeping in the car. And of course, building the tower took top priority.)
I got these blocks off Trademe, and it sure beats paying full price for them. Before today, Abby only had 13 Megabloks because they’re so damn expensive that I couldn’t justify getting her a bigger set.
We saw some sets for sale at the Sallies a few weeks ago, but we had walked there and I wasn’t prepared to lug the bulky bags home on foot. Unfortunately the blocks were sold by the time we finally got around to going back with the car. Gutted.
But then I remembered Trademe.
Abby with her newly acquired wagon and tub of blocks
I spent $45 but got about $200 worth. There’s a cute train to push around and an awesome wagon, both of which Abby tries to get into – too bad they’re not designed to carry kids! She even has 6 people now (although she has three identical boys, two identical girls, and one train driver).
Even if she doesn’t play with them I know that her daddy and I will!
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