This is a pasta meal fit for kings. It is full of flavours, even though very little added flavouring is used. It is quick, too!
Ingredients
Homemade fettuccine / 500g bought fettuccine
2 onions, chopped
2-3 tbs spring onion, chopped
1tbs chives, chopped
1 punnet mushrooms, sliced
1 cup cream
salt & pepper to taste
lemon zest
blue cheese to taste (about 1-2 tbs)
4tbs butter
Method
1. Cook the fettuccine in salt water until al dente. Pour off excess water and melt 2tbs butter in.
2. Melt the other 2tbs butter in a frying pan and fry the onions until lightly browned.
3. Add the mushrooms and fry until lightly browned.
4. Add the fried mushrooms and onion to the fettuccine. Also add the spring onion, chives and salt & pepper to taste.
5. Add the cream and mix everything well.
6. Just before dishing up, mix the blue cheese in.
7. Grate a little zest over ...
and enjoy!!
Serve warm as is, or with a fresh salad.
Yours in oil and veggies
Risch
I thought of this as a light, quick soup to make, perfect for Sunday dinner after a heavy (absolutely divine!!) Sunday lunch..
Ya, ehh... no. Although very easy and with quite few ingredients, it is not a "light" meal.. It is so filling, and tasty, you can't stop eating even if you wanted to! The soup in itself is carb-friendly (yes, I know, potatoes is seen as the "enemy", along with bread and cookies, but I do not agree. There is absolutely nothing refined about potatoes... it's naturally found in nature. So I believe it's good for you!! Enjoy your potatoes!!). But my son who has recently developed an interest in cooking, wanted to make bread. So I let him bake a bread...
Very few things in life comes close to the taste of freshly home-baked bread and butter.
I couldn't resist!!
Preparation Time: 30min
Cooking Time: 1 hour
Difficulty Level: Easy
Serves: 8
Ingredients
13 potatoes (I counted 2 per person, but some were small potatoes, so I added 3 more)
4 leeks
1 onion
2 twigs rosemary
250ml cream
900ml water
1 cube chicken stock
1/2 tub cream cheese
4tbs butter
lemon zest
Method
Cook the potatoes - skin on - till soft.
Rinse under cold water, remove the skins. The skins comes off very easy. I recommend taking off a bit more flesh, to make delicious potato-skin chippies!
Melt the butter in the pot. Finely mince the leeks and onion together. Check the leeks to make sure there isn't any soil in and that the outer leaf is fresh. Remove it if it isn't fresh. Fry the onion and leek in the butter until it just starts to brown.
Cut the potatoes in cubes and mix with the onion mix. Dissolve the cube chicken stock in the water and add it to the potatoes. Add the rosemary and salt and pepper to taste.
Mix and let it cook on low heat for about 20 min. Add the cream and cream cheese. Mince by hand or in a blender, depending on how smooth you want to make the soup.
Mix through and add the zest. If you want it thicker, let it cook a little longer. If you want it more watery, add some water.
Serve hot with the skin-chippies, and freshly baked bread with butter...
Yours in oil and veggies
Risch
I wanted to make this sauce, but had no idea how. So I kind of made it up as I went along... (reminds me of a song by Mike and the Mechanics).. Anyway...
Preparation Time: 5min
Cooking time: 10min
Difficulty Level: Easy
Serves: 5
Ingredients
1 orange
2tbs water
pinch of freshly ground nutmeg
1/2t ground ginger
1/2t butter
Orange zest
Method
Cut out the flesh of the orange and put in a small pot. Add the water and start cooking.
As it cooks, squash the flesh to get as much juices out of it as possible. Once it very soft, take it off the heat, press through a sieve into a bowl, pour the juice back into the pot, back on the heat.
Add the nutmeg, lemon juice, ginger and the zest of 1/4 orange. Cook a little. Add the butter. Let it reduce to watery syrup consistency.
Enjoy over ... well, anything you like! Pork tjops, ice cream, chicken....
Yours in oil and veggies
Risch
The weather yesterday was gloomy.... cold, a bit windy and overcast. Couple of drops fell, but no rain. It was the perfect stay indoors and snuggle up in front of the tv... with popcorn or pancakes...
But pancakes - bless it, I absolutely love it - is a lot of work!! And it gets eaten so quickly...
So I began to think if there isn't something a little less work with just as much feel-good satisfaction that the pancakes give, that I can make... and then I remembered Hot Cross Buns!
I searched the Internet for recipes, and I found a couple, but not one seemed simple or straightforward. So I used their direction, and made my own. Since I used their direction and ideas, I have to give credit: please have a look at Nigella Lawson and Allrecipes.
Preparation Time: 30 min
Baking Time: +- 1 hour
Difficulty level: Easy
Serves: 6+
Ingredients:
6cups bread flour
2 packets 10g instant yeast
3t fine cinnamon
1 1/2t fine ginger
1/4t freshly grated nutmeg
1cup mixed raisins (cake mix)
1t salt
2cups brown sugar
2 cups milk
2cups water
100g butter
1 cinnomon stick
5 whole cloves
Zest of one orange
3 eggs
Method
Pour milk and water and butter in a saucepan. Add the cinnamon stick, cloves and zest. Boil for 10min. Leave to cool a bit.
Mix the dry ingredients together.
Beat the eggs well. Once the milk mixture has cooled a bit, add the egg while whisking briskly. Pour the milk mixture through a sieve into the flour mixture and mix well. It should be a sticky mixture.
Cover and let it rise in a warm place to double in size. Mix down. Spray a large bread pan very well with non-stick spray. Pour the mixture into the pan and cover. Let it rise again in a warm place. Bake in an oven at 160degrees C for about an hour, until the testing pin comes out clean.
Enjoy hot with butter!!
As you can see, my bread pan was way too small!! It actually poured over the edges... But it was absolutely beautifully delicious...
Yours in oil and veggies
Risch
This is one of my favourites so far. Breakfast with egg without any carbs. And it is absolutely delicious!!
Ingredients:
5 mushrooms, sliced
1/4 green pepper, chopped
4 salami slices (bacon, biltong or ham will work just as well)
50g butter
50g cheddar cheese, grated
1/8 rind feta cheese
salt & pepper to taste
Lemon zest
Method
Melt the butter, and then let it burn a little until it browns. It has to be butter, margarine does not "burn". Add the mushrooms, salami and the green pepper. Fry a little. Put the cheese in a plate. Place the fried mushrooms and green pepper on top. Fry the egg in the same pan, with salt and pepper to taste. Put on top of the mushrooms. Crumble the feta over, with some fresh lemon zest to taste.
And enjoy with a freshly brewed cup of coffee!!
Yours in oil and veggies
Risch
