Recipe for Love

Not really the most appropriate title, but I did make it out of love.. the love of food..the love of cheesee and the love of erm, yeah you. So here it is, due to some queries and requests, the recipe for the previous pasta entry:

*note: please excuse the "all-can-and-processed" ingredients I use in my recipe, partially due to the fact that I am living in campus and I cook on a hot plate cum multicooker.

Pasta in cheese sauce

Ingredients:

250g of pasta
a tablespoon of butter
crushed black peppercorns
2 cloves of garlic finely chopped
chicken, ham or sausage pieces
veggies as preferred (carrots, brocolli, tomatoes)
mushrooms
a can of prego's cheese & herbs
half a small box of milk
strong flavoured cheese (obtainable from carefour) like gouda, emmental, parmesan or cheddar

Procedure (mcm lab report lak)

1.Boil pasta (not too soft nor too hard, al dente as they say it, meaning 'to the teeth')
2.Heat saucepan and put in butter, brown together with garlic and add in crushed pepper
3.Put in chicken or sausage pieces, cook until light brown
4.Add in mushrooms, veggies and stir
5.Add in Prego's cheese & herbs, stir well
6.Add in milk to thin the sauce, half of a small box of milk should do
7.Add in pasta, fold into the sauce carefully
8.Sprinkle cheese and let it melt in mixture
9.Add salt and pepper to taste

Bon appetit!

This sauce in this recipe is just meant to coat the pasta, not to drown it, thus limit the dose of milk in your estimate =) This menu serves around 4 grown person for a propper meal, depending on gender and age. Can be served hot or cold. But I prefer it smoking hot, tade la cepat rase mual. Happy trying!!

Pasta Perfect Day

So as a way to grieve over my poor performance during the stupid fyp presentation, I went out for some fresh air in Ipoh. Revenged my way through a quarter chicken at kenny's and discussed why the prices of western cuisine meals are way more expensive than let say..krom luang buffet? Maybe its branding, maybe its marketing, I didn't really give a hoot. From my observation, kenny's is way more expensive than secret recipe. And who else..? Still haven't had the chance to try delifrances' meals yet. But yea, dome would probably top them all off. And TCB serving proportion are too small for a grown person of 22. Yikes!

Anyways..headed out to the supermarket for our usual stroll and decided to finally prepare some pasta loving concoction for gc. The basics, because he is pretty basic, just want the pasta, sauce, and thats it. No need for mushrooms or olives, or salted pieces of smoked ham. So the meditation part begun when I was in the kitchen during the twilight hours chopping up my carrots and tomatoes. Lucky for me, there was plenty to go around as I was interruptedly joined by late-nite birds.

The main point of this draggingly long story, was that I felt much much muchoo more happier to see gc chomp his way down to the very last piece of cheese coated pasta, in which he did in practically three stages (makan tutup balik, makan balik rehat..you get it) owh I cannot resist to add that he even got me to jot down the recipe and the how-to for the simple meal..

"Nape nak recipe?"
"Nanti leh buat sendiri"
"Nape nak buat sendiri?"
"Sebab time tu awk da dkat swiss"

And it felt so good, that I am still elated. Everything that is good comes from Him and only Him.

I am thankful, and I love you for it.

Joyeux Annyversaire Pour Papa

Happy Belated Birthday dad.

May Allah shower you with His kind Blessings and guide you to the right path today and in the world hereafter. Amin.
Thank you for your love and support throughout my 22 years of existence.
Pray for more to celebrate, no? I love you.

Burnt

Hello..is me you're looking for?? I like oldies. They remind me of my parents. Whom I have not met for the last 18 months for my mum and 3 months for my dad. I do feel a bit burnt out. That is why I am blogging today. This evening. My daily chronological order of events aren't as eventful. Its an early morning everyday because the library opens at 830am and I plan to get there around 9am. A short break in the middle of the day for prayers and cat-napping and then its off to hit the books again. I don't know really if Im a morning person or I am more to the night type. I wake up pretty easy provided that I slept early but the odd thing is that I am more productive after 7pm. Unlike gc who really doesn't have an attention span to be made an example of. hehe..

So I daydream about going home, the things Im going to eat, the places I will have to go to and take pictures of, the kids and babies that Im going to chew the cheeks off. That pretty much covers everything else other than the solution to the question I was supposed to attempt. Sigh.

Such is the beauty of the daydreamer.