Posts Tagged ‘tomato’

Huevos Rancheros Huevos rancheros is the perfect brunch, something a bit more special than your average fry up. Its basically eggs fried/poached in a spicy tomato salsa. I’ve seen recipes where you fry the eggs separately and add the salsa on top, but I prefer cooking the eggs in the sauce. If you were being authentic, you […]

Pasta with Tomato and Creamy Pesto This is a summery fresh dish dreamt up by using what was in my friend Jen’s fridge, and pretty good it came out too. We fried some muhrooms and garlic, added them to pasta with pesto and a dollop of yoghurt, then we added fresh tomato at the end. We used vine tomatoes, but cherry […]

Pasta with Anchovy and Tomato Sauce More pasta and more anchovies. You may be forgiven for thinking I’m obsessed, which is partly true, but you can’t can’t really go wrong with pasta can you? And anchovies are the perfect storecupboard ingredient. Having spent most of the Bank holiday watching Jamie Oliver on BBC Food, I had a hankering for pasta, I […]

Spaghetti with tomato and almond pesto This is based on a recipe from Jamie’s Italy, its a delicous variation on pesto using almond instead of pine nuts and squishing the mixture into lovely ripe tomatoes to make a fresh and tasty sauce. Make sure you use good quality tomatoes, definitely not cold from the fridge, I used cherry tomatoes because they […]