Pasta Simple

This recipe is one of the simplest ones I know. When I need to whip something up in the kitchen real quick, this recipe comes to mind. I know this recipe by heart. It's fairly simple and I've come up with several variations. There's the spicy kind wherein all you need to do is add chili or pepper. There's the non-alcoholic kind which minuses the white wine from the recipe and there's also the red kind which uses a little bit of stewed tomato.

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Pasta Simple


ingredients


1/8 cup white wine
1/8 cup olive oil
1 small package of pasta (fettucine, linguine or spagehetti)
1/8 cup chopped garlic
salt and pepper for taste


procedure

*cook pasta according to package instructions

1. combine olive oil and garlic in a pan
2. when garlic is brown, add white wine. simmer for 2 mins.
3. saute cooked pasta in the sauce.
4. serve with salt and pepper as desired.

Creamy Carbonara

This is one of my oldest recipes. I learned how to make Pasta Carbona - Yen style (Yen, is my mom's name) when I was 14 years old.

This is an easy recipe but quite creamy and buttery so if you have a thing about too much butter this one isn't for you. However, if you're the type who licks butter off a plate after having some with a croissant, this one's definitely your poison!

My contribution to this recipe would be the addition of asparagus.

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Pasta Carbona - Yen style
(serves 4)


the asparagus

ingredients

10 medium length asparagus stalks
1/4 cup butter
salt


procedure


1. cut asparagus into 1-inch pieces, remove the unedible pieces
2. in a pan, melt butter under low heat
3. fry asparagus until cooked
4. drizzle with salt, set aside


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the pasta


ingredients


1/2 kg. package of noodles (any kind)
1 egg (beaten)
1 cup butter
1 cup cream (or 1 tetra pack of Nestle' Cream is fine)
1 butter-fried asparagus (bite-size)

*instead of asparagus, optional ingredients would be fresh bacon bits (cooked on the same day), tuna or chicken cubes


procedure


1. in a a pot, cook pasta with some salt (add a little oil to the boiling water so that noodles don't stick to each other)
2. while pasta is boiling away, line up ingredients near each other.
3. as soon as pasta is cooked (taste them to make sure), drain it, transfer it to another bowl without holes and immediately get ready to toss the ingredients together with two forks or better, two wooden forks in this order:

a. toss in the egg, make sure it cooks in the hot pasta.
b. toss the cream in
c. toss the butter in

4. make sure everything is mixed well
5. add salt as desired (taste it!!)
6. top with asparagus
7. serve hot - AL DENTE'

Peanut Butter Saute

This recipe is my version of satay. I have yet to discover how the tangy part of the peanut sauce is made. I assume that the spicy version of the sauce has crished chili.

I made this a few days ago when I thought I couldn't cook anything with the ingredients avalable at home. I wanted to get away from the usual chicken (or meat) cooked in butter and garlic. So I came up with some sort of a twist to that recipe.

In this version, I am using chicken as my meat. You will also find yourself successful with fowl, beef and pork. I have not yet tried this with fish, but you can always try that at your own risk.

There is no real sauce involved, everything is thrown in a pan to cook. When I figure out how to make satay peanut sauce, I'll let you all know.

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Peanut Butter Saute


ingredients

2 chicken breast fillets (sliced into 1 inch pieces)
3 tbsps. Lily's Peanut Butter (or any mushy, soft, almost liquid-like peanut spread)
*to soften semi-chunky peanut butter, heat a pan and add 1 tbsp. butter for every 3 tbsps. peanut butter, stir to desired consistency*
1/2 clove of garlic (chopped)
2 tbsps. butter
salt
pepper


procedure

1. saute garlic and butter in a pan until garlic is almost brown
2. add the chicken and stir-fry till the chicken is cooked
3. add peanut butter (or peanut butter mixture) and stir till it sticks to the chicken
4. season with salt and pepper
5. serve hot with rice

Fire's Special Chicken Adobo

I can probably post a whole array of adobo recipes. You can do a lot of things with regard to preparing this famous filipino dish. The possibilities are endless.

I'm gonna share one of the recipes I use. I learned the basic recipe from my mom, all I did was add a few things here and there.

I will use chicken as my abodo meat although you can modify this by using pork or a combination of pork and chicken as well as kangkong (water cabbage).

This is a rather saucy dish. It's what my mom used to call wet/sauced adobo.

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Chicken Adobo


ingredients

1/2 chicken (medium sized - chopped)
1/4 cup. soy sauce (Kikoman is best)
1/8 cup brown sugar (loose)
1/4 cup red wine
1 clove garlic (chopped)
1 onion (diced)
salt
crushed pepper
4 boiled eggs (halved)


procedure

*rub chicken pieces in salt and pepper 15 mins before starting.

1. in a bowl, mix the soy sauce, brown sugar and red wine. set aside.
2. in a pot, saute garlic and onion together in cooking oil till onions are transparent.
3. add the chicken
4. fry the chicken till the outside is cooked.
5. add the sauce mixture. cook under med-high heat until chicken is fully cooked and covered in sauce.
6. serve with the halved boiled eggs and rice.

Rosemary Chicken with Pasta

Welcome to my cookbook!

I'm no expert, I'm a hit and miss cook.

Here I will post the recipes that actually worked for me. Enjoy!


For my first recipe, I chose one that I used when I made Samhain Dinner last October 29, 2004.

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Rosemary Chicken with Pasta

The Chicken

ingredients

4 chicken breasts (fillet and chopped into 1.5 inch pieces)
10 small tomatoes (diced)
5 big onions diced (diced)
4 big cloves of garlic (diced)
1.5 cup red wine
1/4 c. tomato paste
1/4 c. butter
2 tsp. marjoram
1 tbsp. rosemary
2 basil leaves
2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper

procedure

1. marinade chicken in 1/2 cup red wine, salt and pepper. set aside.
2. mix tomato, tomato paste, 1 cup red wine, basil, marjoram and rosemary in a bowl. set aside.
3. in a pot, melt butter under low heat. add onions and garlic. stir-fry in butter for 2 minutes in medium heat.
4. add chicken and cook until chicken is tender. stir twice every 5 mins.
5. while chicken is cooking, in a separate pot, simmer tomato mixture.
6. when chicken is cooked, add tomato mixture to the chicken.
7. cook under medium heat for 7-10 mins.
8. season with salt and pepper.
9. serve hot with Fire's Special Pasta.

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Fire's Special Pasta

ingredients

1 package pasta (any kind)
1/4 cup cashew nuts (chopped)
1 clove garlic (chopped)
olive oil
salt

procedure

1. cook noodles according to package instructions.
2. after noodles are cooked, remove from water and set aside.
3. in a pot, saute garlic in olive oil until almost brown. add cashew nuts.
4. saute pasta in the pot. make sure that the noodles are covered in oil mixture.
5. season with salt
6. serve with the chicken.