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Old 02-04-2008, 19:39
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Any quick and easy Pasta recipes please. What accompanying Meat or veg & sauces.

Ta in anticipation
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Old 02-04-2008, 20:31
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Any quick and easy Pasta recipes please. What accompanying Meat or veg & sauces.

Ta in anticipation
I like tuna and mayoniasie mixed in with hot pasta and chunks of tuna get trapped in the pasta...pure gorgeous.
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Old 02-04-2008, 22:46
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I nicked this from someone else, I've not tried it yet but I'm determined to make it this week.
chop leeks, fry in some butter, with some salt and plenty of black pepper, maybe a little garlic, maybe some chopped bacon. Once cooked, add the cream ( creme fraiche works well too ), stir and simmer for a couple of minutes. Taste to see if it needs any more salt. Stir in cooked pasta.
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Old 03-04-2008, 01:01
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CHopped bacon, fried with garlic. Stir in half a tub of pesto and had a small tub of single cream. Cook some tagliatelle and add to the cream pesto bacon sauce. Stir through and add some grated parmigianno cheese. Serve with topped chopped basil.

Lovely!
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Old 03-04-2008, 07:31
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Tuna,Pesto sauce,cheese pasta

Cook pasta
Mix in tuna,pesto sauce and cheese mix it all up then sprinkle more cheese on top and cook in oven.


Bolognese sauce
Pasta
White sauce (bechemel)
Cheese
Garlic
Cook pasta,drain and mix with crushed garlic

Add some pasta in a baking dish,then a couple of spoons of white sauce and cheese, repeat again and just end up with white sauce and cheese and bake in oven. bit like a poor mans lasagne but its gorgeous.
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Old 03-04-2008, 07:54
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Carbonara is always nice

Cook pasta

Fry some bacon/pancetta until golden.

Chuck in 2-3 cloves chopped/crushed garlic and cook for a bit

Beat 2-3 eggs together with some grated parmasan..

Put pasta in pan with bacon and garlic

Throw on egg/cheese mix and remove from heat. Heat from pan and pasta will cook eggs.

Season to taste.

Serve before it scrambles with more cheese on top.
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Old 03-04-2008, 08:26
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This is sooooo quick....

Taglietelli,
Bacon pieces or cubes
peas
onion
Campbells mushroom soup


Fry onion and bacon, add soup un diluted, add frozen peas and then cooked taglietelli. Heat and serve
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Old 03-04-2008, 10:33
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Fry some leeks and mushrooms (with a little tarragon, if wanted), add some creme fraiche. Put on pasta.

Chop us some aubergines into small chunks, fry in olive oil, garlic, a little chilli. Add some chopped up already cooked sausages and a small tin or sachet of tomatoes (depending how many for).

Fry some asparagus in butter, add some lemon juice, add to pasta with peas and/or chopped up artichoke heats.

Cook some courgettes and spinach. Heat up some creme fraiche, add vegetables to it and add to pasta.
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Old 03-04-2008, 10:56
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Qick and easy carbonara(Jamie oliver recipe)

Spaghetti
1 lemon
rosemary
single cream
parmisan
sausages
smoky bacon
1 egg
pepper

open sausages and use filling to make small meatballs,fry with the chopped bacon,add sprigs of rosemary.

Mix a pint of double cream,egg yolk,parmisan and rind of lemon in a jug. Stir into cooked spaghetti,add meatballs.

Enjoy

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Old 03-04-2008, 11:06
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I cook this for my veggie friends but it's so delicious myself and hubby often have it now!

Dice aubergine and season, fry it with some garlic.
Once softened add a few tablespoons of tomato puree
Add a tin of tomatoes and a spoon of sugar and season again. Leave to simmer

cook pasta, when sauce is thickened. Drain pasta, toss into sauce. Garnish with toasted pine nuts, torn fresh Basil leaves, and freshly grated parmesan.
Delicious!!
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Old 03-04-2008, 13:42
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A very easy, but very tasty one - more for summer:

Smoked salmon
Creme Fraiche
Herb des Provences

Dice the salmon as large as you want, mix in with the other ingredients.

Pour the cooked and strained pasta over the top and mix until happy.

A really fresh, clean taste.
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Old 03-04-2008, 16:26
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I think I've posted this before but it's so good and so simple it's worth posting again:

sautee 1 onion, 2 large cloves of garlic 2 sliced red peppers and 3 sliced courgettes, when slightly softened chuck in a glass of dry wine, around 5 or 6 diced sundried tomatoes, around 10 diced kalamata olives, a large pinch of crushed chilli, and a handful of fresh chopped parsley, cook it all up to the consistency you like, stir it into some cooked wholemeal pasta and top with freshly grated parmesan.
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Old 03-04-2008, 16:45
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This takes as long as it takes for the tagliatelle to cook to get the pasta on first. This is for 2 people.

2 courgettes - use tattie peeler to make into ribbons. Fry in oil and garlic for 6/7 minutes.

Add juice of half a lemon, a dollop or 2 of creme fraishe, some chilli flakes, some parmesan or strong cheddar, salt & pepper. No need to be exact with anything - to taste really. Mix through whilst still on the heat.

Drain the tagliatelle and stir through some pesto. Pasta on to plate and courgette mixture on top. Lovely and fresh.
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Old 03-04-2008, 17:18
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Looks like creme fraiche is everyone's friend!
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Old 03-04-2008, 17:31
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Very easy and quick dish.

Pasta Shells
Ham (or bacon)
Philidelphia Cheese
Single Cream
Garlic

Boil the pasta shells and cut up the Ham or Bacon into small pieces and lightly fry in olive oil with fresh garlic. When the pasta is almost ready, put half to three quarters of a tub of Philidelphia Cheese into the frying pan and let it melt. Drain the pasta and then add the cream to the frying pan, enough to warm it but don't let it boil.

Add the mix from the frying pan back into the pan of pasta and stir. Serve immediately with a sprinckle of pepper or paprika to add a little colour.

Very easy, very quick and very tasty.
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Old 03-04-2008, 20:28
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Thanks to everyone who has replied. They all sound rather good. I will give them a whirl over time.

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Old 08-04-2008, 09:58
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You can sauteč pretty much any vegetable and add it to pasta - peppers, peas, aubergines, zucchini, mushrooms, asparagus, artichokes, cabbage (yes, yes, add also a bit of white sacue and gratin it in the oven, you'll see the result).... .
Basically, anything you have in your cupboard or fridge can be added to pasta, that's its beauty: you have any leftover seafood (squid, prawns, mussels, anything, really), sauteč them in a little oil and garlic and throw them on the pasta, with or without tomato sauce. Or a simple can of tuna (with a tiny bit of oil), just on the pasta and mix it. Lovely.
Most type of cheeses go well on: grate them (or, if fresh, just pour them on the hot pasta with a little cooking water left and lots of grated Parmesan) and mix them with the hot pasta.
Try gorgonzola, mozzarella, Cheddar and another cheese, all mixed together and melted before pouring on pasta, and you can call it 4 cheeses pasta.
Meat, that's a little more difficult: ham, both cured or not (the Parma one) do marry well, sausage does, minced meat, but I wouldn't use chicken, for example.
You still have ample choice, haven't you?
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