A regular Spaghetti Bolognese

By Za


Hello there! 

Do you feel like speghetti? with something like, no white cream or mixed sauce? 
Okay, let's go for bolognere. Got your tomatoes and minced meat? let's go 


So, we'll need:

• 2 tbsp oil
• 1 + 1/2 tomato. 
• Minced meat of your choice (beef, lamb, mutton..etc) 
• 1 onions 
• 4 Garlic cloves. 
• Origano (optional,) 
• Cloves (optional)
• 1 bay leaf (optional) 
• 1/2 tsp sugar. 
• Salt 
• water 
• Spaghetti. 

• No black/white papper for me, but you can hadd it if you want to. 

Let's go, 

In a cooking pot, heat the oil then add the grated onions and garlic. Let them soften up a bit. 

Put the minced meat and stir (+salt) until cooked. 

Grate your tomatoes (or blend them) and add them in the pot, then stir everything. let it cook for 3 minutes or so, then add water depending on your pot's size (try to fill up half of your pot) 

Add your 1/2 tea spoon of sugar to kill the acidity of tomatoes. 
Add a bay leaf. 
let cook. 

Boil your spaghetti, then drain it.

When the sauce is ready, add your spaghetti to it and let it get homogeneous with the sauce for roughly 5minutes (on low fire) 

Remove you bay leaf. 

Serve in one plate and share it. 

Bsahetkom, Bon appetit, Enjoy 

:) 

Easy PEAS-y Jwaz (stew)

By Za 

I got this recipe from my auntie Sliyou, God's peace and blessings be on her. 
Hasn't been a while? 

well well, Ramadan table brings us back together! I hope everyone is well!

This Ramadan my table consisted on one main dish, juice and some sweets. That's all :)

So, I thought of sharing with you a dish that took me literally 20 minutes to prepare. 

Do yo have peas? frozen? it's ok, let's get started 

So we'll need 

• Medium diced hicken breast or meatballs 
• half an onion
• 3 to 4 garlic cloves. 
• 2 table spoons of oil (of your choice) 
• 1/2 table spoon of paprika 
• salt, 
• Peas (about 500g) or less if you like. 
• water

In a pot (if you have a pressure cooker, it would be much better), put oil and grated 1/2 onion and garlic and let them soften up a little before you add you chicken cube (if you're adding meatball, don't add them yet)
PS: Careful with the garlic - it burns quickly, you may want to add a spoo of water to help it get soft without burning. 

Stir the chicken with soft onions and garlic until the chicken grilled a little and gives a nice flavour, (if things get dry add a tiny bit of water) 

Add paprika and stir more. 

Add your peas (if they are frozen, it's ok don't wait for them to defrost, just chuck them in the pot)

Then, add water just enough to cover the peas and chicken. ( now you can add you meatballs if you don't want chicken) 

Salt 

Let cook.
If you're using a pressure pot, let it cook for 10 munites. If it's a regular pot, you may want to let them cook longer, and watch and feel the peas until they are soft as you like them. :)
you'll notice the sauce is reduced and thicked a little. 

PS: For the meatballs. once everything is cooked, I usually take them out and put them in a pan with a little oil and butter and let them brown and grill, to give a better taste (cover the pan) 

Place in a dish and decorate with chopped parsley and lemon slices (some people love to squeeze some lemon juice on the Jwas while eating) 

Bsahetkom - Bon appetit  Enjoy. 

Pasta bake with veggies - Yemeni Hands

By Reem 

This is a simple recipe for pasta and cheese lovers.

I just followed instructions on the pasta sauce jar.

Cooking time: 40 mins, serves 6

Ingredients:

1. Pasta (i used wholemeal) 3/4 of a medium pack.
2. Cheese (i used mozzarella and cheddar).
3. A generous amount (depends on u).
4. Pasta bake ready sauce (whole jar) I will upload the pic of it.
5. A whole medium red onions
6. A carrot
7. 1/4 green pepper
8. 1/4 orange or red pepper
9. Salt and black pepper.

Method:

Preheat the oven on the highest.

Boil your pasta (salt and olive oil)

Fry the chopped veggies in a bit of vooking olive oil. Start with the carrots, onions and peppers. 

When the pasta has cooked fully, drain it and add it to the pan which has the veggies.

