They used to call me Prawn-Face!!!

What you see here is:
Garlic prawns on baby spinach with potato halves!!!

It was pretty fast to do...
Which is essential to my cooking because I truly believe that the cooking shouldnt take longer than the enjoying!!! Or as one of my professors would say: It's a bad deal if the In-Put is bigger than the Out-Put!!!

Ingredients:
- frozen prawn (about 150 - 200g/person)
- garlic
- butter (or to make things simple... just garlic butter)
- different herbs (basil, parsley... etc)
- baby potatoes (about 2-3 per person)
- baby spinach salad
- french dressing
- country fries seasoning

Alright... boil the baby potatoes until they are soft enough... usually takes about 10 minutes!! In the meantime add the garlic butter and the herbs into a large frying pan... heat it up... chop the garlic as finely as you can... add it to the frying pan... add the prawns...
Also cut the potatoes into halves, season them with the country fries seasoning & pepper and add them to the buttery garlic sauce and the prawns!! Let it all cook for a little while (about 4 minutes) and take in the garlic flavour!! This should keep you safe from vampires by the way!!
Get the baby spinach out on the plates... pour some (very little) french dressing over it... top it with the prawns and have the potatoes on the side!!!
Et voilà!!! Enjoy!!!

Summer-(H)eat

Sorry!!! It has been quite a while...
I've been lazy with my cooking and my kitchen experiments...
been eating whatever was in my fridge without mixing or matching it!!!
Summer is here.... and the heat is so bad that I haven't even felt like eating at all....

So here's a summer recipe:
Easy, quick, cheap and yummie!!!! Just the way I like it!!!

Chilli-Tuna Pasta Salad!!!!

All you need is:
-Pasta (I prefer the whole-grain Farfalle: it's healthier and looks pretty!!)
-corn from can
-tuna from can
-tomato
-cucumber
-chilli oil
-yoghurt salad dressing

Cook the pasta and let it cool down.... In the meantime chop the tomatoes and cucumber into small squares (or hearts or stars or sneakers... etc)... mix the tuna with the chilli oil....
then add everything from the list above to the pasta noodles...
Mix!!! Let it cool in the fridge for a bit!!! Et voilà... Enjoy!!!

Ham, Cheese & Pear on Toast

The combination of meat and fruit is one of my favourites - fish with orange sauce, bacon with bananas and now, my new favourite...ham with pear.

Layer mayonnaise, ham, cheese, bits of pear, ham, cheese, mayonnaise on crunchy toasted bread. Two different types of salty, one sweet crunch and creamy delicious-ness makes for one big Yum!

Following Nici's last post...I just wanted to state to the world that Nici makes amazing carbonara! Everytime she comes down, my sister tries to get her to make it.

On another note, hello everyone!

It's 4.30pm, and I have yet to eat having only woken up 3 hours ago. I couldn't figure out what to eat until I found this video:



Mmmmmm...Soft-boiled eggs on toasted bread with a light Marmite spread. I love bread, I could eat bread and sandwiches allllllll day.

So I boil the water for the eggs, add a bay leaf for some aroma. Wait 4 minutes then put the eggs in cold water for awhile to stop the cooking. In the meantime, I put 4 slices of bread in the toaster.

Marmite is thick and sometimes, it gets spread unevenly resulting in blotches of saltiness and unsatisfying blankness in the bread. What my mum used to do and i follow is to pre-mix the butter with Marmite so that it spreads much better. So I spread the Marmite butter on warm toasty bread (I like mine crispy outside and soft inside), layer the soft yummy eggs on top, sprinkle pepper and some chilli flakes.

Mambo Italiano!!!

okay here's the thing... i loooove cooking because i feel like its the one thing that cant go wrong, the one thing i can actually control... its so comforting to know that you can come home after a long crappy day and cook yourself something nice & delicious that'll make you feel better and forget about all those nasty suckers out there...

so... pasta is great comfort food... of course: chocolate is too... but you cant have chocolate for dinner everytime you feel a little stressed!!! not saying you cant do it ever.... i think there have been days i've practically lived on chocolate....
anyway... i'm rambling... what i'm trying to say is: here's a great pasta recipe!!! =)

Pasta with Chilli-Mascarpone Sauce:

Ingredients: (for appr. 2)
-250g Fusilli noodles
-5-8 slices of Parma Ham
-spoon of olive oil
-3 spoons of mascarpone
-2 spoons of cream
-chilli powder
-some basil leaves
-some parmesan

cook noodles

heat the olive oil in a seperate pan and add the finely cut stripes of parma ham... stir for about 3-4 minutes... then add the mascarpone and the cream... use whatever seasoning you want.. some chilli powder... salt... pepper... what your heart desires!!!

pour sauce over finished cooked noodles... and sprinkle the cut basil leaves and the parmesan over it!!! et voilà!!! comfort food!! =)



the mascarpone is pretty much the base for the sauce... you can change the parma ham... i've used mushrooms for example in this photo instead... or you can use chives instead of basil...
i dont think its possible to mess up pasta sauces... making them is as easy as spreading butter on your bread!!!

