Minute44 - Dan Schonhaar

Thats right folks!! Was an ace weekend. Nat came down on Friday night and so did Brahn and Laura and I cooked my famous pasta shells.

Recipe:

Mix 2 x 250g pots of full fat ricotta chese, one bag of baby spinnach leaves (cooked and finely chopped), 10-15 green and/or black olives, 2-3 anchovy fillets and black pepper in a bowl until thouroughly mixed. This is the stuffing.

Cook a sufficient ammount of Conchiglioni (large pasta shells) to fill a casserole tray until al dente and rinse them under cold water so it is easier to handle while stuffing.

using your hands and a fork stuff the cooked shellsand arrange them in the casserole tray being careful not to overlap them. Once the tray is full pour a large jar of tomato and basil pasta sauce over the shells, evenly covering them. Use the best quality sauce you can get hold of. I use Lloyd Grossman sauce but pick one that you like best.

Finally sprinkle grated cheese over the shells and sauce and bake in the overn for 25 minutes at 180 degrees untill the cheese is melted and golden brown.

Serve with traditional garlic pizza bread.

Pasta shells with spinnach and ricotta… DONE!

So yeah, I made those. Me and Nat had a couple of bottles of wine too and we just chilled out and it was really nice.

Saturday we got up at an obscene time and then went into alfreton to spoons and then went to Chez vegas to meet Laura and Brahn at Laura’s house before heading into town to go to Pinnochio’s, this little itallian pizza and pasta house that Laura has been going to for 20 years! Me and Dan had Calzone and it was friggin fantastic!!

It was after this that the thing I have been looking forward to all week took place. We went to see the special advance preview of the Transformers!!!

I won’t go into it too much cos I’ll do a proper review tomorrow but it was friggin mint!!!

Was really really ace to spend the whole weekend with Nat. Was just so nice and easy going. That’s what I really like

Bye for now.