What did you have for lunch?

**EmperorTud** · 01-06-2009, 02:02 AM

You can freeze it no problem and it will last a week in the fridge I reckon, perhaps longer.

This sauce is the staple Italian sauce used in all Italian restaurants, obviously recipes will vary but this is mine. I sometimes modify slightly depending on what I am using it for.

If you are looking for Italian basil and can't find it, it is also called sweet basil. 6thb will get you much, much more than is needed. Not holy basil, lemon basil or Thai basil!

A single can of S.I.S. or Brooks whole peeled tomatoes (about 25thb from any supermarket) will be enough for a single pasta meal for 4. For me it will make 2 big bowls of tomato based pasta and the steak sauce.
The Italian passata found here is too sour IMO and expensive.
You can always liquidise the sauce after cooking for a smoother consistency and even pass the canned tomatoes through a sieve before adding them but it is time consuming and I don't bother.

It takes a bit of experimentation to get the sauce (or gravy if you are Italian-American) the way you like it, so don't expect miracles straight away.

I like a simple arrabiata pasta sauce so I cook off some pasta (penne or rigatoni fare good for this sauce), fry a couple of chillis in olive oil, add some of the Napolitana sauce and add the pasta when cooked then toss. Add cracked black pepper to finish.
You'll find you get better tomato based pasta sauce if you spoon in a bit of the salty water you are cooking the pasta in before adding the pasta, and also leave the pasta fairly moist.
Don't overcook it either, a good pasta should be al dente.

You can also modify the above recipe into an Amatriciana by frying some garlic, bacon and onions with the chilli.

**S Landreth** · 04-06-2009, 12:10 PM

Spiced Banana Cake with Cinnamon & Cream Cheese Icing

Banana Cake with Icing

Cream Cheese Icing (I made a little more than what is described below)

2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 cups sifted confectioner’s sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

In a bowl, mix the cream cheese and butter until creamy (at room temperature by hand and not a mixer). Mix in the vanilla and then gradually stir in the confectioner’s sugar. Store in the refrigerator and apply to cake after cake has cooled.

Spiced Banana Cake with Cinnamon (I split the mix so I could have a double layered cake)

1/3 cup of butter softened
1 & 1/3 cups of sugar
2 eggs
¼ cup of water

2 large bananas, mashed coarsely not pureed.

1 & 2/3 cups of flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon backing soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

1 tablespoon cinnamon sugar
(1/2 cup of sugar and 2 teaspoons cinnamon in a glass jar, with a tight-fitting lid, and shake until blended.)

Beat (with mixer if you use one) together first 4 ingredients until mixture is nicely blended. Stir (by hand) in the bananas. Stir (by hand) in the next 6 ingredients until blended. Spread batter into a greased 10-inch tube pan and sprinkle top with cinnamon sugar. Bake in a 325 degree oven for about 40 minuets, or until a cake tester, inserted in center, comes out clean (I took it out just before it tested clean). Allow to cool. Apply icing if you want.

**The Fresh Prince** · 04-06-2009, 12:27 PM

Cheers for the recipe Tuddy. I'm gonna give yours a try. This is where I got the 3 hour recipe from, I just don't think I can wait that long.

**English Noodles** · 04-06-2009, 02:20 PM

^It may be like taking your time and marrying a nice girl or just rushing in and marrying a prostitute, there will be a noticeable difference I'm sure.

**matsalleh** · 04-06-2009, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by English Noodles

^It may be like taking your time and marrying a nice girl or just rushing in and marrying a prostitute, there will be a noticeable difference I'm sure.

Thanks for a beautiful quote

- can't green you, am out of ammo!

**Jet Gorgon** · 05-06-2009, 03:42 AM

Thanks for the cake and cream cheese recipe, SL.

**nedwalk** · 06-06-2009, 06:05 PM

^ try a little zest of lemon in the iceing jet, i reckon it just gives it that little something

**jandajoy** · 06-06-2009, 09:24 PM

snags, snarlers, and beer.

oh, and some bread stuff, but mostly snags................................and beer.

It is saturday

**EmperorTud** · 06-06-2009, 10:48 PM

Prosciutto and papaya parcels with cracked black pepper and freshly squeezed lime. A glass of fresh orange juice and a fat-free strawberry yoghurt.

**Frankenstein** · 07-06-2009, 02:00 AM

Chicken stir-fried in curry spices and basil with long yard beans and two types of Thai eggplant. Crispy omelet. Brown rice.

**EmperorTud** · 07-06-2009, 04:14 PM

As I woke up late I am having a 'brinner' - breakfast/dinner, consisting of a glass of grapefruit juice, a bowl of cornflakes with milk, a banana and a Tudder's special breakfast burrito with hash browns.

**good2bhappy** · 07-06-2009, 04:18 PM

Carbonara

**English Noodles** · 07-06-2009, 04:25 PM

Chicken and onion in oyster sauce on plain rice and a drink of water. The chicken was leftovers from lastnight.

I think the whole meal must have cost about B30 to prepare and it was a large, very nice bit of tucker.

**good2bhappy** · 07-06-2009, 04:28 PM

^^^don't you mean brunch?

**The Fresh Prince** · 07-06-2009, 04:29 PM

Some crappy english breakfast in Pataya. The sausages were below par and the eggs weren't great. There was a cup of tea to go with it but I was feeling to lazy to pour in the milk and stir it so I didn't drink it.

**The Fresh Prince** · 07-06-2009, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

don't you mean brunch?

Thats breakfast + lunch.

**somtamslap** · 07-06-2009, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Pot Noodle and a wank.

Seem to be coming increasingly popular, this combo

I made the mistake of ordering the 'American Breakfast', it was ghastly. An egg, 2 bits of microwaved ham, a couple of hot dogs, 1 piece of bread/toast (more bready than toasty) and a small sald on the side with a gallon of sweet mayo on it.
Still, that an a coke for 65bt, can't really complain that much.

**good2bhappy** · 07-06-2009, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Thats breakfast + lunch.

sure
but dinner is in the evening!

**The Fresh Prince** · 07-06-2009, 04:38 PM

Thats why tuddy cleverly coined the new term "Briner". I think it means that he woke up after lunch so is having a breakfast dinner.

**English Noodles** · 07-06-2009, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

but dinner is in the evening!

Not where I come from, and what you call dinner we would call tea.

**Loy Toy** · 07-06-2009, 04:41 PM

My wife's famous fried chicken and some baked ham with a salad!

**The Fresh Prince** · 07-06-2009, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Not where I come from, and what you call dinner we would call tea.

Thats what it was called when I was at school.

**Loy Toy** · 07-06-2009, 05:29 PM

Breakfast................Lunch.................... ... and Tea was the way it was when I was growing up as well.

**English Noodles** · 07-06-2009, 05:29 PM

^^Yep, we had dinner ladies not lunch ladies.

Breakfast, dinner and then tea.

**good2bhappy** · 07-06-2009, 05:44 PM

we used to have high tea as a meal when we were kids
tea was always a drink
my parents dined or had a late supper

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