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April 2010

  • What's for dinner?

    Submitted by Sarah Rush on April 15, 2010 - 12:16pm

    Pasta night – lets help the environment by making vegetarian pasta – Penne Marinara - pasta topped with a tomato sauce. How to make: - Sauce – sauté an onion, 2 cloves of garlic in table spoon of olive oil until softened and starting to turn transparent. Add 1 tin of chopped tomatoes and ½ a small tin of tomato paste. Add ½ tsp of mixed Italian herbs, oregano and a few fresh basil leaves chopped. Add ground black pepper to taste. I also add crushed red chilli to spice it up but it that depends on your taste. Other good additions are sliced peppers or mushrooms and black olives. Let the sauce simmer for 10 minutes then add a little more tomato paste, cover and turn off the heat. Boil 2 pints of water in a saucepan to cook the pasta.

  • Salmon and Oriental Vegetables

    Submitted by Sarah Rush on April 17, 2010 - 5:23pm

    Salmon tonight, grilled until just cooked and the flavour that is up to you, but some ideas are to marinade in teriyaki sauce with lemon, soy sauce and aniseed or just grill with lemon, olive oil and add black pepper at the table. Choice of side dishes? Up to you but I will be having bean sprouts with oriental vegetables.

    Instructions
    Before I start to cook the salmon I prepare all the vegetables ready to be cooked - they always take longer to get ready than you think. Then 15 minutes before dinner needs to be served it is time to start grilling the salmon. 5 minutes after the salmon is under the grill I cook the prepared oriental vegetables.
    Need a recipe for the oriental veggies?