Recipe: Greek Pasta Salad

* Ingredients

- 8 ounces rotini pasta

- 1/2 cup olive oil

- 1/2 cup red wine vinegar

- 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder

- 1 1/2 teaspoons dried basil leaves

- 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano

- 3 cups sliced mushrooms

- 15 halved cherry tomatoes

- 3/4 cup crumbled feta cheese

- 1/2 cup chopped green onions

- 1 (4 ounce) can chopped black olives

* Way to do it

1- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add rotini pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.

2- Mix together cooked pasta, olive oil, vinegar, garlic powder, basil, oregano, mushrooms, tomatoes, Feta cheese, green onions and olives. Cover and chill for at least 2 hours, serve cold.

* Necessary time

20 minutes

* Number of persons

10 servings

* Variants and other comentaries

Really easy to do, one way to eat in busy days and very healthy.

Recipe pancakes. Quesadillas.

* Ingredients
- 8 pancake of flour of wheat.

- 200 g of cheese Cheddar.

- 1 onion.

- oils .

- 1/2 share of refried beans.

- 1 sprig of coriander .

- 1 share of Mexican sauce of tomato.

* Way to do it
1- Sting very slim the onion, the coriander and grate cheese.

2- Heat refried beans.

3- Then heat pancakes in the frying pan with just a little oil until it soften.

4- Inmediately take out pancakes spread over the pancakes refried beans, grate cheese, onion and corinder.

5- Add tomatoes sauce to it and then coil all.

6- Make the same way to all pancakes.

7- Before serve heat pancakes in a frying pan or oven for melt cheese.

* Necessary time
15 minutes

* Number of persons
4 servings

* Variants and other comentaries
You shall use green sauce or other kind of sauce instead tomate sauce.
Also you shall change refried beans for vegetable, spinach, mushrooms...

Recipe: Spicy Macaroni and Cheese with Chorizo Sausage

* Ingredients
1 pound penne pasta

3 cups cherry tomatoes

2 teaspoons olive oil, plus drizzling

Salt and pepper

1 package chorizo, casings removed and finely chopped

6 tablespoons butter

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

4 cups milk, warm

1 teaspoon dry mustard

1 tablespoon hot sauce

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

2 cups shredded Monterey pepper jack

1 cup sharp white Cheddar

1 (2.7-ounce) can fried onions

* Way to do it
1 - Heat oven to 350 degrees F.

2 - Cook the pasta in salted, boiling salted water until al dente. Drain in a colander.

3 - Add the cherry tomatoes to a sheet tray, drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Bake for 20 minutes, until visibly plump and softened.

4 - Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Add 2 teaspoons of olive oil. Saute the chorizo in a saute pan until crisp. Remove.

5 - Melt 6 tablespoons butter in a large saucepot over medium heat. Add flour, stirring for 1 minute. Whisk in the warmed milk and bring to a boil. Continue to whisk constantly. Stir while adding the mustard, hot sauce and Worcestershire. Stir in the cheese; reserving 1/2 cup for the topping. The mixture will thicken as the heat increases.

6 - Pour the drained pasta into the cheese sauce and mix well. Add to a 3-quart casserole dish. Add the chorizo and roasted cherry tomatoes. Top with reserved cheese and the fried onions. Bake for 35 minutes. Can be made ahead, covered and refrigerated. Bring to room temperature before baking if refrigerated.

* Necessary time
55 minutes

* Number of persons
6 to 8 servings

* Variants and other comentaries

Recipe: Noodles with chicken

* Ingredients

-1 pound Chinese egg noodles

-6 dried black Chinese mushrooms and prawns

-1/2 pound ground chicken

-1 carrot, half onion, 1 green pepper, Outbreaks of soybean

-1 dipper of sauce of soybean

-1 dipper of broth of chicken

* Way to do it
1. To cook the noodles, to take the water from them and dry.

2. To fry the chicken, the mushrooms and the Chinese vegetable on
the frying pan.

3. To add two teaspoonfuls of sauce of oysters, salt, sugar and a dipper of broth of chicken.

4. To add a bit of starch of potato to fatten the sauce and to throw(add) little oil of sésamo.

5.To add the noodles to the frying pan.

* Necessary time

15 minutes

* Number of persons

4 persons

* Variants and other commentaries

Success by everybody and easy to cook .It´s a typical chinese food very far to prepare.

According to tradiccion Chinese noddles is a food that brings luck to eat it during the celebration of new year Chinese (26 of january).If the noodles are long more long will be the life.