I'm like Dr Frankenstein in the kitchen it seems. Eloise can't get enough of cooking with me and always is asking 'what are we making next Mummy?' and some of the time in the interest of speed or safety I have to say 'not today'. I don't want to dampen her spirits though and so have promised a meal/cooking session each week.
So this was one such recipe and I'll apologise in advance. When you have a very enthusiastic and active sous chef in the kitchen it starts to get a bit blurry - in the photos that is.
First of all I set up a little station with all the chopped ingredients ready to go. I set a plastic bowl next to it so she can fetch ingredients and put them into the bowl and bring to the stove.
The results are amazing - full of flavour and all the frills asked for seconds. Hubby told Eloise she was a brilliant chef and she could make it again next week - she was as you could imagine greatly encouraged (ecstatic!) by this..!
Ingredients:
1 onion, finely diced
1 medium carrot, finely diced
1 stalk celery finely diced
1 clove garlic, finely sliced
4 slices proscuitto, finely diced
2 tb butter
3 tb olive oil
500g veal and pork mince
3 tb tomato paste
1 cup dry white
1 cup milk
400g tin of diced tomatoes
1 cup beef stock
500g rigatoni, dried
Method:
In a large saucepan, stockpot or frying pan melt butter with the olive oil and add the garlic, onions, carrots and celery, stir until the onion becomes translucent
Add the proscuitto and keep stirring until cooked
Add the mince and brown well.
Add the tomato paste and combine well
Add white wine, milk, tinned tomatoes and stock, turn to a medium heat for about 45 minutes-1 hour until the sauce reduces and becomes thick.
Prepare your rigatoni and drain well, add to the sauce and grate some fresh parmesan on top.
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7 lovely comments:
That looks delicious! I love the cooking with Eloise posts. I really hope that one day I have the opportunity to pass on my cooking skills to the Short1
That looks super tasty :)
Think my 8yo would have fun making it with me. Although the 6yo wouldn't eat it... too many diffrent foods touching. Be good meal for our 'practicing eating food that touches' meal night :D
MMM I was wondering what's for dinner tonight - could you use chicken mince ?
Nice on! Looks balanced and healthy, yum. Might try it with chicken mince, good idea Trish! (we don't have beef)
Sounds delicious! And yes I too was thinking of using beef or chicken mince as that's all that is at home and I'm not going to the butchers!
Day #4 of our Frills week sees this being cooked.
I don't have wine in the house so substituted with diluted white wine vinegar but i think i may have used too much vinegar. Will try it again if it turns out too vinegary(sp?)
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