I love to cook and prepare food, mainly pasta, stews, pies, casseroles , Asian food and preserve's (not jams) but pickles and sauces.
I'm not too flash when it comes to cakes and sweets, That's Mrs Trouts "Forte" :ok:
Share your recipes/tricks here :)
I cooked up a rather nice spaghetti marinara tonight.
Ingrediants
fresh parsley and chives
onion and garlic
homemade tomato sauce
olive oil
chicken stock.
cream
capers
prawns
scallops
crab meat
smoked cod
tin of smoked oysters
mussel meat
butter
salt and pepper
pasta
Method
put some water in a pot with salt, chicken stock and a dash of olive oil in a pot and cook the spaghetti until al donte then drain.
put a fair bit of virgin olive oil + salt and pepper in a nice big pot and heat.
Chop the parsley , chives ,onion and garlic and soften in the pot
have all the seafood chopped up and add to the pot with the chopped up capers when the seafood is just about done then you add about half a cup of the tomato sauce and a generous dollop of butter with a small tub of cream to the sauce.
when the sauce is cooked throw in the cooked spaghetti toss and mix it up well in the pot and let the sauce infuse with the pasta for a few minuets .
serve with a nice simple green salad and crunchy bread
a side platter with melonzani, gardinara and olives is also nice to have with this dish.
This is one of my favorite meals, What is yours?
Hello,
I like to eat food, and dont mind a good burger. A good fresh one can be a meal in itself, and not a bad part of your diet. I use minute steaks, I get good chicken rissoles from the same butcher to press flat. Aldi have good " horse burger's " for $6 a pack of 6. Coles do great ham steals for $4.70 a pack of 4. ( Aldi got done in Europe selling Beef burger with Horse meat ! ) These are the basis of a tasty cheap meal to have out=doors. Because less is more, I use sliced cheese as big chunks cut off a block will not taste right. Mersey Valley is great on crackers though ! A condiment to suit will add flavour, dont smother things in sauce.
Venison, spinach leaves and mustard
Chicken, cheese bacon, lettuce and mango chutney
Steak, cheese, bacon and lettuce
" horse burger " tabouli, cheese and bacon
These are a few suggestions. Fruit chutney is good, the Mango is very nice with white meat.You have to experiment a bit, but remember that only one condiment as a rule, or it wont taste right. Same as not using large amounts of anything. Dont overcook the meat either.