Fast’n’yummi Spicy Red Beans with Sausage Chunks
Well, sometimes we just don’t have the time for carefully planned meals and we need to improvise some fast. And in this cold weather, what’s more delicious than a spicy meal?
Here goes the recipe for a Fast’n’yummi Spicy Red Beans with Sausage Chunks:
-A can of red bens
-A can of sausages
-black pepper
-salt
-3 chillis
-onion
-garlic
-olive oil
-chopped tomatos
Chop the onion and the garlic and let them fry in a saucepan with some black pepper and salt. Add the sausages in chunks at let them stir for a few minutes. Roughly cut the chillies and add them to the saucepan. Blend the chopped tomatoes and add the paste to the sauce pan. Let it cook for a few minutes and then add the red beans. Leave on low heat for 10 minutes and it’s done.
Oven-roasted Codfish
Marvellous codfish roasted with onions and garlic in olive oil.
So, the meal plan for this week has encountered some obstacles. 😉
We have been having a codfish epic saga since we bought a whole one. We had it chopped at the supermarket, it soaked in water for 2 days and it was frozen. This past weekend we had enough for a meal for three. And Sunday S brought home from her parents… another whole codfish. So in the past days we repeated the process of soaking and freezing. And the week’s meal plan was drastically changed to introduce the codfish! But I still want to the curry tomorrow.
So, here’s today’s Codfish recipe, serves 3/4 persons:
4 chops of codfish
Onion
Garlic
Black Pepper
Vinegar
Chop up the onion and garlic and mix it with the codfish chunks. Lay them in a tray and be generous with the olive oil. Sprinkle some black and white pepper and add a squirt or two of vinegar – not too much tough for it might get too intense. Put it in the oven for 45 minutes to one hour, depending on your oven’s power. It’s done! We had this with some roasted potatoes and rice, delicious to mix with the olive oil sauce!
“I’m so sorry. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I wish I was dead.”
Altough it’s not happening here in Portugal- and it’s not a delicious recipe from Jack Monroe – it got me very upset and I felt an urge to share this with my readers.
Stephanie walked out in front of a lorry on the M6.
Charles took his own life.
Donna wishes she was dead.
The Tories fall asleep in the Opposition Day debate, laugh, jeer, and accuse campaigners of ‘shouting’ too loudly about it.
Here’s a few reasons why I hate, oppose and challenge the bedroom tax. Those that quibble about what it’s called are completely missing the point. Here’s a few to start you off:
For this full story, see Four families every hour being made homeless BEFORE bedroom tax: Real Britain, Daily Mirror, 27 March 2013.
For this full story, see Pensioner killed himself over fears he could not afford his home: 3rd November 2013.
For this full story, read: The bedroom tax discriminates against disabled children: 6th November 2013
Labour peer warns bedroom tax will cost more money than it saves: 1st November 2013.
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Heat your room for 8 pence a day.
Wonderful idea to start saving some money on our electrical bills! Can’t wait to try this at home!
Brás Codfish
A portuguese codfish recipe!
Brás Codfish is an incredibly easy way to make a fish dish fast and tasteful.
But you should be warned that in most countries one of the main ingredients is very hard to find. One of my flat mates always tells the story of being in Stockholm for six months and never finding that main ingredient …
It’s called “batata palha”. If it’s literally translated we can name it straw potato. They’re really thin chunks of potatoes that when fried look like wheat straws.
So, for this recipe you will need (serves 5, 6)
Codfish (about 200 gr per person, 1,200 gr in total)
“batata palha”, an entire package
A bunch of black olives
Garlic
Onion
Black pepper
6 eggs
First, boil the codfish for about 10 minutes. After it’s cold, shred the codfish into tiny pieces. Then, heat a frying pan with olive oil and add chopped onions and garlic, as long with some black pepper. When the onion’s are deliciously golden, add the codfish and let it cook in there for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, scramble the six eggs in a bowl. Then, add the potatoes do the frying pan and mix the eggs as long. Mix until the eggs are cooked as you can see in the picture! =) I hope you like this wonderful portuguese dish, it’s one of my favourites.
