Since i have a bunch of cooking books laying around (all vegetarian, no vegan =s) i decided to use my friend random number generator to generate a number, then i open all the cooking books on that side/number and pick the book/recipe that i wanna make the most (or have/know most of the ingredients of xD). Then i lay away the cooking book with a note in for that side so i can easily find my recipe, and generate a new number and choose one of the other recipes/books and lay it away and continue doing this until all the cooking books have a recipe to make xD I told myself i only need to do 3 of them each week though, else all my days are occupied by recipes already, and some of the recipes need like 10 ingredients i dont have, so not so fun then xD
Dunno if i will continue doing it, but i guess i should use the books more and not just let them sit unopened in the closet xD
So ye, first day i picked to make tomatopasta page 134 in the book "Verdens beste vegetar-retter" since i had most of the ingredients and was too lazy to go to shop and wanted a quick and easy meal =p
I did some changes though since i dont have balsamico vinegar and i dont eat cheese and dont have any vegan cheese. I also used lemon juice on bottle and not from a real lemon xD I was also too lazy to measure most of the ingredients, so heres what i used xD
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon olive oil
0,5 - 1 tablespoon soy sauce (since i didnt have balsamico vinegar and i have no idea what it taste xD)
0,5 teaspoon vinegar (wondering if vinegar could replace balsamico vinegar xD)
0,5 - 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Some fresh and some dry basil
Salt and pepper
1 tomato, chopped
Pasta, i assume its around 100g per person? i think i used 80 or so though =p
So i mixed the wet stuff + salt + pepper, then i added chopped tomato and let it mix or something while the pasta was boiling. Then when pasta was ready drained off the water of the pasta and added the pasta to the tomatothingy and mixed it and ate =p
I wonder what balsamico vinegar taste like xD This is a lunch meal btw, so im still hungry >.> Which means i can eat something more!! =D
Ser godt ut, smakte det godt også?
ReplyDeleteSmakte helt greit, men tror det passer mer som lunsj enn som middag =p
ReplyDeleteBalsamico looks like soy sauce, but it's not. The best ones are aged, more thick in texture and is sweeter. The ones that are supermarket bought are a tangy rich flavour and only slightly sweet. Almost caramel-like in aroma. Btw, you need more tomatoes in that sauce. Use about 5-6 tomatoes per person.
ReplyDeleteOki so i replace with sugar or so then for sweetness? xD Maybe would work =p I think i only had 1 tomato, so hard to use more then =p And i tried to more or less follow the recipe that would be about 110 g tomato/person, and 1 tomato weigh like 100-200 g or so, so i used more tomato than recipe called for, but i often find recipes gives way too little food so i often have to multiply ._.
ReplyDeleteDepends on your taste. I've made something similar, took over 1hr just to make the sauce. I like to have a more even ratio of pasta and sauce, so using more tomatoes is good. I found not to always follow recipes to the dot, always made changes to suit my own taste.
ReplyDeleteWell my cooking book project is to follow recipes more or less, then if i find i like it i can twist it more later xD Like the lentil bolognese last week, i already know pasta bolognese from vegweb is yummier but i still tried to make lentil bolognese because random number generator told me to @_@
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