Cook together for 3 mins and add salt and black pepper.

Pour the sauce jar into a deep-ish oven tray.

Add water (not boiled( to the empty jar, shake it and add it to the pasta mixture.

Put the pasta mixture into the oven tray.

Mix it all up.

Put it in the oven.

Take it out in 20 mins.

Can add more black pepper at this stage.

Add half the cheese into the pasta. Make sure it goes all in and everywhere. It will be melting. Yummmy.

Sprinkle the rest on top and back in the oven until the cheese on top is golden brown.

Serve hottt and enjoy.

Here are some picture illustrating the steps: 

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Shtit'ha Batata: Potato Dance

By Za, 

All right, this looks nothing like a dance!.. more like worn-out potatoes. 
Sometimes you get home after a long day of running errands all over the country (well ..at least that's how it feels).. and the first thing you want to do after changing your clothes and washing is EAT! (that's if you haven't already thought of grabbing a take away meal on your way, or you're too broke to opt for a home delivery meal) 
Then you find yourself in that awkward moment when you hit the kitchen and find out you're run out of groceries because you didn't realise sooner that it was the end of the week. yeah.. cr** 
But then your eyes spot the brown-beige-ish color of something hiding in a bag you've started to wonder where on earth it came from.. so you----- piercing the air like an arrow. (your kitchen feeling larger all of the sudden) on to attack the vulnerable confused bag (that suddenly looked so big in your eyes it convinced you it contained of a least about 20 potatoes) only to realise you're crouching with a huge bag in your hand *tight grip* with only 1 potato in it! and another medium one of which half's gone rotten. .. .. 
But you don't despair (you're starving you've started thinking about all the poor hungry people and orphans around the world, and you're now cursing the governments, famine, greed and so on) so your next automatic reflex is to open the fridge. And you're there standing in front of it. It's full of boxes, bags and bottles that aren't edible. they're empty too. (yea, I have this habit of returning bags, packs, bottles, cartons, tins, jars ..etc to the fridge after using the last bite/drop.. i'm working on getting rid of it, but well). You spot the eggs carton- it looks empty- so you decide to chuck it (so you remember next time to buy eggs on your way home and not be fooled by the presence of a carton) anyway, you grab the thing to throw it away when you realise it feels heavy on the other end! your heart beats fast! could it be... *ba dum tsss* !!!! AN EGG !!!!!!! now you remembered there is a god and you don't know or when but you're thanking him like forever. 
So here we go, a potato (and a half) and an egg! what to do? cook them duh!
Except, the issue is not whether to cook them or not. It's is about WHICH cooking method is faster! (with nice results! goes without saying) you don't want to wait for other 20minutes to go! if you can think of way to cook everything ready in 19mins and 58 seconds you'd opt for it. 
the issue's become a dilemma, and your stomach has taken over your brain, you can't think straight.. Alright, that's it..time to use your 3 lifelines. 
The 50-50 seems useless at this point.
The audience opinion is out of the question.. 
You're left with the "call someone"! hell yeah! 
You spin around and run to the phone, unlock, go to contacts, look for M! yesss MUM! *calling* 
You get frustrated .. why isn't she picking up!! only to hear the line ringing for the first time. 
As you're speaking on the phone - Indian drama - you catch sight of some garlic and you welcome the idea of adding that on today's Menu. 


Found it. (thanks to lifeline #3) the quickest and easiest way to get this "bunch" of veggies ready is to lead them straight to the dance floor. The POT! 

Peel and cut the potatoes (into big pieces) 
Grate the garlic (or press it/crash it) 


In the pot, heat 2tbsp of vegetable oil, add the garlic and stir well. 

Add the potato pieces and mix. Add your favourite spices. ( I used Paprika and mixed spices, a small leaf of bay (stir))  and warm water (1 glass and a half) 


cover the pot and go busy yourself with something distracting. (facebook, twitter, TV..anything) by the time you come back, the food will have cooked. 

Don't forget the last surviving egg you found by accident! USE IT! 

Break it on the ready potatoes in sauce, and close again. Let it simmer for 2 mins or so until you see the egg pouched. mix.. do whatever you like with it.. but just make it quick and serve it on a dish! 

PS: you can add a bit of tomato pasta if you've got any. 

Bsahatkom - Enjoy - Bon appetit