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I love the saying "it never rains, it pours". And this past week, it seems to apply to me very well. Last Thursday night I lost my charm bracelet which has a charm for each year we have been married. Then I decided I would make a pasta dish for our Sunday night supper. I … Continue reading Salmon Pasta
I am submitting this for recipe for Fettucine With Ground Beef And Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Sauce to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Juli of Pictures of All My Princesses. When I joined The Secret Recipe Club, my first post was a slight let down, as the person I was … Continue reading Fettucine With Ground Beef
I am submitting this recipe for Pasta Al Forno Con Pomodori E Mozzarella to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Alisha of Cook, Craft, Enjoy! Why I made this dish: I, like so many other people I know, have a collection of recipe books that I have never used. In December 2010 … Continue reading Pasta Al Forno Con Pomodori E Mozzarella
I am submitting this recipe Red Capsicum And Tomato Pasta Sauce to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Simona of Briciole. I am 5'7" (1.68m) and have been this tall since I was 13. At 13 I weighed 49kg and maintained this weight throughout high school and into my twenties. As my then … Continue reading Red Capsicum And Tomato Pasta Sauce
This month I have been assigned Plain Chicken for The Secret Recipe Club. I am in a new group as I wanted a later posting date, and so I am about to meet a whole lot of new bloggers, Steph being the first. Steph is from Alabama - a place I remember well from my trip to … Continue reading Three Cheese Chicken Alfredo Bake
I am submitting this recipe for Green Bean And Bacon Pasta to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Jamie of Cookin' With Moxie. There is something rewarding about being able to go into your garden and forage for dinner. We do not have a vegetable garden as yet. This was on … Continue reading Green Bean And Bacon Pasta
I really want to start drinking green juices and so tried to use my juice attachment on my kitchen aid to achieve this with some spinach. Sadly, it does not juice spinach, but I did get a lovely dried out tablespoon or three of spinach. I decided there and then to make a green pasta … Continue reading Spinach Pasta | Spinaci Pasta
I am submitting this recipe for Crayfish Ravioli With A Bisque Sauce to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Emma of Soupier Like most countries in the world where commercial fishing exists, the recreational fisherman is the one to suffer from a lack of fish close inshore and from the fact that … Continue reading Crayfish Ravioli With A Bisque Sauce
I am submitting this recipe for Mediterranean Pasta to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Alisha of Cook.Craft.Enjoy There is something about the sea that draws me to it. We live 500m from the beach, and if we go away in South Africa, we usually go to a coastal town along the Garden … Continue reading Mediterranean Pasta
I am loving being in The Secret Recipe Club, as I have met so many bloggers! The time difference is the only thing that does not work well for me - the afternoon's for me are busy, and so I only get to the posts the day after they are published. This month my assigned … Continue reading Creamy Pasta
I am submitting this recipe for Pasta With Beef Ox Liver to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Jamie of Cookin' with Moxie I love chicken livers but have never been brave enough to try any other livers. Dave keeps telling me how nice they are and then a couple of … Continue reading Pasta With Beef Ox Liver
Mixed seafood risotto is not something I would order at a restaurant. This is because you never know the quality of seafood they will put into the dish. I know the type of friend I am, kind, loyal and helpful. Sometimes my willingness to assist people has ended up as being a negative but mostly … Continue reading Mixed Seafood Risotto
I was like a child, the day before Christmas, checking the blog very half an hour on the first of the month, to see if this month's Fresh from the Oven challenge had been posted. Eventually I had to leave work and on the 2nd the first thing I did was check in. I was … Continue reading Panettone
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 recipe for Farfalle With Broccoli And Anchovies is known in Italian as Farfalle Con Broccoli E Alici. Somehow to me, the Italian always sounds better. We eat pasta at least once a week and for a long time, I wrote down exactly what we had made so that I could share my recipes with … Continue reading Farfalle With Broccoli And Anchovies
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