cooking

since I was home on sick leave today, i decided to cook dinner. haven’t been cooking dinner in a while ever since i started working. made risotto and damn. for my first ever try at making risotto, i’d say it went perfectly well. here’s my recipe:

Ingredients

• 1 can of mushrooms, sliced into small pieces
• 1 can of cream of mushroom soup
• 2 cubes of chicken stock
• 2 onions, chopped finely
• 2 tablespoons of chopped garlic
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• 3 tablespoons of canola oil
• 2 cups of rice (uncooked)
• salad herbs
• pepper (black and white, freshly grounded)

Directions

1. in a large bowl, mix the 2 cubes of chicken stock with roughly 4 cups of boiling water. mix and stir well. set aside.
2. in another large bowl, mix the cream of mushroom with the stock from the canned mushrooms. stir well and set aside.
3. in a medium or large pan, melt the butter on high heat and mix it with olive oil. throw in the garlics and fry for roughly 1 minute before adding in the onions. continue frying both until they turn sort of golden brown.
4. throw in the sliced mushrooms and continue stir frying for another 1 minute.
5. now add in canola oil. after the oil heats up suffiently, add in the uncooked rice. stir fry for 3 minutes, making sure the rice is thoroughly coated with oil.
6. add in the mushroom soup. continue stirring till the mushroom soup is absorbed.
7. add in the chicken stock slowly, 1 cup at a time until the stock is absorbed. continue till there is no more stock left. by now, the rice should be soft yet firm. sprinkle salad herbs and freshly ground pepper to taste.

for those who would like to try it, do leave me a note and let me know if it’s nice. i’d like to know how else this could be improved. thanks!

been wanting to make macaroni and cheese for a long time. finally decided to do it since there’s like 2 unopened packets of macaroni still in the cupboard. here’s my recipe.

• 2 packets macaroni
• 1 box cheddar cheese, grated
• half a box of fresh milk
• 2 tablespoons of butter

first, cook the macaroni. next, melt butter in pan and mix it with milk. melt cheese and after things have thickened a bit, dump the macaroni into the mixture. mix well and serve.

forgive me if the measurements seems so… i don’t know. i just dump everything i had in there. looked good, tasted good. ’nuff said.

this is my own version. won’t post up the recipe cause it’s still in the process of being refined… but anyway, here’s a pic i took.

· lots of cinnamon powder. yumm!

recently decided to experiment with making my own meatloaf. i’ve always heard about meatloaf and i thought it’d be interesting to see if i can come up with my own recipe.

here’s what i came up with:

ingredients

4 packets of minced pork
1 packet of hotdogs
1 large white onion
2 tbspns ketchup
2 tbspns chilli sauce
2 eggs
2 tbspns black pepper powder
2 slices of crustless bread (shred by hand)

here’s the photos i took of me mixing it all up.

· the ingredients forming up on time.

· mix the ingredients. hmmm. alot more pepper than just 2 tablespoons…

· add the eggs and the ingredients are done!

· here’s with the ketchup and chilli sauce.

· mix them well!

· flatten a bit of the mixture on foil and pile up the hotdogs.

· cover up the hotdogs with the remaining mixture and top it off with the remaining ketchup and chilli sauce.

· just before baking.

remember to cover well with the foil when baking so that it will not dry up. i’ll post pictures of the finished meatloaf when it’s done baking. bake it for an hour at 250°C. or at least that’s the setting i used on my oven.

· the settings on my oven.

by the way, you can substitute the minced pork with ground beef too.

edit: the moment of truth!

· here’s the finished meatloaf.

· yummy.

· look at how juicy it is!