The Queen of Kitchen Disasters

As much as I love to cook and bake, I'm lazy and I'm horrid at following recipes. Together with my natural capability of clumsiness and inability of handling anything sharp, it's the perfect recipe for ... disasters.

Monday, February 06, 2006

quick pasta!

I had some colleagues over and decided to do cooking instead of ordering in pizzas.

I still kind of cheated – I bought 3 frozen pizzas to bake. The pizzas are good! Will be buying them for further consumption for sure … just let me dig out the boxes and post it here.

I made potato salad as well as pasta. Potato salad was pretty simple, just boil the potatoes, eggs, and peel and chop up the veggies and some ham. Then put some yummy mayonnaise (must be Japanese type – the one with the baby on the packaging), sprinkle some black pepper and it’s ready to serve! For variations, add peaches or honeydew and put cooked shrimps instead ham (omit the eggs).

Before doing the potatoes, I was preparing the sauce for the pasta – the recipe came from my 3 ingredients cooking book.

Ingredients required

  1. 6 small ripe tomatoes
  2. 500g pasta (any sort but I used penne for easy eating)
  3. a small handful of fresh basil leaves

From your cupboard, 3 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper to taste.

I didn’t quite follow the method prescribed, I just threw all the ingredients minus the pasta into my hand held blender, processed it and put into the fridge for 2 hours. Take out and allow tomato mixture to return to room temp. Cooked the pasta as per instructions, mix and serve.

But I did make one extra batch but I followed the recipe instructions.

Cut the tomatoes into halves and light crush till juices start to run. Mix with olive oil. Tear the basil leaves into bits and add to the mixture. Add salt and pepper to season and chill for 2 to 3 hours.

My tomato mix is currently overnight. Intend to use it tomorrow so let see how it goes =)

Fresh basil leaves are available from Cold Storage.

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