Friday, 24 October 2008

Wednesday, 08 October 2008

  • Another recipe: Spinach Tomato Tortellini

    This is amazing! One of my "love languages" for Brannan is food, I think. (Does that fall under gifts or serving?) Anyway, this meal was a winner.

    Spinach Tomato Tortellini

    INGREDIENTS

    • 1 (16 ounce) package cheese tortellini
    • 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes with garlic and onion - couldn't find chopped tomatoes with garlic and onion this so just sauteed half an onion with some garlic before adding other ingredients for the sauce
    • 1 cup chopped fresh spinach - next time I will used frozen spinach since I usually have that on hand
    • 1/2 teaspoon salt
    • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
    • 1 1/2 teaspoons dried basil
    • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
    • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
    • 3/4 cup milk
    • 3/4 cup heavy cream
    • 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese -- I doubled this

    DIRECTIONS

    1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the tortellini, and cook until tender, about 10 minutes.
    2. While you get the tortellini going, combine the tomatoes, spinach, salt, pepper, basil and garlic in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir until the mixture begins to bubble.
    3. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, milk and cream. Stir this mixture into the saucepan along with the Parmesan cheese. Heat through, then reduce heat to low, and simmer until thick, about 2 minutes.
    4. Drain the tortellini, but do not rinse, then pour them into the saucepan with the sauce. Stir to coat, and serve.
    This was good on tortellini, but I think it would be good on just plain pasta too, and it would make it much cheaper and healthier. We will probably try that next time.

Wednesday, 01 October 2008

  • Yummy Easy Recipe

    I absolutely love this beef stroganoff recipe. It is from the Betty Crocker Slow Cooker cookbook. I thought I'd share it with you people.

    Ingredients

    Directions

    1. 1. In 3 1/2- to 4 1/2-quart slow cooker, mix beef, onion, soups, mushrooms and pepper.
    2. 2. Cover and cook on low heat setting 8 to 10 hours or until beef is very tender.
    3. 3. Stir cream cheese into beef mixture until melted. Stir sour cream into beef mixture. Serve over noodles or rice.
    Note that you can also leave the canned mushrooms out at the beginning and then saute some fresh mushrooms in butter and put those in right before you add it to the noodles.

    This dish would go very well with a rich red wine.

    This makes a lot and is super good.

    Please note: You can't get Golden Mushroom soup over here and I have already used two of the three cans my mother in law brought, so please feel bad for me and send some my way. :) (You also can't get Crystal Light, so you can send that too. )

    Let me know if you end up fixing this! I'd like to know what you thought.

Thursday, 10 July 2008