Tag: pasta

Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

One Pot Pasta

Quick lunch /dinner recipe that will leave your taste buds asking for more. This is a dish I have prepared on several occasions. It’s debut on the blog was as pasta motukanio which is a vegetarian version.  

 
Dinner/Lunch

60th: Onion and Pepper Fried Chicken with Yoghurt

Yippee!!! This is my 60th post!! Wa!! Imagine. Thank you all for reading my cooking journal, commenting, liking and even trying out these recipes. I’m humbled. This meal I prepared a while back when we had a friend over for dinner. This dish closely resembles this one , however I used boneless chicken breasts and […]

 
Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

Pasta ‘motukanio’

Motukanio – (Embu/Kikuyu) verb: to add everything together. This is courtesy of my friend Dee. As we were on our way to town from work, I happened to mention that I had intentions of making pasta for dinner. Dee went on and told me of this recipe. You simply make a sauce with whatever you […]

 
Quick meals, Sauces, Salads and Dips

Marinara Sauce

Marinara (mariner’s) sauce is a South Italian tomato sauce. The most of basic recipes has tomatoes, garlic, herbs and onions. It’s pretty good to serve with pasta, rice or even seafood. I prepared this sometime this week to serve with pasta (pasta alla marinara as Italians would call it) and some broccoli on the side. Ingredients: 3 […]

 
Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

Vegetable Stir Fry

When you are a working wife, you really need to come up with recipes that can be whipped up in under 30 minutes :-). So I normally stock my fridge with veggies that can be cooked really fast and don’t need a lot of preparation. So what I usually do is, if I have french […]