This month, I’m sharing the meals I cook for my family in a week.

Monday: I try to go meat-free on Mondays. So we will have fish with sweet potatoes that I cut up thin and put in the air fryer to bake and then crisp up. Together with this, I’ll make a salad, too. Kabeljou is my favourite fish. I buy them from the fish shop in town here in Swakopmund. They are very nicely filled, and I bake them in the air fryer.

I recently rediscovered a dish I used to make when we were newlyweds: chilli tomato Lucky Star with rice and cheese. You can also add a can of mussels and some veg to the mix.

Tuesday: I love a lovely old veggie soup and recently started buying rotisserie chicken, disassembling it, and adding it to my veggies. No skin, of course. It makes the work so much less. Alternatively, spaghetti bolognese is a no-brainer with my kids; they love it. I like to add a bit of diced bacon in there, to add some smokiness. Then there’s a tomato and garlic sauce that I also like to add to my tomato-based dishes; I even throw it in my curries sometimes.

Wednesday: Sandwich night. We get some nice sourdough bread with avocado, spinach, and an egg. The kids usually want ham and cheese. On Wednesday nights, we take it easy.

Thursday: These are usually for chicken wings. We make a lot of meals in the air fryer, hey. Meats cook fast and are still very juicy. Recently, my husband started coasting the wings, like KFC chicken. I love to dunk them in a blue cheese sauce, and then we serve them with salad or steamed vegetables.

Friday nights are reserved for pizza or burgers.
We usually get takeaways on a Friday. Who wants to still cook after an exhausting week?

A new favourite of mine is squash with sweetcorn and cheese. Sometimes, I remove all the vegetables from the shell, mix the sweetcorn in it, throw over cheese, and bake it like that.  

Avocados and naartjies are in season now, so use this opportunity to get those vitamins in your body.

Then, my kids love eggs. So, for a snack—or even to pack in their school lunch boxes—I boil 10 eggs on a Sunday and store them in the fridge. They can take one out when they want some, and it’s cooked already. However, they do, only last two days.