A MUM of 12 has revealed the simple one-pot pasta dish that got her out of a cooking rut - and it's quick to make too. Zoe Sullivan, 45, husband Ben, 49, and their dozen children make up one of Scotland's biggest families. The couple are parents to Elisabeth, 19, Olivia, 17, Noah, 14, Evangeline, 12, Tobias, 11, Agnes, six, Joseph, five, Florence, two, and two sets of twins - Charlotte and Isabelle, 16, and Leah and Erin, eight.
The bumper brood live in a six-bedroom house in Burghead, Moray, where they regularly document their hectic lives on their YouTube channel . In a recent post, Zoe revealed she was feeling bored by the meals she was dishing up to her kids. She said: "You know what it's like, you've got your spaghetti bolognese, you've got your chilli, you've got all the things that you like to cook "But every now and again you think 'oh just try it [something new]'.
"We all get stuck in that rut don't we of cooking the same meals because it's easy, because you know how to, because you know people like them but sometimes it's nice to try different things." So she decided to branch out and try something slightly different, a quick one-pot mince pasta. And like with most things in her life, Zoe had to make two huge batches of the dish to make sure there was enough for her family who often eat at different times.
Zoe started off by browning the mince and chopped onions before adding garlic, herbs, chilli flakes, tomato puree and chopped tomatoes. She then mixed up some bee.