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I am submitting this recipe for Pasta With Sausages And Cream to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by HoneyB, The Life and Loves of Grumpy's Honeybunch. Once again I have turned to my copy of The Geometry of Pasta for a recipe. I chose this recipe for pasta with sausages and cream … Continue reading Pasta With Sausages And Cream
This post is dedicated to the PPN 239 Round Up (Presto Pasta Nights) PPN 239 Round Up My week started with submissions pouring in for Presto Pasta Nights 239 - and while I left them simmering in the inbox, I attended to sorting out who gets whom for Secret Santa. Once I had given that … Continue reading PPN 239 Round Up | Presto Pasta Nights
Something Savoury Challenge Presto Pasta Nights 239 I am the host for Presto Pasta Nights 239 (#PPN239). This takes place next Friday (November 11 2011) and so this week's something savoury challenge is really easy. All you have to do is create a savoury dish using pasta. It can be any shape or form of … Continue reading Presto Pasta Nights 239 #PPN239
I am submitting this recipe for Sasha's Pasta to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Ruth, the founder of PPN I love cooking with my niece Sasha. Mostly because she is so enthusiastic in the kitchen, but also because it happens so infrequently. I go up to Johannesburg about twice a … Continue reading Sasha’s Pasta
I am submitting this recipe for Broccoli Farfalline to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Theresa of The Food Hunter's Guide Today, my heart split in two. Since moving to Gordons Bay in 2001 I have never once considered Johannesburg as being far away. We live in an instant society - … Continue reading Broccoli Farfalline For Presto Pasta Nights
I am submitting this recipe for Pork And Mushroom Farfalle to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by HoneyB who blogs over at The Life and Loves of Grumpy's Honeybunch Farfalle is the Italian word for butterfly and is the best word used to describe this shape of pasta, even though it … Continue reading Pork and Mushroom Farfalle #PPN
I am submitting this recipe for Coppa And Courgette Pasta With Exotic Mushrooms to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Kirsten who blogs over at From Kirsten's Kitchen To Yours I do not like moral dilemmas. I don't want to have to argue with myself whether telling or not telling is … Continue reading Coppa And Courgette Pasta With Exotic Mushrooms
I am submitting this recipe for Boudin Blanc And Mushroom Pasta to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Ruth, the founder of this group, who blogs over at Once Upon A Feast The recession seems here to stay and work is slowing down. Coupled with winter, things are tough. I am … Continue reading Boudin Blanc And Mushroom Pasta
I am submitting this recipe for Pasta Nero | Black Pasta to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Gay, A Scientist in the Kitchen. I love anything homemade and I get immense satisfaction from making something from scratch. However, any 'help' I can get in the way of an appliance makes the … Continue reading Pasta Nero | Black Pasta
I had mixed feelings with the first month of my participation in The Secret Recipe Club, on the one hand the ups are all the lovely new bloggers I met, and who I am now following. On the down side was the fact that the person whose blog I was given did not leave a … Continue reading Chicken And Sesame Noodles
I am submitting this recipe for Duck Egg Ravioli to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted next week by ME! If you are a regular reader to my blog you will know I am a self confessed Woolworths Baby. Woolworths in South Africa is the equivalent of Marks & Spencer in the United Kingdom. … Continue reading Duck Egg Ravioli
I cooked this dish of pasta con gamberi (pasta with prawns) on my birthday in July! It is now September and I have reached a milestone in my blogging. I have been at it, mostly 5 days a week, for 2 years. And since moving to WordPress, I have managed 500 food related posts! You … Continue reading Pasta Con Gamberi | Pasta With Prawns
I submitted this recipe for Herbed Danish Feta Pasta to Presto Pasta Nights, host Ruth, the founder of Presto Pasta Nights who blogs at Once Upon A Feast but it did not make the round up, so I am re-submitting to Juli who blogs over at Pictures of all my Princesses I like to spend my … Continue reading Herbed Danish Feta Pasta
I am submitting this recipe for Coriander Pesto Chicken Pasta to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Jennifer from For Such A Time As This A few years ago Dave and I decided that we would get a new side by side freezer/fridge for our joint Christmas present. The one I … Continue reading Coriander Pesto Chicken Pasta
I am submitting this recipe for Italian Cipollini Onion Pasta to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Simona of Briciole I can hear everyone saying - but pasta is Italian! Actually, pasta did not originate in Italy, but rather in China. It was however the Italians who have regulated the making … Continue reading Italian Cipollini Onion Pasta
I am submitting this recipe for Broad Bean And Gravadlax Pasta to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Ruth from Once Upon A Feast Summer has come to pay us a visit in the Western Cape. It is the middle of winter and yet we are walking around wearing t-shirts and … Continue reading Broad Bean And Gravadlax Pasta
I submitted this recipe for Calamari Risotto to Presto Pasta Nights, last week to Debbi Does Dinner but my email seems to have got lost in the ethernet, so I am sending it off to Anu of Truth Personified for this week. Usually during the Tour De France my friend Kim and I watch 'together'. She … Continue reading Calamari Risotto For Presto Pasta Nights
I woke up last Friday morning to the very first submission for Presto Pasta Nights 222 and I was so excited to get stuck in and think about how I was going to present to you, the most amazing collection of pasta dishes. Thanks again Ruth, for letting me host! For those of you new to … Continue reading Presto Pasta Nights 222 Round Up
I am submitting this recipe for Sweet Potato Gnocchi With Exotic Mushrooms to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by ME! So, you want to go mushroom hunting! Well, the best advice I can give you is don't unless you know 100% what you are doing! I was recently invited to attend a … Continue reading Sweet Potato Gnocchi With Exotic Mushrooms
Savoury is tops for me, as long as the sun is shining - or at least trying to. I am quite happy to snack on savoury dishes all day long - from breakfast until dinner. It is for this reason I have so many more savoury dishes to try than sweet ones. This week, I … Continue reading Presto Pasta Nights: Something Savoury Challenge