Seafood Pasta

Too easy....

Ingreds: packet of pasta/spaghetti/linguini (enough for your family), seafood collection (I use the marinara mix I buy frozen from my local fish shop or buy fresh eg mussels, prawns, calamari, scallops etc), enough oil for cooking onions, 1 clove garlic - crushed, diced onion, 1/2 cup white wine or champas, 1 cup cream, cornflour and water mix, salt and pepper. Heated garlic/herb bread-optional.

Method: Boil enough water with a little salt for your pasta. Add pasta and boil for recommended time. At the same time over a moderate heat, add the oil to a pan along with garlic and onion. Cook until onion is translucent. Add white wine/champas and cream. Bring to boil and add the cornflour and water mix, stirring until mix is thickened well. Reduce heat to low and add seafood, stiring occasionally and until seafood is cooked. Add salt and pepper to taste. Drain pasta and serve with seafood sauce and some lovely garlic/herb bread.

Vietnamese dressing.......fab for salads

Easy peasy dressing for salads.....

1 long chilli, chopped and deseeded, 1tblspn grated ginger, 1 clove grated garlic, 1/4 cup fish sauce, 1/4 cup water, sugar, 1tbspn lime juice, red wine vinegar, a few drops of soy sauce, chopped mint and coriander.

Mix together so that sugar is dissolved....pour over your favourite salad. This is fab over a beef or lamb salad.

Lemon Tart......gorgeous

This is one of my all-time favs....

Temp 200C for tart shell then 150C for completion of tart.

Ingreds: 1-2 sheets shortcrust pastry (no I don't make my own though one day I will), 1 tblspn finely grated lemon rind, 1/2 cup lemon juice, 5 eggs, 3/4 cup caster sugar, 300ml thickened cream.

Place pastry gently into a slightly oiled tart container, press sides to fit and trim. Place a large sheet of baking paper to fit snugly in tart shell and pour

Wonderful Tomato Sauce

This is too easy to be real. You can use this sauce in a plethora of other recipes eg the base sauce for your bolognaise, a pizza sauce, savoury quiche base mixes and I have also used this in my bread making experiments for flavoured breads. Marvellous.

Ingredients: A little olive oil, a crushed clove of garlic, 1-2 onions peeled and diced; 1-2 cans of tomatoes, diced or whole; salt and pepper and if you are as clever as me, some home-grown oregano, basil and thyme picked fresh from the garden......bliss!

Method: Very easy. Pour a little oil into moderately warm pan and add onions and garlic and cook til onion is just translucent. Add tinned toms and stir well. Now, people will tell you not to cut the basil with a knife as this bruises it and it loses some of it's flavour, so, just to please them, I rip the basil up with my fingers, followed by tearing the thyme leaves off the gorgeously fine stems and the same with the oregano. There is no need to use the knife here as the leaves are small enough. Mix well and add salt and pepper to taste.

Chocolate Croissants

This recipe appears in my Lady Lou Lettuce blog so please, please go over to see it because I know you will really like it due to it being quick and easy.

Food for Friends

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I hope you enjoy scrolling through these mostly tried and tested recipes/creations I have come across. I don't see the point in keeping some yummy ideas all to myself so try them and if you like them, file them......

Food for Friends

Hi all

I hope you enjoy scrolling through these mostly tried and tested recipes/creations I have come across. I don't see the point in keeping some yummy ideas all to myself so try them and if you like them, file them......

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Thanks for visiting and I would love to share with you all some great recipes/creations I have come across during the years. Enjoy.....