Forget Baconnaise... try this!!!

Do you love bacon? Do you love how the smell of it says: "It's Sunday late morning! Time to brunch!"? Do you love how the taste of it makes you feel a tiny wee bit guilty... because something that is this yummie has got to have a catch?
We all know what the catch of bacon is... fat & high cholesterol...

But screw that... I'm a bacon-lover...

Here's the solution!!!
We'll combine the bacon with something healthy... a fruit... which will make up for the unhealthy bacon!! "negativ" plus "positive" equals neutral...
Ergo: bacon with fruit is neither bad nor good for you... its just plain tasty!!! =)

Alrite... usually people use dried dates... i prefer to use prunes... but be creative... you can even use apricots!!
So what you do is:
You wrap the prunes in bacon... poke a toothpick through the whole thing to make it hold together.... and then bake them in the oven at about 180 C〫... for about 15 minutes!!!



I like serving this as a starter... ya know... something to welcome people!!! It's such an interesting clash of tastes!!! Plus: it is sooo easy, sooo fast and really affordable...

So.... get me some bacon... or die frying!!! =)
Enjoy people
Love, Nic

Ooh la la... c'est si bon!!!

Alrite People... New week... New kitchen-adventure!!!

This time: Tomato-Coconut-Soup!!!

Easy. Fast. Cheap. Yummmmm!!!



You'll be needing: (for 2-3 people)
-canned sliced tomatoes (400g)
-the juice of 2 fresh oranges
-1 can of coconut milk (appr. 250ml)
-as many prawns as you like... since i'm lazy i buy the frozen prawns, which have already been peeled

All you gotta do is basically just dump everything into a pan and bring to boil and season it with some salt, pepper and chilli powder!!!
Experiment!!! Add more orange juice for a more fruity taste!!!



Bon Appetit!!!!!! =)
love, Nic

Instant Lasagna

It's 11.22pm in Singapore and I'm soooooooooooo hungry! I just looked through the fridge trying to figure out what to eat and all I see is frozen leftovers. There's pasta sauce, mozarella, sausages but they'll all take too long to defrost.

Lasagna is suddenly in my mind. Yummy! I might try out some strange leftover lasagna recipe using the frozen ingredients tomorrow, but I don't have lasagna sheets...I do, however, have Instant Purple Wheat Noodles that I bought for fun because I thought it was interesting.

Yes, I do get random strange ideas. I also have sudden food cravings that I try to recreate with whatever I have on hand. I had a cinnamon roll craving recently, and obviously, making it from scratch (as lovely as it may be) is not instant. So I made Cheater Cinnamon Rolls using bread to substitute the dough and vanilin to substitute vanila in this recipe. Turned out pretty alright, I think I'll try it again.

...In the meantime, all this talk about bread is making me crave garlic bread.

Behold: Banoffee Pie!!!

Okay... I am excited... because my first entry happens to also be one of my favourite things to eat on earth!!! Banoffee-Pie!!! I believe it originates from Scotland, which if I may say so is one of the most beautiful places on earth I've ever visited!!!

Now... *harrumph* over the next couple of entries you will realize that I love creating stuff to eat BUT that I am also terribly lazy and impatient... so the recipes I post might as well come from a "Cooking for Dummies!" book!!! They are easy, they dont cost a lot of money, they consist of very few ingredients and they dont require a lot of preparing time!!!

But enough talk... lets get started!!!

First: we need the right cooking tunes... I'm thinking Mario Biondi...



Right... now that the mood is set:
You'll need:
- 3 to 4 Bananas
- 1 can of Dulce de Lecce (i'm too lazy to boil condensed milk for 2 hrs...)
- whipped cream (I buy the one from the can... )
- chocolate sprinkles
- and instead of crushing biscuits to make a base for the pie I tend to just buy chocolate flavoured cake base. In Switzerland you can find it at any grocery store such as Coop or Migros. A it is easier and less messy. B I get frustrated with all the buiscuit crumbs falling apart when I try to eat my delicious pie!!!

So... basically its very easy:
Just take the chocolate base, cover it with a layer of banana slices. Then cover the bananas with a layer of Dulce de Lecce. Then cover the Dulce de Lecce with a layer of whipped cream. And then to decorate the whole thing sprinkle chocolate pieces over it.
Et voila!! It is soooo easy!! Yet soooo yummie!! Enjoy people!!

Love, Nic

Numero Uno

Hellllloooo, I'm a month late but I'm here! I'm the other half of this blog. 75% Eurasian, 25% Hokkien...all Singaporean - which also means I love my food spicy, flavorful and with a fusion twist. I'm as loud as I am quiet and I'm as colourful as I am black & white.

We hereby attempt to document our adventures in the kitchen once a week. Be it simple and quick or momentous and labourious, we'll look for interesting recipes that tickle our fancy and sprinkle in dashes of other food-related info we come across in search of astounding rcipes to add on to our cookbooks.

This marks our first week!