Garlic bread

When you dine in restaurant and order cream of mushroom, they serve with crispy tasty garlic bread right? You savour every bite of that garlic bread and praise how good it complemented the soup. Now you can make your own crispy tasty garlic bread at home.

Garlic Bread

(serves 2)

Ingredients

6 pieces of bread

3 cloves of garlic

3 tbsp of butter

salt

white pepper powder

dried pasley (optional)

Methods

1. Fine-chop garlic and mix well with butter.

2. Spread the paste onto bread.

3. Sprinkle salt and pepper evenly on bread.

4. Sprinkle pasley.

5. Bake at 120 degree untill the bread turn golden.

6. Serve immediately.

Carbonara Spaghetti

Bored of eating rice everyday? Craving for pasta? Tempted to try out speghetti with cream sauce? Here's a very easy recipe - carbonara spaghetti.

Carbonara Spaghetti
(serves 4)

Ingredients
Spaghetti (enough for 4)
1 can of Prego carbonara mushroom pasta sauce (blue)
1 small bowl of chicken meat (chicken breast, cut into strips)
Bacon (few pieces, cut into strips)
1 medium bowl of Ayamas chicken cocktail sausage (cut into slant)
5 cloves of garlic (finely chopped)

Marinate chicken strips with
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper powder

Methods
1. Bring a pot of water to a boil. Add 1/2 tsp and salt and few drops of olive oil.
2. Cook spaghetti until al dent. Set aside.
3. Heat oil in a wok and saute garlic till fragrant.
4. Add in chicken strips and bacon, saute till fragrant.
5. Add in cocktail sausages and stir-fry for a while.
6. Pour in the pasta sauce and 1/2 small bowl of water, simmer for a while.
7. Toss in the spaghetti, mix well with the sauce.
8. Serve hot.

Sambal kacang botol

Kacang botol is also known as winged bean. It is a cheap and good stuff - 50 cents of kacang botol from TESCO is enough for the following recipe.

Sambal Kacang Botol

(serves 2)

Ingredients

Kacang botol (cut into slants)

6 prawns (shelled and deveined)

Sambal (simplified version) - blend the following

2 red chilis

2 cloves of garlic

1 tbsp of dried shrimp

Seasoning

Salt to taste

Methods

1. Heat oil in a wok, stir fry sambal until fragrant.
2. Add in prawn to stir fry.

3. Pour in beans, add a bit of water to make the dish moist.

4. Sprinkle salt and serve.

Instant Noodles - the yummy way

I always like to have instand noodles the way they were served in commercial advertisement, or like what is seen at the packaging - with lotsa side dishes. Plain instant noodles are dull and artificial. By adding few ingredients into the noodles, you gain more nutrients instead of just plain carbohydrates and fats.

Instant Noodles - the yummy way

(serves 2, for breakfast)

Ingredients

1 packet of instant noodles (XL size)

a handful of cut sawi

1 stalk of spring onion

1 egg

Methods

1. Bring water to boil in a pot.

2. Put instant noodles and sawi into the boiling water.

3. Crack the egg into the pot.

4. Boil till noodles soften, off the fire.

5. Add seasonings (from the packet) and spring onion.

6. Serve immediately.

Fried rice

When you have left-over rice in the fridge, the easiest way to prepare your next meal will be fried rice.

Fried Rice

(serves 2)

Ingredients

rice, enough for 2
8 medium prawns (appendages trimmed)

1/3 yellow capsicum (diced)

1/3 green capsicum (diced)

1/3 carrot (diced)

1 stalk of spring onion (chopped)

2 eggs

3 cloves of garlic

Seasoning

salt and pepper to taste OR

a packet of "nasi goreng kampung" seasoning

Methods

1. Heat the wok and saute garlic until fragrant.

2. Stir-fry prawn, follow by capsicums and carrots.

3. Set the ingredients at the side of the wok, fry eggs, sprinkle salt.

4. Pour in rice and seasonings. Fry till rice is coated evenly with seasonings.

5. Sprinkle spring onion and serve.

Fried Bee Hoon

This is another recipe of one-pot-dish, fried bee hoon. I usually cut the ingredients the night before, and wake up a bit early the next day to fry the bee hoon and bring to work as lunch.

Fried Bee Hoon

(serves 2)

Ingredients

bee hoon, enough for 2

1 stalk of sawi (cut into 1.5 inches length)

1 stalk of spring onion (cut into 1.5 inches length)

10 prawns (shelled and deveined, marinate with salt and pepper)

5 fresh mushroom (cut into strips)

1/3 of a carrot (cut into strips)

3 cloves of garlic (finely chopped)

Seasoning

1 tbsp of oyster sauce

2 tbsp of light soy sauce

salt to taste

Methods

1. Soak the bee hoon in a pot of cold water until soft, drain and set aside.

2. Heat the wok and saute the garlic until fragrant.

3. Stir fry the prawn and add in other ingredients in the following order:

carrots, sawi, mushroom.

4. Pour in the bee hoon and the seasoning. Stir fry till bee hoon is coated with the sauce.

5. Add some water if too dry.
6. Add the spring onion and stir fry for a while before done.

Long Bean Rice

One-pot-dish is very practical when you are cooking for one or two, just chuck in the all the ingredients and do one-time cooking. Here's the recipe for long bean rice. This is ideal for a meal in the lunch box.

Long Bean Rice
(serves 2)

Ingredients
1 medium bowl of long bean (cut into 1.5 inches strips)
5 dried mushroom (soaked, removed stalk and cut into this strips)
1 small bowl of chicken meat (chicken breast, cut into strips)
3 cloves of garlic (coursely chopped)
1 tbsp of dried shrimp (optional)

Marinate chicken strips with
2 tbsp of light soy sauce
1/2 tbsp of sesame oil
1 dash of white pepper
1/2 tbsp of corn flour

Seasoning
2 tbsp of light soy sauce
1 pinch of salt

Methods
1. Heat oil in the wok, saute garlic, dried shrimps and mushroom until fragrant.
2. Add in chicken strips to stir fry.
3. Pour in long bean strips to stir fry.
4. Add 1/2 bowl of water and simmer till the long beans turn soft.
5. Serve with plain rice.