Third (and last?) post

Almost done with cooking! (uhh yay?)

My cooking of the pasta was okay, but I realised too late that I could have used wholemeal noodles instead of normal noodles o_o

Here are some pictures :)

Chopping the onions (and the garlic and mushrooms)

Boiling the peas and corn

Cooking the mushrooms

Boiling the noodles (with a bit of oil and salt)

Mixing the whipped cream, eggs and others

Final product :)

Sample

I could have better managed my time, though.

Ruth

Second post

Second post, haha. I already feel like a major slacker.

Reason being, my coursework practical is tomorrow.

After going through that recipe in the blog link in my previous (first) post, here is my modified recipe instructions.

It goes something like this:

Chop onions (1, medium sized), garlic (2 cloves) and mushroom (2, Portobello cause my mum felt like giving me some. Thanks, mum :) ).

Cook mushroom. Add a bit of salt and pepper when done.

Boil peas and corn.

Mix together eggs (2), Parmesan cheese (less than 3/4 cup), whipping cream (3/4 cup), and salt and pepper until smooth.

Start boiling noodles (add oil and salt).

Pour the very hot pasta into a large bowl and immediately begin drizzling in the egg/Parmesan/cream mixture.


Halfway, add in corn, peas and mushroom (and onion and garlic).

And that's it.

(This reminds me of my sister who doesn't like to eat vegetables, so maybe I'll cook this while having her in mind.)

But really, for the nutritious part....

I'll be reducing the amount of parmesan cheese and whipping cream used. That's it. 

And I guess adding peas and corn to the pasta makes it healthier.

(Apparently Portobello mushrooms are supposed to be healthy, but I dunno.)

That's it for now.

Ruth 🍰 (because cakes are cool, are they not)

First post

First post!

Ok, since I don't have a lot of time, I'll get to the point.

For my coursework, my task is to prepare a simple nutritious dish (be it a main course or a dessert) for both my younger sister and me. I need to plan my spending of money (given a budget of $10 only, really?) as well as my food to be prepared. And here's the catch: the food I cook must be nutritious. Aka, healthy.

Well. Most of my ideas are cut down by a lot.

In summary:

1. Plan one nutritious dish to prepare in an hour, with specific criteria in mind (explained later)
2. Explain choice of ingredients used and the dish I have decided to cook.
3. Cook.

Deciding on how to make my dish healthier is going to be a hard time.

The cost of the ingredients cannot exceed $10, I have to prepare this in one hour, and it has to look and taste nice! T^T

At first, I was thinking of doing cupcakes, but I thought it would be too unhealthy and scrapped that. So instead, I thought, why not cook instead of bake? Baking usually uses stuff like butter and sugar, which is fattening.

So I thought, do pasta instead. So when researching, I came upon this website and decided to cook pasta according to this recipe.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2012/05/pasta-carbonara/

Later! :)

Ruth