Mission ImPASTAble!

Today at Tech Diego and I made Spaghetti Carbonara.

Ingredients:
A handful of spaghetti
3 slices of bacon
1/2 of zucchini
1/2 an onion
1 small carrot
1 cup of grated mozzarella cheese
1 cup of cream
Dried herbs
Water

Method:
Step 1 - Boil three cups of water in a pot. 
Step 2 - Grab your pasta and snap in half. Add into the boiling water. Remove and strain when soft.
Step 3 - Heat up a pan with oil. Dice up the onion and add to the pan.
Step 4 - Peel the skin off the carrot. Scrape off bits of the carrot using the peeler.
Step 5 - Cut the zucchini in half, length wise. Scrape off bits of the zucchini.
Step 6 - Add in the remaining vegetables to the pan and stir.
Step 7 - By now your pasta should be cooked. Drain the pasta and add to the pan. Mix with tongs.
Step 8 - Turn the heat off and add the cup of cream, herbs and grated cheese.
Step 9 - Heat up the pan. When the mixture starts to bubble take it off the heat and turn the stove off.
Step 10 - Bake three slices of bacon at 200°c for about 5 minutes.
Step 11 - Take the bacon out and chop into small bite size pieces. Add and stir into the main mixture.
Step 12 - Serve the pasta mixutre in a bowl. 

Pasta-La Vista! - Cooking with Bella

I am once again at Tech. This week my partner, Bella and I made ham and pasta salad.


Ham & Pasta Salad: Method
Step 1 - Boil pasta until it's soft.
Step 2 - Drain the pasta in cold water (use colander)
Step 3 - Dice half a tomato, half an onion and some ham.
Step 4 - Add tomato, onion, ham and mayo to pasta.
Step 5 - Serve in a white bowl.
Step 6 - Clean up.

The taste of the pasta salad was very different from what I'm used to. It had fresh and refilling vibe to it which I can't exactly explain. Overall I thought it tasted okay, a bit under seasoned but, not terrible. 

You Butter (Better) Not Mess With my Chicken! - Cooking with Robati and Saluselo

This week at Tech we cooked butter chicken with rice. Cooking along side me was Robati and Saluselo.

Method:
Step 1 - Dice the chicken.
Step 2 - Fry the chicken until brown.
Step 3 - Take out the chicken into a white bowl.
Step 4 - Fry onion until soft.
- Add sauce,
- Add chicken.
Step 5 - Serve with rice.

Once we were finished we took a spoon and taste tested our completed dish. I thought the dish was very favourful and nicely cooked. Although, Robati did think it was a bit too spicy, Saluselo and I didn't mind the heat.

I am seriously considering making butter chicken again following,
Mrs Tuipulotu's recipe!