Now I know that I should have had another coloured vegetable on the plate but this cannelloni was absolutely delicious any way.
I used minced pork that I had left over from making sausages (ran out of skins) so it already have garlic and chive flavouring in it. I did add some rolled oats, we really like mince dishes with oats.
I made the cannelloni sheets myself using sourdough pasta. Actually I was going to make pasta but decided to do something different.
Pasta before rolling out.
So after rolling out the pasta (I used a rolling pin) I cut it into rectangles.
I then placed the mince mixture down the middle of the rectangles and then rolled them up into tubes.
I put a jar of home bottled tomatoes on the bottom of my baking dish and then placed the tubes into it.
You want the sauce to almost cover the tubes.
I then topped the whole dish off with white sauce, you can add cheese on top if you have it. (I didn’t)
Bake in a moderately hot oven (180 degree c) for about 40 minutes.
Serve with salad or vegetables, whatever you fancy.
ENJOY!!!
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This dish would have to be our no 2 daughters favourite meal. Creamy pasta with bacon, onions, mushrooms and cheese, and guess what, it is so easy.
I am a bit addicted to sourdough pasta at the moment and I find it quick and easy to make.
To make the pasta go here, otherwise you can use any store bought or home made pasta.
For the sauce here are the ingredients:
onion
bacon
mushrooms
cream/milk or evaporated milk
grated cheese
salt and pepper
You can make this mixture as large or small as you like. If I am making this for our family of 5 I would only use 1 onion, a hand full of mushrooms and about 250 grams bacon.
All you need to do is fry up the chopped up onion, bacon and mushrooms until cooked, add salt and pepper to taste. Add milk or cream, and stir until hot, add cheese and melt.
Mix pasta and sauce together and serve.
Note: I used milk from our own cow for this recipe so I didn’t need to add any cream. I have also used evaporated milk if I have it on hand and this is also nice.
Before Christmas I had been making sourdough bread and we were really enjoying it and then I put my starter in the fridge to keep it alive during all the Christmas preparations. When I got it out I forgot to feed it and it went off, really off, I was wondering what the BAD smell was and you guessed it, it was my starter. So off to the chooks (chickens) it went, I was attached to it, but not that much.
About 2 weeks ago I started another one and it has been bubbling away merrily. As I was going about my business around the blogosphere I came across a sour dough pasta post and I thought I just had to give it a go.
I started my starter by using equal amounts of flour and water daily for a week before using it. After a week you should see clear signs of fermentation.
I’ve made some bread with it using whole wheat flour (ground it myself) but it wasn’t quite right, so I will try again adding a bit more white flour.
I haven’t really made pasta before so I was thrilled that I could use my starter.
My starter
Anyway I found a pasta recipe, tweaked it to suit and it was great. I did need to make the noodles thicker than normal but they tasted great and were nice with the bacon and vegetable sauce I made to go with them.
Here’s the recipe, give it a go if you have time and don’t worry that they may not look store bought – that isn’t the point.
Ingredients
1 cup sourdough starter
3 cups flour
4 eggs
pinch salt
Place your flour in your mixing bowl and add starter, eggs and salt, and mix until it comes together to form a ball.
Allow the dough to sit (covered) for a few hours or overnight (I left mine overnight).
When you are ready to make your pasta just put the dough onto a floured surface and knead a little until smooth. Roll out as thin as you can and slice into whatever size noodle you like.
Your noodles are ready to cook now or you can dry them out on the counter.
Keep an eye on these noodles as you are boiling them as they will boil over if you aren’t careful (learnt that one from experience).
This amount of noodles served our family of 3 adults and 2 children quite nicely.
Then after the noodles turned out so well I thought I’d give pizza a go to take for our beach day last week.
Sausage pizza made with our own sausages.
This was yummy even though we ate it cold and it was great reheated the next day for lunch.
Ingredients
3 cups of starter
2 tablespoons olive oil (and a little for brushing)
2 teaspoons salt
3 cups flour (maybe a little more if needed for the right consistency)
Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl until it comes together to form a ball. If the mixture is too dry add more starter and if too wet add more flour.
All the dough to rest for 30 minutes or more and when you are ready to make your pizzas roll the mixture out on a floured surface until the desired shape and thickness.
I got four pizzas out of this amount, two to eat straight away and two to freeze for another day.
I did rectangle ones and they fitted nicely on my baking trays.
Now you are only going to partly bake this base for about 6 minutes. Once done remove them from the oven and brush them with olive oil. Then top with your favourite toppings and bake until browned and cheese is melted.
They were delicious and I now have two in the freezer when I want a quick easy meal. I am going to try and bake some more this week and get a few more in the freezer.
To get my starter up again I feed it with a cup of flour and a cup of water daily.
If you haven’t tried sour dough before I hope this gives you the encouragement you need to just give it a go.
Now I’m off to make sourdough pancakes for breakfast.
I am the queen of one pot wonders (self imposed title)
I love them, they are so quick, easy and tasty.
Here’s the recipe of the one I made tonight. I think I’ll call it …….
Mince One Pot Wonder
500 grams of Mince
1 Onion
3 Stalks of Celery
1/2 Small Cabbage
2 Carrot (grated)
1/2 cup Tomato Sauce or 1 Tin Crushed Tomatoes
1 Packet French Onion Soup Mix
1 tblsp Olive Oil
Water
1 Packet Pasta – I used macaroni
Place saucepan on the heat and add olive oil. Fry onion and celery until soft, add mince, cook until mince is browned. Then add the cabbage, carrot, tomato sauce and french onion soup mix and water. Cook until cabbage is soft.
Cook pasta in separate saucepan and drain and rinse and then add to mince mixture and combine.
PS: I know I said this was a one pot wonder and technically I used two pots, but you can make this in the pressure cooker or in one pot but you need to add more water so the pasta cooks.
PPS: If you cook this in the pressure cooker just make sure that the pasta is covered by liquid.
PPS: You can add any vegetables or meat that you like to this dish, the process is the same.
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