Gluten Free midweek dinner inspiration…
A gluten free midweek meal should be easy, quick and absolutely moreish. There is nothing worse than coming home from a long day of running about your feet and having a ready meal, which may look tasty on the packet, turns out to be the most blandest meal. The disappointment of the Hefty price and inadequate meal always leads me to just feeling annoyed at the end of the day. There are however some lovely gluten free tasting ready meals, as previously reviewed on Wuthering and when these get to the supermarkets i’ll be more than happy to pick up a few. But for now, after tasting such a bad ‘Catalan Chicken’ ready meal from a well known supermarket, i’m still disappointed i ever picked it up in the first place!
Last week i asked my twitter followers whether they could give me any inspiration on what to make for dinners during the week, i was half way through my shopping list to discover i’d been eating the same meals for the past 4 weeks. I was in a complete meal rut! Luckily my followers responded with some handy suggestions, from spanish inspired chicken legs and rice, sushi, Vietnamese cold noodle salad, Veggie Quiche but the one that made me go YES i love it, was the mention of fishcakes.
My long search for the Marks and Spencer’s gluten free salmon fishcakes has been unsuccessful and i believe, like many of their free from products, that only certain stores have them. The central Bristol store that i go to is relatively big, so this does surprise me.
So in a bid to have a tasty quick version of fishcakes i picked up a little something called, ready made mashed potato. And although this may be a sin, if i’m going to prep something at the end of my weekend to be ready for the week, i want it to be as stress free as possible! The lemon zest and chive really bring alot of powerful flavour to this recipe and also make the fishcakes go a bit further- especially if you want to cut back. If you want to save them for a few days simply wrap them in cling film and keep well refrigerated before frying them.
We served these with salad but they also go well with a big dollop of ketchup and some minty peas 
Let me know what you think of supermarket ready meals in the comments below- are there actually any good value/tasty ones?!
