Everything Pasta

When I use tomato based sauces I add a little bit of grated cheese to the simmering sauce, makes it taste really yum :)

Chicken cabonara is an easy one to make as well.
Its just chicken, onion, bacon, cream, bacon, mushrooms and fettucine.
Fry the bacon, onions and mushrooms first and put to the side....brown the chicken in a big pan, add the cream(you can substitute some of the cream with milk as well) add the bacon and mushrooms and simmer for 20mins.

It's also nice to cover the raw chicken with cornflour first, then cook but you don't have too.
You can also add whatever veges you want to it.



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SpecialK wrote: ] Oh yum, I love pasta! These are my faves: Have a random lasagne creation for tonight, will see how it goes: Mince sauce: chicken mince sauteed with onion, garlic, mushrooms, white wine and sour cream. Cheese sauce: cottage cheese mixed with cooked chopped spinach, two eggs, grated cheese, and a wee bit blue cheese. Layered between fresh lasagne sheets, with some chopped tinned tomatoes poured over the top and more grated cheese and parmesan sprinkled on top.

This sounds AMAZING!!!!!

YUM! One that I love and is so simple to make is just pasta, olive oil, a sprinkling of pine nuts and a little cooked spinach. yum!

shesmiles wrote: mmmm pasta.... my fave is cooking an onion, button and brown mushrooms and adding home made parsley pesto - which involves tonnes of flat leaf parsley from the garden, pine nuts, parmesan, olive oil and garlic. Is a shame parmesan is so expensive, but I don't use much and sometimes use walnuts or raw cashews which are cheaper than pinenuts. I can't wait for bubs to be born so I can eat it again ( as such volumes of parsley are supposed to be avoided during pregnancy).

You could use basil or coriander instead, thats what I do.

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Love pasta!

My basic pasta sauce is a sauteed onion, garlic, chilli flakes, balsamic vinegar, tomato paste, tinned tomatoes and a bit of concentrated chicken stock. I then use that as a base for lots of variations.

Others I love are:

Creamy smoked chicken pasta
Chicken stock (reduced down in a frypan)
Creme Fraiche
Dijon Mustard
Chives
Smoked chicken breast
Sundried tomatoes
Parmesan


Ham lasagne rollups
take fresh pasta sheets and place some sliced ham and grated cheese in the middle then roll up (kinda like a canneloni).
Put them in a baking dish with some of the following sauce on the bottom and the rest on top
2 tins tomatoes
garlic
onion
cream
mushrooms
olives

Yum yum yum

Sausage pasta is the old standby
My basic pasta sauce as above, spiced up with extra chilli flakes added to sausages that you have removed from their casings and fried (like little nuggets) mixed with penne.

Oh, and I nearly forgot, my absolute favourite for summer is fresh tomato spaghetti
Punnet of cherry tomatoes chopped in half and mushed in a bowl so the juices run out
tons and tons of chopped basil
one small clove of garlic (normally like tons but it is raw so go gentle)
Extra virgin olive oil
Red wine vinegar
Salt & Pepper

pasta salad - I use the big tuna tins that are flavoured - savoury onion is the best - then add peppers, cherry tomatoes, olives and parsley - goes down a treat at bbqs

Tomatoe and basil flavour is also pretty good

countdown has a brand called barilla - i got a gnocchi shape which is great

We love this nigella one
Fry an onion and 2 sliced chorizo in olive oil, add garlic and saute, meanwhile cook pasta (thin macaroni is good), throw everything together with tin or canellini beans, and tin of tomatoes plus half the tin filled with water from the cooked pasta.

Keeps well, usually make on Friday and eat all weekend.