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Showing posts with label pasta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pasta. Show all posts
Friday, 27 May 2011
A Cosy Night In
What better way to spend a chilly Friday night than a massive bowl of Spaghetti Marinara (I swear that wasn't all for me) ...
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Broccoli and Feta Pasta
This week Apartment Therapy/The Kitchn revisited one of my favourite recipes of theirs - Velvety Broccoli and Feta Pasta. I used to make it all the time back when I was a single gal because its so easy and quick, so I was excited about revisiting it again tonight.
This time I steamed the broccoli - but before I had a steamer I just used to boil it which worked fine too.
Because my little food processor is just a mini one I had to blend the ingredients for the sauce in three batches - here you can see the steamed broccoli, yummy danish feta and some basil leaves from our garden.
And a few seconds later it's a delicious creamy blended sauce!
And here it is all put together - the sauce took roughly the same time as the pasta did to cook - not too bad.
Apartment Therapy also had another interesting post Salt the Pot: Not the Pasta - which is something I did already - but I was intrigued by their suggestion to use two tablespoons of salt just as the water boils. As someone who usually just uses a pinch of salt - I thought the idea of pot water "as salty as the sea" was a little extreme - but I gave it a shot and have to say I was pleasantly surprised.
This time I steamed the broccoli - but before I had a steamer I just used to boil it which worked fine too.
Because my little food processor is just a mini one I had to blend the ingredients for the sauce in three batches - here you can see the steamed broccoli, yummy danish feta and some basil leaves from our garden.
And a few seconds later it's a delicious creamy blended sauce!
And here it is all put together - the sauce took roughly the same time as the pasta did to cook - not too bad.
Apartment Therapy also had another interesting post Salt the Pot: Not the Pasta - which is something I did already - but I was intrigued by their suggestion to use two tablespoons of salt just as the water boils. As someone who usually just uses a pinch of salt - I thought the idea of pot water "as salty as the sea" was a little extreme - but I gave it a shot and have to say I was pleasantly surprised.
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Pappardelle from scratch
So what do we do with all of our eggs?
Usually things get out of hand unless we make a good frittata or omelettes every week - but this week I decided to use up some eggs by making delicious pasta from scratch.
I consulted one of my favourite recipe books -The Silver Spoon
for a good pasta dough recipe.
I was lucky enough to get a pasta roller attachment for the KitchenAid for Christmas - and although I'd made lasagne sheets before this was my first time making any other kind.
It's actually amazing how easy it is to use.
I don't have any of the cutting attachments so I hand cut the sheets into pappardelle using a rolling pizza cutter which was easy enough - I think I just need something to hang them off for next time - it was pretty laborious peeling each one off to drop into the pot.
And here is the finished product - with coppa ham, brown mushrooms and ricotta. Yum!
Usually things get out of hand unless we make a good frittata or omelettes every week - but this week I decided to use up some eggs by making delicious pasta from scratch.
I consulted one of my favourite recipe books -The Silver Spoon
for a good pasta dough recipe.
I was lucky enough to get a pasta roller attachment for the KitchenAid for Christmas - and although I'd made lasagne sheets before this was my first time making any other kind.
It's actually amazing how easy it is to use.
And here is the finished product - with coppa ham, brown mushrooms and ricotta. Yum!
Labels:
eggs,
Kitchen Aid,
pasta
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