Simple and Easy Non-Frozen Lunch

I could have either 1) sit on the couch, watch TV and then go to sleep and wake up and go buy a microwave frozen lunch at Metro before work OR 2) Take an hour and throw some ingredients together and make a fresh pasta lunch and go to sleep knowing that I have a good lunch tomorrow.

I went with choice #2 and enjoyed a yummy lunch. Not only that, it was a big enough portion to fill me and I didn’t have to spend $4-5 on something that has lots of fat and who knows what else.

With cooking, as I said before, there is no need for a recipe. If you have a few simple ingredients, you can have a lunch, if you don’t eat it all when you finish making it =P

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So here’s my little recipe, alter to your preference or what you have:

Chicken Pasta with Tomato Sauce

Ingredients:

any kind of pasta, small piece of chicken breast, Olive oil, Thyme, Salt & pepper, Onion, can of diced tomatoes, Green peppers, Sugar

Directions:

Cook pasta as directed (I like my pasta on the softer side). Preheat oven (350°C). Meanwhile, cut the chicken breast into smaller pieces, 1 cm thick. Then in a bowl, mix some olive oil, salt & pepper, and thyme together with the chicken and then place it on some foil on a baking sheet (** tip, make the foil into a box, so you don’t have to wash the baking sheet after **). Grill the chicken for about 10 minutes, but it should cook fast since you cut into smaller pieces.  Dice some onions, sauté it with some olive oil in the pasta pot (to save dishes to wash, haha) until translucent. Then add some canned tomato sauce (depending on how much pasta you have), green peppers. Then add some sugar to help with the acidity of the tomato sauce. Add salt and pepper and thyme as desired. Lastly, add grilled chicken and pasta back in and toss!

Cool and pack up your lunch :)

P.S. The cooking time was around 30 minutes, so take some time and avoid those frozen lunches.

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Bon Appetit,

Jenny

Happy Birthday- BANANA STYLE ;)

One of the things I like to do when someone’s birthday comes up or at special event is give them some love in the form of something baked, something DELICIOUS!

So I chose the BANANA cake from Bite Me which I made before and it was super awesome and definitely my favourite banana cake ever… (for recipe click here to my previous banana post).

It is best to use ripe bananas for this cake because when the bananas ripen, it will get sweeter. The starch in the bananas turns to sugar… bananas have three natural sugars – sucrose, fructose and glucose. So the cake will get better as the days go by because the bananas will get to work…

So today, instead of me writing another results of the banana cake, because I will totally go on and on, my best friend who I made the banana birthday cake for, will give his opinion on it :)

T’s RESULTS: Mmmmmm the cake was friggen AWESOME.  I ate it continuously for 3 days and each day it got even better.  It was so moist and the icing made it so much better.  It was probably a bad idea to make this for my birthday because it looks like you're going to have to make it for me every year because anything else would not compare.

hahaha well happy birthday again, T! love ya!

Totally random fact: Oh, did you know there is something called banana beer in Eastern Africa? It is a beer made from the fermentation mashed bananas. That is so cool… I wonder how it taste!

Now go and bake some love this week! And enjoy some sunshine!!

Bon Appetit,

Jenny