Smoked Salmon Tagliatelle.

Hi fellow foodies!!

First, I apologise for missing a post last week. The bad news is I was unwell and did not really do any cooking. The good news is, Monsieur Lacour made me meals, and took pictures to help with the blogging. Still with this month’s theme, cancer fighting foods, we focus on oily fish today. Fish oil provides omega 3 which is a powerful anti-inflammatory for our body. The oily fish for this post is Salmon. We bought Irish smoked salmon and prepared it in 3 meals over the course of last week. My favourite was tagliatelle pasta au salmon. By now you have noticed we eat a lot of pasta, but with our schedules, it makes for an easy meal. This here is a savoury creamy pasta that will leave your mouth watering. Here goes.

    SERVES 2

    INGREDIENTS.

1. 8 tagliatelle nests
2. 150 grams of smoked salmon
3. Half an onion
4. 2 garlic cloves
5. 2 celery sticks
6. 1 Carrot
7. 6 mushrooms
8. 2 table spoons of cream cheese
9. Parsley
10. Salt, pepper and grated nutmeg to taste.

METHOD.

1. Put a pot of water to boil and add a tea spoon of salt.
2. While the water boils, prep the vegetables. Dice the onions, garlic, carrots and celery. 
3. When the water is boiling, drop in the tagliatelle for about 9-12 minutes. (Follow packet instructions, fresh tagliatelle would cook for a shorter time.)

1. 4. In a pan, fry the onion and garlic. When the onions are translucent and garlic golden, add the celery and carrots. Cover for 3-4 minutes.

  5. Rinse the mushrooms and then slice them. (Remember, to wash mushrooms at the last minute. They tend to absorb water and this will make them over cook. ) Add them thereafter.

  6.  Add some salt and pepper and grate some nutmeg over the pan. Stir. Then add two table spoons of creme cheese.

      7.  Slice the salmon into strips.

Two table spoons of creme cheese.

salt, pepper and nutmeg.

  8.  By now the pasta should be ready. Drain it and put it aside.

  9.  Add the salmon and stir it in for 1minute then add the cooked tagliatelle.

  10.  Stir the pasta, and coat it with the creamy salmon sauce for about one minute.
 Switch off the cooker and its ready to serve.

11. Garnish with parsley, serve and enjoy.

Yours,
Monsieur et Madame Lacour.

Fresh Fusili Salad.

  November is prostate cancer awareness month and while monsieur Lacour is growing his beard as a sign of solidarity for those affected by the disease, I have taken it upon myself to try and create meals that incorporate cancer fighting foods. For this week, I chose to use broccoli in most of my meals. I made a pork curry with broccoli steamed in rice. (I will post a picture of this at the end of today’s meal presentation.) The second meal I made was a pasta dish, a pasta salad that incorporated broccoli and tomatoes, which is also another cancer fighting food. I made a mustard and anchovy dressing for the salad since cold pasta doesn’t taste like much.

       INGREDIENTS

1.       3 Handfuls of fusilli pasta.

2.       Salt.

3.       1 cup of broccoli.

4.       2 tomatoes.

5.       10cm long cucumber.

6.    50 grams of mature cheddar cheese.

7.       2 table spoon of mustard.

8.       1 tea spoon of anchovy paste. 

9.       2 table spoons of olive oil.

10.    1 small garlic clove- ground.

11.  Half tea spoon of mixed herbs.

METHOD.

1. In a big pot, bring water to a boil, then add tea spoon of salt followed by fusilli pasta. Cook for 15minutes.

2. While the pasta is cooking, prep the other vegetables; dice the tomatoes, cheese and slice the cucumber.

3. Rinse the broccoli, and once the pasta at the 10 minute mark, add in the broccoli to cook for the next 5 minutes.

4. For the dressing, Combine the mustard, anchovy paste, crushed garlic clove mixed herbs and olive oil . Whisk until there is a consistency and the olive oil cannot be seen. Put aside. (If you don’t have anchovy paste, you can add an extra half a  teaspoon of salt, in its place.)

5. Drain the cooked pasta and broccoli. After, take a pot fill with ice cold water, and leave for 5 minutes.

6.In a large bowl, mix the All the ingredients together, and then a pinch of salt and the dressing. Continue mixing until all the ingredients are covered with the dressing.

7. Serve and enjoy.

Yours,

Madame Lacour.

PS. The meal I promised incorporating broccoli, as seen below, is a Sweet and spicy pork curry with steamed rice. DELICIOUS!!