New week, new meal plan.
It has been a tough time for the last couple of weeks. Almost felt like burying this blog, Â like many others. Without inner strength it’s hard to get things done. I’ve even almost forgot how much I love to cook and been surviving with a student diet in my last meals: pasta, pasta, pasta. Everything else seems to take too long.
But now I think I got my shit together. And if we survived a hole two weeks with a great meal plan, detailed to the point of buying only the utmost necessary items, we’re gonna plan another week of happy meals (sorry Macdonald’s, it’s better to eat at home in my case).
Banana, Chick Pea and Tea Curry – I’ve reblogged this last week from a Girl Called Jack and it truly seems tasty!
Fake Lobster Pudim- a colleague at work gave me this recipe but we have to carefully plan this because one of the girls that lives with me, T, is allergic to all shellfish and some shellfish eating fish. Fishy, I know 😛
Chicken Breasts – An interesting recipe I found on a magazine my father reads weekly. It’s from a famous portuguese based chef – and it looked delicious on the print 😉
Spicy sausage and bean stu.
This four meals seem cheap and healthy enough for me and basically cover every lunch and dinner for the next week. I’ll keep you posted with my experiments! Now, I’m back to my book before heading up to a very interesting dinner at a friend’s place! He’s a science investigator from India and he is cooking an indian dinner for a small bunch. Bet you it’s delicious.
Desire Dehau Reading a Newspaper in the Garden — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I know I’ve been too lazy in the past few weeks, but I had some personal family problems and blogging was not my mood lately ! But, none the less, I’ve been cooking on some of my weekly meal plans with savory new recipes 🙂 here’s a beautiful painting I found on a marvelous blog I follow to keep this homepage fresh and new 🙂
Banana, chickpea and tea curry (trust me on this one, it’s amazing.)
This is my take on a banana curry I had in the Isle of Wight after the literary festival. It’s not a traditional Kashmir curry, as I used what I had in the cupboard, but it is utterly delicious. The tea is the twist, but trust me, it works, lending a slightly smoky, sweet flavour. I love tea, I must use it in more recipes…
(I’ll cost this up tomorrow – I’m knackered!)
Ingredients (serves 4, if served with rice):
1 tbsp oil
1 onion, finely sliced
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
1 red or green chilli, finely chopped, or generous pinch of dried
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp cinnamon
400g canned chickpeas
200g canned mandarins (peaches or apricots would work too)
300ml strong tea
2 bananas
200ml natural yoghurt
Handful of coriander, or mint, or parsley, chopped
First, add the onion, chilli and garlic to a sauté pan…
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Quick banana custard
And wonderful recipe from Miss Monroe
I had two sad little bananas in the fruit bowl this evening and fancied a quick comforting dessert – so here we have it, banana custard!
Makes around 3/4s of a pint (served three):
Ingredients:
2 bananas
300ml cold water
6 tsp dried skimmed milk
2 tbsp flour
2 egg yolks (the whites can be frozen until needed – don’t throw them away!)
Optional: 1 tbsp sugar (I didn’t use it and didn’t think it needed it, but I don’t have much of a sweet tooth)
Break the banana into chunks and combine it with the water and dried skimmed milk in a blender (if you want to use liquid milk, just use 300ml in place of the powdered milk and water). Blend for 30 seconds until smooth.
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Codfish cravings
I’m craving for some codfish these days – it’s normal for a Portuguese.
Did you know that we have a saying that we can cook codfish in a 1000 ways?
So I’ll try to make two codfish recipes this week, very famous here in Portugal, the “Brás Codfish” and “Creamed Codfish”.
I’ll post the recipe here after I cooked them, maybe today If I can’t control my cravings.
A Lusitanian Worker 