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