Lemon pasta with roasted red bell pepper and frog legs

MIA for almost a month cos I was back home celebrating CNY with my family and friends back in Singapore. How I miss them and the food which I have not eaten for a year! I must really thank my family and friends for all the love and hospitality they have showered me during my trip back home!! They have brought me to eat my favourite food and went shopping with me. I have great fun! This time round really feel reluctant to come back.

Now I am back to my normal routine in Houston.  As we have not gone Chinatown to buy our asian groceries, I will just have to make do with what I can find in my fridge (luckily still have a little bit of frozen stuff) and  what I can buy from the supermarket here.

My husband have to go to work in another state the day after we reached US, so I am alone at home thinking of what to cook for dinner for myself. This lemon pasta with roasted red bell pepper and frog legs is what I have come up with. It seems a bit funny to add frog legs to a pasta dish but I can't find any seafood or meat in my fridge except for this. But who cares since I am the one eating it. You can add seafood or any other meat which you like. The roasted bell pepper tasted so sweet! I actually prefer the roasted bell pepper to normal stir frying it. I learn this pasta dish from Barefoot Contessa. The original recipe is  lemon pasta with roasted shrimp. I love this pasta as it has a rich lemon flavour with a bit of tangy taste. I have added my favourite garlic too! Lemon, butter and garlic makes one of the best combination.

Ingredients:
1) 4 frog legs
2) 1/2 a bell pepper
3) 2-3 cloves of garlic (you can reduce or omit if you don't like garlic)
4) Juice and zest of 1/2 lemon
5) Salt
6) Pepper
7) Olive oil
8) 1 table spoon of butter
9) A few slices of ginger
10) Whole wheat Linguine

Steps:
1) Drizzle olive oil onto the bell pepper and add some salt and pepper. Put the bell pepper into a preheated oven of 350 F till the skin of the bell pepper turns slightly charred. When it is cooked, than cut it into slices.

2) Add some olive oil into the pan and add in the ginger slices. Cook the ginger slices till it turns slightly browned. Throw away the ginger slices than add in the frog legs to fry it until cooked.


3) Meanwhile, drizzle some olive oil in a large pot of boiling salted water, add the linguine, and cook al dente. Drain the pasta, reserving some of the cooking liquid. Quickly toss the linguine with the melted butter, olive oil, the lemon zest, lemon juice, salt, 1 teaspoon pepper and about 1/2 cup of the reserved cooking liquid.


4) Add in the bell pepper and frog legs. Serve hot.