Mom I hate Pumpkin - Not any more!

We often hear our kids every now and then say this and not only pumpkin but other kinds of food like vegetables.

This is what my son told me, and I said ok, lets see if he changes his mind.



Steps: Boil the pumpkin and or cook it in the oven. Then marsh it, if you have some parmesan then that is great, but if you don't have it is all the same. You can change my recipe and add also potatoes and make a pureè of potatoes with pumpkin.

(Dough Std recipe- 100g of wheat flour will mix well with one egg. No need to add water )
When you have rolled the dough into very thin, cut into small squares and add using a spoon the pumpkin. Close as in photo, placing them on a kitchen cottoc cloth on the table. When finished
put cook them in boiling water for 3 minutes and sieve.
Serve as you like. I served with garlic and tomatoes.

Fresh sage and butter would be great.

Read older articles in this blog for serving ideas.
Im sure you will hear more of "I WANT MORE"

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Simple easy Spaghetti with shrimps and smoked salmon

easy spaghetti pasta recipe for inlove

400g spaghetti
60g smoked salmon
250 g of fresh shrimps
onion
glass white wine
oil
salt and pepper

Easy Spaghetti Recipe
Heat oil, cut onion and salt in medium heat.
Add cleaned shrimps and cook for about 4 minutes
then add cut salmon and mix well.
Add the glass of wine and cook in high heat to let it evaporate

In the meantime cook the spaghetti in alot of water, when cooked sieve and add to the the pan with shrimps, add some pepper, adjust the salt cook 2 minutes and serve.

Great meal for a weekend when you need to eat something delicious and yet dedicating few minutes in the kitchen.

Enjoy your Spaghetti.

How to make Tuna Sauce

When all there is in the house is Tuna, tomato and some pasta: What do you do?

What I do when I only have a few things in house like Tuna is:
Garlic crushed, olive oil then I add 3 or 4 fillets of anchovies which I try to always have in the fridge as I buy and use them sparingly whether on pizza or pasta sauce.

Then I add tomatoe (if fresh cut into small pieces but mainly I have tomato puree or the paste. Then I add together with the tuna fish plus some salt, pepper or chilli.
Cook it slowly..when the sauce is reduced thick remove from heat and in the meantime you have boiled or boiling your pasta and serve with the tuna sauce

My friend is working Mommy in Italy and so she does not have much time to during the week so she makes all these kind of sauces and she stores in the freezer and every evening she has everything ready.

What containers to use for storage?
Never mind, make it a habit of keeping those jam/marmalade bottles and they really are useful to me in storing food like this.

Avoid using plastics for storing food not for anything but watch out what's in those plastic bottles read my post herePlastic Poison?: Bisphenol A or bpa an enemy in fridge store on our tables


Thanks to all lovers of food that have always followed this blog keep reading next weeks as so much is coming up in Christmas Menu's for A Recession hit Christmas plus Im organising a wine tasting event with a friend so looking forward to sharing all that later.

Remember to read Plastic Poison?: Bisphenol A or bpa an enemy in fridge store on our tables

Spaghetti or ALias

Going to Phnom Penh with my son to Cambodia was very exciting but one aspect was just not making him happy. The food.. In Bangkok we eat at home most of the time but in Phnom Penh eating out called for something close to Pasta.

So, we found out that fried noodles would serve the same as spaghetti and it worked.

Pasta factory: Easy simple quick Italian homemade pasta

Easy simple healthy pasta recipes to brighten your recession worries here

In my family recession is a kind of everyday life, but one thing is sure we have continued to enjoy our simple healthy and easy Italian recipes all made at home in the super hot Bangkok.

How we do that? Follow all the secrets of home made pasta and all other Italian simple pastas you find all from my kitchen. If a girl from the slopes of Mt.Kenya can do this I am sure anyone can do.

Easy simple healthy pasta recipes to brighten your recession worries here

Home made easy simple recession ravioli italian recipe

If I can make homemade pasta ravioli in Bangkok you too can make it anywhere in the world.
Get the recipe here in my previous post: only remember you can substitute mortadella with spinach depends on what you have in your fridge.


