One Pan Pasta

Inspired from KampungBoyCityGal recipe and Martha Stewart recipe, I made a few attempts on One Pan Pasta~ I even bought the basil plant from market and intended to plant my own!

Although the basil plant seems to exhibit some abnormal growth by growing darken and burnt kind of leaves, some part of the plant managed to grow lusher! Hope it can grow more so that I can made fresh pesto sauce for my pasta!

My One Pan Angel Hair Pasta! 

Love angel hair so much because it takes around 2-3 minutes to cook only (count when it starts to boil)~~

Simple ingredients for my one pan bowties (one pax):

San Remo Bowties, Cherry Tomatoes cut into halves, Chicken Breast (sliced), Holland Onion & Minced Garlic

I also added in water (or chicken stock to make it more flavorful), one tablespoon of tomato paste/tomato puree (to make it turns red and makes it tastier), grapeseed oil (or any other good oil like olive oil), salt, white sugar (I added in personally as I think the pasta is a bit bland), chilli powder, ground black pepper and freshly plucked basil leaves from pot. Bring everything to boil (mine took around 15 minutes) until the pasta is al-dente!

Final garnishing: Parmesan Cheese & Dried Basil Leaves! 

Here's my easiest and quickest lunch boxideas for work! 

Any more simple and easy lunch box ideas to share?

Homemade Loaf with Petrus PE6280

Sis bought Petrus PE6280 Multi-functional fruits and nuts dispenser programmable bread maker around RM200 couple of months ago online! After that, I developed strong interest of making our own loaf!

The bread maker comes with a fruits/nuts dispenser, a measuring spoon, a measuring cup & a bread bin

1. Just measure all bread ingredients according to the bread maker user manual, select bread size (500gm/750gm), degree of  burning color (light, medium, dark) and type of bread to make (such as European/British/French Bread etc). 

2. Eggs, butter, sugar, salt, milk, water, high protein flour, yeast, milk powder and those basic bread making ingredients. 

3. Play around the flavor with anything you love and have in the pantry/kitchen. 

4. However, you will need to wait for 3-4 hours for the bread to be done, and another 30 minutes to 1 hour for the bread to cool down, making a total of 4 to 5 hours before you can actually eat it! Patience, passion and waiting time is required~~

Pumpkin Black Sesame Loaf

One of my nieces favourite~

I even made pandan essence from scratch. Blend lots of freshly plucked pandan leaves with milk and strained the pandan juice out! Lots of job though...

Turned out to be someone purposely and nastily tear off the pandan bread without my acknowledgement LOL (our evil queen of the house aka my 4 years old niece due to she couldn't resist to have a bit of it)

Pandan Pumpkin Seed Black Sesame Loaf (spot the imperfect torn loaf?)

Should have put more pumpkin seeds cause it was so yummy and crunchy! The pandan fragrant was pretty strong but hardly can taste it once you munch it!

Almond Milo Oats Loaf

 My two nieces loves this!

White Loaf

Purple Sweet Potato Black Sesame Loaf

Green Tea Black Sesame Loaf

I also bought bread slicer and bread knife to make bread slicing easier and conveniently!

Placed the bread into the slicer and cut the knife along the grooves. The disadvantage of the slicer is it doesn't have other thicknesses whereby you can't customized your thickness of the bread you cut! If you adjust it manually, the slice will not be equal and nice.

Green tea black sesame after cut...So tempting~~

Any more ideas for the loaf huh? Perhaps sweet corn, cheese and ....?

Chipsmore Cheese Cake In Jar

Cheese cake in jar is so yummy but way too pricey to outsource it all the time. You need only a handful of ingredients: cream cheese, crushed biscuits (oreo/chipsmore/others) and condensed milk. And also a few jars or containers to fill in.

First attempt. Not so nice but can be further improved! The layers was not pretty and consistent. I think I over-beat the cream cheese and condensed milk because it turned up to be rather thick and not so smooth to my liking.

