Sunday, August 10, 2008

My Bowl of Spicy Spaghetti Aglio Olio

My bowl...YESSS mine...I take pride at being able to almost always cook up something special just for myself whenever I'm home alone. Cooking for one never has to be a mind-bending task you know...besides whenever a girl is home alone that's the time when she can have herself all to herself...hahaha...am talking about a nice bowl of hearty comfy pasta, a dvd, a bed and some pillows. This pasta dish barely needs half an hour to be in the bowl ready to be eaten. Girls....try this sometime k....



Ingredients

a few dash of extra-virgin olive oil
6 to 8 large cloves garlic, crushed and minced
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
2 cili padi, finely chopped
a dash of paprika powder
a handful of finely chopped parsley (instead of getting the flat leaf parsley, which can be slightly expensive do use the chinese parsley which you can get from the morning market)
Coarse salt
1/4 pound spaghetti (or however much that you can eat), cooked to al dente

Method

1) Heat a pan (or a wok) on medium low heat and drizzle in the extra-virgin olive oil. Add in the garlic, crushed red pepper flakes, finely chopped cili padi and paprika powder to oil. Toss them around until fragrant while maintaining low heat. Toss the al dente spaghetti into the pan together with the chopped parsley. Season with the course salt and serve with some garlic toast and salad of your choice.

Girls...enjoy!

Goreng Cempedak...How can anyone ever resist this?

Yesterday we had a makan session at LSL's place. Brought cempedak for dessert but couldn't finish cos the steaks were HUGE...so was figuring out what to do with the leftover cempedak when i came across this recipe for goreng cempedak taken from Kuali. Soon my house was drowned in the smell of goreng cempedak...the batter was of course...so easy to make so much so that it was effortless! and the outcome was crispy on the outside, creamy on the inside goreng cempedak. This recipe is a MUSt try! Hey...this batter is good for deep frying bananas, sliced sweet potatoes, sliced tapiocas and even breadfruit...speaking of which...I loooove breadfruit. Hmmm...try this out right....



Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup self-raising flour
  • 1/4 cup corn flour
  • 1 tbsp rice flour
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 180ml water or just enough
  • 1½ tbsp oil
  • Enough oil for deep-frying

    Method
    Simply mix together all the various flours, salt and baking powder in a mixing bowl. Pour in water and combine into a batter. Add in oil to mix.

    Coat cempedak in batter and deep-fry in hot oil for three to four minutes or until crispy and golden brown. Remove and drain on crumbled kitchen paper.

  • this recipe is roughly enough for 25 seeds of cempedak.
  • Chocolate Mud Cake (Vegetarian)(Birthday Cake)

    This was made for my niece, lil' Lisa's birthday. I was running out of idea as to what cake to make for the birthday girl and then my mind ran into this...this has always been my obsession...my sinful sinful obsession. CHOCOLATE CAKEs and all kinds of chocolate cakes. This particular one was so fitting for the occasion as my Dad is currently on a special "super low protein" diet and both my parents are also constantly trying to stay away from cholesterol...there I have it! a vegetarian chocolate cake that is dairy, egg and butter free. Well, the frosting though has got a lil' margarine in it but...not too bad...still vegetarian!!! Haha...its lovely by the way...so moist and rich...minus the sin. Well it still has got sugar...which I generously already reduced so that we all can have a couple more servings :-)

    Big Butt Chef's first customer!!!

    There I have it...my very first customer...the sexy Ms. Stephanie LSL...yup yup...she ordered my banana butter cake...my first customer y'all...must make sure its good so I decided to vamp up the banana butter cake...make it look more appealing...hey a lil' effort goes a long way...look how the cake turned out when its turned upside down...lovely lovely caramelized banana arragements..yummy yummy yummy!!! Well the feedback was good too for the cake. It was really really fluffy. I'm good for more orders! :-)