More previous pasta recipes easy for everyone to make

If you need some extra help in making pasta, homemade pasta, pizza or other recipes featured in this blog please just mail me.

Puttanesca Recipe: Oscar winning Puttanesca secrets

Simple, easy and quick Puttanesca recipe secrets

To begin with there are no secrets to making an easy simple and quick pasta puttanesca,in Italy this pasta is commonly known as pasta alla puttanesca and mostly common to talk about spaghetti puttanesca so just give this blog a few minutes as she tries to share with you the way to make a puttanesca sauce

Our puttanesca recipe

Ingredients for pasta with puttanesca sauce:
400g Spaghetti
50g butter
Garlic
300g ripe tomatoes (peel, remove seeds and cut into pieces)
20g of capers- (wash capers)
3 anchovies- (crush a little)
100g black olives- (remove seed)
chilli (optional)

(boil water for spaghetti while preparing the sauce)
-Melt butter add garlic then chilli and the crushed anchovies.

-Add the peeled tomato pieces, capers and pitted olives

-Cook the sauce for 10 minutes, then add this sauce to the spaghetti and serve immediately

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Valentines day special: Easy valentines pasta recipe

Easy Pasta with clams,capers and olives

This easy to make simple Italian pasta will be a delight on Valentines day:
300g clams
200g peeled tomato
2 spoonfuls Oil
garlic, capers and black olives




In a Pan put olive oil to cook add garlic then add the clams and tomato regulate the salt and pepper and cook for 15 to 20 minutes.
When the cooking is almost done add the capers, olives and parsley. Mix well and leave it to cook for 3 minutes . Now this is ready.
Prepare pasta and serve with this sauce.

Simple Italian recipe: Pasta and fagioli as pasta with beans

There are many ways of utilising the simple ingredients that you have in the house to come up with a meal that looks like just been delivered from Italy.

This is easy and simple really: Beans (canned beans), heat oil in a cooking pot add some whole peeled garlic so you can remove it someone does not eat garlic. As for my case we all love garlic so I crush it and cook together. Add a spoonful of tomato puree and add together a can of beans whatever white borlotti or the other I usually get what I find in the country I am in. Now, lately I have used also the baked beans but removing the liquid as it is kind of sweet but if you are using normal beans put in the whole content of the can. Cook for few minutes and using a vegetable machine pass it to cream like, or use a kind of crusher like gadget will try to find it and put a picture here. After which you add your pasta and cook stirring so that does not attach at the bottom.

I usually add a few leaves of Rosemary, Rosemary will do well in your balcony even in the house, why not use it as a decorative as well as herb.

Enjoy your pasta after 7 or 8 minutes cooking. Serve with bread if you like

Easy Pasta: Simple and easy shrimp and mussels spaghetti

I buy from the supermarket already cleaned and so ready to cook: I do my simple Italian spaghetti by:

Adding a little oil and garlic on a cooking pan then I add the shrimps, salt and mussels I cook for few minutes then I add peeled tomatoes cut into small pieces and I cook for some time. I then add a little hot water with a spoon of tomato paste. Making a thick sauce and at the end I add a bit of black pepper and parsley.
Then serve with spaghetti
Yummy simple and easy way to eat an Italian style simple and tasty plate of spaghetti

Recession Recipes: Spaghetti with Shrimp in a velvety cream topped with dill

I live in Bangkok but I still enjoy my favourite simple Italian healthy recipes
Plus a mouth watering spaghetti with shrimps


Topping with cream added with light sprinkle of dill.
A creamy simple, healthy Italian way of closing the year in Bangkok




My refreshing simple healthy salad of lettuce, olives, feta cheese and cucumber


Buon Appettito! Enjoy your meal

Easy simple and quick spaghetti: Spaghettis are forever

The spirit of true spaghetti


This is loving spaghetti and enjoying eating the ever forever spaghetti.


This came to my mind when I saw the spaghetti cat topping up searches for the engines.

The 2 very famous pictures of Italian spaghetti, have found them hanging on walls in most every Italian restaurant have gone to.

Next time you have your spaghetti even if simple with just olive oil, garlic and blackpepper and a splash of parmesan just enjoy your dish to the maximum.

