Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Today's Recipe

Today I am inspired to use the slow cooker I got from christmas of my parents. We ahve already used it twice with a slowcooker recipe mix - but this now holds some problems as I am currently doing the Tony Ferguson Diet. So it means in order to cook food in it I need nto start from scratch - good thing I was a chef in a previous life ...hehe.

So todays recipe is going to be like a vegetable and chicken pasta sauce based on tomatoes.

The Recipe:

Step 1:
Dice an onion and fry with a small amount of olive oil in a pan with some dried italian herbs - as we only had some thyme that is what I did mine with. ALso add about three cloves of crushed garlic.

Step 2:
Dice up some vegetales - from the fridge today we have zucchini, carrots and red capsicum. I also halved a punnet of baby roma tomatoes. Toss all this into the slowcooker.

Step 3: Take about 9 chicken thigh fillets and roughly chop into bite sized pieces - add to slow cooker on top of vegetables. Season with some salt and pepper.

Step 4: Scrape in the onion mix, add a jar of Pasata sauce - its an italian tomato sauce. Rinse jar with water and add to slowcooker.

Step 5. Cover slowcooker and turn on high to bring up to temperature, then turn down to low temperature and cook about 6 hours.


So its pretty easy and shall be rather tasty. I will stir in some fresh basil frm the garden just before serving. For my boys I will serve it with some pasta, I think I have penne in the cupboard. For me and my hubby (unless he wants the pasta) I may make some cauliflower rice or serve on some shredded and par steamed cabbage.

Will let you know how it turns out...
Cheers

Long time no post

wow its been a while and I guess life got in the way, I still want to set this up to share my recipes and it will also help me keep my own digital record of the hundreds I ahve in a folder form my chefing days.

Currently I am working on losing 10 to 16 kilos - via the Tony Ferguson Diet. Its not too bad and I have managed to do okay with it. I am loving being in the kitchen more cooking nice dinners.
Over the last two weeks I have made a veggie lasange, stir-fried pork served in lettuce cups (that was tonights and it was so yum - the kidlets even liked it they had seconds despite there being egg plant in it (I really don;t think they noticed).

Anyway vits late and I probably should head to bed, will comtinue tomorrow..
Cheers
Z