by Anne Murphy | Apr 4, 2013 | Lunch/Snacks, Mains, Pasta, Recipe
While on school holiday vacation, I get into a ‘lazy’ cooking mode. Its not like I don’t want to cook. Its just that schedules and routines are out the window so when dinner time comes around, I’ve usually not prepared anything or given it much...
by Anne Murphy | Dec 2, 2012 | Mains, One Pot, Pasta, Recipe, Slow Cooker
Never one to knock back the offer of free food, I’ve been lucky enough to have been selected to try the new range of John West seafood, found in the chiller section of the supermarket along with my favourite, Gourmet Garden herbs in a tube. The arrival of the...
by Anne Murphy | Jul 9, 2012 | Lunch/Snacks, Mains, One Pot, Pasta, Recipe, Salads/Vegetables
Have I told you how much I like risoni (or otherwise known as orzo)? To me, it’s like a ‘poor man’s’ risotto, not that arborio rice (the rice traditionally used for risotto) is all that expensive. Sometimes you can pick up a bag of risoni...
by Anne Murphy | May 22, 2012 | Lunch/Snacks, Mains, Pasta, Recipe
Whenever I get pumpkin, I cook it all at once. I’ll boil some, roast some and then puree what I don’t use straight away. I’ll pop the pureed pumpkin into 1 cup serves into the freezer and freeze the roasted pieces. Besides using it for cakes and...
by Anne Murphy | Apr 30, 2012 | Mains, Pasta, Recipe
I’ve never met a pasta dish I didn’t like and this is definitely one of them. I could eat this every night. Spicy, salty, sweet, cheap, tasty and full of flavour. Ticks all the boxes. It was supposed to be my dinner Sunday night but didn’t make it. I...
by Anne Murphy | Apr 18, 2012 | Miscellaneous, Pasta, Recipe, Salads/Vegetables
Passata, basically translates into ‘sieved or pureed tomatoes’, is an absolute time saver and great to have on hand. If I ever come across a big box of overripe tomatoes marked down at the produce store, I’ll pick them up and make my own passata....
