Friday, 8 January 2010

Pasta gratin.

After coming back from being with my friends all day yesterday (spending five hours in a café and three hours in a friend's apartment drinking wine), I made a lovely pasta gratin. It is really simple to make and such a great dish in this freezing weather.

vegetables

You need:
- Pasta
- Vegetables such as olives, tomatoes, onions, garlic, mushrooms, paprika and spinach (choose those you like)
- Cheese
- Cream

(how much you need depends entirely on how much you are making)

pasta boiling

1. Boil the pasta until al dente.

onion and garlic
Olives and paprika
mushrooms
tomato

2. Cut onions, garlic, olives, paprika, mushrooms and tomatoes.

Spinach

3. Rinse the spinach and rip it into smaller pieces.

Pasta gratin

4. Mix everything together in the the mould you are using to bake the gratin in, and add cream. MIx some more.

Pasta gratin

5. Sprinkle with some cheese, and mix in some of it.

Pasta gratin
6. Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes at 190 degrees Celsius (375 degrees Fahrenheit).

Pasta gratin

7. Done! Serve warm.