Up for a quickie?? :)

Well... NOT that kind, c'mon! :D

OK, let's see what we need: a pack of premade tortellini (or you can simply choose any kind of short pasta, if homemade even better!), sour cream, a fist of asparagus, some dried meat (I chose 'svinjski kare'), which you can leave out if you are a vegitarian, some olive oil, few peanuts, and this time, I chose some dried marjoram, salt and pepper.

Turn on your oven to 200°C. Now take two middle sized kettles. In one put chopped asaparagus (about 2 cm long) and let it slowly come to boiling. Then turn it off. Don't cook them! Just let them com to boiling and put aside. In the other one boil the pasta (follow the instructions on the package or your own experience, as sometimes it's better to rely on) :)

In a seperate smaller pan or kettel put in some olive oil and throw in some finelly chopped dried meat - for a veggie version, leave this part. Now add three generous table spoons of sour cream... and add majoram. Mix nicely until it starts making bubbles, then let it down a bit, so you don't get the sour cream mix all over your stove. Now take a medium sized oven-proof pan (like the one you use for making pies or roasting) and cover the bottom with olive oil, this will help you with the 'it-just-didn't-stick' part :D Throw in the pasta, cover with asparagus and the sour cream mixature to which you added some peanuts, just before sipping it onto the pasta and asparagus...
Now... I added one scrumbled egg on top of it all, you can do this as well, or add some finely grated cheese, or both! Or something you find in your fridge... JUST PLAY :D

Put alltogether in the oven and bake for about 10-15 minutes, or untill egg/cheese/dried meat starts to get nicely baked :) Enjoy!

When mum comes to visit...

...and you really don't have time, because you're meeting your pregnant friend/dentist/friend for a movie, and you want to make something for lunch :)
It is as simple as 1, 2, 3 or 'what do we have in our fridge'?
Let's see... for three we need one pack of ravioli with mushrooms, and some other pasta(short pasta looks better) half of leek and a small pack of mushrooms in a deep freez. oh, and have some salt and pepper and some creme available at hand (sour or regular :D)

Boil the pasta, but check, if they need longer time to cook than ravioli, them lkae sure you don't put them together, as ravioli will go... well the end result won't be pretty ;)

Put some butter, or you can go a bit mediterranean and instead use some olive oil, in a pan... let it go loose and add mushrooms, you don't have to leave it melt, the melting water will add some moist needed while cooking. Add some creme, whichever you prefer... salt & pepper... Now chop chop that beautiful green leek... I love to chop leek, it looks so professional... and the way those rings run away from your chopping board... ah, poetry :D ok, back to lunch :D

so chop half of leek and at to the creme-mushroom mixture. now, just let it be for about 10 minutes, stir here and there and make some nice salad to go along. In my case, my man (kiss to you, hon!) is doing this :) He makes best salads and usually uses pumpkin seed oil... absolutely divine.


Anyways, you can now prepare the table, if you or someone else hadn't done it already. Distribute the cooked pasta and then add the mush-leek-creme on top... if you want, add some parmezzan and a nice glass of white wine :) yummy ;)

A little bit of ham, coloured pasta and creme

Again, I've been away, but making some pretty good stuff and eating of course, and taking some photos... Oh and I found out why you definetly should try out onion soup in France, well I tried it in Paris,... IT?S ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!! I tried two, first one was full in flavour, not oniony, but rich and deep and dark red (ok, don't mind my colourful description, because the fluid itself was brownish)and cover with melted cheese... amazing! Recommended :) However I'll probably keep to visiting France for new flavours and not trying out this sort of stuff at home :D


And now, here we go... today I made this lovely, easy-made pasta: spinach and regular pasta, creme, some ham or similar... Done in a sec.
Boil enough pasta for two. In my experience it is important which pasta you do, because they actually do make more or less pasta eventually than, let's say 180g, you levy. Make tiny pieces of ham with your fingers or a knife (like I did) and bake them for a few minutes, but don't put them into the pan before the oil (use olive oil) heats up. It smells divine! Now crunch some cashew nuts, just make halfs or quarters, it's enough. Throw them in with the ham. By now you have your pasta boiled through and ready, but don't put them in a colander, instead just put them directly from the pot to the pan with a big 'holey' spoon :) That way you add some water from the cooked pasta so it doesn't get too dry aftrewards. Mix through.
Now add two spoon-fuls of sour creme and one or two of creme and mix well.
Leave for a few minutes, so that all the flavours mix and you're done!

Čežana - mashed apples with honey and cinnamon

Simple, healthy and on the top of my comfort-food list ;)


Take 5-6 ripe apples, peel and slice into thin slices. Add about 1L of water, a spoonful of honey and cinnamon.

Bring to boil and then lower the temperature, in my example from 9 to 3. Leave for 45 minutes, check every now and then and add some water if necessary.
After most of the apples are completely mushy :) take the hand blender and blend the apples. You get a thick (depends on the quantity of apples and water) mass. And yes it doesn't look all sexy and yummy... but...

Serve it hot with cream and some cinnamon.

Truffles, portobello mushies and penne rigatte

So, I'm back I guess... Don't worry I wasn't starving or anything, just wasn't really up to post any delightful dishes :D

But today, the sunshine outside gave me that puch to take some photos of our today's lunch.

You'll need:
50 g portobello mushrooms
Zigante's Truffles with mushrooms mixture
two spoonfuls of nuts (I chose walnuts)
190 g penne rigate
three slices of proscuitto
olive oil
salt

Cook penne rigate (Barilla's take about 11 minutes). Slice portobello mushrooms, proscuitto and walnuts.

Just before penne are cooked, take wok pan and put some olive oil. When the temperature is right, first put in the proscuitto, after about a minute add mushrooms, and last walnuts.

When penne are cooked, add them to the mixture in the wok and lastly sip in the truffles mixture.

Keep it hot for about 5 minutes and stir. Serve with a bit of sour cream or parmesan cheese... or both. :D