Fusion Fried Spaghetti with Bacon Recipe

I rarely buy fresh yellow eggs noodles nowadays, after I started using Spaghetti as a healthier replacement.
I cooked the above fried spaghetti ala Mamak style but with bacon added. My kids love both bacon and spaghetti, so they have no complain about this fusion dish. I added chilly sauce for extra flavours but you can opt out from it if your kids do not take spicy food.

Ingredients
Spaghetti, 1 bowl (pre boiled until soft)
Tomato sauce, 2 tablespoons
Chilly sauce, 1 tablespoon
Bacon, 2 pcs, cut into small pieces
Carrot, diced
Salt to taste
Oregano, 1/2 teaspoon (dried)
Shallots, 3 pcs, cut into thin slices
Olive oil, 1 tablespoon

Put olive oil into pan and fry bacon until they turned golden brown. Add shallots and fry for a short while. Add carrot and spaghetti. Put in the tomato sauce, chilli sauce, salt and oregano. Mix well and garnish with lettuce before serving.

Quickie Spaghetti Hokkien Char Mee(Fried Noddles with Dark Soya Sauce, aka Negro Mee) Recipe

I have been using lots of Spaghetti in my cooking lately; trying to clear my stock before the Chinese New Year! Ha ha ha! This is another quickie meal that I cooked for supper recently and I decided to post it because everyone loves a ‘quickie’.......quickie Hokkien Char Mee aka Quickie Negro Mee.....(I know Cleffairy would be thinking of Quickie + Negro! Habis) LOL! This time around instead of using Angel hair Spaghetti, I used normal spaghetti because normal spaghetti is thicker and easier to fry . It would be good if we garnish this Hokkien Char Mee with crispy fried pork fat, like the one they used to serve at hawker stalls! Yum Yum!

Ingredients
Spaghetti, one serving, boiled in hot water until soft
Dark Soya sauce, 1 table spoon, more if you prefer it to be darker
Light soya sauce, 1 tables spoon
Cabbage, 3 leaves, cut into large pieces
 Garlic, 3 cloves, chopped finely
A little Corn flour mixed with water
Prawns, 3 pcs
Lean pork meat or chicken meat, 5 slices
Eggs, 1 pc (optional)
Salt and pepper to taste

Heat up work and add in a little vegetable oil. When the oil is hot, put in the garlic and pork slices. Throw in the cabbage and fry for a short while. Add the spaghetti, dark soya sauce, prawns and light soya sauce. Fry until all the ingredients are evenly mixed. Add eggs, salt and pepper. Pour in a little water and thicken the gravy with a little corn flour mixed with water. Garnish with crispy fried pork lard before serving!

East Meet West Celery Sauce Elbows Macaroni with Fried Wantan (Fried Sui Kow, Chinese Dumplings)

I decided to cook my pasta differently which resulted in this recipe. Instead of using stuff like sausage, bacon or meatballs, I bought some fried wantan from the wantan mee (noodles) seller near my house as garnish for my Elbow Pasta. I love to cook using small size pasta because it would be easier for my little toddler to eat. Here is my East Meet West Celery Sauce Elbows Macaroni with Fried Wantan fusion recipe! Can add sambal belachan or chili padi if you want too! Ha ha ha!

Ingredients
Elbow Macaroni, boiled until soften, coat with butter

Sauce,
Celery, 2 stalks, and Tomato, 1pc blended
Tomato paste, 1 small tin
Chicken Meat, 250 gms, minced
Thyme, 1 teaspoon
Pepper, a dash
Onions, 1pc, chopped finely
Mozzarella Cheese, to taste
Salt to taste
Fried wantan recipe, please refer to my previous post, http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2008/09/simple-recipe-chicken-siew-mai-fried.html

Heat up pan and put in a little vegetable oil. Sautéed onions until fragrant. Add Chicken meat and stir fry for a short while. Put in the Celery, tomato, tomato paste, thyme, pepper, cheese and salt to taste. Add a little sugar if the sauce is too sour for you. Pour the sauce over the macaroni and garnish with fried wantan.

Baked Lumache Pasta with Sausage and Potato Recipe

Aliens, Eskimos........?

