Simple Recipe - Parmesan Garlic Spagetti

Since is a fasting month, my son has a problem with the food being sold in his school canteen. Is either not much choice or the food is tasteless.

So we have to either home cooked from home or buy something for him to bring to school for his recess time.

This morning, I woke up an hour earlier as he has requested for spaghetti.  So I marinated the chicken strip a day earlier and luckily I still have the smoked bacon in freezer.

He told me he will wake up earlier to help me even though I told him not necessary. True enough, he woke up earlier but I have already started boiling the water to cook the pasta.

He loves cheese so he added more cheese to his pasta but to me it tasted very strong cheesy as I prefer to be more plain taste. The end result, he exclaimed "yummy"! 

Try this out, simple to cook Parmesan Garlic Spaghetti.

I still have time before sending him to school, thus I have time to blog this recipe.

Ingredients
Spaghetti
Smoked bacon strip
Chicken strip
Olive oil or any cooking oil
Salt
Black pepper
Parmesan cheese
Garlic slice

Method
Boil water in a pot. Once boiled, put dash of oil and some salt, I put about 1.5 teaspoon
Cook the spagetti for approx. 15 mins or till cooked.

In a pan, fry the bacon and then chicken. Set aside.
Then brown the garlic, put in the pasta
Sprinkle black pepper, pinch of salt
Add in some pasta water gradually
Follow by parmesan cheese
Lastly put in the pre-cooked bacon and chicken

Simple Recipe - Prawn Fritters

I have not been cooking Prawn Fritters for a very long time. My elder son dislikes prawn so I have to fry his with just big onion or even without big onion!

You need to have dipping chilies sauce for prawn fritters. And we prefer homemade dipping sauce.

Batter mixture with big onion

Chillie Sauce

Crispy Prawn Fritters

Ingredients
350 gm wheat flour
2 tblsp rice flour
2 eggs
2.5 teaspoon salt
2 diced big onion
Water
Prawn

Method
Mix all the above to form a batter
Then add in prawn
Heat up wok, put in cooking oil
Fry the fritters

For dipping chilies sauce
Ingredients
5 red chilies, cut small, discard seeds
8 dried chilies soak in hot water, cut
Half clove garlic, cut
6-8 tblsp rice vinegar
2 lime (for juice)

Method
Blend all above except lime juice
Then add 2 teaspoon sugar & pinch of salt and lastly lime juice

Simple Recipe - Creamy Butter Squid

This was the first time I tried to cook this Creamy Butter Squid. It turned out not bad as hubby and sons love it. You can replace squid with chicken strip or prawn. With prawn you do not need to dip into flour to deep fry, just lightly fry with cooking oil with some curry leaves will do.

Ingredients
2 squid, cut rings
8 tablespoon carnation evaporated creamer
1 salty egg yolk
1 stalk curry leaves, remove from strm
Pinch of salt
Dash of pepper
1 tblsp Butter
2 Bird eye chillies, cut
1 tsp curry powder
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp chopped garlic

Method
Marinate squid with dash of  salt & pepper & chilli powder for at least 30 minutes
Roll onto mixture of wheat and rice flour
Heat up wok, pour in oil to deep fry the squid, set aside

Steam the salty egg york, then use spoon break into tiny pieces

Heat up wok, put butter
Throw in curry leaves, garlic bird eye chillies, curry powder
Follow by salty egg york, once foamy add evaporated milk, pinch of salt
Lastly stir in the fried squid

Simple Recipe - Fried Fermented Red Beancurd Chicken Wing

No one can resist fried chicken wings. My younger son especially the happiest person when he saw marinated chicken wings in the fridge which I have marinated a day earlier. He exclaimed & smiled knowing I will be cooking this dish.

The easiest way to marinate chicken wings is using fermented red bean curd.  My mom will normally marinate and keep a week in the freezer, it will be even tastier.

Ingredients
8 pairs Chicken Wings
2.5 cube fermented red beancurds smashed
1 tablespoon red beancurd sauce
Dash of pepper
1/5 teaspoon thick soya sauce
1/4 teaspoon sugar

Method
Marinate overnight
Heat up Wok
Add in Oil
Fry the chicken wings till cook

Dragon Boat aka Dumpling Festival

This is the day which falls on chinese calendar 5th day 5th lunar month of the year, celebrated by all chinese around the world yearly. There is a legend behind this which you can easily googled.

Grand Dragon Boat Race festival will normally be held annually in Penang. As in China, there will be 3 days off day. In Hong Kong, they observe as national public holiday.

We celebrate this day by eating rice dumpling. Every year our friends will be giving us homemade dumpling. As this year hubby business partner's mom just had a surgery, she did not make any. But we are so blessed to receive dumplings from our son's friend, Mindy. Her mom made such a yummylicious dumpling full of goodies with glutinous rice with fillings such as chestnut, dried scallop, dried oyster, Chinese mushroom and roast pork.

Choices of savory or sweet dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves

My husband insisted that we must follow the tradition, there must be dumplings to be eaten on this day. By the way is one of his favorites.