My Latest Pasta Dish

I made that!! :)

So....I tried something a little different with my pasta cooking today and it turned out pretty good! Here's my recipe:

Ingredients
Authentic Italian Fusilli Pasta :)
1 Beefsteak Tomato
1 and 1/2 medium-sized onions
2 garlic cloves
Salt
Black Pepper
Mixed Herbs
A hot pepper
Paprika
Sunflower Oil
Olive Oil
3 well-beaten eggs


Method

• Roughly chop your beefsteak tomato, onions and garlic cloves, place them in a glass bowl (with all the liquid that comes out of the tomato, sprinkle with 1/4 of a teaspoon of salt, a dash of black pepper, mixed herbs, paprika and olive oil. Seal the bowl with cling film/plastic wrap and leave at a maximum of 2.5 feet away from a window for 2-4 hours (the longer, the better).
• In a pot, pour in about 6-7 handfuls of pasta followed by boiling water and a pinch of salt. Turn the heat on to max and leave the pasta to cook for about 10 minutes (or as long as the instructions on the pack of pasta says).
• Towards when the pasta is done, get a pan, heat up about 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil and then add in your raw mixture (from the glass bowl), as it cooks, stir occasionally ensuring that nothing burns or forms brown edges. Add a little more salt and some of your choice of hot pepper to taste.
• When the pasta's done, turn down the heat on the pan and drain out the water in the pot of pasta.
• Next, add your pasta to the contents of the pan mixing and stirring and let the pasta and veggies cook together. Turn up the heat under the pan.
• Beat about three eggs till they are nice and fluffy then make a well in the middle of the pan and pour your eggs in. Stir, mix and turn the contents of the pan to make sure nearly all, or all of the pasta gets some egg on it. You can add more salt and pepper to taste if you think you need more.
• Keep stirring until the egg is no longer raw before turning off the heat.

Best eaten immediately after being cooked.

Bon appétit! :)

Did someone say, "pasta salad?" :)

picture gotten from BubbleWS

So, yesterday, I didn't feel like having a proper lunch so, I decided to make a pasta salad that I'll eat (and then decided to eat the pasta salad as my dinner).
Okay! So, this was the first pasta salad I had ever made and it ended up being the best that I had ever tasted. Half of the ingredients in it were raw and the other half were cooked which made it quite healthy. Here's my recipe:

Ingredient
Umm.....fusilli pasta (GOTTA HAVE THAT FUSILLI! :) )
2 eggs
1/2 of a plantain
4-5 cherry tomatoes
1/3 of a small onion
2/3 of one garlic clove
Salt
Pepper (I used some black pepper and a dash of hot peppers)
Paprika
Olive Oil

Method

• Place two eggs in a pot of boiling water and leave them to boil for 30 minutes before turning off the heat and swapping the water in the pot for cold water (carry on with the other steps while the eggs are boiling).
• Slice a plantain horizontally to make 2 equal-ish halves. Store one of them. With the second half, slice it vertically to make two near equal halves. Slice each of this halves vertically once again to leave you with 4 "sticks" of plantain. Next, horizontally cut the sticks into about 1x1cm-ish (at least) cubes and pour them into a deep fryer for a couple of minutes (till they're nearly chocolate-brown)
• Pour about 2-3 handfuls of fusilli pasta into a pot of boiling water, spice up the water with some salt, paprika and your choice of peppers, place it on the hob and cook that pasta for no more than 10 minutes (or whatever your pasta's cooking instructions say).
• On a chopping board, roughly chop/dice the onions and garlic. Slice each tomato open horizontally to make two equal halves then slice each half horizontally and vertically. Place everything in a glass bowl with a drizzle of olive oil, stir and mix them up well. Cover the bowl with some cling film/plastic wrap and leave it at a maximum of two and a half feet away from a window.
• Once the eggs are done, cut them up just like you did with the tomatoes and pour them into your raw bowl.
• Once the pasta's done, drain it and pour it into the bowl of raw goodies.
• Once the plantain's done, drain out the excess oil on it and pour it into the bowl of rawness.
• Next, give everything a good stir and mix.
• Cover up the bowl again, but only partially and leave it by the window for a few minutes just for it to cool down a bit.
• Cover the bowl up fully and pop it in your fridge.

Now, I know that pasta salads can last for about 3-4 days, but I advice that they are eaten up the day they are made not just for health reasons, but because most of the nutrients in the raw ingredients at the time of making the salad will still be intact.

Bon appétit! :)

Easy Meal

Hey,

So, I've discovered a meal that can be made if you have loads of work to do. You could be cleaning up the house, or working on mini dissertation-like thing (like I've been doing) or whatever keeps you busy or stressed out and still be able to cook and eat something really good when you have the time to finally get some food into your system.

Ingredients
ASDA Mediterranean Vegetables with Cherry Tomatoes (should be available at walk mart)
3/4 of an onion
2-3 garlic cloves
Salt
Hot, ground peppers
Black pepper
Paprika
Sunflower/Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Rice
Water


Method

• Preheat your oven to about 200C.
• In an oven tray with relatively high sides, drizzle a bit of oil then pour in the contents a frozen bag of ASDA Mediterranean Vegetables with Cherry Tomatoes.
• Dice the onion or cut it up irregularly, cut each garlic clove into tiny pieces and pour both into the tray.
• Next,  season the contents of the tray with salt, a sprinkle of black pepper and paprika and some hot, ground pepper.
• Drizzle some more oil over everything, turn and stir them to ensure the spices are near-evenly spread.
• Add a bit of water to the tray and then place it in your over for an hour, but it's best to put it in for a half hour, stir it then put it in for another half hour.
• Wash or rinse some rice until the water runs clear then pour it into a rice cooker with an ample amount of water.
• Season....the water....with some salt, put the lid down on the cooker and turn it on.
• After an hour of what's in the oven being there, if you're not ready to eat yet, just turn off the oven leaving the tray in there.
• When the rice is done cooking, leave the rice cooker on warm if you're not ready to eat.
• When you are eventually ready to eat, get a nice bowl, plate or dish, pour some rice into it and then place the contents of the tray over the rice. You can mix it up while you're eating.

Bon appétit! :)