Cooking Italian Tomato Sauce
Published by Carolin on Tagged Vegetarian, sauce
Cooking pasta is easy right? For the most part it is easy, you just have to make sure you get the pasta properly cooked and you’re fine. The harder part is cooking or making the sauce for the pasta. Or you think it is hard. You know it literally takes me 30 – 40 minutes to make a tomato sauce for pasta. This sauce is so good that I can not tell you how many times I have had request for my recipe. Now I will tell you it did take me a bit to perfect this sauce. I just had to tweak it here and there. But it was well worth it. The thing I love about an Italian tomato sauce for pasta is that there is room for mistakes. It is not like a cream sauce where sometimes a slight error becomes the end of your dish.
Another thing I love about this tomato sauce is it can become not just a pasta sauce but you can use it for chicken or veal Parmesan. You can use it as your tomato sauce for any of your Italian cooking. If you love cooking with wine than you will love this recipe.
Kids Cooking With Rice Crispies
Published by Carolin on Tagged Chicken
Kids cooking. I love seeing kids cook or help with the preparation of meals. I also love kid friendly recipes that the whole family can enjoy. Recently we have changed our oldest sons diet to a gluten free casein free diet. I should say we almost have. He still gets a tiny bit of dairy in the form of butter and if he is having rice crispies than he still gets a bit of cows milk. The gluten part has been cut out. So I said if we were changing his diet than all of us were going to change our diets as well. I did not want one of us to be able to have something and he couldn’t. So that brings me to recipes. Most recipes have some form of gluten or casein. Just in case you don’t know what casein is. It is found in dairy. So now I am in the search of gluten and casein free recipes or I am changing existing recipes to fit into this diet.
Now it is hard enough changing an almost 8 year olds diet. Then you start messing with some of his favorite foods. You have to be very careful and very strategic. So one of the first recipes I decided to experiment with was chicken strips. Now cooking chicken strips is pretty easy. There are a ton of recipes out there. But none without gluten. So I decided I would try my own. I used Rice Crispies. Now I used an organic brand not the run of the mill ones because the ones I used were with organic brown rice and half the ingredients than the ones from the national brand. I used Natures Path Crispy Rice. You can use what ever you have or desire.
Soup Can Be Quick Cooking
Published by Carolin on Tagged Uncategorized, soup
Easy cooking. You know how I like it. I also like quick cooking especially when I am starving. Which was the case today. I got home and I was hungry and so were the kids. I got them something right away. But I did not want what they were having. I wanted soup and I wanted a homemade soup. Opening a can was not going to do. I know I have said it before but it is true, you can truly make a nice soup in 30 -40 minutes. One that has lots of flavors and warms you up. The other thing about cooking soups is that 9 out of 10 times you have everything in your pantry and if you don’t you can substitute.
Well today I remembered about a recipe I had for a tomato soup. Not your run of the mill creamy tomato soup. No this one has lots of onions in it, some herbs and the ingredient that makes this soup is sherry. It really brings this soup together. You can make this soup in about 40 minutes. The thing that takes the longest is cooking the onions. You want to do this for around 25 – 30 minutes to get them their very sweetest. I believe you will love this soup as much as I do.