Lazy Sunday

On Sunday, I go out of bed at 1pm!!!!! I've not done that in a very long time! I have a really good excuse though. We went to bed at 4am because we had a friend's wedding and my darling hubby was part of the organising team. We were exhausted!
I'm used to making a rather filling Sunday breakfast and even more filling Sunday lunch but since we'd skipped breakfast and I was way too lazy to make a spectacular lunch I decided to try a quick and oh so yummy recipe that I kinda came up with a few months ago. I don't know what to call it and I'm almost sure that someone else made it before I did so I will hold all boasting till I'm sure that nobody has ever ever heard of it (yeah I know - I'm so modest!!!!) It's a dish made out of pasta, sausages, a few veggies and lots of spices. Here goes....

First I grilled the sausages. I always use beef sausages- can't stand pork sausages!

Then I chopped them up

Heated up some olive oil and added A LOT of onions and garlic (our two favourite things to use when we're cooking)

Then I added the green pepper, chopped sausages and skinned tomatoes. Then came the spices (brace yourself) I used garam masala, corriander, cumin, basil, mixed spices, white pepper, soy sauce, worcesteshire sauce and barbeque sauce. Yes, we love spices that much!!! heehee! I usually leave it to cook for about 5 to 10 minutes till the spices blend in and the tomatoes soften (I guess tomato paste instead of skinned tomatoes would be a good idea)

Then I added the pasta (already boiled) and mixed it all up to even out the taste.

I love cheese so I could not resist sprinkling a bit of shredded gouda cheese on top - yum!!!

My darling hubby always wants to do something to help when I'm cooking (bless him) so he made the passion fruit juice - it was soooo good!

It's a quick and delicious lunch. My husband couldn't believe how fast I was able to get lunch ready :) We had our lunch while watching the Bill Cosby show!!!!!! Nice way to kick back and relax huh? My parents have some dvds of the show so we borrowed one and I always pull it out when we need to have a good CLEAN laugh - so hard to get those these days!!!
Don't you just love days when you can afford to be just a little bit lazy?

Going traditional...

Hubby loves traditional Ugandan food. Me? Not so much - especially when I have to cook it. I love cooking but traditional food does not allow me to be creative and I can't stand that.

Anywho, on Sunday I decided to give the hubby a treat and cook matooke!!!!!!!! He was sooooo excited!!!
Even though I knew how to do it I had never done it before all by myself (don't judge!) And since I like to be different and not follow all the rules I decided to make it with a modern twist :)

So, instead of steaming the matooke in banana leaves then mashing it, I boiled it, mashed it and then put it in banana leaves and left it to steam to a nice softness with the banana leaf flavour :) So much faster and easier!!!

Peeling the matooke. I had to make sure I had an apron that would not stain from the sap and I found one at Capital shoppers for 2500 shs!!!

The mashed matooke in banana leaves

Wrapping the matooke

Mama would be so proud!!!! :)

I added some plantain to be steamed

Finishing touches :)

Steaming :)

I purchased a nice cooking pot/ frying pan at the American Club sale so I used it to make pork stew (and also to feel some excitement in the kitchen!)

My darling hubby had to get in on the action too so he made banana and mango smoothie. His smoothies are the best!!!!!!! And no I'm not biased!

Here are the finished products!!!!

The matooke was ok for my first try and the hubby loved it so it felt good that I had finally made his favourite dish. Yes, it took me 6 months but the point is I did it right? heehee!
I'll be doing it again in 6 months soon :)