Posts Tagged ‘pasta’

Macaroni cheese and mini hot dogs

I love Kraft brand macaroni cheese, the kind that comes in a blue box off the supermarket shelf. Just cook the pasta, add milk, butter and the magic sachet of cheesey goodness, stir it all through and you’re all set! I discovered it when I was 18 years old after moving out of home – […]

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Linguine with Italian sausage and vegetables

Another dinner made by Jac – this time, linguine pasta with a tomato sauce loaded with Italian sausage and vegetables. She served it to me like this… …and I then mixed it through, so it looked like this! The crisp sugar snap peas and juicy mushrooms were great in the sauce. It was definitely the […]

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Lunch at Cafe Ambrosia

I had lunch with my sister CW at the new Cafe Ambrosia, the replacement for Kirribilli Cafe (where we’d had coq au vin for lunch recently) at Curtin University campus. CW ordered the linguine with roasted pumpkin, spinach and fetta. The pasta that arrived looked more like tagliatelli than linguine to me. CW found the […]

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Linguine with meatballs… and cats update

Another shortcut dinner – Jac bought a pack ready-made pork and veal meatballs, a jar of pasta sauce and linguine from the supermarket. The meatballs smelled glorious as they were frying in the pan – I circled around the kitchen like a hungry crow – I just knew this would be a tasty dinner. On […]

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Ravioli with three-mushroom cream sauce

I’d bought some chicken and mushroom-filled ravioli from the supermarket but hadn’t got around to cooking it. Jac decided she’d do the honours, and made a three-mushroom cream sauce to go with the ravioli. She used fresh button mushrooms, dried (rehydrated) porcini and tinned champignons with lots of garlic. She went a little craz…

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Work lunch – spinach and ricotta ravioli with meatball sauce

A takeaway work lunch – spinach and ricotta-filled ravioli with tomato meatball sauce, which I guess isn’t a typical pasta and sauce combination. That’s what happens when I get to choose from a bain marie! Well, it was either this sickly looking salmon cream sauce, napolitana sauce or this very appealing looking meatball sauce, an…

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Wholemeal penne with sausage and mushroom sauce

A simple pasta dinner: wholemeal penne with a tomato, sausage, mushroom and broccoli sauce. Jac’s been buying wholemeal pasta for us instead of the regular kind. I eat it because I know it’s good for me and Jac’s cooked it – I know I’ve said this before, but there’s something about its texture that I […]

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Fish, garden salad and pasta salad

Another fish and salad dinner: barramundi fillets coated in seasoned flour, served with garden salad and pasta salad. The garden salad was very simple: mixed greens, cucumber, capsicum and grape tomatoes. I ate it just as it was, no dressing. Jac used pasta bows (farfalle) in the pasta salad – she chopped the bows in […]

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Lunches from Aroma

On a day when I ate something I’ve eaten for lunch multiple times, I decided not to photograph my food. I asked my workmates if they’d let me photograph their lunches instead. Here’s C’s lunch, a salad combination from Aroma. Not sure what the actual salads are, though. This is J’s pasta combination – lasagna [&h…

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Dinner and bento – Italian takeaway

DinnerThis was one of the best takeaway dinners we’ve had! The food came from Italian restaurant Casa del’ Amici (“The Vale Shopping Centre”, Shop 23, 393 Warton Road, Canning Vale). We’ve eaten there previously and really enjoyed it. Some of you may remember my intention to try their arancini and homemade risotto the …

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