Tag: pasta

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’sΒ prettyΒ 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 […]