HOW TO MAKE THE PERFECT PASTA

Sophia Loren… Who does not love her? I adore this lady of the big screen , one of her  infamous quotes in reference to her curves was “Everything you see i owe to spaghetti.” So we may not end up with the same curves as these beautiful woman but hey spaghetti can be enjoyed by…

VEGETABLE SAUCE PASTA DISH

Do you know what goes really well with spaghetti especially if you are not a meat lover like i am… It is cumber,carrots,red onions and lots of tomatoes. My son loves this dish so much he almost always scraps his plate clean. And it is a very very cheap dish too,no exotic ingredients in this…

MY BETTER THAN A THOUSAND ISLAND DRESSING

All you need for this dressing are these four things : The salad dressing is great with your favourite vegetables or with pasta. I had it with some blanched broccoli,grated carots,tomatoes,red onions and julienned cucmber slices…deliciously scrumptious is all i can say. I prefer these recipe rather than go buy a bottle of ready made…

OLIVE OIL:GIFT OF THE GODS

Olive oil is a favourite of mine,i use it for salads,for my skin and even at times for eczema . I love the Pietro Coricelli brand and whenever i have money to spare i get myself a bottle. Olives are mentioned in the Bible,they are synonymous with the holy land ,the  trees are native to the mediterranean region…

BOW-TIE PASTA SALAD

Pasta comes in all shapes and I could not resist turning the packet of elbow pasta into a pasta salad I could not get enough of. Colour was  got from all manner of vegetables and I used broccoli and carrots. You can use other vegetables but these are the ones i had at hand at the…

EASIEST SPHAGHETTI RECIPE EVER

“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti” – Sophia Loren . She was not just referring to the benefits of eating pasta but to the overall benefits enjoyed by people whose diet is classified as Mediterranean . The cuisines mostly associated with this diet are from Italy,Greece,Spain but may also include  some 18 other countries that border the Mediterranean sea. These diets use…