Halloween 2009

Halloween was a BLAST!!!

I manage to embrace my inner Harujuku Ah Lian-ness when I went as a Harujuku ghost.... (some people think I was a 80s ghost.... but  I think I rock!! Hub went as I have no idea...but his charater was good as dead!

The One Where The Black Bull Vs The X6....

The black bull won **&%##$^%^()

The One With The REALLY GOOD Carbonara *wink*

It has been two long months since I actually cooked a meal. So last nite I decided to bring out my pots and pan and my super duper "keng" Zwilling knifes and make a decent meal for hubs.

On the menu -

• Bacon and Mushroom Spaghetti Carbonara ( hubs favorite... the last time I cooked this dish from scratch was years ago!!)
• A bottle of Argentinian red (just in case dinner sucks, at least I got a good bottle of red!)

I know sound like a very simple meal rite... wrong!! not if you are cooking it the right way! There are so many ways of making carbonara sauce. Some people used milk, other used thick cream, whipping cream, mushroom soup as the base. Some like to mix the sauce with cheddar cheese but I love the tartness of parmesan.

Making a carbonara sauce (to me ) is very technical, and if done wrongly, your sauce would be too diluted or too clumpy.

Alritee...let me tell you how I make my simple sauce oh - so -good that hubby goes back for thirds!

Ingredients:
250 g spaghetti or fettucini
4-5 rash of middle bacon ( must be pork!!! sorry to all my Muslim friends!!)
10-12 medium button mushroom
tiny weeny pinch of mixed herbs (can get it from Masterfood or McCormick) make sure is tiny weeny or it will overpower the taste of the sauce
Good Olive oil
Salt for boiling the spaghetti or fettucini
2 cloves of garlic finely chopped

For sauce:
1 tub of Pure cream
Milk for consistency / or pasta water
1 large Egg
250 g Parmesan
Freshly grinded black pepper

1. Get a big pot and fill it with water and get it boiling. Once boil, add salt ( 1 teaspoon per liter of water plus its the only time to season the pasta) and put in the spaghetti and cooked until it's al-dente.
2. In a hot pan, fry the bacon with olive oil until its crispy and add the mixed herbs and mushroom. Continue until mushroom soften and remove aside.
3. Turn fire to minimum and add in garlic and fry till frangrant.
4. Pour in pure cream and stir, then add a bit of milk
5. Slowly put in the parmesan and stir till it melts into the sauce and continue putting in the parmesan until finish. If it get too thick add in milk.
6. Off the fire and quickly beat the egg and slowly pour it in the hot sauce while stirring.
7. Add black pepper for taste.
8. Lastly add in the spaghetti and serve HOT!!!! with garlic bread.

Try it!

The carbonara turned out really good not clumpy and not too diluted, just nice and glossy and yummy, I was surprise considering I have not cooked it since like forever!

p/s forgot to take picture... *blek*

My Rockin 30th - KL Edition

My 30th celebration continues in KL with my favorite KL babes!!

The night started out with a fab dinner @ nerovivo italian restaurant where they served up really good pasta, pizza and steak.

The real celebration started in Aristo with plenty of alcohol... I visited the Aristo's porcelain God... he was kind to me... later when everyone was high/drunk... we went dancing all over the rooms in Zouk. We started with Bar Sonic, then Phuture, then ended in Velvet...

I was gone...yet AGAIN... *grin*

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

This morning....hubby slap me with my credit card bill!!

It was a SLAP indeed... I have took my shopping overboard and its only in Penang!! wtf rite...what can a person buy in Penang?? There is nothing!!! But within a month I manage to collect a lot of credit card points.

So I had to do the unthinkable...

I had to BREAKUP with my shopping partner (in-crime)

Mind you, it was not easy...

Me: Debs... I have to stop shopping with you d...my credit card bill came
Debs: How much?? ARE YOU BREAKING UP WITH ME??!!
Me: A LOT DEBS!!! About RM xxxx plus!!!
Yes, I am breaking up with you...I am so sorry....
You have to look for another shopping partner
Debs: (sobs uncontrollably) I am going to Hong Kong

She has already forgot that I dump her. *sigh*

Oh Life!

My Rockin 30th!

I have not had such a blast on my birthday for the longest time!!

It started with a birthday lunch with my staff and they surprise me with a cake...so sweet... ( all nice and innocent... until....)

...then it continued with birthday dinner with hubs and that is when the drinkin starts... we had a bottle of plum wine during dinner and then when we head over for birthday drinks,we had a bottle of whiskey and they killed me by flaming-ing me and drown me with martinis!! By the end of the night I was hugging the toilet bowl...puking my dinner out....and then I passed out ( I have been passing out a lot this month!!!)

Damn I am so hungover now!! but it was worth it... every minute of it!
But but but... my 30th celebration is not over yet! Next week... is with the KL people!!!

Ok where is the panadol.....