Desperado…

The weekend was here and I did not have the slightest idea what to cook for my girl when she came home. She loves pasta…and I had a packet of macaroni (elbows) in the pantry – I bought two packets when they were on offer sometime ago and I had used up one already. I remember there was a bottle of pasta sauce in the fridge but when I took it out to check, I saw this…

14 days? That must have been sitting in there for 140 days at least and although it did seem okay, I decided not to risk it and to come out with something else – on my own.

So I chopped up some garlic and one Bombay onion…

…and seeing that there was no olive oil in the house or not that I know of, the olive oil margarine would have to do – just melt it in the pan. As they say, desperation calls for desperate measures! Hehehehehehe!!!! There wasn’t any (minced) beef as well in the freezer but never mind! I just took the chorizo sausages that I brought back from NZ…and minced two of them. There was also the parmesan cheese, also from NZ, so I grated a bit of that…and I spotted a canned of chopped tomatoes in the pantry. Ahhhh!!! That would be nice! It was good till the end of the year so I could use that instead of tomato sauce/ketchup…and I decided to add a bit of the mixed herbs too (also from NZ) and since I did not have any milk, I decided to use evaporated milk instead.

I melted the olive oil in a pan and fried the garlic and onions before I put in the chopped tomatoes, mixed spice, cheese and a bit of the milk. Oops! The milk changed the colour of the sauce to something creamy orange…so I added some tomato sauce/ketchup to redeem it and restore it to a nice shade of red. It tasted sour so I added a bit of sugar and some pepper as well and that was it! Ummmm…not bad, not bad at all…

Having got the sauce ready, I cooked the pasta and served it on a plate and then I poured a bit of the sauce that I had cooked over it and grated some more parmesan cheese on top of that. Finally, I garnished it with some mint leaves and there you have it!!! My own macaroni dish with my original pasta sauce…

At least, I did not use some bits of lettuce like this Italian restaurant in town, eh?

And of course, the acid test would be in the eating. Was it any good?

Well, I thought it was great – to be honest, maybe it was even better than some places in town and my girl loved it! That was all that mattered! Wink! Wink! LOL!!!