I decided to cook pasta, since I had a good review for it the last time I cooked it. Cream-based sauce is more delicious but tomato-based sauce is more healthy. I used penne as my choice of pasta and Prego's Mushroom Sauce.
To heat the sauce straight from the bottle without adding any ingredients is too 'cheapo' for me. I always add my own ingredients to "spice up" the sauce. I added minced chicken and chicken chipolata, green pepper, Japanese cucumber, dried thyme and button mushroom. The only thing is that I could have added more water to it. I cooked too much pasta though such that there was more of it in proportion to the sauce. I also added 2 dried bay leaves to the water while boiling it, to give the pasta more flavour. My pasta dish got a good review again. It looks as if it can be one of my signature dishes.
I boiled tang yuan for the second time. It did not turn out well in comparison. I think I over-boiled it. The filling in the balls fell into the soup and the balls became starchy. Also, despite having added 2 pandan leaves and sugar syrup, the water was not sweet at all. I had added only 1 leaf the first time, and it was sweet and fragrant. Hmm. I should not heated it again so as to make it hot. Oh well.
I tried to make kani tempura. It was more successful this time. However, I did not steam the kani beforehand, as I had done the previous time. I made sushi again, this time with ham as the main ingredient. I used less rice. It was a vast improvement but I need to practise the rolling part. I had problems with it even though I used the bamboo mat. I had to use two sheets of nori too.
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