Tag: rubbed basil leaves

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

My Ratatouille

I had some leftover rice (as usual O-o) and I needed to cook something quick and easy that would accompany it. For some reason that evening we arrived home pretty full, so I just cooked so that I could have something to carry for lunch the following day. Initially I had wanted to stew some […]

 
Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

Tomato and Eggplant Sauce

Did you know? Eggplants are actually fruits and are classified in the berry family. At times when I don’t feel like making something fancy to go with leftovers, I rush to this recipe. My friend Dee will love this. It’s simple and you can pretty much add any other vegetable you have on hand for […]