Baked Tuna Pasta

These few days has been very lazy...;p After sending my daughter to school, i'll just sit by my laptop playing some games....blah blah blah......that's it! Half a day gone...;p Hee hee! You must have been thinking what on earth s happening to me?? Nothing wrong actually....it was just that my husband is away for his bussiness trip, my dear friend (my baking companion) is away for holiday..;) Guess i have to start baking some bread, cakes and other snacks for my daughter..:) She has been complaining that's nothing for her breakfast and tea...haha! Come on!! Take away those lazy bones and get started!

So then i started with her favourite....Pasta! But with alittle changes....."Baked Pasta".



Its yummy! That's her comment...:)
Another of those recipes that were handed down to me by my friend but i have made changes since then. Anyway if you like more cheesy texture, cheese can be added inside or more on the topping.
Here's the recipe......

250g Pasta or Macaroni
2 tbsps Olive oil
1/2 tsp salt
** Boil together till the pasta or macaroni are cooked. Set aside.

Ingredients for sauce:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup Plain flour
1/2 cup Fresh milk
1/2 cup Water
1 small can Tuna flakes in oil (drained)
1 small can (200g) Cream of mushroom
1 small Green Capsicum (chopped)
1 small Red Capsicum (chopped) -I used yellow
Salt and pepper to taste
Mozzarella Cheese for topping

Method:
~ Melt butter and add in flour. Stir well.
~ Add in water, milk and cook till creamy.
~ Add in tuna flakes, then cream of mushroom and capsicums.
~ Add in salt and pepper to taste.
~ Stir in cooked pasta and mix well
~ Pour into a Pyrex dish or any baking tray and topped with mozzarella cheese.
~ Bake at 190-200'C for 10 minutes or till cheese melts. Serve hot.

Mmm....really taste good..:) With those crispy cheese on top and the creamy sauce inside...YUMMY! I think kids like it more this way than the plain old way of creamy sauce pasta.

Its easy to prepare, only needs about 30 minutes. The amount of the ingredients here serves 4 adults, but my daughter took quarter of it...haha!

Try it out then you'll know!...............Enjoy!!

Chendol Agar-Agar

Mid-Autumn Festival or my girl will call it "Lantern Festival" or maybe "Mooncake Festival....is tomorrow. How are we going to celebrate?? Well, its alittle quiet this year, no party..no gathering..no husband around...hahaha! What am i trying to say here....no larr...he's just happened to work during this day.
Anyway i've just planned to go to my aunt's house nearby, have a warm and nice dinner with her, then some cooling dessert under the bright round moon tomorrow....hope there is one! (no rain please...;p) So i've made some agar-agar (jelly) for our dessert tomorrow, hope she'll like it..:)



Some little cute roses and some lettering...hee hee! Just play around with the new cookies cutter, luckily it turns out nicely. The rose? Its the mould i borrowed from my dear friend........




Beautifully done! Don't really want to eat it huh.....i keep looking at them after i took out from the mould, just don't feel like destroy it..haha! Fot the details and recipe of this agar-agar, please proceed to honeybeesweets. To thank her for the recipe and the mould, i've made her some together with her blog's name.....(see below's picture)




Thank you so much of the agar-agar powder and the mould, Bee Bee. Hope you like my "creation"..hee hee...;p

Hey, my friends and fellow out there, please try this out, its really very nice. And i can say its not much trouble preparing...so get started. ^=^ Enjoy!!

Nyonya Ondeh- Ondeh

Yesterday i've been thinking and searching for some recipe which is light and easy to carry for my husaband's supper while he was at the airport waiting to aboard. *Sigh*..:( ....he's going off for a few days due to his work. Althought its only a few days, but we'll miss him..;p
So, at last i decided to make his favourite kueh to bring along...the "Ondeh-Ondeh".
Its been a long long time i've since made this kueh. Let me see.....i think it was about 20 years ago. No joking larr.....really 20 years!!! That time i was just a teenager, having some cooking fun at my friends house..haha! Wow!! Really a long time ago huh...;p Yes, i still keep the recipe but with some slight changes. (mix and match with the recipe book i have now)....


The result ha.....yea, nice! But the filling inside was not much, due to the wrapping skill...hee hee!
Will make these again in 2 days time for my aunty, who we will celebrate the lantern festival with, coming weekend. So i must make sure the filling inside is full enough this time!

Here's the recipe.....

Ingredients:
(A)
210ml Water
10pcs pounded Pandan leaves

(B)
1 tbsp Tapioca flour
85ml Water

(C)
300g Glutinuos flour
120g mashed Pumpkin / orange sweet potatoes (i used pumpkin here)
1 tbsp Sugar

* 150-200g Palm sugar (grated) - Filling
* 1 Grated coconut - Coating

Method:
~ Bring to boil the (A) and strain. Keep aside
~ Steamed the pumpkin / sweet potatoes for about 5-8 minutes until soft and mashed.
~ Mix well the Glutiniuos rice flour, sugar and mashed pumpkin/ sweet potatoes from ingredients (C)
~ Boil (B), the 85ml water with 1 tbsp tapioca flour over low heat, stirring till almost transparent.
~ Pout the tapioca mixture immediately into (C), stir and mix well while slowly add in the (A) to form a smooth dough. (if the dough is too soft, add in glutinous flour)
~ Bring to boil at least half pot of water, then take a small portion of dough and wrap in the grated palm sugar, seal properly and roll into a ball, and put into the boiling water after wrapped.
~ When the balls surfaces, keep boiling for another 1-2 minutes, remove and roll over the fresh grated coconut, and serve!

The texture is very nice...very "Q" ...as in mandarine....hee hee :) Oh about the colour here, its the original colourfrom the pumpkin. No colour added here! If you like it to be green like the one selling outside, do use the white sweet potatoes to replace the pumpkin, but have to steam alittle longer. Then add a few drops of green colouring. But why not just the original colour from the tasty and fresh pumpkins / orange sweet potatoes?? Try it out!