Everyday Food

If anyone is in the market for an amazing cooking resource I would highly recommend Everyday Food: Great Food Fast.

This book is divided into four sections; one for each season. Each section has a variety of recipes that use seasonal ingredients. Most are very simple and quick to prepare and each dish has a full colour photo beside it (to give you something to aim for).

The back of the book includes an index, a section on basic cooking techniques (like preparing rice and the different ways to cook a chicken), as well as nutritional information for each meal!

I always find myself cracking open this book, even if it is just to look at the pictures for inspiration.

Whole Wheat Pasta with Scallops and Green Peas

Okay here is the deal, my fridge is seriously stark. Last night in a desperate attempt to throw anything together I made a pasta dish that turned out surprisingly well (with lots of help from my roommate).

Basically we used whatever we could scrounge from the pantry and freezer. The result?

Whole Wheat Pasta with Scallops and Green Peas

Ingredients
- frozen green peas
- frozen scallops
- whole wheat spaghetti
- soy sauce
- lemon juice
- green onions

The whole meal took about ten minutes to make, we just fried the scallops in a bit of olive oil, cooked the noodles and defrosted the peas in the microwave. Then put the noodles and peas in the pan with some soy sauce and squeezed a little bit of fresh lemon juice.

The result was a light supper ready in no time flat !