July 05, 2008
Foodblog
Focus this week has been on good food fast. From beginning prep to serving the next two meals took less than 50min.
My fave easy pasta: Sauce is just a pottle of cream fraiche. The meat is left over roast chicken. You can do this with sour cream instead, also can have no meat for a vegetarian version. I think it would be nice with bacon!
This actually takes about 30min all up. Start the pasta cooking and then cook everything else in a large wok/frying pan. Drain pasta and then add to wok. Mix in sundried tomatoes and then the creme fraiche last. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
I used a whole packet of penne pasta and a whole pottle of creme fraiche and it fed 6.
Bean's mum once told me that the secret to delicious pasta is salting the water until it tastes good.
Beau and I made this next meal together.
While the oven was pre-heating, he prepped the trout and I rinsed the rice and chopped the veg. You *must* rinse the rice 3 times for optimum riciness! If you don't already do this, give it a try and see the difference it makes.
Once the trout went in, the rice went on and I finished chopping veg and stir-fried. I totally forgot to cook any onions or garlic. It was still good.
This fed 5 adults and there was still some left over for Beau to have for lunch.
My flickr has also been updated with pictures of our weekend picnic foods and my daily work lunches.
The photos are linkies remember!
In other food news, Voltron's girlfriend also cooked us yummy polish style food involved crumbed chicken. This was extra good as the crumb coating contained nuts. Yum.
We also had curry in memory of the night before Pika was born. Plus, we like curry.
Tonight planned dinner is nachos, there will be extra meat sauce made to freeze and eat at a later date.
Point of Fashion: Pressed Pants
Current Obsession: Candy