Recipes for PASTA or RICE please.........................

[nutcracker]

My two dd's are becoming increasingly fussy with their food. I am not a very good cook so tend to stick to what i know, like roast dinners or chips.

Both dd's (and me and dp) like pasta and rice, but other than sticking some pasta in a pasta sauce i'm not sure what i can do with it.
Rice ideas would be good too, and any tips on how to cook it properly.

Mine love just plain spaghetti with butter and grated cheese.
Plain rice with tinned tuna and grated cheese mixed in-tuna mish mash
Dead easy and eaten by the bucket load!

Love the sound of the tuna mish mash

My dd's like tuna too so that would go down well with them.

Thanks

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Our dds fave pasta is "bacon" pasta, i.e. grill streaky bacon, cut into pieces, chop cooked brocolli, grate parmesan cheese. Chuck it all in with the pasta ans a little garlic oil. Delicious! One of my fave pasta dishes is salmoln flakes cooked with juice of half a lemon (in pan with butter or oven without butter) and chopped green beans served with spaghetti and parmesan

Rice wise, we all like egg fried rice with chicken or ham, or whatever leftovers. HTH.

My DD1 loves rice, particularly when it is "stuck" together in a bit of a goo to make it easier to pick up and eat. I make a hearty risotto once a week - cheap, filling and goes down a storm.

Half a packet of arborio rice (Tescos do their own label on a beige cardboard box)
One onion and a couple of garlic cloves
Two veg stock cubes and about 2 pints boiling water
Finely chopped veg/mushrooms/peas - whatever you want
(Some chopped bacon if you like, not essential
Some grated cheese to thicken at the end and bump up the nutrition value if you wish.)

I just lightly fry onion until soft, bung in garlic for a minute and then add rice. Swish about the large frying pan/wok so the rice gets coated in the oil and stops sticking too badly.Next I add the veg (normally a handful of chopped mushroom but can use sun dried toms, peppers, anything you fancy) On a medium heat, slowly add the stock as it thickens and condenses down. I like to stand and mess about with it, keeping stirring and adding slowly but my sister just plops all the stock in, puts a lid on it, heat on low for a gentle simmer and leaves it for 20 mins. When the rice tastes just about soft enough, I drop in a handful of frozen peas so they thaw out and cook very lightly in the last few minutes while adding a small handful of grated cheddar at the end. It freezes well too so great for batch cooking and quite cheap to make. ("Real" risotto usually has porcini mushrooms, parmaesan and things like pancetta in, but my version is just as tasty and easy and cheap).

Ooooh they all sound lovely. I will try them all soon