For Dinner Tonight...

Brian had to go to work at 4 tonight so I found myself needing to make dinner pretty early. Well, I had totally intended on going grocery shopping this evening. So, I looked in the fridge and pulled out what I had... not a lot. I hit up the index of one of my favourite cookbooks Good Cooking the new essentials by Jill Dupleix, looked under butternut squash and voila! Tonights dinner (which may I say, kicked ass.)

tagliatelle with pumpkin & sage

600g pumpkin or butternut squash (even sweet potatoes will do!)

1 onion

3 tbsp. butter (I used margarine)

300ml vegtable stock

1 tsp sugar

pinch of ground nutmeg

sea salt & pepper

300g tagliatelle or fettuchini

1 tbsp olive oil

6 roughly chopped sage leaves

4 tbsp fresh parmasean (couldn't believe I had that!)

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Roughly chop pumpkin, get rid of seed & peel. Cut into 1cm cubes.

Halve & finely slice onion

Melt 2tsp. butter in frying pan, add onions & cook gently (what does that even mean?) for 5 minutes. Add pumpkin & toss well, then add sugar, stock, nutmeg & sea salt. Cook gently (again!) for 20 minutes or until tender. It will still be slightly soupy.

Add pasta & boil until al dente.

Using olive oil, in a smaller pan, fry sage until crisp.

Drain pasta. Toss into pumpkin. Add remaining butter, sage, parmasean & lots of pepper.

Enjoy!

I gave some of this to Miles (before I added butter & cheese) and I think he liked it (well, that's what I gathered from the funny face he kept making (below)). Next time I'll also skip pepper for him... poor guy had a little sneeze attack.