Creamy Tomato and Salami Fettuccini

It has been a while between posts.  The weekend before last, I was in Sydney seeing the Boy from Aus, and last weekend, I spent celebrating my birthday.

Last night though, I decided to cook dinner for my friends.  I liked the sound of the Creamy Tomato and Salami Fettuccini, so decided to give that a go.  I also decided to make chocolate custard again for dessert, as it was so nice last time.

I learned from my last cooking lesson that it was important to get out all the ingredients, so I measured everything and put it into dishes.

The EDC was vague about how much I should chop up the vegies for the fettuccini sauce, so I diced some and julienned others.  This was probably a bit of overkill, as the TM chopped them anyway.  I'll chop them less next time and see what happens.

I had an initial panic, as I discovered that I had run out of olive oil (another advantage of laying out the ingredients first).  Then I remembered that I had some butter in the fridge, so decided to use that.  Conveniently, I had 50 g , which was just what I needed.  I buy my butter in packets of 100 g blocks, and I have a real thing about anyone breaking my blocks.  E was teasing me the other day when we were making the cupcakes, as she had to break into one of my 100 g blocks.  It's a good thing she did!  Some day, I'lll make my own butter.

I've decided to convert recipes as I go from weights to measures.  In doing this, I discovered that 100 g of zuccini is about half a zuccini, and that 200 g of cream is the same as 200 ml, which is very convenient.  When weighing out the ingredients for the custard, I discovered that 70 g of sugar is about 4 metric tablespoons, 40 g of flour is 3 tablespoons and 20 g of cocoa is 2 heaped tablespoons.

Everything went smoothly.  I just quietly followed the recipe step by step and it worked!  weighing the fettuccini was interesting though, as it kept rolling off the scales!  Then I had the bright idea of breaking it in half and putting it in the TM basket - much easier.

The fettuccini was absolutely delicious!  The custard was even nicer than the last lot, as I used sugar this time.  My friends were really impressed.  One commented how I would have never thought of doing this a couple of months ago, and mentioned how happy and in control I seemed.  It was true.