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Thursday 28 April 2011

Linguine with bœuf in black pepper sauce


Actually this is just a simple dish that resemble much like the Chinese Beef in Black Pepper sauce just that instead of Rice I substitute it to Linguine pasta because according to my #1 critique (aka Hubby) the linguine have a much absorbing taste to the sauce and therefore it is much more delicious. So, I tried it with a linguine and voila! It taste really nice and with an Asian and western taste to it so it’s just perfect for a light lunch :)

The ingredients needed to do this dish are :

1. Boeuf/Beef
- any kind preferably the one that is very Easy to chew when you cook it
2.  Sauces
- Worcester sauce, Sweet soy Sauce and a light soy sauce
3. Onions
 – Red, brown and garlic (chopped coarsely)
4. Vegetables
- Shitake mushrooms, leeks, green capsicum
5. Pasta
- Linguine No 11
6. Herbs
- Sweet dried basil, dried Thyme
7. Butter, salt and pepper
 
Preparation:

- marinate the beef with all the sauces and a Tbs of flour, salt,pepper and Thyme for about 30 minutes. 
- Stir fry the onions with a a few drops of olive oil until it's brown
- Next, mix in the marinated beef and stir fry again for another  5 to 8 minutes
- Then stir in the capsicum, leeks and mushroom and add a few tablespoons of water and cover it with a lid for another 5 to 6 minutes
- Finally, stir in a big table spoon full of  low fat yogurt and stir for a couple of minutes and put the lit on again for another 3 minutes with a low fire on.
- Shut the fire off and set aside.
 1. stir fry in progress with all ingredients in except for yogurt

 2. stir in the yogurt to the beef stir fry

3. Prepare the Linguine pasta for approximately 11 minutes 

4. the linguine no11 which is used and cook for 11 minutes

 5. Finished pasta is now stir in with a few slices of butter and some dried sweet basil herbs

6. The finished pasta prepared

 7. Now transfer the pasta to the stir fried beef on the frying sauce
 and mixed well
8. The finished pasta and the beef stir fry together.
 9. A closer look at the dish :)

 Voila! a simple dish made extravagant and taste yummy too :) 




À bientôt

Wednesday 27 April 2011

Vege power!

I'm not a vegetable person since i was a child and there's only a couple of vegetables that agrees with me and i am a very picky person when it comes to Vegetable and it's all because of it colours.

But all this changed when i live abroad and looking at other cultures and lifestyle and how they incorporated vegetables in their cooking and the taste was fantastic.

I also read a food magazine regarding how to incorporate vegetables in food they cook for their children even though kids hate vegetables in their food but by cooking the same food with vegetables in it the nutrients of the vegetables stays in the cooked food and makes it a healthy food to eat, even though kids will line up the vegetables that they hated on the side of their plates at the end of the day but indirectly they are already eating a healthy meal just beause you incorporated vegetables in them.

So sticking to this technique i have managed to convert myself to a vegetable tolerable eater and i have always managed to at least add 5 types of vegetables in all my cooking and so you can see what i did to this simple dish of soy sauce chicken stir fried with tomatoes, mushrooms, leeks, broccoli, carrots and finally green and yellow capsicum.

Now with the vegetables in it it is now a healthy food to eat. Voila!   

To non vegetable eaters, do try this as it will change your life for the good :)
well good healthy life that is:)


  À bientôt

Wednesday 20 April 2011

Fish and prawn in Light soy Sauce :)


Today I've decided to update my cooking blog with a simple cooking that anybody in the world can do :) And i am sticking to my healthy ways and thats to try to cook a dish with 5 source of vegetables and this has been my ways of cooking healthily for my family :)


So here are the ingredients : 


Ginger, Brown Onions, Garlic and shallots :)


At least 5 types of Veges namely :-
Mushrooms, tomatoes, capsicums, Leeks and Broccoli


Fish & Prawns
Marinated in 1 teaspoon of flour, light soy sauce, salt and pepper mixed together and let set in the fridge for 1 hour or 30 minutes


Pour in a few drops of olive oil and stir fry the onion mixes as well as the marinated fish and prawns until they are golden brown




Browned fish and prawns 


Then throw in the veges and cook for another 5 to 6 minutes


And then pour in about a quarter of a cup of water and finally mix in the Broccoli and put on the lid for another 2 or 3 minutes and then shut down the burner.




And voila! a simple healthy dish for the family for lunch :)


  À bientôt et Bon Appétit !