These Lumache pasta are rather cute looking and the name sounds like ‘low ma chi’ (mom) in Cantonese. What do you think they look like to you? Alien, astronaut, lady with tudung (headscarf).......or....? Well, I like to buy different types of pasta and cook them in different ways. First I boiled the pasta to make them soft. Then I bake the pasta with sausages and potato. I ended up with a nice aromatic baked dish with soft and flavourful pasta below it. This is my recipe for Baked Lumache with Sausage and Potato.

Ingredients
Lumache Pasta, 1 cups, boiled in hot water until soften
Tomato sauce, 5 table spoons
Hickory BBQ Sauce, 2 table spoons
Potato, 3 pcs, boiled in water until soft and cut into large chunks
Pepper, a dash
Smoked Chicken sausage, 3 pcs, cut into small pieces
Onions, 1 large, cut into small pieces
Mozzarella cheese, ½ cup
Olive oil, 2 table spoons

Put the softened Lumache pasta into an oiled baking tray. Add the rest of the ingredients on top of the pasta. Pour the tomato and hickory BBQ sauce over the top. Add a dash of pepper and olive oil. Baked in preheated oven at 190 Dec C for 15 to 20 minutes.

Dishi Volanti Pasta with Baked Sausage ala Petetaliano Recipe! ROFL!

Picture 1 - Pasta with baked sausage.................Picture 2 - Baked sausage and veg mix

After cooking and before cooking!

I love to buy and cook many types of pasta. The Dishi Volanti has very cute snail like shape. Some it look like some ladies earring to me. Ha ha ha! My kids would normally be quite excited whenever I cook odd shape pasta. Somehow my little toddler likes to eat pasta as well. I tried to do some thing different with this recipe. I had some steamed sweet potatoes leftovers and I used them as replacement for potatoes. The sweet potato came in two different colours; purple and orange. It is going to be a very colorful dish! Here is the recipe of Petetaliano Pasta Dishi Volanti. Ingredients Dishi Volanti Pasta, 1 cup, boiled in hot water until they turn soft, drain away excess water. Pepper, a dash Butter, 1 table spoon Salt to taste Olive oil, 1 teaspoon Baked Sausage Sausage (smoked), 3 pcs, cut vertically Sweet potato, 2 pcs, steamed until soft and peel off skin, cut into small chunks Onion, 1 pcs, chopped finely Cheese, 1 pc or just use cream cheese Red Pepper (Capsicum), 1 pc, chopped finely Dried Thyme, ½ teaspoon Dried Oregano, 1 teaspoon Salt to taste Tomato Sauce, 3 table spoons Put all the baked sausage ingredients into baking pan. Then put the mixture in the oven and bake at 180 Deg C for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, when the pasta turned soft, put in the pepper, butter, olive oil and salt to taste. Serve the pasta with the baked sausages.

Ditali Rigati, Italian Pasta with Cream Cheese and Hickory BBQ Sauce

It is Ditali Rigati (try to pronounce with some Italian accent)......not ‘tarik tali’ ahhhh! Ha ha ha! A half packet of this pasta has been sitting in my kitchen cabinet for quite while. Ditali Rigati is actually Italian pasta shaped like the gears in machines. My kids love the shape of this pasta and they think that it look very cool! I thought that it would be nice if I cook it using the cream cheese that I have in my fridge. As for the aroma, I used hickory barbecue sauce which already has herbs such as oregano and thyme in it, so it save me the trouble and time of adding all these stuff or making a bouquet barni (French for a bunch of herbs, eg thyme, parley and bay leaf). This is one of the quickie recipes that I cook for supper!

Ingredients
Ditali Rigati Pasta, 250 gms,
Boiled in hot water until it soften
Minced Chicken Meat, 150gms
Onions, 1 large
Tomato paste, one cup
Sugar, ½ teaspoon
Cream Cheese, 2 table spoons (you can use any other type of cheexe)
Hickory BBQ sauce, 3 table spoons
Salt to taste
Olive Oil, 3 table spoons, (can use normal vegetable oil)

Thyme, (optional), a little Heat up pan and pour some olive oil into it. Sautéed onions until it caramelized and then add in the chicken meat. Stir the mixture over slow fire and then add cheese. Add tomato paste, sugar, hickory BBQ sauce and salt to taste. Pour the sauce over the cooked pasta and garnish with lettuce or fresh tomato.