Amatriciana pasta made easy!
This is a quick and tasty meal for any day of the week! Easy to make yourself, but it is still a favourite of mine when we eat out. So simple and so tasty.
Mango and Avocado Salsa
This is a great side to have with fish, chicken, steaks… anything really!! It really is all good stuff, so a great thing to have when you are trying to be healthy. You can make this is as spicy or even sweet as you like by varying the amount of chilli, and mango.
Sole in Mornay sauce
This is a nice easy way to enjoy fish, the sauce is delicious with this delicate fish. My mother in law introduced me to it, and it has remained a big favourite. 🙂
Easy Roux, white sauce (Bechamel sauce), and cheese sauce (Mornay sauce)
This is an easy sauce to make for so many different things, macaroni cheese, lasagne, fish pie, cooking fish… all sorts! You can freeze the roux or keep it in the fridge for a few days if you make extra too. The sauce will keep in the fridge for a couple of days too.
Easy peasy Chicken Noodle soup
A very healthy and quick soup. The noodles make it filling and you can add an egg for a bit of extra protein if you fancy that. I add a dash of sweet chilli sauce at the end and sometimes a splash of soy sauce too. I often use the leftover chicken pickings from a roast for this too. Good way to use it up, you can make the stock using the carcass too if you have the time, if you do then try adding a chilli to the stock to make this soup extra tasty.
Easy homemade blinis
These are maybe a bit more like mini savoury pancakes, but can be made with store cupboard essentials and are delicious, cheap and easy to do. Great with seafood, like crayfish in garlic mayonnaise, smoked salmon with cream cheese and prawns in marie rose sauce for example, andf of course caviar if you are feeling flush! A lovely wee anytime snack.
These freeze well too, so you can cook a batch and keep some for another occasion.
Squid and Fennel Linguini
This is a delicious and pretty healthy dinner, it is so simple to make but is absolutely delicious and tasty enough to be a treat dinner on a weekend. 🙂
Matzo Ball Soup
First tasted this in Montréal many years ago. Not only is it delicious but its well known cure all powers are the reason why it is sometimes referred to as Jewish Penicillin.
Sausage carbonara (linguine alla carbonara di salsiccia)
This is very tasty variation on carbonara. Getting good Italian sausages is a must. These should be available in a good supermarket.