Wheat Pasta Macaroni

This may look so new for some macaroni lovers but this one also exists! It is a meatless all veggies wheat pasta macaroni that I craved for. All fresh and natural ingredients :)

 Wheat Pasta Macaroni

 

Ingredients:

-          - 200 grams wheat pasta

-          - 200 grams fresh mushroom

-          - 100 grams broccoli

-          - 1 pc medium sized carrots

-          - 3 pcs medium sized tomato

-          - 2 onions

-          - 1 whole garlic

-          - 3/4 cup of water

-          - 2 tbsp. olive oil

-          - Salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

-          - Boil the pasta according to cooking instruction

-          - Drain and set aside

-          - On a separate pan, heat the olive oil, saute garlic, onions, and tomato for about 3minutes (gradually add few amount of water as you cook)

-          - Add salt and pepper

-          - Add the carrots and stir for about 3 minutes

-          - Add the mushroom and cook until soften

-          - Add more water if you want a saucy pasta

-          - Add the broccoli and stir fry for about 2 minutes

-          - Remove from heat and top on the cooked pasta

-          - Enjoy!

Baked Mac Bechamel Mix

I was planning and craving for Macaroni Cheese snacks but turned out to have this Baked Mac using Bechamel mix instead. Some Mac&Cheese ingredients are not available in the kitchen so I decided to prepare something like this instead. Béchamel is a mixture of flour, butter, and milk among others which is normally combined with pasta and serves as a base pasta sauce. A not-so-big difference with the taste between my cravings for Mac&Cheese and this one, still fine anyway :)

 Baked Macaroni Bechamel

Ingredients

- 200gms macaroni

- 100gms salted margarine

- 160ml evaporated milk

- 10 slices puck cheddar cheese

- 1 ½ cups of water

- pinch of salt and pepper

Procedure

 

Cooking the macaroni and sauce

- boil macaroni until semi-cooked

- remove from heat, rinse with water, and drain well

- meanwhile, preheat oven for 5mins

- on a separate cooking pan, heat 1 ½ cups of water

- before the water boils, add the butter and let boil

- gradually add béchamel powder, mix well

- add the evaporated milk

- cook until mixture becomes thick

- remove from heat and set aside

Combining them together 

- combine semi-cooked macaroni with the béchamel mixture

- grease a baking pan with butter

- place 4 pcs of puck cheddar cheese at the bottom of the pan

- layer with macaroni béchamel mixture

- place again some cheddar cheese on top and add the next macaroni layer

- bake on 200^o C initially for 5minutes

- top with cheddar cheese stripes

- bake again for another 5minutes of until cheese stripes become semi brown

- remove from oven and enjoy

Beef Lasagna cooked in Microwave Oven

Wikipedia explains Lasagna as a dish made of pasta with different sauces and baked in the oven. Since we do not have oven, I researched if using a microwave oven can be an alternative. Thanks to some websites that tell how to cook it using microwave oven.

my version of beef lasagna 

 

This is one of the favorites of my son and I love eating this as well. Wish he’s with me to be the first taster. 

Ingredients:

- ground beef

- 2 250g Spaghetti Sauce

- ¼ tsp garlic powder

- cheese slices (replacing cottage cheese)

- 2 tbsp minced parsely

- 1 egg

- 1 tsp pepper

- butter for greasing

- 9pcs lasagna noodles

- mozzarella chees

Proceduce:

- put beef in a microwave safe container and heat high for 3 minutes or until color turns semi brown, drain well

- combine spaghetti sauce, garlic powder with the well drained beef, set aside

- in a bowl, combine the cheese slices, parsely, egg, and pepper, mix well

- grease microwave safe container with butter

- spread meat sauce at the bottom

- prepare the first layer with lasagna noodles

- put cheese mixture, meat sauce, and mozzarella cheese

- do the second and third layers of lasagna noodles along with the cheese and meat mixture

- sprinkle with mozzarella cheese

- pour water along edges, make sure it goes to the bottom

- cover with plastic wrap or baking sheet

- microwave on high for 15 minutes, rotate after every 5 minutes

- serve and enjoy!

Mini Palabok

Whenever I want to eat Palabok, I just buy Palabok Mix and follow the procedures written at the back of the sachet. I’ve been interested in preparing it without the mix so I searched the net and found some recipes from different sources and tried to combine them. Although the ingredients of this one are not as complete as the others’, I still would want to recommend this for those (like me) who want to eat even other ingredients are not available.

Ingredients:

- 2 500gms Super Q Special Palabok cornstarch sticks

Sauce:

- 2 tbsp cooking oil

- 1 medium sized onion

- 2 shrimp cubes

- 1 can Tuna

- ¼ cup Atsuete dissolved in ¼ cup water

- 5 cups water

- 4 tbsp fish salt

- 4 tbsp all purpose flour dissolved in ¼ cup water

Toppings:

- garlic

- 3 eggs

- 1 pack prawn crackers

- 1 pack cooking shrimps

 

Procedure:

Cooking the toppings:

- deep fry the minced garlic until medium brown

- boil the eggs for 20 minutes, and slice

- fry the prawn crackers, then grind

- boil the shrimps until cooked

Cooking the noodles:

- soak the rice noodles in boiling water for about 15minutes or until cooked

- stir gradually

- remove from heat, do not drain yet, and let stay in hot water for about 20minutes

- drain and transfer to service plate

Cooking the sauce:

- heat oil in a pan

- sauté onion

- add the tuna and shrimp cubes, mix well

- add fish sauce and water

- use a strainer and add the atsuete

- add the flour mixture, stir continuously until thick

- remove from heat

Combining them altogether:

- mix the rice noodles with the sauce

- sprinkle fried garlic, and crushed prawn crackers over the mixture

- add shrimp and arrange the sliced eggs

- enjoy!

Turkey Ham Carbonara

According to Wikipedia, Carbonara is derived from the Italian word Carbonaro which means charcoal burner which some believe that it was first made as a hearty meal for Italian charcoal workers.

Turkey Ham Carbonara

There are several names given to the same recipe such as spaghetti, fettuccine, rigatoni, or bucatini. There are also several variants for this recipe, with different ingredients as well. Reading through it, I noticed that egg is one of the most common ingredients among them. Meat ingredient differs depending on the variant that the cook will prepare.

I’m not more of a pasta lover but I am craving for different taste that’s why I tried this version of Carbonara. This one's with Turkey Ham instead of other meat.

Ingredients

- 1/8 cup butter

- ½ tsp garlic powder

- 1 small onion

- 1 cup chicken stock

- 1 can nestle cream

- 1 small can mushroom

- 1 egg

- Turkey ham

- Salt and pepper to taste

- Pasta (similar to the one shown above is preferable)

Procedure

Cooking the Pasta

- Put water in a boiling pan and add few drops of oil and about ½ teaspoon of salt

- Add pasta before the boiling point and boil for 10 minutes or until cooked

- Drain and set aside

Preparing the Sauce

- In a separate pan, heat butter on medium heat

- sauté onion

- add turkey ham and garlic powder and cook for 3 minutes

- add chicken stock and let boil

-reduce heat

- add cream and bring to boil

- add egg, salt, and pepper

- remove from heat and set aside

Lastly, put the cooked pasta on a plate and combine the sauce. Enjoy with garlic bread if available.