Its cold today, really brrrr cold. The type of cold you need a hot bath when you get home to warm your toes after the 10 minute walk home from the bus stop. The ground thought it was cold too. The pavement sparkled like it had little tiny diamonds.
I had my bath, had a quick browse through my twitter feed and I fell upon Nigella Lawson's picture of what she is eating tonight. Truffle risotto. It looked so comforting that it inspired me to cook something really comforting and warming.
I needed to boil some pasta to beef up another dish for my work lunch box (I love taking in home cooking that can quickly be microwaved at work - a bit of comfort in the office that usually starts conversations as my colleagues smell my food!)
In a frying pan I put in some chopped bacon to start and then added some peppers and mushrooms that needed using up. Chopped an onion, garlic, added a generous handful of chopped kale and lightly fried together.
To finish I added some soft goats cheese to make a sauce and added the pasta to the frying pan. I like the pasta to really mingle with the other flavours for the last five minutes. I also love the pasta to just get a little browned.
All the ingredients for this meal (apart from the pasta) were left overs from the weekend. Kale, well we always have some kale on hand at this time of year. One of those excellent, hardy, winter veg.
What I got was a really comforting, curl up by the fire kind of a meal. Exactly what I wanted and I didn't even need to season it.
Ingredients
Bacon (chopped, 3 slices)
Onion (one onion chopped)
Garlic
Kale (4 medium pieces of kale, roughly chopped)
Capsicum Peppers
Mushrooms
Goats cheese (with added chives, soft cheese)
Pasta
I needed to boil some pasta to beef up another dish for my work lunch box (I love taking in home cooking that can quickly be microwaved at work - a bit of comfort in the office that usually starts conversations as my colleagues smell my food!)
In a frying pan I put in some chopped bacon to start and then added some peppers and mushrooms that needed using up. Chopped an onion, garlic, added a generous handful of chopped kale and lightly fried together. To finish I added some soft goats cheese to make a sauce and added the pasta to the frying pan. I like the pasta to really mingle with the other flavours for the last five minutes. I also love the pasta to just get a little browned.
All the ingredients for this meal (apart from the pasta) were left overs from the weekend. Kale, well we always have some kale on hand at this time of year. One of those excellent, hardy, winter veg. What I got was a really comforting, curl up by the fire kind of a meal. Exactly what I wanted and I didn't even need to season it.
Ingredients
Bacon (chopped, 3 slices)
Onion (one onion chopped)
Garlic
Kale (4 medium pieces of kale, roughly chopped)
Capsicum Peppers
Mushrooms
Goats cheese (with added chives, soft cheese)
Pasta
