Archive for the ‘Noodles and Pastas’ Category
Seafood Linguine
This is my finalized recipe for the Seafood Pasta I posted earlier. Remember that one? I’ve been toying with making good seafood pasta ever since I found those mixed seafood packs in Rustan’s. This time around I used Linguine noodles. If you want to make a pasta dish with seafood, the best kind of pasta would be spaghetti or linguine.
Seafood Pasta
With the pack of mixed seafood I wrote about earlier, I decided to make Seafood Pasta, in a white wine and tomato sauce. One of the Italian restaurants in Cebu I like is La Tegola and one of my favorite dishes they make is Pasta al Cartoccio, which is seafood pasta in a tomato sauce. After cooking the pasta and mixing in the sauce, they wrap it up in foil and let it stay inside the oven for a couple of minutes. The dish is usually served unopened to your table and a waitress/waiter opens it in front of you. The smell that first lets out of that foil is heavenly!
Spaghetti Carbonara
Okay, so dinner tonight was a major disaster. D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R.
The dish itself was delicious and far from being forgettable. So, what went wrong, you might ask?
Let me paint a picture of my life. I grew up with a French dad that is stubborn, close-minded, and refuses to admit he’s ever wrong. I used to ask myself how he ever got through life with these negative traits. I still wonder to myself if he’s always been that way or maybe he’s acquired it through time because I don’t know how you can travel around the world and still be close-minded. Anyways, a couple of years ago, my Filipina mother passed away. And a couple years after that, I got married to a wonderful man. Days before my wedding, I could not help but think about my new life. I was becoming someone’s wife and I thought of my dad. What would happen to him? Would he live alone? We’d never talked about it in the months of wedding preparation. How did that topic never come up? I was seriously getting depressed. I loved my husband but I could not grasp the idea of letting him live alone at 75 years old. On my mom’s death bed, he promised he would never love another woman, and he never did after that. Could I leave him then? No I could not. I was torn.
Spaghetti Bolognese
I don’t know why but for some reason I always thought Bolognese sauce was a simple tomato sauce sometimes served with meat. I realized my mistake when my girl friends and I went to an Italian restaurant and found pieces of carrots and celery in my plate. And that’s when I thought, “hmmm…what have I been eating all this time?” Turns out, I was confusing Bolognese sauce with Marinara or Pomodoro sauce.
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca is one of Hubby’s most-loved pasta dishes. He prefers to eat it at home than at restaurants because I put a lot of anchovies. Made with anchovies, capers, and olives, Spaghetti alla Puttanesca or Whore’s Spaghetti originated in Naples, Italy. Many theories have come up on how its scandalous came to be but until now no specific explanation has been pinpointed to.
Chicken and Veggies Noodles
I had bought earlier that day a pack of prepared and cut vegetables (the ones specifically used to cook Chopsuey). These packs are very convenient when you have little time in the kitchen. The only disadvantage is that you have to use the pack as soon as possible since the vegetables are already cut. On that night, I did not particularly like to cook or eat Chopsuey; I was in the mood for something more adventurous. I wanted to try my own thing. I thought to myself why should I use these vegetables for Chopsuey only, yeah it says on the tag “Chopsuey Mix” but there’s must be something else I can cook with it. And so came the dish, Chicken and Veggies Noodles (not a very original name, but I didn’t know what else to call it).
Beef Stroganoff
As fancy as its name may be, one might assume that hours may be needed to prepare this delicious dish. On the contrary, Beef Stroganoff may be the quickest-to-make fancy-named dish around. Ever since I accidentally stumbled on this recipe online, Beef sSroganoff has been a frequent visitor at our dinner table. I even recall doing this for a project in school and it was quite a success. It is as successful in our house. I usually serve it with pasta but it goes well with rice.
Beef Stroganoff is a Russian dish. It was named after Count Pavel Stroganoff, however studies have now showed that this dish was well-known before Count Stroganoff’s time. Beef stroganoff was first featured in an American book somewhere in the 1930’s and since then has gone through some changes. There are now many ways to cook Beef Stroganoff.
Pasta a la Fresca with Pan-Seared Salmon Fillet
I saw the recipe for the pasta on a local TV show a couple of weeks ago and as the woman was finishing cooking, I couldn’t help but notice how easy and appetizing this recipe is. I promised myself I would try this soon and I finally did last night. I haven’t been feeling well these past few days so I really wanted to cook something in a flash for dinner. I immediately thought of this recipe. It’s so simple that I had it memorized in mind for weeks now. Hubby bought salmon fillet in the morning and I thought they would make a great accompaniment as long as I held off the sauce and just pan-seared it. Salmon is one of my favorite fish. I like it even better when raw.
- Pasta a la Fresca
