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| Doesn't look like much, but tastes like Austria. Austria tastes good. |
Christmas, and winter in general for me is synonymous with skiing,
I used to travel every year to Austria and therefore I get a certain sense of
nostalgia for everything a bit Austrian and snowy. I'm a little bit in love
with Austrian cuisine aswell, favourites including marzipan laden stollen, chocolate
covered lebkuchen and goulash soup. I believe that traditional mountain food
needs to be; filling, warming and packed with energy. Trust me I spent a couple
of weeks skiing with squished cheese sandwiches in my pockets in 2012; it's
important to have a proper meal! It is with this all in mind I present to you
the students version of a mountain meal, a comforting, calorie packed pasta
dish, perfect for a frosty day- or if you can ever be bothered to cook after a day’s
skiing! Nigella's version of this uses pancetta, vermouth and banana shallots,
I will be using bacon and red onion (if you have any leftover white wine from a
night out go ahead and use this too- Lambrini however is not acceptable).
Firstly, pre heat the oven to around
200 on fan. Cut around
200g of potatoes
into cubes and add to a pan of boiling salted water. Let these bubble for
around
5 mins then add around
200g of your choice of pasta and cook for around
10 mins. Meanwhile,
heat garlic oil in a pan; fry 2-3 rashers of chopped bacon with a teaspoon of
dried thyme. Cook for
5 mins then add half a chopped red onion. Cook these
together until the bacon is crisping up and the onion softens. Take the pan off
the heat and add your optional
50ml of white wine and 100ml of double cream;
stir this well together. Maybe add some grated
nutmeg too, it's up to you, I'm
not the boss of you. Drain the pasta and potatoes and pour the creamy bacon mix
in with the potatoes into an ovenproof dish. Add
plenty of grated cheese (I
used cheddar but you can use something fancier if you wish). Pop this in the
oven for around
20 mins and enjoy straight out of the pan.
P.s. this will make enough for 2 students,
or one hungry one.
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