a timed supper

  As my regular reader will know, Tuesday night is pasta night. I just open the fridge and concoct something from its contents. For people who don’t have time to cook, here’s a 15-20 minute supper. Bear in mind I have an ceramic hob, so you can skip the “put the rings on” bit if…

green beans and pasta

This is another ridiculously quick and easy supper, and pretty cheap too (depending where you shop) – certainly well under £1 per serving. Works well with runner beans as well. serves 2: 1 pack green beans (89p from Aldi, I think) 125g of pasta (fusilli, quills, whatever – Aldi fusilli is 49p for 500g, so that’s…

very quick asparagus and pasta

We love asparagus, but we only eat it in May/June, when it is British grown – somehow imported stuff doesn’t taste the same. Well, it doesn’t taste of anything, really. So we tend to gorge a bit when the local stuff is in season. I picked up two bunches from a roadside stall in Norfolk on…

quick onion gravy

We had sausages and root mash last night – one of our favourites. But I forgot to organise onion gravy. Ideally, for onion gravy, you should cook the onions slowly, but by the time I thought of it, it would have been too late to cook them properly at all. So, in a bit of…

chicken and ricotta

We had a chicken stir fry a couple of days ago; when I got the chicken out of the freezer, I discovered there were two breasts melded together. One went on the stir fry, and one was left.  On Sunday, I made a quick cheesecake, as the friend coming for supper had requested same. So…

goats cheese, mushrooms and pasta

Not terribly exciting, I know, but there was ⅔ of a goaty cheese left in the fridge. So we chopped an onion, some garlic and a bunch of chestnut mushrooms, and fried them off in the smallest amount of olive oil possible. Mushrooms are horrors – they just slurp up all the oil and don’t…

smoked salmon, spinach and goat's cheese omelette

We’re going to be away for a couple of days, so I’m Using Stuff Up. Aldi had some smoked salmon at half price last week, so I bought a pack. About 2/3rds went into a pasta dish, and the rest was still in the fridge. As was about half a bag of baby spinach. I…

mushroom, spinach and mozzarella wraps

About half a punnet of chestnut  mushrooms and some spinach needed eating up, so I deliberately made last night’s cabbage dish with only half a mozzarella ball, and saved the rest for today’s lunch. Finely chopped the mushrooms and set them to cook down slowly in some olive oil. Put the wraps on individual plates,…

smoked salmon and pasta

There must be gazillions of recipes for this, but this is what I cooked tonght. if you can even call it cooking, to be honest.  serves 2 Put 13og of pasta on to boil While it’s cooking, slice 125g smoked salmon and one red pepper (remove seeds).  When the pasta is done, drain it and…

15 minute supper

Pete brought home a small bag of trimmed green beans from Morrisons last Sunday. We wouldn’t normally buy trimmed veg, but these were 50p. And I always feel guilty about the food miles with Kenyan beans, but it’s very efficient (the Food Programme told me so), and Kenyan farmers are entitled to a living. Anyhow,…