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I♥CC Weeknight Favourites! Peas with Pasta, Basil and Pumpkin Seeds

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This week we are looking for recipes, prepared in a blink of an eye and may become a family favourite.

I do a kind of spring cleaning in my freezer. I wanted to use up my peas in the freezer and leafed through the beans and peas chapter from Real Fast Food *. The recipe for peas, fettuccine, basil and pumkin seed was perfect, a chance to use up the peas and nearly forgotten pumpkin seeds. The

Peas with Pasta, Basil and Pumpkin Seeds

Peas with Pasta, Basil and Pumpkin Seeds (3)

could be another favourite dish, because pasta always works in our family. Ready to eat in 20 minutes.

Peas with Pasta, Basil and Pumpkin Seeds

YIELD: 2 servings

Peas with Pasta, Basil and Pumpkin Seeds (2)

Pumpkin seeds are not essential in this recipe for Peas with Pasta, Basil and Pumpkin Seeds: Use sunflower seeds or pine nuts or Use mint instead of the basil

INGREDIENTS:

  • 50 grams pumpkin seeds
  • fresh pasta for two; Nigel recommends fettuccine, I used 250 grams dried egg free tagliatelle
  • 225 grams peas, fresh or frozen, I used frozen
  • 60 ml = 4 tbsp. olive oil
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 8 – 10 basil leaves, torn to shreds
  • salt
  • black pepper, freshly ground

SOURCE

978-0141029504*

modified by from
Real Fast Food
ISBN: 978-0141029504 *

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Toast the pumpkin seeds in a pan over medium heat until lightly brown and fragrant.
  2. Cook the pasta uncovered in boiling salted water until tender.
  3. Put the peas and oil in a small pan, add the garlic. Season with a little salt and pepper, and cook over a gentle heat for 10 minutes, or 7 if using frozen. Add the basil the last two minutes.
  4. Drain the pasta and toss in a large bowl with the hot peas and their olive oil, and the toasted pumpkin seeds.

total: 20 minutes
preparation: 5 minutes
cook: 10 minutes

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I♥CC Rootie Patootie! Broad beans, white cheese and hot radishes

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Root Veg Collage 1The task this week: Make a dish including root vegetable.

Nearly all root vegetables are almost winter vegetables for me and I am craving for spring now. My favourite organic farmer had some radishes on special offer, because the radish green was a bit too yellow. Radishes are also root vegetables and with the broad beans in the freezer from last year, white cheese and fresh parsley from my garden I had all ingredients for Nigel Slater’s

Broad beans, white cheese and hot radishes

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on hand. Nigel Slater says: „The coolness of the cheese, the heat of the radishes and the buttery taste of the beans maka fresh, clean-tastein salat of utmost purity“

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Broad beans, white cheese and hot radishes

YIELD: 2 servings

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A delicious salad with just 5 ingredients: Broad beans, white cheese, radishes and olive oil

INGREDIENTS:

  • 125 grams broad beans, podded; 1 used 170 grams
  • 125 grams white cheese; Ulrike: 110 grams of goat cheese roll, thinly sliced
  • 10 radishes, about 150 grams topped and tailed, thinly sliced
  • 1 tbsp. mild olive oil, Ulrike: Greek Olive Oil Elaikon *
  • 4 sprigs parsley

SOURCE

978-0007248490 *

modified from :
Nigel Slater
Tender Vol. I
ISBN: 978-0007248490

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Cook the frozen broad beans for 12 minutes in the steamer.
  2. Carefully mix together skinned beans, sliced radishes and cheese. Trickle with olive oil and scatter with whole parsley leaves.

total: 20 minutes
preparation: 5 minutes
cook: 12 minutes

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I♥CC April Potluck: Nigel Slater’s mashed potatoes with peas, carrots and burgers

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This week we may choose any Nigel Slater recipe. My student came home for Easter and his brother has choosen

Burger, carrots, peas and Nigel Slater’s mashed potatoes

mashed potatoes with peas, carrots and burgers

their favourite dish for dinner.

Nigel Slater mashed potatoes

Yield: 4 as a side dish

©Nigel Slater mashed potatoes

Nigel Slater mashed potatoes with cream and olive oil

INGREDIENTS:

  • 900 grams floury potatoes, I used Bintje
  • 120 ml double cream
  • 60 ml olive oil
  • salt

source

978-0141029504 *

recipe modified from :
Real Fast Food
ISBN: 978-0141029504 *

instructions

  1. Wash potatoes and cook them in the steamer until tender.
  2. Peel the potatoes, cut into pieces and mash with a potato masher. Warm the cream in a small pan, then stir into the mash. Beat in the olive oil, then taste and season mashed potatoes with salt and pepper if you want

total: 30 minutes
preparation: 2 minutes
cook: 20 minutes

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