Yes it’s another pasta dish. And yes I know that you are starting to get fed up with pasta. You’ve had it too many times and you are frankly bored of bolognaise (although wait till I share my bolognaise recipe with you, carefully developed over years by someone who wasn’t me). Anyway this is a creamy delicious pasta dish that isn’t actually as bad for you as you would imagine. It also features smoked salmon which is one of my greatest pleasures in life.
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The day that Shannon got married was also my birthday and to distract myself from the fact she was halfway across the world and I wasn’t there we had a barbeque. It was also my first attempt to cater for a large group of people. We were expecting about 40 people to arrive throughout the day so the plan was to have food on the go the whole time. I took charge of salads and sides and generally everything that wasn’t meat related. This meant that most of the barbeque was meticulously planned while Doug’s part was largely ignored despite my various “suggestions”. He did however perk up when we bought a barbeque. And while putting it together he remarked that it was just like Lego. It all came together fairly well and the only real barbeque problem we had was getting it to light in a fairly blustery Edinburgh wind. Continue Reading
We all know how weeknights can go: you’ve had a long day at work, you’d love a comforting home-cooked meal, but then you realize that you’re the one who’d have to cook it, and you call a pizza place instead. Well, here’s your new replacement. It’s almost as easy as making a pasta with sauce from a jar, but tastes a lot better, and still more or less counts as homemade. It’s based on this recipe, from Real Simple Magazine.
Step One:
Buy a roast chicken.
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I think my favourite thing about this dish is how pretty it looks. The prawns, the peppers, the onions, the colours in the salsa, even the tortillas themselves look pretty. See?
Cooking the filling
Isn’t it lovely looking? It’s also very quick which is a bonus. You could speed it up even more by buying tortillas rather than making them but they take so little time and taste good enough that I think it’s worth it. This is a great meal to make with someone else as you can tag in and out. If one person concentrates on rolling out and cooking the tortillas then the other person is free to assemble the salsa and throw the other ingredients into a pan (a wok is great for this dish though, as you’d expect from a stir fry). Continue Reading
Maybe I’m just not enough of a foodie, and maybe I should go to the farmer’s market more diligently. But I did not know that this existed:
Do not attempt to adjust the color settings on you monitor. Because this is going to be the purplest meal, and it all started with an innocent purple bell pepper. Then it turned into this:
Purple bell peppers, purple potatoes, purple onions, huckleberries, red grapes, and blueberries. I know it’s lacking cabbage and eggplant, but after boiling loads of red cabbage for a “science experiment” many, many years ago, I haven’t looked at the stuff the same way since. And I didn’t think of eggplant until I was leaving the market, but I’m sticking with the “that’s too obvious” excuse and moving on. On to chutney.
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