Tag Archives: Pasta

No-cook Tomato and Feta Sauce

What can you cook for supper when your kitchen is covered in dust-sheets and there is sawdust everywhere? [Finally – having left it FAR too long – we have sanded down our lovely wooden kitchen worktops to re-oil them. So … Continue reading

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Creamy Chicken and Tomato pasta

I use this blog as my cook book – except of course for those recipes I haven’t shared with you yet! So every now and then I update them when I find an easier/quicker way to make them. This is … Continue reading

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Two-for-One: Roast Tomato and Red Pepper Soup and Roast Tomato and Marscapone Pasta

If you do a search on Google for ‘Tomato Sauce’ you will get over 20 million hits (- in 0.38 seconds – I wish I could think that fast!). But I still think it’s worth giving you this recipe. It … Continue reading

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Creamy Pasta with Roast Vegetables

This is really simple food (my favourite sort!) It’s one of those recipes that we have regularly on busy days – a really easy weekday supper that you can just pop in the oven till its done. To cut down … Continue reading

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A Picture of Success! And three Make-in-the-Microwave Pasta Sauces

OK – I agree, this picture might not look very exciting at first glance – but I was VERY pleased to get it! You may wonder why a picture of a tray of flapjacks is something to get excited about. … Continue reading

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Not all goes to plan… and a Budget Recipe: Mushroom Carbonara

As we all know, the best plans can go awry. One such thing was the third recipe in this weeks budget menu: Coley Korma. It was not a success. I can’t blame anyone else for this – I made it … Continue reading

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Two-for-One: Roast Pork Fillet with Herbs – and Pork, Feta and Pasta salad

It’s always great when you can manage to get more than one meal from one evenings cooking. These are both simple recipes that you can either make separately, or cook extra roast pork the first night so you can use … Continue reading

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Greek Pasta Salad

Maybe its the fact that we had MONTHS of rain without let up (it seemed) and it’s now time for change – or maybe its the fact that we went on holiday to a really hot sunny country (always a … Continue reading

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Another budget menu plan – £21 for five quick weekday meals

Do you know the actual price of the meals you put on the table? I used to think that I had a rough idea, but since I’ve started costing up meals in detail, I’ve been amazed at just how much … Continue reading

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Weekly Menu Plan – Pancakes and Valentines Day!

Last week was a really busy week. I had to work late a couple of nights so the children had to cook supper – and (brilliant kids that they are) they did too! It was great to come home late to find …

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