Store Cupboard Pasta

I wanted to make something nice for dinner on Monday night for two reasons. Firstly, because I had an exam the next day. And secondly, because all I'd managed to ear during the day was two bananas, a yoghurt and a bag of crisps. Highly nutritious!

So I made an amazing store cupboard pasta. Be warned, this relies on you having a good store cupboard!

First I fried a chopped red onion and garlic:
Then I added some chopped fresh tomaotes (about 3 large ones) about 3 anchovies, and some parmesan:

Meanwhile I cooked some pasta:

I then added lots of nice things to my onion and tomatoes: sundried tomatoes, artichoke hearts, olives, grilled marinated courgettes, more anchoves, parmesan, pecorino and some basil.

I then added all the pasta to the pan too:
I think you'll agree that it's very colourful. Tasty too! I'm submitting this to Presto Pasta Nights, which this week is being hosted by Pam at Sidewalk Shoes.

To add to my lovely dinner, I also made a crumble, as I had some rhubarb that was calling out to me! I put (roughly) equal amounts of butter, flour and sugar in my food processor (I have no scales, so it was roughly measured), and then poured that on top of chopped rhubarb and baked in the oven until lovely and gooey:

Quick cooking

A couple of quick, photo-less recipes.

Last night, pre-cocktails (perfect way to avoid revision), I needed to use up half a leftover butternut squash, that I had roasted to mash earlier in the week. I also had half a little goat's cheese round which I wanted to use.

So I decided to go for an favourite combination, squash, goat's cheese, spinach, walnuts and red onion. The spinach was from the market, and the proper leaves, not the stuff you get in supermarket bags. Red onions I already had, so I just bought some walnuts, and some sage.

I saute'd the red onion in olive oil with some cumin, and added the cubed squash when the onion was soft. I threw in some torn, washed spinach leaves, then the sage, walnuts and goats cheeese, and stirred until the spinach wilted and the cheese melted. It was lovely!

I rarely make desserts, but, in my post-theatre exhaustion on Sunday, I was craving something sweet. There was no chocolate in the house, but I did have some maple-flavoured golden syrup, which I'd bought to make fake blood with (!). I poured some of that over a banana and put it in the microwave for a couple of minutes. It was sooo good!