Archive for the 'Pasta/Pizza/Pulses' Category
Arbroath Smoked Salmon and Cheese Salad
Stephen and I went out for lunch today so decided on fishy salad for dinner. When we got home though, we both changed our minds. I felt like spaghetti with my salmon and Stephen was craving a cheese salad. So, that’s what we did. I can’t comment on the cheese salad but the salmon spaghetti […]
Read More..>>Linguine with Prawns and Asparagus
A lovely friend of mine bought me the lovely Falling Cloudberries by Tessa Kiros recipe book for my birthday. I read the whole book cover to cover on the train home and I’ve read it a couple of times since, and marvelled at the beautiful photographs, but never cooked from it. Tonight, in order to […]
Read More..>>Slutty Spaghetti with Asparagus
I couldn’t decide what to eat this evening but after the success of last night’s pasta, I thought I’d try something similar with asparagus. I love asparagus and am determined to eat as much of it as possible while it’s in season. I usually just have it with butter or parma ham so was keen […]
Read More..>>Slutty Spaghetti
Or Tart’s Spaghetti. Or Pasta Puttanesca. I’ve never made this before, I’ve no idea why as I love pasta and all the ingredients contained within this dish. Stephen was out tonight so I thought I’d give it a try and I am so glad I did. This is officially my New Favourite Thing. It’s so […]
Read More..>>Mixed Mushroom Pasta
Tonight, we made a mixed mushroom pasta dish by frying some shallots and garlic, adding the mixed mushrooms with some thyme and lemon juice then finishing with brandy and creme fraiche. It was ok but a bit bland. Would have been good with bacon. And cheese. G
Read More..>>Meatballs with Spaghetti and Spicy Tomato Sauce
We had an interesting trip to the butcher last week, we needed some beef mince to make something or other so the nice butcher man (who we think is called Paul though we are yet to confirm this) weighed it out and got on with finding the other things we needed. When he came to […]
Read More..>>Pizza
We’d planned to make pizza on Friday night, but went to the pub instead. So, we made it on Saturday night instead. We used our normal dough recipe but, this time it was a bit doughier. Not sure why. We topped it with the cheat’s Waitrose bruschetta topping, some really peppery salami, some artichokes and […]
Read More..>>Flaked Baked Salmon with Pasta and Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
Another quick dinner, this time one that we made up ourselves. We roasted the salmon with a little tomato pesto on it. Then we stirred some more tomato pesto into the cooked pasta before adding the flaked salmon, roasted cherry tomatoes, parsely and lemon juice. F
Read More..>>Pizza
Friday night….good TV, fine wine and homemade pizza. Like last time, we made this with the (alledged) Pizza Express recipe. I think we’ll have to find a new recipe though, this one doesn’t behave all that well. Neither of us are that experienced with dough though so it could just be our lack of understanding. […]
Read More..>>Stuffed Pasta
1 large onion, finely chopped 3 gloves garlic, crushed 1 stick celery, finely chopped 20g porcini mushrooms 500g minced beef 3tbs Marsala (or sherry) 2tbsps tomato puree S&P 1tbs parsley, finely chopped Generous grating nutmeg 1tbs worcester sauce 125ml milk Fry onion, garlic, celery and mushrooms on a medium heat until soft and translucent. Add […]
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