Spaghetti with a basil, tomato sauce, fresh grated Parmigiano Reggiano and chili flakes

Bacon and mushroom Pasta

Bacon and mushroom Pasta

There is an unlimited amount of combinations you can have with pasta. It's an easy meal and can be amazingly tasty if you are willing to mix. Today I made bacon and mushroom pasta. It takes about 10 minutes to make and is absolutely delicious. 

Ingredients

• 100 grams lean bacon per person

• 100 grams fresh sliced mushrooms per person

• 5 balls of Tagliatelle per person

• a large spoon sour cream 34% 

• fresh grated Parmesan 

Boil water and start bacon frying.

Put your pasta in the water and cook 30 seconds less than the recommended time. Tagliatelle is usually 5 minutes.

You want the bacon to be fried, but NOT crispy.

 

Remove the bacon to your cutting board and put the mushroom slices into the bacon frying pan with the grease. Cut the bacon into bite size pieces and put it back in the frying pan. Spice your mushroom and bacon mix with some salt pepper and garlic as they fry.

 

Use your spaghetti ladle  to lift the pasta from the pot to the frying pan and add a couple spoons of the water too the bacon and mushrooms. Add a large spoon of sour cream and mix everything and let it simmer for 2 minutes.

 

Pour your dinner into a pasta bowl and top with fresh grated Parmesan Cheese.

Nacho plate

This is a simple meal or snack that anyone can make.

Ingredients 

• Lean ground beef
• Taco seasoning 
• Onion chopped 
• Nacho cheese
• Salsa 
• Sour cream 
• Nacho chips
• Water 
• refried beans recipe

Fry ground beef chopping into small pieces. When beef is done, drain off fat and put beef back in frying pan. Turn to medium heat and add taco seasoning and water. 

Preheat oven to 175C. 

Put baking paper on a baking sheet. Lay out a layer of chips. When beef is done, put a couple tablespoons of meat on the chips. Spread out some nacho cheese, chopped onion and put the tray in the oven for 5 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the edges of the chips are starting to turn brown. 

Warm the beans in the microwave or along with the beef. 

Top nachos with salsa. In one corner put a few spoons of sour cream and refried beans.

Chicken and Bean Burritos

For those who know me they will tell you that I love my Texmex. Today I made Chicken and refried bean burritos.

Chopped chicken Fillet
texmex spice
Refried beans recipe
Salsa
sour cream
burrito wraps
grated cheddar cheese

Put some texmex spice on your chicken and fry using a little olive oil. When the chicken is almost done you can warm your beans in the frying pan or warm them in the microwave. Heat your wraps to make them more flexible. lay some chicken and beans in the middle of the wrap in a straight line. Add some grated cheddar, sour cream and salsa. I like some hot sauce as well. Fold up the bottom of the wrap and than roll it together. Dinner is done.

 

Bacon and Jalapeno wrapped chicken

This is a very simple meal to make.

ingredients

1 chicken fillet per person
1 Jalapeno per chicken fillet
sliced bacon
your favorite BBQ seasoning.

Cut the chicken fillet into two even slices. Lightly spice. Cut Jalapeno in half and remove the seeds. Place half of a Jalapeno on each slice and then wrap with bacon. I usually use 2 slices of bacon for each piece. Use tooth picks to hold the bacon, jalapeno and chicken together. Place on hot grill and grill about 3 minutes on each side (all 4) Bacon should be starting to get crispy when they and that's when you know the chicken is done. Makes sure to get the bacon on all sides grilled. The tooth pics will help with standing the pieces on their sides.

Today I made oven baked potato wedges, roast onion and roast carrot to go with the meal.

Oven baked potato wedges recipe

 

Midsummer

Today was midsummer and of course needed to be enjoyed with BBQ. Meat of choice today was an rib eye. I bought it in a 1KG piece and cute it into 4 very nice pieces. Some new potatoes, grilled onion and a side salad rounded the meal off nicely.

 

The weather was great today. here some pics...

Grilled cheese

 Easy food can be tasty

Grilled cheese is an old school easy meal, but you dont have to go straight old school. You can add thin sliced meats like smoked ham, turkey or even pastrami. Today I went with bacon and tomato. Adding some meat makes it more of a meal.

Fry up your bacon first and when it's almost crispy lay it flat on a paper towel to drain the fat.

 Clean your frying pan and leave the heat on medium.

MY PERSONAL PREFERENCE IS BUTTER!!! If your doctor has told you to use low trans fat margarine you should so so, but if you are healthy butter is natural and tastes much better. Margarine can also turn your grilled cheese into a really greasy mess because it's made from vegetable oil.

Butter one side of each slice of bread. Turn two buttered sides against each other so you can put your cheese++ on the sandwich. Lift up your top slice and lay the buttered side down, with the toppings on and put the other slice of buttered bread on top with butter side up. Use a lid to cover your grilled cheese while they fry. This allows the heat to be kept and your cheese will melt. If you do it without a lid you risk toasting the grilled cheese and having cheese that has not melted.

Bacon Pasta

Pasta rules!!

There is an unlimited amount of combinations you can have with pasta. It's an easy meal and can be amazingly tasty if you are willing to mix. Today I made bacon and mushroom pasta. It takes about 10 minutes to make and is absolutely delicious. 

Ingredients

100 grams lean bacon per person

100 grams fresh sliced mushrooms per person

1 small leak chopped

5 balls of Tagliatelle per person

a large spoon sour cream 34% 

fresh grated Parmesan 

Boil water and start bacon frying. You want the bacon to be fried, but NOT crispy. Remove the bacon to your cutting board and put the mushroom slices and leak into the bacon fat and fry it up. Cut the bacon into bite size pieces and put it back in the frying pan. Spice your mushroom and bacon mix with some salt pepper and garlic as they fry.

Put your pasta in the water and cook 30 seconds less than the recommended time. 

Use your spaghetti ladle  to lift the pasta from the pot to the frying pan and add a couple spoons of the water too the bacon and mushrooms. Add a large spoon of sour cream and mix everything and let it simmer for 2 minutes. Pour your dinner into a pasta bowl and top with fresh grated Parmesan Cheese.

 

 

Still waiting for warmer weather to come but at least it was a nice sunset today and that's never a bad thing. 

 

 

Bacon wrapped Jalapeño chicken

Bacon wrapped Jalapeño chicken

An easy meal as always. Slice your chicken breast into strips. Spice with some chili, garlic, paprika or and grill spice you like. Then half your Jalapeño and remove the seeds. Put a half on each side of your chicken slice and then wrap with bacon. Use toothpicks to keep everything place. Grill on medium high heat until chicken is cooked though. Serve with rice and a nice sauce.

sauce suggestion

• sour cream
• BBQ mix spice
• ketchup
• garlic
• soya sauce
• chili