I used 250gm cream cheese only so there's only 1 jar with 3 small cups. I guess my chipsmore cookies is too coarse! I used Chipsmore Butter Crunch for this.

Overnight oatmeal

Ovenight Oatmeal

having some fun by trying out the eat clean overnight oatmeal. Doesn't really clean after all cause I added in 1 tablespoon of vanilla ice-cream and full cream milk! Yet I like the taste and it did fill my stomach well from 6.45am to 12.45pm. 6 hours in total =)

Ingredients:

# oats

# natural yogurt

# full cream milk

# breakfast cereals

# vanilla ice-cream

Directions:

1. Mix well oats, yogurt, milk and vanilla ice-cream until well combined.

2. Cover it and store overnight in chiller.

3. Add in more milk the next day and top with breakfast cereals upon serving.

4. I even try it with Horlicks powder but isn't as good as I thought it would be.

MyKuali Penang White Curry Noodle

Out of curiosity, what's so special of the famous MyKuali Penang White Curry Noodle until the talk grips the whole nation?

Add on extra ingredients: TauhuPok, Tomatoes, Fish Ball, Crabmeat,Veggies & EGGS!

A bowl of hot and rich white curry instant noodles

Frankly speaking, it's not up to my liking. The mee is thick. I hardly finish one bowl of it. Luckily someone finished my leftover portion. After all I prefer Maggi Curry Flavor Instant Noodle. All time favourite.

Butter Chicken & Winnie's Cafe Butter Chicken

#1  Saw a Butter Chicken Recipe in a website and I decided to try on with some self adjustment on the recipe. Doesn't really weigh those ingredients thus I don't have proper measurement on ingredients used.

Method

1. Marinate the chicken with salt, pepper and egg white. Coat the chicken pieces with corn flour.
2. In a pan, heat oil and deep fry chicken until golden brown. Set aside.
3. In a different pan, melt butter and sauté garlic and curry leaves until aromatic.
4. Add in sugar and evaporated milk and bring to boil.
5. Reduce heat, and add in chicken stock, corn flour and water. Simmer for 3 minutes.
6. Upon serving, pour the sauce over the fried chicken. Serve hot.

Tadaaa....

Too much butter sauce. Should reduce the water portion.

#2 Ordered peanut butter chicken from Winnie's Cafe. If you are a fan of peanut butter, pretty sure no one can resist this heavenly creamy and aromatic fried chicken. RM30 for 5 ppl. But the portion can serve more than 5 ppl for light eaters.

Peanut Butter Chicken with sides-mashed potatoes and strawberries. 

MAGGI Chicken Flavor Noodle

Exciting way to prepare Maggi Chicken Flavor Noodle! Spotted the recipe online and was eager to try my own. 

Maggi's Maggi Ayam Penang Style Hokkien & My Maggi Ayam Penang Style Hokkien

I added more tomatoes wedges and more bitter gourd, making the soup a little more bitter and sour! I added in one egg and omitted the fish ball. However, the chicken seasoning managed to cover both taste, making overall noodle soup consumable after all. And the garlic oil really adds marks and fragrant to this dish!

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MAGGI Ayam Penang Style Hokkien

Ingredients:

1 pkt MAGGI Chicken Flavor Noodle

50 gms Bitter gourd(seeds removed) sliced thinly

3 nos Fish balls

½ fruit tomato, cut into wedges

30gms diced garlic

125ml cooking oil

Preparation of fried garlic. Heat oil in frying pan. When hot, pour in diced garlic. Cook over medium heat, stirring all the time till light brown.

Method

1. Bring 400 ml water to boil; add tastemaker and bitter gourd to simmer for 1 to 2 minutes. Then add MAGGI Noodles, fish-balls and tomato wedges.

2. Once boiling, remove from heat and serve.

3. Spoon desired amount of fried garlic and oil onto noodles.