Pasta ala "Eddie and I"

I am sure behind every recipe there is a story. Same goes to mine! Upon request of people who openly asked / secretly wants this recipe. And for those who can't cook...you can see how easy this is! Never try, never know.

Everything said here is based on my memory when I cooked it. Haha. Hope you like the end result.

Introducing (sorry, no measurements! but this is roughly it) :

Pasta ala "Eddie and I"

Half a pack of spaghetti /angel hair

1 can of cream

1 onion (diced)

1 garlic clove (mashed)

4 x italian pork sausages (or any other italian-marinaded meat)

2 box of cherry tomatoes

some chilly flake (depends how spicy you want)

some Italian seasonings (which I threw it for fun, cause this is, afterall, an Italian dish)

some milk to stand-by

Parmesan cheese (the flaked one) to taste

black pepper and salt to taste also

1. Cook spaghetti the normal way, set aside in a bowl.
2. Take out the transparent thingy that holds the sausage meat inside together. Cut it into bite size.
3. Take some oil , fry the sausage meat and throw in some chilly flake.
4. Sausage meat half cook, throw in the garlics and onions.
5. When the onions and garlics soft already, pour in the cream (usually I use half and half- half milk, half cream, so it'll be less fattening, but less tasty,too..up to your own preference. I used full milk before, not that satisfying).
6. Let them simmer for like 2 minutes, or when everything is cooked, throw in the tomatoes.
7. Put loads of salt and black pepper, to taste

By this step, it should look like this :

Then after that, throw in the spaghetti, and mix it! Cause usually the spaghetti will make the sauce taste a bit bland, that's when you add the Parmesan cheese, salt and black pepper kao kao! The Parmesan cheese, depends how Parmasancheesy taste you prefer. Can add one tablespoon per tablespoon. I used my hands and take out cheese from the package leh. Don't know how many grams is that.

And thou spaghetti shall look like this:

Gross , but yummy okay, at least to Eddie and I, haha. I ate two bowls at 2am, and stole 2 mouthfuls at 4.30am. And Eddie said no more for me because it's his breakfast T.T

Want to eat you up!

To Annona, who asks :

To my cousin, Elsie ..who always think she can't cook. You can! Everyone can cook.

The story behind this pasta was because I LOVE TOMATO -based pasta, whereas Eddie prefers cream pasta. In general, I love pasta cream ones also la, but would prefer tomato based-depending on my mood actually, Eddie is alright with it only. So rather than making Carbonara (that requires egg YOLKS), I tried making a healthier version..substituting egg yolks with uh tomatoes? and wala, we settled for this, every time we were to eat italian pasta, home made.

Not too tomato-ie for him, and just the right amount of cream for me! :)

And according to Annona, tomato is a slimming agent, so "Eddie and I " Pasta 1, Carbonara 0!

Anyone can cook ! Recipe 01.

As much as I would want to tell people what I baked, but I guess I rather keep it as a secret. Humble (embarassed) what. Hehe. But from the picture of the "end product", it's safe enough to say I made Chocolate Cheese Spongy kinda cake.

But it's edible. I won't praise my own stuff, apart from calling it yummy as all my food are made according to my own preferences. So it may be yummy to me, but not to you.

Since I'm feeling generous, I am going to share the recipe. The recipe is from one of Australia's top recipe book writer, Donna Hay. If you watch MasterChef Australia, you would know. I got her recipe books as my birthday presents this year! yeah!

But fine, here goes the recipe and the name :

Donna Hay's Chocolate Cheese Brownie

Base

185g butter

1/4 cup cocoa powder

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 cup plain flour

Cream Cheese

285g cream cheese (Philadelphia)

4 1/2 table spoon of sugar

2 eggs

1. Mix everything from Base together. MAKE SURE YOUR BUTTER IS MELTED. Mix until smooth. sheesh, I just realised my mistake when writing this out
2. Spoon into a 8" baking tray.
3. Mix everything from the Creamcheese together until smooth.
4. Place large spoonfuls of of the cheese mixture on top of the chocolate base.
5. Give it a swirl with a butter knife.
6. Bake for 45 - 50 minutes on 160 celcius.

This is what you get (when you forgot to melt your butter never read recipe properly ) :

But it taste nicer than those spongy kind of cake where you buy from morning market. Very fluffy! And the cheese is like when you bite, they "burst" in your mouth. Especially when it's freshly bake and still hot.