Let’s talk about food baby…**

Let’s talk about you and me, let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things that maybe….let’s talk about food.  

Dear Diary,

I wrote a really long and incredibly tedious entry about things….and saved it as private on its fifth day of sitting on the screen.  The flow was not on and jeez, it was boring to write so god know how horrible the reading would have been.

So instead of writing about shite, and boring shite at that.  I thought I’d write about something I love lots…food and good food.

Oddles to write on this at some point but tonight just the tastiest recipe ever and cheap and in season (UK at any rate)

Original recipe from Waitrose – amendments by Fi.  If you want the original just google, or pick up a lovely shiny lovely card thingy in store, just for goodness sake don’t get your ingredients there unless you are loaded.

Courgette, Chilli and Lemon taglitelle.

Take a good wodge of pasta – enough for four – or however many you are feeding – set to cook in salted boiling water.

In a large frying pan (I use wok) glug in a good dollop of decent olive oil – make it hot but rubbing sticks together or turning hob on

From your garden (market/grocer/if you must supermarket) pick 2 or 3 or 4 medium courgettes.  Half lengthways then slice finely

Bung courgettes in hot olive oil

Fry off until some are starting to colour nicely and it smell all yummily courgetty

Shove in 2 or 3 or 4 crushed garlic cloves and a half or 1 or 2 teaspoons of very lazy chilli (google it – fresh chillis – imagine chopped with seeds)

Whizz the pan around a bit and let it cook a touch more – few mins.  Don’t let the garlic burn – it goes yukky

Grate zest of half lemon into pan, squeeze in juice of said half lemon

Swizz around again

Turn off heat 

when pasta cooked drain it and throw it into pan with other stuff – toss

heap pasta bowls full of yummy stuff and top with freshly grated vomit cheese (otherwise known as parmesan) or cheddar or whatever you want cheese wise.

Oddles and oddles of ground black pepper.  

Take fork, dig into pasta, bring to mouth, chew, swallow, say yum

Fi

* Even if you buy all ingredients from Moneygoes – oops I mean Waitrose – And follow their serving sizes etc then it comes out at 50 pence per portion.  If you make the pasta – piss easy ( 2 eggs 175g flour – knead then roll) and have courgettes and chillis in garden and buy LIDL or other super cheap lemons then I reckon you can get it down to 30pence a portion and that portion is a good carb coma sized amount.  That is without skimping on decent olive oil or cheese. Do it with cheap olive oil or even sunflower oil and cheddar type cheese and I reckon it will be around 15 pence

**And when you are frazzled mum and distracted by worth things such as ironing and darning or FaceBook and OD, bung leftovers into an oven proof dish, top with a bit of cheese and bung in the oven – around 180 ish for around 15 mins,……