Archive for the 'Pasta' Category

Anonymum’s Throw Together Pasta

The following recipe is a guest post by Anonymum from The Nook of Oz.

Olive oil
1 medium onion (finely chopped)
250 grams of salami {diced}
100g diced bacon
1 teaspoon crushed garlic {from a jar}}
!/2 teaspoon crushed chilli {or to taste, again a jar}
2 x 400g tin of Roma tomatoes
1/3 cup wine {red or white, either will do}
2 teaspoons sugar
500 gms pasta

Put water on for pasta
Heat oil, sweat onion, garlic, chilli, salami and bacon until onion is transparent. Add tomatoes, wine and sugar, bring to a medium simmer. Once water is boiled add the pasta. By the time your pasta is cooked, the sauce will have boiled down to a decent thickness.
Serve with fresh crusty bread and the rest of the wine

It’s enough for the 2 of us for dinner and we can both have lunch the next day as well…if it’s only for one the ingredients would need to be adjusted. Everything can be added to or taken from depending on taste.

Bettina’s Chicken Pasta Bake

Following is a guest recipe posting by Bettina from Dances to the beet of her own drum.

I take 500gms of diced chicken
handful of diced bacon
cup of frozen peas and corn
1 packet of Continental Macaroni and Cheese

Stirfry the chicken and diced bacon till cooked while making up the Macaroni Cheese pasta packet, as per directions, in the microwave. Zap the frozen peas and corn in the microwave for a couple of minutes. Chuck the whole lot in together in an oven proof dish, grate over some extra cheese if desired or toss on some extra bacon bits then place in moderate oven for 20 to 30 mins.

This can be made ahead up to the chuck everything together stage and put in the fridge until needed. It freezes and reheats reasonably well too.

Easy peasy. I’ve had people ask me for the recipe and be shocked that it was thrown together from a packet mix :)