Spring Onion Soup

After a long day of work, especially at the end of the week we are mostly chosing some easy meal to cook. Let me refrase, we mainly like to take away or order in on those days, but it's still hard to find take out dinners containing enough fresh vegetables to my likings. So tonight we choose the easy cooking:  soup and a salad.

A spring onion soup with a smoked chicken salad 
Lunch or light meal for 2

The salad:
1/2 a cabbage lettuce
10 cherry tomatoes, halved
1 chicken breast, sliced

Meatball Spaghetti

A real classic. My husband loves this recipe very, very much and when I want to surprise him once in a while I can most definitely make him very happy with this recipe. It does take some serious time though: the longer the tomato sauce is cooked, the better it tastes. Rolling the meatballs also isn't a two minute job either.

What also is important with the tomatoe sauce - as I learned from Jamie Oliver - is to try not to bust the tomatoes in the cooking process, but to wait until the cooking is done. This way the sauce will be more sweet . Breaking the tomatos in an earlier stage tend to make the sauce a bit more souer.

Spaghetti with meatballs in a tomato sauce

Dinner for 4

For the tomato sauce:
1 clove of Garlic, chopped 
1 dries chili pepper, chopped
1 tsp. oregano
2 cans of peeled tomatoes
1 tbsp. balsamic vinegar
a hand of fresh basil, chopped