Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

Lemon_Tree

you're soooooo strange Pippi but we love you anyway.

I found a beautiful bright yellow courgette in the garden today ready to pick, it's so pretty, much too pretty to eat.

lucielle

Why thankyou kndly ma'm
L

gilligansyle

starnac wrote: »

I love Carrot cake . Although I do agree in principle Carrot in cake???? same as cheese......cake. But I have to admit I love both.

Everyone tells me I would love it if I could get past the idea of it. A bit like blue cheese.
I can't imagine how anyone was doing some baking one day and decided to throw carrots in a sponge cake.
On the other hand my XOH used to love cheesecake until he came into the kitchen one day when I was making it "what on earth are you doing woman!! You're putting cottage cheese in with cream :eek:". For some reason he had got to the grand age of 45 and never realised there was cheese in cheesecake - his reasoning? There are no babies in baby oil:D
He never ate it again after that - maybe I was trying to poison him.....

Kittikins

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:no babies in baby oil!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

MatyMoo

Loving the recipe swaps

Tried a new pasta recipe the other day and it was fab as it cooks from start to finish in 15 minutes which is ideal for me if I am late home.

Put pasta on to cook - three handfuls for me!
Chuck handful or two of pine nuts in dry frying pan and shuggle around every few minutes and make sure they toast rather than burn.
Take a cup full of water out of the pasta pan and save
Drain pasta
Add small glug of olive oil to pasta pan (they suggested rosemary oil but didn't have any)
Add half the pasta water
Add 3 tablespoons creme fraiche
Throw in some blue cheese crumbled, stir to melt
Add rest of pasta water
Put pasta back in
Add half toasted pine nuts
Add a couple of large handfuls rocket
Stir & Serve, adding rest of pine nuts to top

Yummy

I am now experimenting with:
The cheese - recipe recommended roquefort but danish blue and stilton would work, maybe a strong cheddar
Chopped walnuts instead of pine nuts (how expensive are they Did have a £5 gift card so they were a treat)
Switching rocket for spinach, could maybe use basil? Maybe cooked peas or broccoli

If you hadn't guessed I like experimenting once I have found a basic recipe :rotfl:

I add a teaspoon of sugar to my HM tomato sauce, seems to make it less bitter

vl2588

Fab recipe, very environmentally friendly with all that water re-using

Kittikins

MatyMoo - you've made me very hungry, pasta and blue cheese nomnomnom!

chevalier

Kittikins wrote: »

MatyMoo - you've made me very hungry, pasta and blue cheese nomnomnom!

blue cheese is to me what cake is to Pippi and mash pototo is to LT! YUCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK! Tastes HORRIBLE.

lol, just shows we is all different!
chev

Lemon_Tree

i can't bear the thought of blue cheese either, love cheese and happy to cut the mould off the outside of normal cheese but blue cheese euck

MatyMoo

I'm not a fan of goats cheese or feta but find if it is used in cooking it is very different and quite tasty.

May be worth trying your blue cheese a different way

Mustard is something else I can't stand raw but do use in cooking.