Category: My Kitchen

Remember that I said that we had some leftovers of the pasta, there is no way you can keep them if they are already laced with the sauce. This is how we modified it for dinner.

We baked it!

Prepare cheese, we used cheddar cheese. Do pre-heat your oven first.

Get a baking tray, or use a plate or bowl(as long that it’s microwave and oven safe). Cover it with aluminium foil so that it’s easier to clean later. Then spread some oil on foil and pour the leftover pasta in there.

Sprinkle the cheese on top. We used too little cheese. Don’t be stingy with your cheese, the more the merrier 😛 Hahaha… Done with that? Stuff the tray into the oven/microwave. Hmm… I have no idea how long needed and the temperature. I estimated around 150 degree Celcius, 10 minutes.

Very simple right?

Oh well… It’s a failure hahaha… Forgot many things when cooking this. In fact, I didn’t do much of the cooking except grated the cheese and stirred the pasta with olive oil. My sis did the cooking 😛

Bought the cheddar cheese last minute.

It’s my first time buying extra virgin olive oil.

The sauce wasn’t that nice compare to the sauce that I bought previously. I’m trying different brand this time that is imported from Australia. This is the cheapest I could find. I thought I can use this several times but it could only last for 3 days after opening! At the end we finished the whole bottle instead of keeping it for next time. Hahaha…

We forgot to stir fry the minced beef with garlic.

This time we tried with tube pasta. After the pasta is cooked, we poured some olive oil and mix with the pasta so that they won’t stick to each other.

By the way, before placing them on the plates, we strained them and ran them under cold water so that the texture will be more “Q”, how to say in English? Springy? Hahaha…

Poured the sauce into the pot with the minced beef. Then stir them until it boiled. We also added cheese into the sauce but not much.

Served the sauce with the pasta and sprinkled some grated cheese. Pardon my cheese 😛 Hehehe… Kinda lazy to grate them finely hehehe… This is the work of a lazy girl. *BLEK*

We couldn’t finish them and there were 1 and half plates of leftovers. We did something to the leftover and I will blog about it soon.

Here’s another cookie that I did for Chinese New Year.
Ingredients:
A
200g plain flour
30g corn flour
30g milk powder
1 teaspoon mixed spices(Make sure they are in powder form. I’m not sure you can buy them in powder form or not. If you can’t find them, then just buy the normal packet of mixed spice, then you heat them in the wok, make sure you stir it while it’s heating. If you feel that they are crispy enough already, then pound them or blend them into powder.)
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

B
50g finely crushed cornflakes
50g grated cheese
200g butter/margerine
50g castor sugar
2 egg yolks

Instrcutions:
1. Sift together ingredients A; then stir in cornflakes; mix well and set aside.
2. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg yolks and beat well.

3. Fold in mixture A and grated cheese.

4. Mix well until soft dough forms.
5. Roll the dough into a rod about 1 1/2 inches, then use the fork to make the pattern. It looks like a mini bun 😛 If you want to glaze it with egg yolk, you can do that aslo. I skipped that part. Or another way is using cookie cutter to get the shape that you like.

6. Bake in preheated oven at 180 degree Celcius for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and let it stand for 20 minutes.

This cookies is a bit more tedious but I love the cheeseeeeeeeeeeee… You can modified this recipe to make it a into Curry Cheese Cookies by replacing the spice powder with curry powder! This recipe uses a bit of sugar only therefore it’s not very sweet, if you like it sweeter then add a bit more sugar 😛 but don’t eat too sweet, reduce on the sugar intake is good for you.

Sorry people. I had tried my best yesterday. I had to do it. Please don’t hate me.:P

Did this for Chinese New Year. Finally can blog about it. Actually I modified the recipe again from Honeystar Cookies.

Ingredients:
A
100gm butter
110gm fine sugar

B
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon of lime juice

C
120gm self rising flour
100gm conrflakes

Instrcutions:
1. Beat A until light and creamy.

2. Stir in B and beat for 1 minute.

3. Fold in flour (C). Mix well.

4. Take a little bit of the dough, not too big coz it will expand to a bigger size. 1/2 teaspoon will do. Coat the dough with finely crushed cornflakes.

5. Place in papercups

6. Bake for 15 mintues at 170 degree Celcius.

TADA! Final product.

Try it out 🙂