Archive for the 'Pasta/Pizza/Pulses' Category
Pasta
Last night we had a quick dinner of pasta with roasted tomatoes, rocket, smoked bacon and parmesan. It was an idea that developed on my journey home and was loosely inspired by this recipe. It didn’t work quite as well unfortunately, probably due to the lack of pesto but with a little work I think […]
Read More..>>A Sort of Puttanesca
I had a pasta craving today. I get these often but usually manage to be persuaded by Stephen that there is life outside an entirely carb-based diet. Today however he lost the battle and when he said the magic p word we were all set. But what to do with our spaghetti? In a moment […]
Read More..>>Almost Pizza
Last night we decided to make pizza. We’ve done it quite successfully a few times before, so had no reason to believe that this time would be any different. But it was different. The dough just didn’t work out very well. We guessed at many reasons for this, ranging from the yeast being old to […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti Bolognaise
Wow, it’s been almost a week since we last posted. Combination of lots of things happening this week and eating boring things. Last night, I cooked spaghetti bolognaise as it was cold and we both felt like something hearty. Served with some interestingly shaped spaghetti I found in the deli. Nothing new or exciting about […]
Read More..>>Pasta Puttanesca and Chestnuts (separately)
Tonight we wanted something quick and easy so we had pasta puttanesca, which has featured several times before on Dinner Diary, so not a particularly exciting picture. Tasty though. Tomorrow we are going to make chestnut stuffing, so tonight we roasted some chestnuts. Tomorrow we’ll make them into stuffing. Mmmmmmm stuffing.
Read More..>>Spaghetti with Parma Ham, Tomatoes and Mozarella
Another looong day at work today but I came home to find Stephen busy in the kitchen. I’d had an idea that the combination of roasted tomatoes, mozarella and parma ham would work well with spaghetti so we picked up the ingredients and put it together tonight. Neither of us had much time to think […]
Read More..>>Rocket Pesto
Last night, we used some of the rocket pesto from the freezer but mixed it with some roasted tomatoes and some Emmett’s bacon that we bought when we were in Suffolk. The roasted tomatoes acted much like a tomato sauce and I think we’ll use this method when we next need some instead of fiddling […]
Read More..>>Macaroni Cheese
I’ve never had macaroni cheese before so thought it would be interesting to give it a go given that I love pasta and I love cheese. We used a Nigel Slater recipe from Kitchen Diaries (I love this book but haven’t cooked from it before) that included Dijon and wholegrain mustard and had a breadcrumb […]
Read More..>>Sausage Pasta
I did a mini freezer audit today and found some sausages lurking at the back that looked like they needed using up. Stephen was out watching the rugby so I thought I’d use them in a pasta sauce. I don’t think I’ve used sausages this way before, I removed the casings, fried them with some […]
Read More..>>Pizza!
We’d been planning pizza for tonight for a week or so. So we got home this afternoon and made the pizza dough, kneaded it and left it to rise for an hour while we wandered off to the local wine shop where they had some Australian winemakers visiting to show their wines. They were from […]
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