84 days = 84 pasta recipes

MATH

ARRGHHHH - DEATH BY PASTA!

I love pasta but I would balk at eating it 84 days in a row. Rice, potatoes, cous cous are also economical and may make mealtimes more interesting.

Here's a cheap recipe:-

Onion - Sliced
Bacon - chopped
Potatoes - unskinned and thinly sliced
Baked Beans
Gravy


Fry the onion and bacon off in a frypan with a little oil.

Throw in the sliced potatoes and add the baked beans and enough gravy to cover everything. Season well.

Cover and simmer for 1/2 an hour or until the potatoes are cooked through.

Serve with lots of bread to soak up the juices! HTH

the_other_mce

If you fancied a cheap change from pasta try egg fried rice - it's lovely if you add a couple of chicken stock cubes to the water you boil the rice in. Dead simple too and you can chuck in pretty much anything - sweetcorn, bits of chicken etc.
I would get sick of pasta if I had to eat it more than twice a week!!!!

pawpurrs

Spagetti with olive oil, and pasta gusto (dried chilli, parsley and garlic)
Just cook spagetti and then the dried mixture grate parmasan on top.
Pasta puttenesca
Tin of tomatoes, add capers, anchovies, a chopped onion if you wish, and sultanas if you want, simmer untill nice and thick. Serve with pasta.

Nix143

Pasta and pesto - well cheap at Aldi right now

Into that chop up a bit of chicken or peperoni, yum, dead quick and tasty

however, I'm with everyone else on the 84 pasta days - I'll be eating it 3rd night in a row tonight and I am already wondering whether that's a good idea - and I've just remembered I've got some frozen turkey curry so reckon it's time to have a night off - as I've learnt being OS doesnt mean eating boringly.


Unless someone has given you a sack of pasta for free! I am eating far more these days because I bought 3 of the massive £1 bags from Asda

mintymoneysaver

Pasta with chicken and bacon

pasta, jar of pasta sauce( I use the red wine and herb one) cube chicken and shallow fry, add bacon, add sauce, cook and mix with pasta.

Lucie_2

Sausage & spinach pasta
Skin sausages & make each one into 4 small sausage "meatballs" (or just use sausage meat). Fry until nearly cooked, then add a chopped onion. Finish off with a huge handful of spinach, stir in til wilted then throw in some toasted pine nuts. Serve with cooked pasta of your choice (better with shells, bows, twists etc) and a grating of parmesan cheese.

Pasta Primavera
Best made with cooked chicken - ie leftover roast & pack of yellow stickered mixed veg from supermarket (baby corn, carrots, mangetout etc)

Chop up veg & stirfry, add diced cooked chicken & pine nuts. Add to cooked pasta shapes & a diced up ball of mozzarella cheese.

Italian Chicken
Finely chop an onion, clove of garlic & some sundried tomatoes. Fry til soft. Make a slit in a whole boneless chicken breast & stuff with some of the onion/garlic/tomato mixture. Bake for 20 minutes until cooked through; adding sliced mozzarella cheese to the top for ther last 5 minutes of cooking time.
Use the remaining onion/garlic/tomato mixture to make the sauce - add a glass of white wine & allow to reduce then add a pot of double cream. A squirt of tomato puree adds a more appetising pinky colour. Serve with pasta of your choice.

Other regular favourites in this house are:
spag bol
lasagne
spaghetti & meatballs
spaghetti carbonara
spicy chicken & pasta bake

sali_mali

My favorite pasta dish at the minute is Chicken and Pepper Pesto Pasta

Just fry chopped up chicken and peppers (yellow's best i think) in a little bit of olive oil while the pasta's boiling and then chuck it all together and mix pesto in (green pesto's nicest). Takes about ten minutes and it's yummy! Oh throw a load of cheese over it too and it's a masterpiece!

Loop

Or the easiets option.

Tuna Pasta.

Cook pasta, drain.

Tip in can of tuna.

Mix in mayo or salad cream. Mix in can of sweetcorn if desired?

Serve with grated cheese.

Miss_Behaving

Mix cooked pasta with fried peppers, onion and mushrooms, add jar of passata, herbs and seasoning. Sprinkle cheese on top and bake.

You can mix in diced mozarrella too if you have it.

Delicious!

bargainbetty

What about the simplest? Pasta a olio - pasta tossed ina little oil with garlic. Lovely for a snack on it's own.

I'm with the not-for-84-days-straight gang though - surely you could go for a few spuds or rice once a week?