Simple Italian recipe

Pasta with cream and mushrooms

Heat oil or little butter on the pan, add a little crushed garlic then mushrooms, salt and turn for a few minutes then add with boiled ham cut into strips which you then join cream and parsley one minute and serve with pasta

Mortadella: Mortadella recipe

Mortadella recipe

I have used Mortadella a lot but the best recipe is the Romagna's (a region in Italy) recipe on filled pasta filled with Mortadella and other Ingredients.Mortadella an Italian ham commonly in the world reffered to as Mortadella.

In other events Mortadella comes in handy for making sandwiches for parties. If you want to try homemade filled pasta with Mortadella visit my step by step. Anyone can make it.

Process of homemade pasta making here

The dough recipe here

Easy , simple and quick mussel recipe with simple Italian Pasta

Mussels in tomato and parsley

This simple easy and quick recipe can be made easily from any Kitchen. The ingredients include garlic, oil, mussels, parsley and left over white wine from your fridge if you have.

Heat oil then add garlic, mussels after cooking them for a little I added peeled chopped tomato and cooked a little bit before adding white wine and chopped parsley. Then I cooked them slowly.

Then Serve with Spaghetti!
Enjoy your lovely meal
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Simple easy quick Italian recipes: Strozzapreti, lasagne, fettucine all home made

Simple healthy home made Pasta, all come down to one recipe. 100g of wheat flour to 1 egg. Making the dough and then transforming it into fettucine, or lasagne sheets (note that lasagne sheets you will need to put them first in boiling water then cold water to cool them) then you dry them on a clean kitchen or table cloth.

Go through my Pasta labels and learn more.
Have a great simple italian meal in every corner of the world.

Simple easy quick Italian recipes: homemade ravioli pasta for Christmas

In the area Romagna of Italy they are called cappelletti, this is mostly a widely used dish on Christmas day which is served in broth.
The most used ingredient to make this Pasta is Mortadella. Mortadella is commonly known around the world as bologna.

mini ravioli:

250g cottage cheese (Ricotta)

150g Parmesan cheese

150g bologna ham

Pinch of nutmeg

Put in a food processor and mix the Mortadella them together into a puree, next you will need to read my older article on how to make the dough as the base is always the one for other filled pastas. Italian pasta, lasagne and pizza making can be very easy once you get the basics. Enjoy and let me know how it comes.

Process of homemade pasta making here

The dough recipe here

Try and you will never stop.
Merry Christmas

Spaghetti casserole

Spaghetti in simple tomatoe sauce.
Buon Apettito!!!!!!!!!!

pasta with creamed mushrooms

Ingredients: 400g pasta, 500g mushrooms, 200ml cream, 1 egg yolk, 2 cloves garlic, oil, salt and fresh parsley.

Steps:
Clean and wipe the mushrooms, then cut into small sizes
Put water in a big pot for the pasta. When it boils add the pasta and cook for 10-12 minute usually cooking time is indicated on the containers. Sieve to remove the water.

While the pasta is cooking heat some oil in the pan and add whole garlic. Cook it for a minute then add the mushrooms. Cook mushrooms on high heat to drain all the water. When all water is gone remove the garlic then add the cream, mix under low heat to thicken it.

Remove pan from the heat, add the egg yolk and mix well.
Pour in the pasta mix and garnish with parsley.
Ready? Plates? Enjoy your pasta.

Italian simple recipe: fresh homemade pasta

Fresh Pasta is very easy to make, all you need is flour and eggs, that's it nothing else.

How do you go about it?
simple: for every 100g of flour you need 1 egg.

make a mould with the flour and in the center make a hole and put the eggs,
you need to work a lot the mixture until you get a smooth dough, then leave to rest for an hour.
Then what next?
You divide into small balls, roll each at a time.
But?
Need to roll it until it is very thin, then cut into shapes that you want. Could be the long strips (tagliatelle) or the short ones, next we learn how to make the filled pasta, for now learn how to get to the simple basics. Cut into strips.

Note!! A true Italian Pasta made freshly has only flour and eggs, no salt no water, this is what I have learn't grandmoms I have learn't from.

Can be served with Ragù sauce that I have discussed earlier in this blog.
Enjoy your Pasta and come back learn next stage...