Aprons
Kitchen Shelf
If you can guess what any of the cookery books on the top shelf are I will award you a prize
Farfalle with Tomato Sauce
Tonight was supposed to be pasta and pesto but I went “off menu” for a number of reasons: I’ve got a cold so thought something with chilli in would be a good idea; on Saturday morning a bag of farfalle (among other things) fell out of the cupboard reminding us that we have a huge amount of pasta that needs using up; ready-made pesto (my own is rubbish) seemed a bit wrong for the first week of blogging about food.
I’m not sure where the farfalle came from, well…it came from Sainsbury’s because it said so on the packet but I’m not sure how it made it’s way into the kitchen cupboard because it’s not one of my favourite pasta shapes. I like spaghetti or rigatoni (the fat tubes) or papardelle (the wide, fat, long strands) but these bow-ties aren’t really for me. They’re a bit novelty I think and novelty is all well and good, but I like my pasta to be of the more traditional variety. I suspect Stephen bought them. And didn’t eat them. He does that a lot. That’s probably why the cupboard is so overcrowded.
Anyway, because of the desire for chilli and the need to use up the bow ties, I thought I would make tomato sauce. Easy, quick, filling and useful. I have a tomato sauce recipe that I always use but on Friday Stephen and I made pizza (we didn’t post about it because it was a disaster, don’t ask, I’m still not over it) and we used a Jamie Oliver recipe for the tomato sauce. It was really simple, just olive oil, garlic, tomatoes, basil, salt and pepper but it was really tasty and it struck me at the time it would be good with pasta. So, that’s what I did tonight, I just added a little (well, a lot actually) chilli and some sundried tomato paste to emulsify it. It wasn’t as good as it was on Friday (typically) but it checked the chilli and using-up-of-novelty-pasta boxes.
Of course, what I could have done is used the leftover sauce from Friday that I squirreled away in the freezer. That would have checked another box that needs checking: the using-up-things-that-Kerri-has-frozen box. I do that a lot. That’s probably why the freezer is so overcrowded.
Coffee
As expected, the “healthy” sandwich didn’t kept my hunger at bay, so I had a coffee. I’m kind so I made one for my colleague too, she’s not a princess though 🙂
Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese Sandwich
In an attempt to atone for the over-indulgence of the pie and the casserole I ate this weekend, for lunch I had a smoked salmon sandwich. I made it myself (I’m not a fan of pre-packaged sandwiches), the bread was Vogel’s sunflower and barley (my favourite), the salmon was Scottish oak-smoked from Marks and Spencer and the cream cheese (also from Marks and Spencer) was low-fat and organic. I also had a glass of water :healthy:
Breakfast
Today, like most days, I had Corn Flakes.
I also had tea but I forgot to take a picture of that. Something for you to look forward to tomorrow 🙂
Smoked Mozarella, Red Onion and Sundried Tomato Pesto Panninis
Not the best shot but I was hungry 🙂
Guinea Fowl, Duck and Wood Pigeon Casserole…
…served with crème frâiche cabbage and crushed new potatoes.
The casserole also contained shallots, celery, thyme, cider and crème frâiche. It was good, but the wood pigeon was a little dry. Perhaps we should cut the poor little thing into larger pieces next time.
Steak and Mushroom Pie
It was immense.
Saturday Kitchen
Lunch: mozarella and tomatoes, salad, ham, bread and cheese
