Prawns and Snowpeas pasta in a zesty yogurt sauce

This is a great dish when you're short on time on a warm night. The zesty yogurt sauce is appetizing, light and creamy. In another word....PERFECTAMENTE!

Creamy Zesty Light pasta with Prawns and snow peas

I love this dish so much! Basically my friend Squishy showed me two different pasta dish and I thought it would be perfect to combine them. Here's what you will need.

Ingredients:

• Pasta
• Prawns
• Snow peas
• Cherry tomatoes
• Chili
• Parmesan cheese
• Small Tub/cup of Greek yogurt
• Half a lemon ( Zest & juice)
• Garlic
• Basil
• Dill
• Salt & Pepper
• Butter
• Olive oil
• White wine

Directions

• Cook pasta per direction. I used spaghetti but use whatever you like. Same same.
• Heat oil in pan, add the butter to melt then add the garlic, cook til golden and add the prawns
• Toss in the tomatoes and snow peas, add some fresh herbs (I put in dill and basil), add a dash of white wine and chili and add the pasta to toss through. You can actually stop here and have a yummy pasta dish (this was one of the recipes)
• If you wanna try something new - empty of the tub of Greek yogurt into salad bowl, add zest of half a lemon plus the juices, salt and pepper and Parmesan cheese
• Combine everything together and top with more cheese. Trust me it's so good, even my Italian flatmate was impressed ;)

Jamie Oliver's Pumpkin and Spinach Rotolo

So Mr ShyGuy is going to the Freezing Land of nowhere to teach for a year, so I figured I'll make something fancy for one of the last meals he'll have at home. I recently bought a copy of Jamie Oliver's Save $$$ Cookbook and this Vegetarian Pumpkin and Spinach Rotolo caught my eye.

I must admit it's alot more effort than what I usually make (1 pot wonders) and this involved 3 pots and a baking tray....but it's kinda one off (for now) unless I need to impress someone I might make it again. But saying that is not to put you off from trying it, because it was really yum! And looks impressive, it wasn't very hard to do - kinda like rolling sushi, but just need to get all the components ready. Took about 1hr and 30 mins include the 30 mins baking time.

Alrite so let's get started.

JO's Pumpkin & Spinach Rotolo

Ingredients:

• Peeled and roasted pumpkin
• English Spinach
• Garlic
• Parmesan Cheese
• Feta
• Can of  diced tomato
• Onion
• Chili
• Basil
• Pasta sheet (Lasagna)
• Salt and Pepper

Directions:

• Mash up the roasted pumpkin
• Heat up the olive oil in pan, add the garlic and onion, brown and then add the spinach to wilt it and add the chili
• Cook the pasta sheet as per instructed
• Assemble the ingredients as you would with sushi: pasta sheet down, add pumpkin layer, then spinach, then feta, and roll it up. Leave it resting with the "flap" side down
• Heat up the can of diced tomato with more onion and garlic, chili, basil and season with salt and pepper
• Cut up the roll, and plate up with the sauce, add the rolls and top with parmesan