What a monstrosity!

Ok, I made this tonight and it was so deadly it had to be unhealthy but it was oh so good.

This is Benny's own creation, Spaghetti Marinara a la Roquefort with smoked trout.
Here are the ingredients I used
2 x 150ml tubs of sour cream
250g of seafood marinara mix
1 smallish onion
2 good sized chestnut mushrooms
1 spring onion
1 bacon rasher
3 slices of smoked trout
1 x 150g block Roquefort

Pretty basic start, fry bacon and onion together until onion is soften and bacon is cooked through, toss in the mushrooms and soften them too, then throw on the cream. Keep the heat on high until the cream as collapsed into a puddle and thoroughly mix until the whole lot is a gravy-ish brown colour. Throw in the spring onions and seafood mix. My mix was still frozen but it's ok since you gotta reduce the sauce anyway. Bring the sauce to a boil and toss in the roquefort. Now I used 150g, but that was way way way too much. Probably a quarter of that is about right. And for those who don't like blue cheese it's all good, cos with a smaller amount in really enhances the flavour, but what I used changed the sauce into a blue cheese sauce basically, fine for me (and Ingrid) but overpowering for just about everyone else. When the spaghetti was done, I tossed a couple of slices of smoked trout over the spaghetti and ladled over the sauce. This was just an extravagance I was treating myself. The heat from the sauce and pasta made the trout really salty, but was a nice blend of flavours since it smoothed out some of the bite of the sauce.

So there you have it, some thing that started out healthy but probably jumped my cholesterol by 2 points at the end.

Even more food!

Well, then another day in the life of Benny, or rather many days. Most of my days are largely filled with work, eat and sleep, with some play here and there. But one can always have fun with food. Here's some random stuff I made, cos I was hungry

This one is kinda simple. Just took some lamb fillets, roughly diced and fried in some olive oil and cumin powder. The mushrooms were quartered and fried in more olive oil and garlic. The spaghetti was tossed with some sliced asparagus. And cos I was hungry enough I made up a bowl of peas :p
This is my rather basic seafood fried noodles. Nothing fancy, just fried the egg noodles after softening them in hot water. The mix was just some marinara stirredtogether with some fabl fungus.
This is my rather over the top random mix, more lamb fried in cumin again over more spaghetti

This was a favourite. Chicken, bamboo shoots, onions and a few other things stirred with chilli bean paste in egg noodles. mmmmm
It's been ages since I had any sort of Thai dishes and there aren't any take away shops here that serve it, sooo that means one thing. MAKE IT MYSELF. So this one is my green chicken curry, with bamboo shoots and snow peas (which are called mange tout, means "eat all" in french, over here). The concoction was then served over a steaming bed of jasmine rice. I didn't put enough curry paste in so it was just a bit light on flavour for me, but thats just me XD

And following on from my green curry chicken, I made red seafood curry, also thai style. It's cooked largely the same way as the green chicken curry but I used prawns and calamari instead of chicken.

Next time I make it, I'll need some stronger chillis. The "medium" chillis I bought were lame.

Feeling a bit nostalgic tonight, and also I didn't have much in the way of other ingredients available. This is dad's mince meat and peas in a gravy dish which is laid over a raw egg. Bev and Bink will know what I mean. I took a half kilo of mince beef and browned it over 3 finely chopped garlic to which I then added 1 diced onion and 3 sliced mushrooms as well as 1 sliced shallot. Then added some water and boiled it to reduce some of the liquid then added 3-4 tablespoons of cornflour dissolved in water as thickener. The whole thing was then simmered until it thoroughly thickened up. The rice was piled on and an egg cracked over it. I threw a handful of roughly chopped coriande over that then liberally spooned the meat over.... gaaaawwwd so filling.

Speaking of rice. I haven't got a rice cooker but I have perfected boiling rice in a saucepan. There is a little bit of the burnt rice at the bottom that is oooh soo fragrant. mmmmm.

Well thats it for this post. Maybe i'll post something thats NOT about food next time :p

Damn it's been a while

Indeed it has, over a month since I last wrote. Mainly because I've moved house and haven't had net for a while. I now live a half hour's bus ride from work, which is brilliant since I can sleep in a bit more.

Ok looking back. Most recently, I finally met my cousin-sister, Lilian, who lives in London. Had a good long talk with her on Sunday over yum cha. It was good to finally meet her.
As an added bonus I popped by the Empire Casino theatre in Leicester Square where Robert De Niro and Al Pacino showed up to the premiere of their new movie. Ooooh my brush with fame... -_-

Oh the new place. I now share a house with 5 other people. All pretty alright. My room is a little single room with a shower. I'll post up some pics later, once I've cleaned it up a little ;p And of course now that I live alone means that I get to experiment on my food in a not-like-a-mad-scientist sort of way.

There's a chinese grocer about a half hour-ish away where I can stock up on those necessities. Next on the list is a big ass cleaver.

I'll finish my half arsed blog there since I haven't seemed to be able to collect my thoughts yet <.<