Out-of-the-garden pasta.

[jansman]

To be more specific it is called Spaghetti Florentine. A favourite in our house, as it uses ingredients from our garden. It can contain meat, or be vegetarian. You will need:
Minced beef (optional) I use 340g for 3of us
Spaghetti or pasta of your choice
A drop of cooking oil
One onion, chopped.
One clove garlic, crushed.
Four sticks celery, chopped.
Four tomatoes, chopped(or tinned will do).
A good colander full of spinach(or for us perpetual spinach)
1/2 tsp each dried oregano and basil
1 tsp salt and a good old twist of fresh black pepper
50g grated Parmesan.

Cook your pasta, as per packet instructions.
Fry up the mince in a drop of oil , then add the onion,garlic and celery. Fry gently for 5 mins. Then add salt, pepper and herbs. Then tomatoes. After a few mins. Add the spinach, wilt it down, stir in well. Then add to the drained pasta, along with the parmesan(or even grated cheddar). Serve hot.

This recipe uses garden produce along with storage items. Enjoy.

[nickdutch]

And instead of the pasta, you could use a spiral cutter ("Spiralizer") on some courgettes and carrots. They end up nice and thin and stringy, and to soften them up a bit you can lightly steam them (although I haven't yet tried steaming spiralized veggies)

[jansman]

Now there is an idea! Thanks Nick.

[terrytaylor84]

At the risk of sounding like a complete dummy. What is perpetual spinach???

[Devonian]

At the risk of sounding like a complete dummy. What is perpetual spinach???

Its a perennial version of spinach which grows all year round, you pick it, it grows back, you pick it, it grows back.

A must for all preppers.....

[jansman]

The seed catalogues will list it as perpetual spinach or spinach beet. Useful crop.

[nickdutch]

You can also get a "spaghetti squash" which is a gourd plant that you can grow and after you have cooked it, when you scrape out the flesh, it comes off in stringy bits like spaghetti that you can then serve up like pasa, so you can actually grow a spaghetti substitute.

[Decaff]

You can also get a "spaghetti squash" which is a gourd plant that you can grow and after you have cooked it, when you scrape out the flesh, it comes off in stringy bits like spaghetti that you can then serve up like pasa, so you can actually grow a spaghetti substitute.

I've always wanted to try one of those, never seen any!! Love most things from the squash family, raw pumpkin is gorgeous I discovered whilst carving a pumpkin with my son one year.