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Pasta Bake

joshuac — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:13:28 +0000

We have this every 2 weeks or so. I have cooked this a second time to practice – my family loved it.

You will need:

large pan & a lasagna dish

olive oil

dried basil

3 tins chopped tomatoes

1 ball of mozzarella

parmesan

400g pasta (we used rigatoni)

1. Turn oven on 200 C.

2. Get a large pan and pour the 3 tins of tomatoes in the pan.

3. Put in the olive oil medium amount.

4. Put in a tea spoon of dried basil.

5. Turn down to low heat and stir, reduce by about a third.

6. Put in 400g of pasta- large pan-adult add boiling water.

7. When the pasta is back to the boil set timer for 11 mins.

8. Grate about a small plastic bowl full of parmesan – about 75g.

9. Adult -drain pan.

10. Chop mozzarella into 1 cm cubes.

11. Put the pasta into the dish.

12. Add the sauce and both cheeses and mix.

13. Put in oven and leave for 10 mins

Get a grownup to take it out of the oven. Serve with a green salad.

Pork chops with apple gravy

joshuac — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:03:25 +0000

This is very good and tastes brilliant, it’s like having apple sauce and gravy all mixed together. Alex doesn’t like apple sauce, but did like this gravy.

4 pork chops

1 cooking apple

1 medium onion

olive oil

200 mls cider (you can use white wine or apple juice instead)

dried sage

salt/pepper

set oven to 200 C
peel and chop cooking apple and add to a roasting dish
next peel and slice onion and add that to the dish too
then drizzle some olive over the dish
lay the pork chops on top of the apple and onion, pour over the cider and add a little more oil
season with sage, salt and pepper
cover in foil and put into the over for 25 minute (this is a mummy task)
remove the foil from the chops, spoon some of the liquid over them and put them back in the oven for 10 minutes to to brown and reduce a bit.
take the roasting dish out of the oven and put the chops onto a warm plate.
the apples, onions and liquid go into a blender cup and are whizzed up to make the gravy

Serve with new potatoes and veg.

Magic Sauce

joshuac — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:41:12 +0000

This is a very yummy sauce that goes well with pasta

One carton of creamed tomato (or passata)

80g (third of a tub) mascarpone

nutmeg

1. put the creamed tomato in a small/medium saucepan (medium heat)

2. reduce,stirring ccasionally

3. grate about a teaspoon of nutmeg

4. add nutmeg to the pan and stir

5. add a third of a tub of mascarpone to the pan and stir until smooth

Serve with your favorite pasta, we like fresh cappaletti