Mamma Mia!

My father decided to go back to his roots and make homemade pasta like his mom used to make on their farm in Sicily. 

The recipe we used is very simple, you only need two ingredients: eggs and flour. 

Since we were having some friends over for dinner we doubled the recipe and made 6 servings which is 8 eggs and 6 cups of flour with some water to help. We mixed the dough up and let it rest throughout the afternoon covered with a tea towel. 

While the dough was resting I met up with my old roommate for lunch at this cute cafe I had never heard of before. The Hot and Cold Cafe is situated on Cook St. It's a very quaint cafe that fits about 20 people, their menu is written up on their chalkboard wall. Their menu is pretty small and consists of soups, salads and sandwiches. They have gluten free and vegan options. 

Trisha and I split a vegetarian sandwich with an almond spread and a fresh green salad with maple dijon balsamic dressing. Both were amazing 

A few hours later we returned to the pasta.

We went for the spinach and ricotta filling which includes: 

500g of ricotta

A fresh spinach bunch (or you can use frozen)

1 egg

some parmesan

salt and pepper to taste

Boil them for about 4 minutes or until they are floating

Add some tomato sauce

and a little Parsley to finish it off

The final product! You can't beat the taste of fresh pasta, and putting the effort into making it yourself makes it that much better. 

Homemade Strawberry Lemonade

Since it's starting to feel like summer is here, Mary and I thought what better way to celebrate being done school then to make homemade summer drinks. Strawberries we're on sale, and I have been having a serious craving for lemonade so we thought why not make strawberry lemonade. It was delicious with both Gin and Vodka. 

You can find the recipe here. 

We made a few adjustments, we added more strawberries, put in 1/3 less sugar, and cut up a few extra strawberries to add on top. 

Serve with ice and enjoy with friends.

FIsh Tacos

After an amazing day soaking up the sunshine, we decided to finish off the day with some homemade fish tacos. For our fish tacos we made homemade guacamole, a green apple, cucumber salsa and a pineapple, mango salsa.

Homemade Guacamole is very easy to make, what you'll need is:

2 large avocados

garlic

salt and pepper

lemon to taste

Mash up the Avocados, and add the other ingredients to taste. We left the pit in the dip before serving cause it keeps the guacamole from going brown. 

Our first salsa consisted of:

1 green apple

1/2 a cucumber

salt and pepper

1 tsp of apple cider vinegar 

Combine the ingredients, mix around a bit and serve.

The Pineapple, Mango salsa included:

1 mango

1/4 pineapple

1/4 red onion

lime juice

Add all the ingredients together, stir a bit and its ready to be served. 

For our fish tacos we chose to use salmon, but any type of fish would work. 

We prepared the salmon by putting some garlic, lemon and salt and pepper. Placed it in the oven for about 15 minutes. While the salmon was cooking we placed our corn tortillas on top of the oven to warm them up. 

Add the toppings you desire and voila! Homemade fish tacos.

Marys cat even got to join in on the deliciousness, with some leftover salmon