Sloppy Chic

One of the days when I have nothing to do, I have the urge to cook up something for lunch or dinner as I totally run out of ideas what to eat out even with so many restaurants mushrooming.

I am proud to show you a recipe of luxurious pasta without breaking your arm of leg.

The ingredients for 2 pax:

- 4 slices of bacon sliced thinly, 1 sliced big onion, 1 diced tomato, tomato paste, herbs & spices (whatever you have at home), boiled pasta & olive oil.

I pre-cooked my pasta already and leave aside with olive oil added to prevent the spaghetti from clumping.

The spices I have at home: black pepper, rosemary & Italian herbs.

Now, pour in about 2 tablespoons of olive oil and heat up the wok. Throw in the sliced onion and garlic, stir fry a little and pour in the diced tomato.

Continue to stir till the onion turns golden brown and you can see the tomato starting to become pasty. Then, pour in for about 3/4 can of the tomato paste. You can add some water and let it simmer for about 3-5 mins.

Heat up a non-stick pan on the side (if you have more than 1 stove), pan-fry the bacon a little, and fry the sausages.

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Believe it or not, ever since I started new job, I spent more meals at home now simply because I have no energy to go out at night anymore after a long day of work.

And, and also, I started to learn different recipes. Here is a dish that I personally like, and it is quite easy to make.

You need few slabs of pork belly, about 3 slabs for 5 or 6 pax.

Clean the pork belly, and marinate with 5-spice powder (五香粉), pepper, salt, and dark soy sauce.

Leave it aside for about 20 mins for the spices to sink into the pork belly.

On the other hand, you will need some cinnamon, star anise ( ba jiao), peeled garlic and lightly smashed, and the spice that looks like nails is known as 丁香 (ding xiang).

Anyone knows what is 丁香 in Chinese?

Now, heat up a wok of oil and dump the pork belly into the hot oil.

Caution! Stand further away to avoid the splashing of the oil.

Fry the pork belly until golden brown and you know it is done!

No no, this is not ready to be eaten yet. We need to stew it now.

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Sometimes, when you are too lazy to go out or cook something complicated, I have an absolutely easy recipe for you!

Simple and easy – Spaghetti with tuna and bacon.

Ingredients for 2 persons: A canned of tuna in sunflower oil, chopped garlic and onions, 2 pieces of bacon.

Pre-boil the spaghetti first till al-dente. Add some salt while boiling so your spaghetti will not be tasteless. And add some olive oil when you drain the water so that your spaghetti will not stick together.

Put some sunflower oil from the tuna can and heat up the pan. When add in onions first, and followed by garlic. Fry them until they turn slightly golden brown.

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Another 5 more days to the end of Chinese New Year,  since work has taken over Chinese New Year mood, I am beginning to miss my mom’s cooking already.

On another note, this year will be my last year of receiving angpow.  Goodbye money.

Back to recipe, my mom creatively thought of the recipe of stuffed yellow capsicums.

Here you will need about 3 pieces of capsicums, cut into the shape shown above and clear the seeds. Make sure it is like a boat shape to hold the stuffing.  For the stuffing, it is minced pork + fish + prawns and a some chives for the color. Marinate the minced meat with some salt.

Then, fill in the capsicums with the meat. Not to overfill it though, it might be too hard to be cooked.

Now,  the capsicum boats should look like this.

Deep fry in wok till golden brown.  Then place it on a plate.

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