aiyah! so simple…

Preparation time: 30 mins
Prepares: 5 main course

What you need:

• 1 (500g) packet of pasta of your choice
• 60 ml of oil
• 3 cloves of garlic, minced
• 2 chilli
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• 1 can of crushed tomatoes
• 1 large capsicum, diced
• 5 large button mushrooms, sliced
• 2 tablespoon of tomato paste
• 3 cups of water
• Pepper, to taste
• 2 teaspoon of oregano leaves
• 2 ½ tablespoon of whipping cream
• 4 links of sweet Italian sausage, sliced.
• 3 tablespoon of vodka (optional)

Preparing the pasta
1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil (add a dash of salt to hasten boiling time).
2. Add pasta and cook for 10 minutes or until cooked. Add olive oil and stir to prevent the pasta for sticking together.
3. Drain water and toss in ice water for solid spongy texture.

Preparing the sauce
1. Heat oil in pan, toss garlic in till they brown on the sides.
2. Throw sausages in and fry till brown on the sides.
3. Add in the can of tomatoes, tomato paste and water.
4. Stir and add in pepper, salt, chilli and oregano leaves, and bring to a boil.
5. Add capsicums and mushrooms last so that they won’t shrink or soften (you want the capsicum to stay crunchy)
6. Add in whipping cream and vodka (the alcohol will evaporate, it just adds really good taste to the recipe)

Pour hot sauce over the pasta and we are good to go!

For variation:
Instead of sausages, you can make the pasta seafood and add in prawns, squids, clams etc.

A light and easy Italian appetizer to get the taste buds going!

Preparation time: 15 mins
Prepares: 14 sandwiches

What you need:

A cup of bread crumbs
14 slices of white bread
Sliced mozerella cheese
4 eggs
2 teaspoons of salt
2 tablespoons of water
Sauce: A can of chopped tomato with basil and garlic (available in supermarkets)
About 3 cups of oil for shallow frying.

1. Slice white bread into halves. Cut away the sides of the bread and lay a thick slice of mozerella chesse to form a sandwich.
2. Beat the eggs in a bowl and add salt and water.
3. Lightly dip the mozerella sandwich into the bowl of egg and quickly take it out. You do not want the sandwich to soak up the egg.
4. Spread the bread crumbs onto a plate and coat the sandwich with the bread crumbs. Gently squeeze the edges of the bread together to close the sandwich.
5. Heat oil in a pan. Do not overheat.
6. Once oil is hot, place the sandwich into the pan. Flip the sandwich one side is golden brown.
7. Heat the tomato sauce slightly and serve with the mozerella sandwich.

For variation:
Add mushrooms, ham or sausages in the mozerella sandwich.

Get mozzy!!!!

Wah! Very Hot Fries!

The classic all-American snack. OUR version of comfort food. =)

Preparation time: 20 mins
Prepares: 1 large plate of fries

What you need:

• 200g ground beef
• 400 ml of water
• 30ml of tomato paste
• 20ml of ketchup
• 1/4 teaspoon of salt (or to taste)
• 1/4 teaspoon of pepper (or to taste)
• 1/2 teaspoon of sugar
• 2 small chilli, chopped
• 1 beef stock cube (optional)
• 500g of frozen fries (chips works too)
• A handful of mozzarella shredded cheese (or your fav cheese)

Sauce
1. Pour water into pan, add tomato paste and ketchup, and bring to boil.
2. Add salt pepper and sugar.
3. Put beef cube in, chicken cube works too, and stir to dissolve cube.
4. Add chilli.
5. Add ground beef and mince it with your spatula.
6. Add water if the sauce gets too dry.
7. Let sauce simmer for about 2 mintutes or till sauce thickens to a paste.

Fries
1. Bake fries for about 10 mins, at 220 degree c. (or as instructed on the bag of your fries)
2. Toss it in salt and pepper.
3. Mix cheese into it and onto it.

TADA!!
1. Pour sauce over fries
2. Pop it into the microwave for 1 min.

the raisins! save the raisins!

The scone is a British snack of Scottish origin. This is the simplest but yummiest breakfast pastry you can make. It is a little crunchy on the outside, crumbly and soft on the inside. The rich butter taste is enough to kill you….

Preparation time: 15 mins
Baking time: 10 mins
Prepares: 20 scones

What you need:

800 ml (3 3/8 cups) of plain flour
70 ml (1/3 cup) of self-raising flour
7 ml (1 1/2 tsp) of salt
180 ml (3/4 cup) of butter
65 ml (1/3 cup) of sugar
350 ml (1 1/2 cups)of milk
11 ml (2 1/4 teaspoons)of baking powder
1 egg + 22 ml of milk (4 1/2 teaspoons), beaten together
half cup (1 handful) of raisins

1. Line your pan with aluminium foil and grease it with butter (or baking paper will do). Preheat oven to 225 degree c.
2. Mix flour and salt together in a bowl.
3. Add in sugar and baking powder, mix well.
4. Add butter, rub the butter into the flour with your hands, till there are no lumps of butter left. The combined mixture should look like breadcrumbs.
5. Add the milk a little at a time and stir till the mixture stick together like a dough (a wooden spoon should do the job.
6. Add in the raisins and mix till they are evenly distributed.
7. Normally people will use a cookie cutter, but i prefer the odd shape of a scone. so use you hands and powder it a little with flour, and remove a handful of dough.
8. Knead lightly to form a ball.
9. Place the ball on the baking tray
10. With a butter brush, brush your egg+milk mixture over the dough, this is to create the nice shine that appears on the scone after baking.
11. Bake the scones for about 10-15 mins till golden brown. Check to see if the inside of the scones are still wet.
12. Remove from oven to let it cool down a little.
13. Serve it warm with cream cheese and jam.

For variation:
Instead of raisins, you can replace it with chocolate buttons, dried cranberries, or whatever you like.