Monthly Archives: September 2019

• This is a meal I make quite often Home made Pasta, there are a lot of different recipes , I wing it a lot of times .. My Veggie pasta sauce This one has few ingredients
• 6 fresh Roma tomatoes
• 1 med onion
• hand full fresh spinach
• garlic basil,
• Home made pasta this was a Jamie Oliver recipe its is fresh tasting very Italian !!

7 Veg pasta sauce another jamie oliver recipe I love this one i add and change veggies

1. 2 small onions.
2. 2 small leeks.
3. 2 sticks of celery.
4. 2 carrots.
5. 2 courgettes. (Zuccini)
6. 2 red peppers.
7. ½ a butternut squash , (600g)
8. 2 cloves of garlic.
9. olive oil 
   2 teaspoons dried oregano 
   4 x 400 g tins of plum tomatoes
10. I just use 2 large tine diced tomatoes packed with nutritious veg, this has to be one of the easiest ways to get extra veggie into our diet,
11. Prep veggies
12. large pan on a medium heat add 2 tablespoons of oil. Add the garlic and oregano, fry for 1 minute, then add all the prepped veg.
13. Cook with the lid on for 25 minutes, or until the veg are soft but not coloured, stirring regularly. 
    add tomatoes, i add 2 cans ( Use tomato cans) water swirl around and pour into the pan. 
    Simmer for 25 minutes, or until the sauce has reduced. Leave to cool a little, then blitz until smooth, taste, and season to perfection. Divide in to freezer bags and freeze it is amazing and so tasty TY Jamie Oliver for this amazing dish And Save on and super store for the amazing produce
    7 Veg Pasta sauce ,Pasta ,Caesar Salad Asiago cheese. Amazing

As you know we like to cook pretty much everything from scratch little or no fast food and pre packed convenience foods.. One of my face things to cook and freeze are pasties I use ground chicken or turkey dice potatoes, celery diced , carrots diced and finally chopped onions.. The other pasty I like to make is a Cheese, Potatoe and Onion Pasty

Cook onions and potatoes together when done add butter salt and pepper grated cheese I like to add old cheddar and Asiago cheese ! I also add a spot of hot dog mustard to the mix

The origin of the Cornish pasty goes way back Miners Delight Few meals have roots as deep as the Cornish pasty, a hand-held meat-and-vegetable pie developed as a lunch for workers in the ancient English tin mining region of Cornwall. With its characteristic semicircular shape and an insulating crust that does double-duty as a handle, the humble pasty—which, perhaps unfortunately, rhymes with “nasty” rather than “tasty” proclamations.The origin of the Cornish pasty goes way back Miners Delight The Cornish pasty was a food for families, fishermen and farmers, but it shone in the closed-in darkness of Cornwall’s mines. Tin had been gathered in Cornwall—first from rivers and then from ever-deeper pits and shafts—since prehistoric times. In ancient Europe, Cornish tin was likely traded via intermediaries with the Phoenicians, who controlled the Mediterranean trade of the metal

• 500g/1lb 1oz plain  
• 120g/4oz vegetable shortening
• 1 tsp salt, pinch pepper
• 25g/1oz margarine or butter
• 175ml/6fl oz cold water 
• 1 free-range egg, beaten with a little salt (for glazing)
• 1 1b ground chicken or turkey
• 50g/12oz russets
  200g/7oz carrots
  175g/6oz onions
  salt and freshly ground black pepper, garlic to taste
  knob of butter or margarine

I went to the drs for a check up. I walked in said, I have an apt to see the dr. My dr came out to speak to his receptionist!! He looked at me turned around. Looked back, then looked back at me again !! I thought hmm. That’s strange. I went in to see my dr. He had a huge smile on his face. He said. OK. What have you done. Me. Nothing. You look younger amazing!! Me. The only change is our diet we’re about 80% plant based diet. For me this has made me aware that what we eat Does really help you feel and look better. We eat very little processed food. I cook from scratch. Bake bread weekly. . Plantbased Is the way to go. We do have occasional fast food not a lot !!

I was bored, so I went in to the pantry grabbed the tomatoes and spices, went to the freezer grabbed some chicken and away we go I love to watch cooking shows and one that I was watching was Final Table and one of the recipes they did was a Butter Chicken and the different chefs had to make this, their way! .. I looked over a few recipes and came up with mine ….

• 1 cup butter, divided
• 1 onion, minced
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 1 large can tomatoes pureed
• 3 cups heavy cream
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon garam masala
• 2 tsp cumin
• 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast, cut into bite-sized chunks
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons tandoori masala
• Salt and pepper
• 2 tsp sugar
• Melt a few tablespoons of butter in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in onion and garlic, and sugar cook slowly until the onion caramelised to a dark brown, about 15 min.
• Melt the remaining butter in a saucepan over medium heat along with the tomato sauce, heavy cream, salt, cayenne pepper, garam masala, & cumin Bring to a simmer, then reduce heat simmer low for 35 mins
• Place Cubed chicken in a pan with remaining butter and Tandoori Masala , cook until done then mix in with the Sauce.. I leave overnight to allow spices to soak in to the chicken
• I used Concerted rice for this

Converted Rice

• Parboiled rice might sound like it’s precooked, but it’s not. Instead, it’s processed quite differently from other types of rice. The resulting grain is cooked and served just as you would white or brown rice. However, because of the special processing, parboiled rice is a better source of fiber, calcium, potassium and vitamin B-6 than regular white rice.

• 3 cups plain flour
• 2 tsp dried yeast
• 2 tsp sugar 1/2 cup warm water
• 1/4 cup SKYR or plain yought
• salt pepper 1 tsp minced garlic
• put sugar yeast and warm water in a pyrex jug leave 10 mins to ferment
• mix with dry ingredients.. Knead on floured surface until dough is smooth place in clean dish to raise approx 1 hour then divide in to 1 inch balls and roll out. In skillet place olive oil and garlic , cook for about 2 mins each side . I also brush each side with a little olive oil and garlic!!!

This is one of those comfort food dishes, I think my mom would have loved this..