Aglio Olio

Always curious how this dish was done, simple ingredients never taste so good :)
it taste v.good with seafood especially prawn..
decided to try..doing it..
decided to keep it simple with a side dish (Back Bacon wrapped asparagus)

Ingredients:
350 grams of Spaghetti (thick spaghetti or vermicelli is better)

200 g White button or swiss button mushrooms
10 tablespoons of olive oil
3 garlic cloves peeled and chopped finely
Added colour, you may try red/yellow pepper

Tomato

hot little pepper (if desired)
fresh parsely
salt

1. Brown the garlic, stir fry mushroom and/hot pepper in olive oil, add salt.

2. Cook the spaghetti in hot salted water, drain them and add them to the oil and garlic mixture

Added fresh tomato for colour

saute'3 add the minced parsely, chilli flakes/ chilli paddy (optional) and serve hot!

side dish: Back bacon wrapped asparagus

Sprinkle aparagus with a pinch of ground pepper,

wrapped bacon around 3-4 stalks of asparagus,

Pan fried/oven grilled.

Images taken: canon ixus

Avocado juice

Jezz shared with me my favourite avocado juice from the newspaper.
Coz i get occasional craving from Ayam Penyet's avocado juice..

Ingredients:
2 Avocados (you may placed em with banana to speed up the riping process)
50 ml gula melaka syrup
250 -300ml fresh milk


blend avocados with milk in a blender
add gula melaka to taste.

My fast lasagna recipe

Ransacking my cupboard, realised ive a box of lasagna's noodles.

its time to try makng it.

Due lack of ingredients, i use whatever i can get hold of in my fridge.

600gm of minced beef

2 tablespoon of sun-dried tomatoes paste

5-6 fresh tomatoes (boiled to remove skin,puree)

or 1 can of tomato puree from store

2 onions finely chopped

3-4 cloved of garlics finely chopped

mozzarella cheese

cheddar cheese / parmesan cheese

1 teaspoon of salt

fresh basil or mixed herbs

ground pepper

2-3 tablespoon salsa sauce (optional)

As i prefer fresh ingredient i tried to use everything fresh,

if not ready-made herbs from the store is fine (bottled)

Heat oil and fry garlic and onions

Add in some fresh tomatoes if you like

Add in minced beef, tomato puree, salsa sauce, basils, salt and pepper.

Soak lasagna noodles for around 10-15mins.

Start laying your layers your noodles with your seasoned meat sauce & cheese.

Top with cheese to end the layers..

Remem.2 cover the entire noodles with meat suace and keep the content moist.

Cover with foil and bake.

Oven bake 35-45mins 180 Degree Cel.

Apologise w/o end product, too busy eating. :p

will compensate with a better recipe.

for better recipe : http://mylasagnarecipe.com/category/chef-jamie-oliver/

retrieved on 20 Sept 2009

Banana walnut 'cupcakes'

Tried another version of Betty Crocker's premix,

i added fresh banana (diced) into the mix.

less dense than expected,

maybe banana puree may make the mix richer.

Cornflakes cookies

Been searching for this recipe for many years,
my malay friends make the best cornflakes cookies..
At last, stumble across this recipe behind a cornflakes packaging..

A) 5 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon caster sugar
100 gm butter
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

4 cups cornflakes


Mix A on low heat.


Mix into 4 cups of cornflakes.
I mix some chopped macademia nuts.
you may try mixing with chopped raisins, cherries / nuts.


Spooned into small paper cups.

preheat oven 170 degree celcius,
Bake for 14-20mins.
Take out from oven leave to cool for 20mins.

Super moist chocolate cake

To curb instant craving, i'll stand by some premix.
Betty Crocker's cakes-muffins premix available at major stores
& small groceries stores..

You may make richer by adding nutella choco/heyshey choco chips/
macademia nuts, etc.

Mix in water, 3 eggs and vegetable oil.

after 15-20 mins

Frosting or cream to finish.