Sausages from south of the border.... (and fab pasta dish!)

South of the border sausages will not be repeated...! Both Richard and I enjoyed them, but not so the kids! Not sure why... maybe it was the fact that they were both extremely tired, and had a late arvo tea? Maybe I will try it again in a few months...

Recipe is...

slice precooked sausages, and fry in fry pan with 1 onion and 1 tsp garlic. Add 1tsp cumin and 1 tsp oregano, 1 red pepper and 1 green pepper (chopped into small pieces) then 1 cup chicken stock powder, and stir..

Make a white sauce in another saucepan.

Drain (and keep the liquid) 1 can of corn kernels. I made a typical mistake and opened a can of creamed corn, wondered why it didn't drain, then realised what I had done. I just added it to the sausage mix anyway... And will read packaging more clearly from now on!

Add the corn kernels and white sauce to sausage mix, and stir to combine, adding corn kernel liquid if it gets too thick.

Serve on white rice (or we did spuds). Apparently you can add 1/4 - 1/2 tsp cayenne for extra zing, but I didn't. Miss apprentice made a salad to go with it.

Sweet Chilli Chicken Pasta (no photo sorry!)

Now, after knowing my darling for 18 years (yes, thats right, 18 years) and being married to him for nearly 12 of those, I discovered that one of his favourite foods was pasta. I hardly ever do pasta, so for his birthday tea the other night I made the following dish..

500g chicken breast fillets

250g penne pasta (or spirals in my case!)

1tbs olive oil

1 red onion, thinly sliced

2 clove garlic, crushed

300ml light cooking cream

1/3 cup sweet chilli sauce (- may be a little much for kids...)

1C frozen peas

1/2C finely grated parmesan

salt and pepper to taste

Cut chicken into 3cm pieces

Cook pasta, drain, return to saucepan and cover to keep warm

Heat oil in large pan until very hot. Add chicken in two batches until brown. Remove from pan.

Reduce heat and add garlic and onion stiriin goccasionally until onion is soft. Add cream, sauce and peas. Bring to boil, then simmer for about 2 mins. Stir in parmesan.

Add pea mixture to pasta with chicken.

Combine

Season, serve

I made scrummy cheesy parmesan herbed bread to go with it, and a nice green salad.

Went down very well, second helpings all round, and leftovers for lunch the next day.

Definitely a do-over!