{"id":6053,"date":"2025-11-02T07:52:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2025-11-02T07:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:52:50","slug":"one-pot-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=6053","title":{"rendered":"One Pot Pasta"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internet abounds with quick-and-easy recipes. An example being One Pot Tomato Basil Pasta Recipes<\/a>. In general they are either not that quick-and-easy, or not very good.<\/p>\n

But with a bit less quick-and-easy, they can be relatively easy, still quick, and quite tasty.<\/p>\n

I started with this keyingredient recipe<\/a>. As a guideline. So.<\/p>\n

One onion, mandolined. Stuck half of it in a pot with some of the fat drippings I keep in the fridge from previous projects, added one small diced smoked chicken breast, fried that up a little.<\/p>\n

Added half a tin of leftover chopped tomatoes and a diced yellow pepper from the freezer from back when they were selling then cheap. Left it going while I halved and salted a punnet of cherry tomatoes. Added dried chillies and oregano as recommended, one vegetable stock cube, a tablespoon of chicken stock powder, a litre of water, the tomatoes and the other half of the onions, and a third of a pack of screw noodles.<\/p>\n

The latter was a mistake — these screw noodles went a lot quicker than I expected so they were a bit mushy in the end, which came more quickly than I expected.<\/p>\n

Fished everything out with a slotty spoon, reduced the sauce, added everything back together and added a bunch of basil leaves.<\/p>\n

It was damn tasty I tellya.<\/p>\n

 

The Internet abounds with quick-and-easy recipes. An example being One Pot Tomato Basil Pasta Recipes. In general they are either not that quick-and-easy, or not very good. But with a bit less quick-and-easy, they can be relatively easy, still quick, and quite tasty. I started with this keyingredient recipe. As a guideline. So. One onion, mandolined. Stuck half of it in a pot with some of the fat drippings I keep in the fridge from previous projects, added one small diced smoked chicken breast, fried that up a little. Added half a tin of leftover chopped tomatoes and a diced...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foooooood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6054,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions\/6054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}