Simple pleasure #1

The smell of dinner being cooked away by slow cooker when i get home from work and i know that i dont have to cook, just serve 😍😍😍😍😍

Pork Ragu Fettuccine

Pork Ragu Stuff

We have no idea what Rago is. But we like pork and we like pasta, so hey. What ever. Recipe from realsimple.com but we changed it...

4 carrots, peeled, sliced into dollars and in the pot. 

1 onoin, happy chopped and in the pot.

2t garlic granules (i have no fresh, dont judge)

2t Dried thyme

2t dried oregano

All in the pot.

4T tommy paste, or in our case, 2 Leggos sachets

2 800g tinned diced tommys, (we used the fresh last night, dont judge)

Make em dance

Add pork shoulder/leg/breast/whatever pork has, we just go for the biggest we can find in Woolies. Remove the rind for later crackly delicousness. Smother him up, put in the cooker for 6-7-8 hours for a low, slow, sensuous cook.

When its all done, well add some cooked fettuccine in, mix it, sprinkle with cheese and scoff it all down

Enchilada sauce

Made enchilada sauce, recipe was off gimmesomeoven.com (i think) 

2T oil

2T flour.

Heat oil, mix in flour, becomes a nice smooth off yellow paste. Gross.

Add 1t chili powder (recipe says 2-4T....yea, no)

1/2t garlic powder

1/2t salt

1/4t cumin

1/4t oregano

2c chick or veg stock. We used chicken.

Mix all up, bask in the heavenly scent we created. How did we actually do that. Smells incredible. Looks a little off though, enchilada sauce should be chunky and tomatoey to us, so we added a kilo of good old aussie gourmet tommys, fresh and cut up into 8th, with a T of sugar for the acidity. Let it reduce down, then taste test. Holy sweet mother of the easter bunny, it burns. Added some more stock, more herbs, no more spices and some lemon juice. Let it reduce a bit more, some more sugar and we are cracking. Tastes as amazing as it smells. And it is red, not poopy colour like the pictures show. Its red. 

Note to self, add chili a pinch at a time!! None of this teaspoon crap. 

26 July

Today i attempted marinara sauce, looked at whats in jar sauce, ewwies... Nope nope nope.

800g whole roma tomatoes, cut in half.
Garlic
Oregano
Basil
H2O

Toast garlic granules, oregano and basil in a frypan, add tomatoes and water, cover it and cook till mushy. Salt, pepper, sprinkle of sugar. Blend up to smooth.

Also, planted seeds of Grosse tomato, cherry tomato, basil and oregano this arvo (see the trend there...). Composted veg garden to prep for more lettuce and probs broccoli, current ones are smashing it. Note to self: plant less lettuce next time.

In the spirit of being wildly frustrated with forgetting tips, losing recipes, and dealing with the arguments in my mind, i have decided to store them all. Here. Yay!