Soup Pasta

Here's our dinner for tonight - a spiral pasta in soup. The soup base is simple - ikan bilis and the sinful prawnhead, strained when done. Then I add in carrots (Yohei loves his carrots soft) and tomatoes to the soup . When I am ready to start cooking the pasta, I put in the brocolli to make sure they are cooked through and not hard, then put in the shelled prawns. before turning off the fire Boil the pasta as per package, put them on a bowl, put the ingredients on top and ladle the soup over. Voila! Simple, fast, no added oil, salt or other seasonings. Oh but of course my bowl will have the pre-requisite cut chilli padi.

Dessert will probably be kiwis but I'm still waiting for the king to finish his food before deciding.

Dinner - Home-made Spinach Noodle

Yes! I finally got hold of the pasta maker from my sister (mom's machine is lost somewhere in her sea of unlabelled boxes haiz) and we are making spinach noodle (Yohei calls it "green noodle") for dinner. Here's the first installation (the making process...)


You've gotta wait till after 8pm for this to continue :)

2nd installation is in!

Easy peasy...

The noodles boiling happily in the pot

yummmmmm....

It's really easy to make the noodles. I used 200g flour with 1 egg and strained liquid from a couple bunches of spinach, mixed them up, gave them a good knead and let the dough rest till we were ready to get dinner going.

The pasta maker came in really handy and made the rest of the process a breeze. All I had to do was to roll the dough out thin and then cut into ribbons. In the ribbons go into a pot of boiling water, while Moobe gets the pan going with the simple tomato base (yes, again... it's Yohei's current favourite) with minced pork and mushrooms (with lots of garlic, onions and carrots).

I'll probably try using carrots for the pasta the next time if my King gives me the nod *rolls eyes*