home cookin'

copy pasting from my old CWQ entries, just 4 u Radez~

Carbonara:

Spaghetti with Carbonara sauce. I'd forgotten how easy it was to make, so I might as well share for those unaware. There's of course many way to make carbonara, all of which claim to be the proper way, but we did this.




You'll need to fry bacon. Either fry strips and cut them to tiny pieces or use bacon cubes. What matters that the bacon is A) fried, and B) in tiny pieces.



While that's happening, boil some spaghetti (or whichever pasta of your choice, spaghetti works best). Put salt into the water, but no oil or butter.



Take a few eggs (I used three and it was just about enough for one large serving) and separate the yokes.

People probably have all manner of kitchen tools and contraptions for separating, but so long as you don't puncture the yoke with a sharp egg shell edge, you can just flop the yoke back and forth between two shell halves like so and the egg white will leak out into whatever cup you have under there.



Once the spaghetti is done, get the water out, but leave it in the kettle.



Press butan, put bacon.



With your yokes in a cup, shred quite a bit of parmesan cheese in there. Just enough for it to get a bit thicker. You can also mix them in the cup while you're at it, to see how thick it becomes.



Yoke mix in among the rest, mix it all up with a wooden cooking fork. If it feels too thick or dry (as was the case with us), add a little cream and mix it up some more.



Add plenty of black pepper and mix some more.



Serve to plate, more shredded parmesan on top. Hey presto, the delicious!

some sauce I got no name for:

Chicken sauce with red pepper and bacon!

Previous cooking entries of sorts can be found here and here.





Here's what I'm using. About 400g of honey marinated chicken slices, one whole red pepper or paprika (since it's not really a pepper), bacon, a box (about 200g) of cheddar flavored creme bonjour (which is a kind of unripened cheese here) and some black pepper and sugar. At least I think the sugar is supposed to be there.



You need to fry and slice the bacon into tiny pieces. You can try cutting it before cooking, but this proved stupidly difficult, so I just fried the slices and then cut.



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Just as long as your end result is akin to this, doesn't matter how you do it.



Cook the marinated chicken well.



Then drop the bacon bits in there as well and stir on the pan.



Chop up ze paprika. Again, this is not a hot pepper, in case you've never seen one. It's not peppery, it's very sweet and lovely. Probably my favorite vegetable.



Open the cheddar flavored soft cheese stuff that the english doesn't have a word for (gg guys) and prepare to dump 'em in a kettle along with everything else.



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So that's chicken plus bacon, plus paprika plus cheese in there. Add some pepper and just a tiny bit of sugar and stir while heating till the cheese melts and get's all saucy.



If it's a tad too dry, add some cooking cream in there to sauce it up.

Boil yourself some tagliatelle pasta (that's the long, thin kind) and serve.



And how! Delicious and lovely. I'm getting so hungry now ;_;

Jam it back in, in the dark.