Pasta with Bacon, Mushroom & Peas in Creamy White Wine Sauce

Ingredients:

1. Pasta of your choice

2. Streaky bacon

3. Button Mushrooms

4. Peas

5. Garlic

For the sauce:

1. Cream

2. White wine

3. Grated Parmesan Cheese

4. Butter

For dressing and garnishes:

1. Garlic salt

2. Pepper

3. Parsley

Method:

1. Cook the pasta to al Dante

2. While cooking the pasta, sautee the chopped garlic with butter

3. Add in the roughly chopped streaky bacon when the garlic turned brownish

4. Add in the sliced button mushrooms into the pan when streaky bacon turned slightly crispy

5. Cook till the water secrete from mushrooms are slightly dried up

6. Throw the peas into the pasta pot at the last minute of your pasta cooking while cooking the mushrooms and bacons

7. Add in cream, white wine, garlic salt and grated parmesan cheese and stir well

8. Drain the cooked pasta and peas

9. Immediately pour the pasta into the pan and stir well to make sure every strand of your pasta is coated with the wonderful sauce

10. Serve on your plate and dress with freshly ground pepper and parsley

Simple and Delicious!

おにぎり (Onigiri)

鮭おにぎり (Salmon Onigiri)

鮪おにぎり (Tuna Onigiri)

If you'd read my photo blog, you would know I'm currently a big fan of onigiri >.<

Ingredients:

1. Japanese short grain rice

2. Japanese vinegar

3. Pinch of salt

4. Salmon or Tuna (TC Boy Tuna in Vegetable Oil-Kia Hooi, I help you to advertise!) or any other fillings of your choice (I am thinking of bacon for the future onigiri)

5. Furikake or Sesame for the toppings

6. Seaweed

Method:

1. Japanese rice to water ratio 1:1.5.

2. Let the rice sit in the rice cooker for 15 mins more after it's cooked.

3. Add a spoonful (Chinese soup spoon) of vinegar into the rice, and fluff the rice.

4. Wet your hands, coat with a bit of salt when you make the rice ball.

5. Top with furikake or black sesame.

6. Wrap with seaweed.

Fillings:

For salmon,

1. Marinate salmon with salt (I like to use garlic salt), extra virgin olive oil and a bit of parsley for about half an hour.

2. Pan fry the marinated salmon with butter.

3. Do not overcook salmon, fry with medium heat and turn off the heat as soon as the salmon turned pink.

4. Seared the salmon into pieces. You can also add some pepper.

For Tuna (use white meat tuna for better taste, as Kia Hooi taught me!)

1. You don't have to do anything. Unless you need more flavor, you could add some pepper to it.

You can either wrap a little fillings into the rice ball like I did for my salmon onigiri (first picture) or mix the fillings together with rice when you're fluffing it (second picture). The latter helps to save some time.

For overnight onigiri, Sheena taught me to pan fried it with sesame oil. It's fragrant and delicious :)

I'm loving it~

Pancake for Breakfast

Ingredients:

1. Plain flour
2. 3 Eggs
3. Milk
4. Salt
5. Sugar

Dressings:

1. Banana
2. Mixed berries jam
3. Butter
4. Honey
5. Ham/Bacon
6. Whatever you like

Method:

1. Beat the 3 eggs in a bowl
2. Add in plain flour (amount of your liking, I do not like a lot of flour, so I only mixed in 4-5 big tablespoon of flour into 3 eggs)
3. Mix them well
   (*I do not have a sieve at home, so I have problem to sieve my flour, hence, big problem in mixing the flour into the eggs. However, I accidentally discovered that, by mixing all the ingredients and slightly beat them then let them sit in the fridge overnight would help in mixing at the next morning. Yay!)
4. Pour in some milk (No specific amount because the milk is just to help your mixture to be more pourable, hence, do not add in too much)
5. Add in a pinch of salt and sugar
6. Mixed all the ingredients well (you'll have some muscles after that >.<)
7. Heat your pan, melt a little bit of butter on the pan
   (*Note: Remember, the butter is just to slightly coat the pan so that your pancake would not stick. Too much of oil or butter makes the pancake soft, oily and ugly. If you have fried bacon or ham before that, you do not need any more butter. You can even try to make the pancakes without any oil or butter at all)
8. Pour the mixture into the pan and fry them till yellowish brown.
9. Flip the pancake
10. Serve

A wonderful breakfast for weekend~

Love it~

Tuna Pasta Salad

(Pardon me, I can't explain why the photo keep rotating by itself at the wrong side when I uploaded!!!)

Yes, back to normal life means back to pasta eating habit again.

It's a new year, so I started my first cooking of the year, with a new recipe.

Ingredients:

1. Pasta of your choice
2. Mint leaves
3. Cherry tomato
4. Tuna (intended to use shrimp but didn't get it)

Dressings:

1. Butter
2. Garlic salt
3. Parsley
4. Pepper
5. Parmesan cheese

Method:

1. Cook your pasta to al Dante
2. While the pasta is cooking, cut your cherry tomatoes into halves and pluck mint leaves to wash
3. Heat your tuna in the pan, season the tune flakes with garlic salt and pepper
4. When the pasta is cooked, mix the seasoned tuna, cherry tomatoes and pasta together.
5. Add butter to the mixture, the warmth of pasta and tuna will melt the butter.
6. Mix all the ingredients well
7. Dress with chopped parsley and grated Parmesan cheese
8. Finally, dress with mint leaves
9. If you like, you can add sliced hard boiled egg too
10. Served

Yum yum, a healthy tuna pasta salad. I personally think that the shrimp pasta salad will taste even better. I shall get shrimps to cook!

Bacon Mushroom Creamy Pasta

The pasta in the picture is no other than the Penis Pasta that Hui Nee bought for me when I went to San Francisco :P

Ingredients:

Pasta of your choice

Butter

Cream

White wine

Mushrooms (Button mushroom or portobello)

Bacon

Blue Cheese

Salt

Pepper

Parsley

Method:

1. Cook pasta to al Dante
2. While waiting pasta to cook, sliced mushrooms and bacon into small pieces
3. Set the cooked pasta aside
4. Melt butter in a pan
5. When heated, pour in the sliced mushrooms and bacon to cook
6. When the mushrooms and bacon are cooked, pour in cream (I use 1.5 tablespoon for single person serving), blue cheese & white wine and stir to mix well
7. Turn to small heat and season with salt and pepper
8. Mix in pasta and stir well and turn off the heat
9. Set the pasta in your plate and dress with shredded blue cheese and parsley
10. Serve :)

Side note:

You can always replace blue cheese with other types of cheese. But I find blue cheese didn't taste as bad when it's mixed into pasta :)

I love Pasta but...

Yee Hau couldn't stomach my habit of eating like an Italian, Pasta for 5 days a week. Therefore, I normally cook pasta for myself, when he's not around after work. In my opinion, pasta is the easiest thing to cook, especially when you're hungry after work :)

I haven't bought any pasta sauce from supermarket for such a long time, since I've started to invent my own pasta or reference to some recipes.