Showing posts with label pasta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pasta. Show all posts

Monday, October 25, 2010

Slow Cooked Italian Sausage and Peppers Rotini



By demand, I will put this recipe up so people can try it themselves. To be honest, it's not my recipe. I bought a little booklet a couple of years ago called "Slow Cooker - come home to comfort" by Pillsbury. It's a collection of 42 quick meals and I haven't really tried many of the recipes from it. The few I did make before, I took the liberty to change the proportions a little and it didn't turn out as great as I thought it would... so it's been sitting on the shelves for a loooong time. This time I decided to give it another go with a simpler recipe and tried to stay as faithfully to the proportions as possible with given my nature... and it turned out to be a success! :D I'm very excited. It was also very quick, very simple, not many ingredients and all can be found with reasonable price. Not to mention one pot will probably last you all week if you're dining solo. So without further blabbing, here is the recipe:

http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/slow-cooker-italian-sausages-and-peppers-with-rotini/c0e2ac85-a7d3-4992-917a-8a5a3d6251ce/

It can be easily changed to be vegetarian or vegan by removing the sausage or replacing with some veggie substitute to add flavor.

Now go try it yourself! And let me know how it turned out, post some pictures and share your experiences.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Bolognese/meat sauce


This Bolognese sauce recipe was originally developed by one Hungry Aspiring Actor, the best friend of my boyfriend. It was very meat heavy made with light white wine, small amounts of vegetable base and tomato paste - in essence, a "manly" sauce (and apparently, more authentic, according to Wikipedia). But because I'm a sissy and I like my veggie and tomato flavors, this recipe is like the illegitimate love-child of me and Bolognese sauce...so I don't know if I can still call it "Bolognese" but it is certainly still a very good meat sauce.